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OYR HPR Calgary I Love you but you're killing me...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Theatre
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I hate to confess, but this is my peer group.
The players, all about my age. I know most of them, have been to enough of their productions that they're almost friends...
The audience, agewise, perhaps mine own, minus 10 on average, with enough alternate lifestyles to suggest the gay bar and just enough hipsters to give it credibility...
Enjoyable, sending up Calgary, lamenting what it's become from a variety of points of view, and at a mere $15.00 a ticket there was plenty of change to hit the bar over the intermission. Perfect HPR fare...
Philomena Cunk on Climate Change
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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If the Wild Rose Party and the Conservatives could agree on Climate Change, this is probably what we'd get...
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Sciences that serve as metaphor for the collective unconscious...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
- Hits: 1960
A short list:
- Paleontology - the most primitive, limbic region of our brain, revealed through giant lizards and fish that we imaging to be the gluttons of all basic desires (reproduction, feeding, etc.). Paleontologists excavate our primitive roots and ancestry, explain them away, much as psychology helps us to discern our most primal motivations.
- Spelunking: The exploration of hidden regions beneath the earth (conscious.). Self-explanatory, psychology.
- Archaeology: The evolution of mind, explored through the evolution of societies, cultures, countries world-wide.
All of these, to one degree or another, are excavating and mining as much within the unconscious - exploring desire, fear, the primal emotions as well as the beginnings of the more refined emotions - as they are generally increasing the weal of human consciousness.
Best. Painting. Ever.
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Other
- Hits: 1924
Found this painting at a thrift shop today, would have bought, but at $160.00 it was a bit out of my league...
What would appear to be a wizard or prophet lecturing a disinterested group of disciples under the light of a giant sea-shell. In a cave. If you look closely you'll see those souls being sucked into the light cast by the sea-shell...
Fucking genius.
I mean, really, If I could do better, I would, but there's no way...
I know who could but she's not speaking to me...
Note the detail. On the left the colorless crystals, the waterfall, the subterranean setting (why are they in a cave? Why is the seashell giving off light? Is this Darwin feeding the masses? Or letting them starve? I'm not sure...)
Here's a more detailed view:
Midget (black? pygmy) lady pulling on prophet/wizards coat. Nun on donkey. Bishop and yellow carrying lamp. Oh, this is so full-fucking-on, and looking at it again I'm wishing I'd spent the money. But curiously, I don't think it's going anywhere, except maybe the MOBA. They would LOVE this, find the artist, and make him/her a celebrity of outsider art...Absolute Genius.
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