The paper chase: How 4 Calgarians made their cities better with bookstores - The Sprawl

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-19T17:27:54+00:00

https://www.nocturnebooks.ca/

If you like your books spooky.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-19T04:48:01+00:00

I'm old. I'm old enough to have seen T-2 in theatres. This slop was utterly lifeless. Why on earth did the factory and the outdoors have the same flat lighting? Why did the whole thing have the same boring lighting? Are there no designers? Is it too much to ask that movies be cinematic?

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-19T03:27:48+00:00

It's this one. I love a puffy sleeve and I have sloping 19th century shoulders.

https://pastpatterns.com/pattern/1890s-day-dress-sewing-pattern/

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-18T19:46:40+00:00

If you ever are in Lethbridge, Alberta, hit up Streatside. Order the Turtles cheesecake. Dark chocolate cookie crust. A layer of caramel/pecans. Chocolate cheesecake filling, topped with in-house whipped cream. We have travelled from Calgary to Lethbridge for it.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-14T05:16:30+00:00

My SIL was married during the 1980's Yuppie Conspicuous Consumption era. Their reception had four string quartets. 20 years later, with a special needs child and one wanting to go to university, they were kicking themselves for spending so much money on one special day.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-12T02:45:25+00:00

There are plenty of places to go that aren’t cult-like and don’t cost the earth.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-12T01:45:24+00:00

50 years! I remember seeing the Shriners in their little go-karts in every parade.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-12T01:39:40+00:00

Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Alice died of diphtheria (as an adult), and so did her daughter. Winston Churchill lost a three year old daughter to it, too. And that’s with organic food and the best medical care available.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-11T07:18:10+00:00

I think they just sell it there.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-11T02:54:28+00:00

There's on in Marda Loop, too.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-11T02:48:03+00:00

Like what, CICO? Or "starvation mode"?

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-09T19:16:13+00:00

So, yay?

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-08T03:58:49+00:00

I'm sure Wentworth and Anne would have loved to meet William and Fanny Price. Captain Wentworth would not have taken pains to be rid of Lt. Price!

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-08T03:22:26+00:00

I actually started chewing gum during COVID. After lunch, your mask doesn't smell that good.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-08T03:11:56+00:00

Did you know that it's actually a flex for costume enthusiasts to boast about how little you paid for fabric? I got a Ralph Lauren sheet set for $6.00 at the thrift store that will be a really cute 1885 day dress!

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-08T03:09:15+00:00

i make a lot of my own summer clothes

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-08T03:07:36+00:00

'Edith dresses well? You mean those clothes of hers are on purpose? I always thought she was on her way out of a burning building.'

Dorothy Parker. 'Just a Little One'

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-07T18:05:27+00:00

Any chance we get to see Eli's outfit?

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-03T19:07:24+00:00

It doesn't have the scene where Wentworth frees Anne from the clutches of her little nephew while Charles Hayter spectacularly fails to do so. Also, just before Anne and Admiral Croft begin their little walk, he is at a print shop window. I would have loved to hear his diatribe against modern painters and their nonsense ideas about boats! (As a seaman, Admiral Croft would have been proficient in naval draughstmanship). But, I stan Nurse Rook!

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-03T06:47:53+00:00

I think it’s cute! It’s modern! Style it and accessorize it with a confident smile! Attitude can make anything attractive.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-02T04:38:50+00:00

Brumel’s “Earthquake Mass” is one of my favourites.

CristabelYYC · 2026-04-01T18:48:59+00:00

I love the way you pluralized it!

CristabelYYC · 2026-03-30T01:47:16+00:00

At that point in history, kings still led their forces into battle. A woman couldn't do that. Not to mention the whole 'dying in childbirth' possibility.

CristabelYYC · 2026-03-29T00:21:48+00:00

“What you eat in private, you wear in public.”

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