Real Talk!

It echoes in my mind... thanks to Walt Disney films.... from that famous scene, in which Bambi stumbles while learning to walk. Thumper (the rabbit) turns to Bambi's mother and says, "He doesn't walk very good, does he?".

Thumper's mother calls him out, "Thumper!" "Yes mother?," Thumper replies sheephishly, after realizing he is in trouble.

His mother continues sternly, "What did your father tell you this morning?"

Thumper stops to recall, then recites slowly, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say nothing at all."

You might think I've been neglecting my blog. I have and I haven't. I've thought about it. I've even written bits.

I've sent myself emails... stuff about Barrie, Ontario... about Toronto Realtors' "connect project"... a little about fine print in contracts... about a Toronto Sunshine girl who hopes to become a Realtor....about the passing of Al Martino, Dickie Peterson, Ian Wallace, Don Decker, Rusty Weir, Margaret Fitzgerald ,Luis Aguile, Irene Van Wyke, Lou Jacobi, Joseph Robert Wiseman, Vic Mizzy, Lenore Kandel, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Daniel Melnick,Junior Coghlan, Lawrence Halprin,Shiloh Pepin, Collin Wilcox-Paxton, Soupy Sales and too many child abductees.

I read that China is expected to build more square feet of real estate in the next 15 years than the United States has built in its entire history, and it has no green building codes or green building experience. & that upwards of 50 percent of global CO2 emissions comes from cow farts. I also read a lot of stuff about how the real estate slump is over. Woody Allen's new film is to be called You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.

I collected a bunch of information on the local Carlow-Boulter area. I researched H1N1 and vaccine debates... I thought about Afghanistan, the opening of "This Is It", the Michael Jackson rehearsal footage film... the whale shark, called “butanding”, that was found dead on Manila Bay by local fishermen... Andre Agassi exposing his secret crystal meth addiction... Samhain.... the McDonald's manager in Japan who died of a brain haemorrhage- classified a victim of "karoshi" or death by overwork, the man dressed as KFC mascot Colonel Sanders who evaded security to be photographed with the new president of the UN General Assembly and Eric Clapton's gallstones. Monty Python is being brought to life on-screen in a six part mini-series which is airing on the IFC Chanel, it's called Monty Python: Almost the Truth -The Lawyers Cut.

That seemed to be the most real thing I'd come across.