Day #23,055 / Km #18,811

Walk km 18,809-18,811: to Safeway

Chinese buffet topped with salad bar veggies + pecan chocolate cake
approx km 18,811 Safeway

Day #23,051-052

Walk km 18,777-18,779: to T&T
Walk km 18,779-18,789: from Dunbar Loop to RiverRock casino

Meetup walkers
approx km 18,784 SW Vancouver

Day #23,044-045

Walk km 18,750-18,758: back and forth to Shaw Cable
Walk km 18,758-18,770: UBC to Dunbar Loop

statue of kids on a horse
approx km 18,768 Blenheim Street

Day #23,036

Walk km 18,669-18,680 (4356 to go): Meetup walk through skid row

french toast and eggs
approx km 18,679 Grade A Restaurant (Granville Street)

Day #23,024

Walk km 18,620-18,632: Kerr to Granville via the Fraser River

Meetup walkers
approx km 18,630 Marpole

Day #23,023-024

Walk km 18,539-18,542: to T&T
Walk km 18,542-18,544: to Safeway
Walk km 18,544-18,559: Meetup walk from UBC

two old cars
approx km 18,548 Spanish Banks

Movie #2631: La Jovan (1960, Luis Bunuel)

Excellent. Twin story lines: man lusting after a girl that he knows is much too young for him and hating a man who has a different skin colour than his. For a change a positive religious message as a visiting minister figures out what is going on and manages to straighten everything out. 

Day #23,022

Walk km 18,527-18,539: walk from Renfrew to downtown

the docks
approx km 18,533 from CRAB Park

Day #23,019

Walk km 18,495-18,505: Meetup walk downtown from 16th Avenue

False Creek shoreline
approx km 18,502 from the Granville Bridge

Movie #2629: Old Enough (1984, Marisa Silver)

A lot of the scenes don't really ring true but they're close enough that they keep you interested in the characters all the way through. Kudos to Sarah Boyd who played the 11 year old. It looked like she'd have a great career in film. Well, she does have a career in film except that it's as an editor and not as an actress. 

Day #23,013

Walk km 18,453-18,466: Meetup walk to 3rd Beach

Meetup walkers with horse statues
approx km 18,454 nearing Georgia Ave

Movie #2626: Whistling In The Dark (1933, Elliott Nugent)

Surprisingly good early comedy. No WC Fields or Marx Bros here, just Ernest Truex. No, I don't know this guy either but he has a nice flair for comedy. And Edward Arnold plays the villain (easy one there). Fun.
Found on the internet: Apparently Truex and Arnold played these roles on Broadway so they had plenty of time to get them down pat.

Day #22,983

Walk km 18,229-18,241 (4743 to go): Stanley Park

Meetup walkers
approx km 18,236 Siwash Rock lookout

TV episode #129: Hong Kong - When Strangers Meet (1960, Boris Sagal)
TV episode #130: Have Gun Will Travel - The Uneasy Grave (1961, Andrew V McLaglen)

It's a Pippa Scott double episode. The episode of interest here is Hong Kong. Didn't know such a TV show existed. Rod Taylor plays a Hong Kong newspaperman. The plot for this one was quite complicated - maybe that's why the series didn't last long..

Day #22,954

Walk km  17,924-17,936 (5019 to go): Stanley Park meetup

Meetup walkers
approx km 17,933 the seawall (Stanley Park)

Movie #2579: Passion (1954, Allan Dwan)

Standard oater of battle over range land leading to murder and revenge. However, the director was Allan Dwan and the cinematographer was John Alton. Forget the plot, this is just beautiful to watch (even on YouTube).

Movie #2580: Grand Canyon Trail (1948, William Witney)

This story does not have anything to do with the Grand Canyon and there is no trail. I guess the name just sounded good. It's Roy Rogers (without Dale Evans but with Jane Frazee) abely supported by Andy Devine.
It has all the trappings of an oater plus plenty of comedy (and a few songs too). No doubt they thought the kids would really go for the comedy stuff and they were right as Roy went on to be the king of the cowboys.
BTW, Witney was a big favourite of Quentin Tarantino but its hard too see why here as the YouTube print is in very bad shape.

Day #22,939-940

Walk km 17,811-17,819: walking around downtown
Walk km 17,819-17,830: 7 parks along Vancouver/Burnaby border

leaves on the trail
approx km 17,825 exiting Everett Crowley Park to Marquette Cr

Movie #2566: The Fast Lady (1962, Ken Annakin)

Has all the telltale signs of the idiotic British comedy. But it does add a little bit of style not found in the Carry On series. One bit of style is Julie Christie who soon moved on to more mature roles.

Day #22,937

Walk km 17,792-17,794: to the library
Walk km 17,794-17,809: the 3 Tatlows

fog
approx km 17,797 Stanley Park from Lion's Gate Bridge

Day #22,901

Walk km 17,468-14,469: to breakfast
Walk km 17,469-14,479: Yaletown

Meetup walkers
approx km 17,476 in front of Vancouver stadium

Movie #2545: You Am I (2006, Kristijonas Vildziunas)

Movie with no plot. Lotsa mystical shit. No thanks.

Day #21,546

Walk km 6281-6288: to Yaletown Station/(train)/Cambie/(bus)/41st/Yew/53rd/Beechwood/51st/Marine/(bus+train)/Davie/Pacific/Expo/Abbott
Walk km 6288-6291 (15,255 to go): running errands
Walk km 6291-6293 (15,253 to go): to the library

hot food display at T&T Supermarket
aprox km 6288 Abbott Street

Book #356 (#48 this year): Dirty Tricks(1991, Michael Dibdin)

First person account of murder and mayhem from a first class rotter. The whole thing is extemely clever as our hero tries to explain away his many evil deeds, all the while making it plain to one and all that he is slime personified. Clever indeed.

Movie #1517 (#298 this year): Executive Koala(2005, Minoru Kawasaki)

Have I mentioned that the Japanese are totally nutso? There ain't no place else where they could have possibly made a movie like this.
Mr Tamura is a mid-level executive in a pickle company. He's also a koala. He's also an ax-murderer. Lots of blood and gore in this one as the executive koala takes his ax to almost every cast member. There's also some song and dance numbers. And a bit of romance. Martial arts? Sure!
In short, it's just totally stoooooooooopid.

Day #21,487

Walk km 5999-6001: to Safeway
Walk km 6001-6012: 33rd/Highbury/Marine/Olympic/bridle trail/Marine/Crown/bridle trail/Carrington/53rd/MacDonald/Marine/Glendalough/Marine/Dunbar
Walk km 6012-6014: to Safeway

3 Nissan Figaros
aprox km 6000 Highbury Street

Movie #1431 (#229 this year): Jail Bait(1954, Ed Wood Jr)

Timothy Farrell's "luxury" digs

Really really bad. Maybe not as funny as Plan 9 since you can't get quite as kooky with a crime drama as with sci-fi. It's still pretty kooky.
My favourite part was where the gangster tells his moll about how lucky she is to be with him: just look around at all this luxury. The problem is, the set is a bare-bones apartment. Later, the moll says the same thing... and they're still in the bare-bones apartment. Did Ed think that they could afford a fancy set and when the deal fell through he forgot to change the dialogue? It's bad enough that Ed had to shoot on such a crappy set but to have his own characters in the movie actually point it out to the audience..... that's cruel.

Movie #1432 (#230 this year): Bachelor Bait(1934, George Stevens)

Rochelle Hudson (looking very colourful)

It's a double feature of "Bait" movies. There really couldn't possibly be a greater disparity between the directors: Ed Wood was from the lowest level of skid row while George Stevens was part of Hollywood royalty.
In this one we meet Stuart Erwin again (last seen in "Mr Boggs Steps Out"). Once again he's a naive/nervous sort that most of the audience can relate to. Playing the love interest is Rochelle Hudson who is again as cute as a button. Pleasant little picture but it's no "Jail Bait".

km1384 Hastings/Semlin/Wall/Renfrew/McGill

The Astoria Hotel, Beer Store & Pub.
At about km1379 East Hastings (Vancouver).