Sunday, May 07, 2006

Short one

It's official. There are 491,000 people in Hamilton according to the highway signs when you enter Hamilton by car. That makes it the equivalent of Newcastle in Aus, both in terms of size and demographic (industrial).

There is a bird here who sings a song like the Austin Powers theme. It goes "ti-ti-tee-tee" repeatedly. It could be a black bird, we're not sure, but I call it the Austin Powers bird. I half expect to look outside the window and see a bunch of birds doing a formation dance.

They were filming a TV movie on Main St in Dundas the other weekend. It didn't have anyone particularly famous on this occasion, unless you count the girlfriend from the Ferris Bueller movie 20 years ago (I wouldn't have recognised her if the paper didn't point it out). On the other hand, we found out that they've done some quite high profile stuff here including a recent Robin Williams movie, and scenes for the West Wing with Jimmy Smits as a post-Bartlett presidential candidate. There is a 50's style diner on King St that closed 30 years ago and now exists solely for TV and movie filming.

The end.

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