Umbrella Academy, Hamilton, Part 5

Umbrella Academy, Hamilton, Part 5

Okay, I lied, this one is ACTUALLY Toronto!

But I figured as long as I was doing these:

Across the street from the Griddy's Doughnuts we can see a red brick building with the stone text Gladstone House. We can also tell this is Toronto because of the street car lines running above the road, and the tacky as shit glass condo on the left. But not TOO far down town, because you wouldn't be able to see the sky for all the tacky bullshit overpriced glass condos.

One search for 'Gladstone House' lands us over here:

And as you can see, South across the street from the house is a parking lot with a lonely building in the middle. May I present:

The property when Google drive by is advertised for sale as.... You guessed it! More shitty glass condo towers! At least you're consistent, Toronto.

Back to Work.

My 2019 season started this week, so it's into the thick of it. Setting up the Studio venue and getting ready for the first show hang and focus.

Walked in and an actor held the door open for me. "Oh man, I'm jealous you've got your bike on the road already."

You're supposed to stop riding?

What?

I missed the memo.

Bwahahahah.

Umbrella Academy, Hamilton, Part 4

On to Episode 8, Interior, Bar scene.

I immediately pick up on the iconic Hamilton Escarpment right outside the window, and after pointing that out to Garwik, he flatly announces it to be the Corktown Tavern, having lived nearby in his youth.

Which you can actually see written on the window through the blinds.

Popular Irish Pub and band venue, between downtown and the escarpment, built in 1931.

This sparks with me on a primal level. I had a save file right near the end and would replay the final fights when I was going through a pretty dark time.

Fact: I would replay the entire 25 hours of KH2 just to be able to spend the last 30 minutes looking at Sora and Riku linking up and fist bumping after their link attack.

Happy Valentine's Day from Queenston Heights Niagara River Gorge Overlook, complete with seasonal ice floes on the river.

Getting some High Angle Rescue training done at Shaw in between snowstorms, the roads are mostly clean, but covered in just enough salt, sand, ice, slush and snow to keep things exciting.

Tried to take a short cut down Line 3 and it looked like this:

That's not Line 3 but that's about how it looked. Line 3 possibly had less blacktop visible.

The tiny part of my brain that wants to survive was like "U-Turn now, Niagara Stone Road is clean, stop before it's too late!"

The rest of my stubborn conscience was shouting "Too late! Committed now!" A good abilities test, and what's the worst, crashing on ice is like "whupssslidddeeee."

But yah. Winter riding. Good fun.

Don't talk to me, my children, my baby, or my 300 twin siblings ever again.

Lamp maintenance at the Festival Stage!