Random observations

• Notice that you don't see anyone looking at photos anymore? No more moms coming out of the pharmacy, bag hanging open, brand new pictures of Junior already being shuffled in her hot little hands? No more teenage girls sitting in cafes with sheafs of vacation snaps, squealing at the cute boys, warning each other not to get their fingerprints all over the photos? That's because it's all digital now.
• Celebrity is different in Quebec. I cross paths with actor Eric Bernier regularly in the Plateau. Musician David Bussières, of Alfa Rococo fame and brother to actress Pascale Bussières, lives two doors over. Summertime means spotting Leonard Cohen in various eateries around Portuguese Park. They seem to be happy, relaxed people going around the business of their lives. Nobody accosts them or tries to peek into their grocery baskets. They can pick their noses as merrily and as frequently as possible. I'm sure Brangelina would kill to have even a tenth of their freedom.