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Living with Agatha Christie
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
- Hits: 1579
I'm living with a young Agatha Christie in the Southern US. It's not a romantic thing, I'm a lodger, I'm never home anyways because I'm working in this big restaurant, a Texas-styled bar and grill, I'm there all the time, day and night, all the waiters are older like me and it's got the vague feel of an ongoing nightmare from which there's no escape ....
When finally I do get home Agatha tells me she wants to move. The paint has blistered on the walls into curses and demonic sayings, blood leeches from the walls and the rooms are filled with an evil presence. The house is possessed. I go upstairs and in the hall on the way to my bedroom I find myself - for a moment - floating, before I land next to my room.
I can't blame her for wanting to move and so I say goodbye and she leaves. Now I have no place to live and find my way to the outskirts of town to hitchhike on to another town. There are other, older drifters like myself there trying to catch a ride as well. And then I'm talking to someone who's explaining to me how the house wasn't really haunted, how the place where I floated through the air is a geophysical anomoly, and remember, when I was flying there in the plane, how I floated up in my seat when we flew over the house? And I hadn't remembered at all but now I do and it all makes sense...
Incident.net
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
- Hits: 1548
www.incident.net - A curious, experimental "art" website. I rather liked this exhibition by Reynald Drouhin, although I was a little disappointed there wasn't an "Add to cart" or bid button. Maybe I'm doing a little too much online shopping...
The Secret
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 1913
With tongue in cheek I make the boy watch "The Secret". It's an exercise in critical thinking. I've seen it, laughed through it, but I want him to see it as well and note the many pitfalls of pop-spirituality.
Now on the very slight chance you haven't heard of it (where have you been?) it's a completely ridiculous "self help" film that promotes gross materialism through wishful thinking.
And the neighbors are having sex ...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1921
So there will be no work until they're done.
They're not very vocal, just the "thump thump thump" of their headboard against the wall. They should move the bed.
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