Things I learned on my day off

• They paint the Butter People. I was walking towards downtown yesterday when I noticed some guy hugging the wide-eyed woman in the front row (holding the child). Turns out, he was bracing himself so that he could paint the length of her back. It looked touching for a moment - almost as if the performance were part of an art installation. I guess they have to paint them one at a time. The statues are too close to be done all at once, no?
  
• Vitamin Water is now available in Quebec. Saw the truck parked outside a dep while biking home from yoga. If I had remembered to put money in my lulus, I would have purchased EVERY-TING!
  
• If you have a pimple, put toothpaste on it to dry out the pore. It has to be the paste though, and not the gel. But whatever you do, remember to wipe it off before you leave the house.
• Ghostbusters is still funny after all these years - but for different reasons. First, a pencil-pusher from the Environmental Protection Agency (Yes. This man has no dick.) is the bad guy in this movie. Did Republicans make this movie? Second, the special effects are terrible - in comparison to today's standards anyway. It makes me sad to think that people born within the last ten years or so will never know just how far movie magic has come. Those of us born in the 70s and 80s have seen the evolution to The Matrix (and beyond), but there's a new generation of movie watchers who will never have the kind of the cringing memories of CGI in its earliest days.