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Waiter with a Paper Mache Nose
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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It's a sunny evening and I'm hitchhiking beside a road, only it's not a road, it's a long river that runs beside a waterfall, is a waterfall on it's right-handed edge that plunges to a lake far below. To the left there rise mountains and cliffs, there's a cheerful evening light and someone driving down the road, driving down the river, stops to give me a lift. I know him, don't know him, never met him, he's a customer from the restaurant and he knows me and so we talk...
He stops at a restaurant beside the road/river waterfall, we go in to grab a bite to eat, it's quaintly furnished, comfortable, there's a low dark wooden bar and a older barmaid and pleasant older blonde haired waiter in a gold embroidered shirt making conversation, he's chatty and he's wearing a a grotesque long and bulbous paper mache nose, it's strapped to his face where his real nose should be only it's been disfigured and so he's hiding it, and this nose, it's painted to look like flesh but it doesn't pass at all, more what a clown might wear in an old circus...
...and he's chatting and he's laying these shirts upon the counter, beautiful gold embroidered shirts, floral patterns, very regal, they're for me I understand...
...and I want to take the shirts but then I understand that if I do I'm to stay here and live and work, and this is not what I want, and I think to bundle up these shirts, take them with me and leave, only my ride has disappeared and the shirts are stained from some liquid on the bar and I'm telling myself that I can wash them...
Wasps Nest
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Images
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Found this in my travels, fortunately the weather was cool and the wasps were staying in. It is a work of art.
Stormy
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Stormy
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Tracked him down the day before I left, it'd been a couple of weeks since I'd seen him last and he'd been busy. I mean busy.
A very full 2 bags of scrolls, quite likely a hundred or more as they're often rolled 2 or three together and double sided.
And a Christmas gift, in case I didn't make it back to see him.
A pewter peeing cherub melted into a candle plinth. Note the sparkly hair scarf, he's got a big of a drag thing going on there...
Instructions for the boy as to how to get to his old house at the Naval base, he's hoping to see some pictures.
Out for dinner, he's affecting a "Banksy" look. The mitten - well, he had a stroke about 7 or 8 years ago - was left handed, then had to learn to draw with his right hand all over again.
I've got to start scanning his scrolls - and getting them framed in double sided glass - there's often pictures ala Kadinsky - on both sides. He deserves a show - really, there's no artist on earth as prolific, and disregarded - I doubt very much that of the 30 or 40,000 scrolls he's produced if even 500 hundred survive. And, yeah, it's all a bit out there, but that's the charm, and the artist doesn't always separate so easily from his work. Anyways, I've a lot of work sorting out all his gifts and artwork - flattening it, scanning it, and - of course, unboxing videos (there's whole boxes here of his stuff I just dropped off on trips back to Calgary that I have yet to go through...hopefully no rotten fruit!).
The Most Dangerous Writing App
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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This seems like a good way to build up a proper stream of consciousness and work past a few blockages...
Link: https://maebert.github.io/themostdangerouswritingapp/#/
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