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 sunday, january 28Blue Plate Special  There's a fellow in Toronto who can mix wall paint to match any object that a customer brings in. It's quite magical. He takes a good look and then adds squirts of various pigments to the base, and voila! A perfect match, when dry! Why try and match something to a two by two paint chip when you can have it match the curtains, a flower, or anything that your heart desires?In my case, it was a set of blue plates that I bought at IKEA. What could be the harm in painting the little nook over the sink and cupboards to match? Course, what looks good on a plate doesn't necessarily look so good spread around on walls. Then again, blue plates seemed like a fine idea but nothing other than mac and cheese looked all that appetizing. Truth be told, I'm really not that fond of coloured plates, which is a bit odd considering that I'm now the proud owner of a mismatched set. I can thank the Vicodan for that little flight of fancy. Here's a tip: one should never go shopping under the influence of restricted narcotics. It's just wrong. When it came time to decamp from my fair homeland to the garden state, I decided to donate the blue plates to the Salvation Army. Without the matching nook, well, it just didn't seem to make much sense. I returned to Toronto some months later to visit Nicole and Michael who had moved into our former apartment on Queen West. While all of our other walls had been plain white, Nicole and Michael had repainted every room with the exception of the nook. What was once white was now a deep prussian blue and terra cotta. And the nook? Well, they had decided not to paint over the blue as it matched a set of plates that Nicole had found at the Salvation Army shortly after they had moved in. I've long thought that there were only six people in this world with a vast amount of costume changes and dialogue coaching. Now I'm pretty much convinced that there are only eight plates.
 FOJM reaches 627 with an updated of twenty two new photographs! New (and returning) FOJM include
Bruce, Michael,
Zack,
Cyn,
Bianca,
Erica,
David, Bernadette,
Rick, Greg,
Jeri & Evs,
Howe Choon,
Tina,
Dexter, and
Tom.
Blue-Plate Special: Eight-Can Casserole. Damn! Doesn't that sound appetizing? Dishes for dummies. Kind of like Bunnykins for adults. The adventures of Prawn Boy. Woo hoo! More Casio WristCamera photographs's over at Karen's. The day before yesterday? Real life. |
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