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Accidental Art Star
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Not, of course, in any way denigrating the penguin (which is expertly rendered) - but shouldn't this tell us something about the current state of affairs in the art world?
Numastic
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
- Hits: 1864
She's late, the salad girl, I didn't think she was working tonight. But she's brought with her an armful of coins to show me, I can't remember the conversation we must have had, old US nickels struck on square plates, "proofs", another that when I turn over I recognize a Philadelphia Shilling, it has the slogan "Go Away" across the top, and I'm asking her about the coins and the logo and she's talking unintelligibly, handing me framed coins and others for me to look at, always the mumbled explanation...
Homeowner forecloses on Bank of America
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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In a sweet and affirming reversal of fortune, a Florida couple get to foreclose on a bank after it refuses to pay expenses related to the wrongful attempt to foreclose on their mortgage. (Wrongful in the sense that they never had a mortgage and owned their house outright).
Garage Sales - Week 6 - 2011
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Now this is a great weekend.
It begins Friday morning, there's one in Elboya worth a quick visit before work - some bangles for the daughter, picture frame, a few plant pots.
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Saturday Morning it's raining, I'm up at 6:00 AM writing, waiting. I have a huge list of sales to hit, a church sale at 8:00, others at 8:30, parades of garage sales all over the city beginning at 9:00, my map is huge.
And it's grey, foggy, raining when I begin...
The church sale, a handful of old jewelry, I'll sort through this later. From here to the Wildwood parade of garage sales, and this takes me a couple of hours. Every sale I go to there's something to buy, plant pot, bangle, book, a quarter here, a dollar there. And it goes for hours and I'm still turning up treasures, I get home at 1:00, unload the car, this was a day that could have gone on forever.
Then to work, where the treasures are dispersed - something this morning for everyone, a budget of $60.00 exhausted in dollar & toonie purchases, some jewelry for the girls, a fifty cent phone to replace one that was broken at work, a wireless mike for G to broadcast himself onto the radio, a pedometer for the bosses nephew to track how many miles he does (or doesn't) walk each night....it's a mini-christmas.
Very little for myself, a couple of antique camera tripods, each from different sales, two dollars apiece, a couple of plant pots, but, really, my needs are modest and overall it was a very successful day.
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Sunday morning, on my way to the Hillhurst Flea Market, another garage sale. And here, in a box of antique brasses I turn up a half dozen vintage church candlesticks - auctioneers marks: "Sisters of Providence", used at a boys school outside of Lacombe the owner tells me, a dollar apiece, and 2 antique ceramic bedpans, 3 dollars each, and the day has just begun and I'm now distracted, hurry through the flea market and go off to find yet more garage sales ...
and, almost nothing else, a flatbed Canon Scanner - for two dollars, and my day is complete, the other ones today are busts.
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Monday morning and I'm off to the local thrift shops, find the donated treasures, and again I'm in luck, a first edition copy of Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" - two dollars, a pair of antique candlesticks - my first pair (proper) - this season - (and I was wondering where they had all gone...) for $4.00 - excellent condition with the pushups still in, I'm of the suspicion they match another set I have squirreled away someplace...
And my floor downstairs is littered with the unfiled treasures - a VERY SUCCESSFUL garage sale weekend, the kind dreams are built upon. And only 4 days until next weekend....
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