You can view my humorous webcam video from the special "ZeD" Halloween episode by going to my page on the ZeD website (see below) and looking in my list of uploaded content for "If I could make a deal with the devil...". Thanks!

http://donaldb.zed.cbc.ca

Last night David and I met some of our Friday night coffee group members at a bar called Headquarters to hear some great live jazz and blues music. I love the fact that there's no smoking allowed in public buildings in S'toon now!

This afternoon we're going to have coffee at McNally Robinson with our wonderful friend Glenda. Tonight we're going to a Halloween dance. David says he doesn't want to wear a costume, but I might put together a simple one for me.

A short, humourous webcam video that I made will be on a special Halloween episode of "ZeD" on CBC TV. The two-hour episode will air twice: Friday, Oct. 29 (starting at 11:25 p.m.) and Sun., Oct. 31 (starting at midnight).

Dylan Thomas was born on this day in 1914. Here are two of his quotations that aren't from poems.


"[Poets are] men stepping on clouds, snaring a world of beauty from the trees and sky, half wild, half human."

"The heat! It comes round corners at you like an animal with windmill arms. As I enter my bedroom, it stuns, thuds, throttles, spins me round by my soaking hair, lays me flat as a mat and bat-blind on my boiled and steaming bed. We keep oozing from the ice-cream counters to the chemist's. Cold beer is bottled God."

Pablo Picasso said, "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."