(31) Days of Summer

With Doug Ford's plot to break the LCBO union underway, having a temporary ship then the world's largest convenience store selling alcohol at Ontario Place, Jocelyn Desmond is on the case. She is putting together her dream team to defeat Ford and his cronies. She has called them all to a meeting at "Jackie's Bunker." ~~~ After Jackie’s grand entrance (which included a surprisingly graceful roll and a urine soaked sock), he passes out a set of deep red, buttery faux-leather menus. They are not the familiar Jackie’s Place menus; crumpled and stained pieces of paper often featuring hand-written scribbles reminding patrons of the ‘Rules’. On the front of the impressive menu in loopy gold script reads: Steaks are High Steakhouse.  And in Comic Sans under that: Not your dog’s steakhouse!* And in Papyrus under that:  *We are not legally liable if you feed our steaks to your dog. Don’t do it. Curious, I open the menu expecting to see a fine selection of CBD and/or THC inf...

Colm makes a return in today's excerpt. Claire is trying to make a hasty exit after being forced to - yet again - listen to the tale of Gordon's grad school rival. And, even worse, having to listen to the rival's dreadful dissertation. But as she is trying to escape, Marcus pulls her over to the bar where Colm has prepared a zero alcohol tasting flight. He is trying to convince Jackie to have more alcohol-free options. And in the second excerpt, Jocelyn Desmond makes her return. I'm not sure where this is going, but that is tomorrow's problem! ~~~ “Let’s try the next one,” he says, getting us fresh tasting glasses. “This one is from the same company: Non . I find it curious that they have chosen the French word for ‘no’ as the name of their beverage company. It’s a bit off-putting. But who am I to criticize?” “It does sound like a warning,” Marcus agrees. “Make that a selling point to Jackie. I think he will appreciate that.” “Just so,” Colm says, jotting something ...

I had a very distracted writing day, frittering my time away trying to find the worst dissertation that I could find, scouring every corner of the internet. I spent over an hour doing this without writing a single word. To get myself on track, I gave myself a challenge: to fit in as many Martha Stewart shell crafts as possible. I managed to seemlessly fit in 19 shell or shell inspired crafts. ( Thanks Martha ).  And that got the writing juices flowing.  And after all that, I won't even be posting the excerpt with the 19 shell crafts. Instead, I am posting an exerpt of the speech at the Stratford Yacht Club 2nd Anniversary Party.  ~~~ For reference: Cody Simpson's 'Grate' Abs “I’d like to take a moment to thank the Stratford Yacht Club Ad Hoc Anniversary Speech Planning Committee for their exhaustive efforts in this year’s search,” Kathy starts. “With no further delay, I’ll give the microphone over to a man who needs no introduction: Gordon Toodie.” With a dramatic flour...