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Ordinary Treasures
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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On the rounds of the thrift shops the past few weeks, the weather having stalled the launch of Garage Sale Season.
Finds include an assortment of fine vintage cufflinks, the click-fit of gold plate and glass rubies, enamel and paste diamonds, but pretty (and sparkling) nonetheless. A handful of antique postcards - a couple of which are remarkable and I shall be loathe to send them on until I've scanned them into the computer. A 1967 Cougar Quarter (actually a Bobcat), found in my change is as well a pleasant surprise. And to round it all off, a (Canadian) 1st edition of Miracle on 34 St and a copy of Peter Fleming's "Brazilian Adventure", which I'll review shortly.
In short, the ordinary treasures one finds while passing time until the garages open and the treasure hunting can begin in earnest....
Mice, Guineau Pig & Adder
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm looking through a glass door into my house and I can see a mouse and I determine to catch it.
I've had mice before, I'm not going through this again...
Inside, the cats are hiding from the mouse (mice) in the dark, a guinea pig is waddling along, it's back torn open so I can view the organs within, there is the heart and the kidneys...it looks serious and I'll attend to it as soon as I catch the mouse....
It's in a dark corner, fleeting by a furnace duct, and somehow I sweep it up and ... (?) ... but I know there are more. There are always more. And so I go into a cupboard above the stove, there are loads of buns in bags here and sure enough I catch another 3 mice in the bread, throw them all into a plastic bag, they're fighting and clawing to get out and I have to find something to do with it quick, don't want to take it outside as they'll just find their way back in....
The half-witted dishwasher from work is there, she's watching me, goes into the cupboard and helps herself to a bun and stands there stupidly eating it while I puzzle over what to do with the mice....
Then there's an adder, the most venomous snake in Eastern Canada (or so the dream tells me...), the rat-king something or other, small, and now I have to watch while they dispose of it properly...it's endangered and they don't want to kill it so I assume an aerial view of the snake catcher and his two assistants releasing it into a river, the river right above a waterfall and beneath it some dirty water, rust colored, algae filled, the back-pond of somebodies estate and he's holding the adder with a forked twig, waves it in the center of the river until it's free, swims over the falls and I wonder if it will pose a threat to the people who live below the waterfall, but this is really irrelevant...
Frank Paris: Amazing Marionettes
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Jean Francois Rauzier Hyperphoto
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Interesting collages of high resolution photos, juxtaposed imagery of famous locations with flash controls to zoom and pan.
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