A Sunday Walk in the Park

 

Prevent...What?

 
This is a sign that I see when I wlk to the club to work out. Isn't that a slightly overweight Batman running? Prevent him from doing what? I think I have good reason to be confused

Bruxelles a respiré sans voiture

Brussels breathed without cars, yesterday. And it seemed like everyone who normally would be home on Sunday went downtown by bike and by (free) Metro and public transportation, to prove a point.
http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/belgique/ce-dimanche-sans-voiture-a-2008-09-21-640857.shtml
Our first hint of how crowded it was going to be was arriving at Kraainem train station, and there were more cars parked then there are on a Monday morning. It was fun, we took my brother and his wife into the city and we wandered around, buying gifts, and enjoying it.

Try it - a day without cars.

Burn After Reading

OK, we enjoyed it. There were embarassing moments, like when George clooney's characters secret project was revealed in its 'true glory', but still we laughed at this silly movie.

Men's fashions...

I have been holding off on this comment, because, I couldn't believe it. We joined a gym, and as happens when you join a health club, you check everyone out. And there is a new fashion of an old fashion.
Capri pants for men - not stretch, but 3/4 length, with dark socks underneath (I suppose to call attention to one's slender ankles. Don't have a picture, but it would be worth a thousand or so words.

And the club wasn't the first place I saw a man wearing this in public. We were shopping at a Carrefour's, a box store, and there was a pear-shaped man there, wearing the same outfit, with the dark socks. It is a kind of plus-four, but without the extra material at the bottom of the leg. Very stocking...

Things I have noticed, thought, that I want to make a note about...

And pictures I want to take. We live in suburban Brussels, capital of the European Union, the world's largest trading block. People have been living here for centuries. But I walk by cornfields and beet fields every morning, down lanes, noticing the snails and slugs, the little lean tos and sheds that the farmers have made out of bits and pieces of material that are in little fenced in areas between the fields. The kids walking to school eery morning, the people riding bikes to work, men and women, the bike trails that seem to be a part of all the road construction that goes on. The backed up traffic on the highway that I have been walking over each morning, looking down on their red lights. And then I come back and post this on the Internet, probably on a server in the States somewhere. Hmmm...

Brussels Movie Days

Bought tickets today for some movies showing as part of Brussels Movie Days (http://site.voila.fr/brusselsmoviedays/main_fr.html). Hellboy 2, which opened in the summer. Also, Burn After Reading. Kathy is not going to Hellboy 2. She has this habit of falling asleep during fantasy movies. I think it might just have to do with her sitting still for too long. Anyway, there are some previews and others - "Avant-premieres".