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Garage Sales - Week 6 - 2011
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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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....
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Tonight's documentary is the new Morgan Spurlock documentary on embedded advertising and product placement in films.
Now he's an amusing and sympathetic character/narrator, but as he makes the sponsorship deals to make this film his hands are slowly tied.
It's mildly entertaining, light, nothing you didn't know but well presented, the only criticism would be that the material was a little thin for a full length documentary, and despite the amusing product plugs and endorsements and awkward moments with potential clients - it - well, it seemed to lack pacing...
My opinion. Slightly amusing, but probably not worth going to see. That said, I'd buy all the products that assisted in the production of this if ONLY for the reason that it took some considerable balls and courage to get on board with Spurlock in a film that they should have intuitively known was damning of advertising in film. And sponsors included Mane & Tail human/equestrian shampoo, mini-cooper, and POM Wonderful, amongst others.
Toaster out of Toast
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The current meme in art: The medium is the message. Follow the link to view the image of a toaster made out of 2500 pieces of toast.
Link: http://www.fa-art.se/Baires.htm
Previously: The Medium is the Message, Art Made with Spools
Thai Express
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Restaurants & Cafes
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I was kicking around the mall, killing time, reading my book, waiting for the car to be fixed when I thought I'd try something different.
There isn't much different to do in malls, which is why I so seldom ever go. Taco Bell, A&W, Subway, the conventional non-appealing options.
But there was a new chain there, Thai Express, and as I'm a big fan of Thai food I thought I'd give it a try.
I had the Pad Thai.
It tasted like the chef had barfed in the wok, stirred in a bit of oil and served it to me. This is the kind of stuff you don't eat for free, let alone pay for.
Absolutely god-awful appalling. Really, had they served me a filet-o-fish or a supersize fries it would have been closer to Thai food than the oily, flavourless mass of regurgitated noodles and sprouts.
Fucking appalling is about all I can say, for however many stars that counts.
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