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The Batshit Package

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Stormy

Published: 04 September 2017

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A regular customer, he comes  in to the restaurant 1, 2, maybe 3 times a week. One of the local characters, he's usually looking for a free OJ ("Can I just get some ice...maybe with a splash of Orange Juice..."), or a handful of french fries, a couple of Zucchini sticks, maybe just 2 dollars worth, he's broke, 60 or 70 odd years old and reminisces of the time when he hung around the brat pack, Dean Martin, Marilyn Munroe, Jean Harlow, down around Malibu and Hollywood, abundant references to a glorious former life and circle of friends that he may or may not have had...

I'd heard he also did art, of sorts, so offered him $20.00 if he'd do a nude sketch of one of our waitresses, a small revenge upon her for all the countless tables of hers she'd made me bus, he laughs, ...

Returning from Toronto there's a package for me ... 

A package addressed to me, wrapped in a dirty gym sock and rubber bands, my curiosity is piqued, "Gift 2 Server->+Duck"...

Various pieces of posters, a stick, a stone, found cards, with his elaborations and thoughts written upon them:

Side One: "If U Go..Cabin Cafe U'll See Point...R.N.R. Put Norma-J at (illeg)"

Side Two: "Blondie Tol Preminger "Ur Click...River no Return War Worst" Is Its Thurs - Aug 18 + Guess who's waterin weeds G Cabin ... Koot Bay...Tel Me...Giv R. Normal Not Me...Woood 12 Chilly"

3 cards from a Jesus based Tarot, with notes:

 

AND 2 large posters:

I like outsider art, and this is as "Outside" as it gets. Curios from a local...

A Man with a Maid - review

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Books

Published: 02 September 2017

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My foray into Victorian eroticism, merely rounding out my reading, why not? Everyone else is reading "50 Shades of Bullshit", my eroticism can be a little more literary.

It isn't, the prose and style is better, by a long-shot, but it suffers the gross repetition of ideas - a Victorian "Gentleman" has furnished and soundproofed a torture room wherein he rapes and converts to decadence some poor girl that has spurned his advances. The first volume is good - for the genre, he's no Nabokov or De Sade by a long shot, but he's thorough and realizes his elaborate fantasies upon the reluctant-come-enthusiastic victim. 

Standard rape fantasy, where the woman (women) learn to enjoy themselves despite their noble inclinations...fodder for both men and women. I have some criticisms, the word "Bubbies" for "Tits" or "Breasts" for example, makes me laugh, and some of his "depravities" are not particularly to my taste, but it does have something...

You can read the book yourself online here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Way_of_a_Man_with_a_Maid

 

Toronto

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Images

Published: 31 August 2017

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A short - overdue trip to the big city, visiting some friends. I'd promised, and at the worst of all times (work, Jeep, Bills) had to make good on it. Bus to Calgary, flight to Toronto, very few short days, but enough, enough to see friends, the local sights, attractions, find abundant inspiration which as of late has been sadly elusive...

(The CN Tower, a proper landmark as from almost anywhere in Toronto you only have to walk a block to see it)

 

(great diner sign)

 

(yep.)

(Every town has one. Nelson has more than a few...)

(CN Tower)

 Phenomenal used bookstores...

Everywhere great old buildings and architecture. Friends, they have a 5 room suite, in the ghetto, $1400 per month, but - with the speed and ease of public transportation it's easily escaped. And the ghetto here is far, far more interesting than the mediocre suburbs of Calgary.

I wanted to buy the sign...not sure how it'd go over here...

 

The Olympus. I had the Morning Glory burger, plenty big enough. Check out the Olympus - I wanted to order it just for the photo, but there was no chance in hell I'd be able to eat all that. Food, generally, in Toronto is a heck of a lot cheaper than out west...

Rated #3 for fine dining in TO, but, no, no it isn't. The other extreme, haute french cuisine, well done, but expensive and boring... 

I was pretty excited when I passed this, but popping inside the building found nothing...

Passed this on one of my many, many walks (25 KM/Day average) - unfortunately it wasn't open on my timeframe.

Link: https://www.skullstore.ca/ & http://prehistoria.ca/

Casa Loma, won't bore you with the hundreds of pictures I took here...well, maybe just one:

(A well integrated fusion of a modern high rise with an old church)

Everywhere the independently owned "variety" stores, for cigarettes, lotteries, etc. As you can't display cigarettes in Canada for fear of harming the psychology of young children the store owner here has thoughtfully displayed dozens of packages of herbal viagra...

 

Old pay phones that somehow display like modern art pieces installed on street corners...