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Waiting...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1971
3 parcels in transit. Tibet, the US and Belgium.
Every day hurrying home after work, the one thing to look forward to... (well, that and some scotch or rum). But the mailbox is empty.
I check my confirmation emails, it's been a couple of weeks, the packages SHOULD be showing up soon...
But nothing yet. When they do it'll doubtless be 2 or three in a day, the staggered order times all log jamming together until finally they arrive all at once; the pains I took to provide small incentives each week will have been for naught.
Nothing today. But there's still tomorrow, and if nothing comes tomorrow then it wouldn't be unreasonable to have high hopes for Monday...
The news is grim
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1983
It's always grim. We've had a slow week, the weather, the season, we're not a summer sort of place.
But the owner always consoles us with the bad news of the world. He talks to the food suppliers, the wine reps, other restaurants are down 50, 60% from last year. Some are months behind in paying the suppliers and their rent. He lists the restaurants, we know them, sometimes he tells us outright, other times we're left to guess the moral on our own.
We're lucky to have a job. It's tough out there. You'll never find another job this good.
The news is always grim.
Banksy - Exit Through The Gift Shop
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 1804
An unexpected (although scheduled) day off, and so I took the boy to see the new Banksy film - Exit through the Gift Shop.
Which is an informative documentary about graffiti and street art in general. About art in general. And, in a perverse way, about art commenting on life and life imitating art. And there are probably a few more things that it was about as well, but to get into it in any depth would be to diminish the surprise.
And there is a surprise. Indeed, for those not too familiar with the contemporary art scene (I'm not, but if I think you're less so than I might pretend...) the ending will be quite the twist indeed, with some genuine laugh-out-loud OMFG moments.
It's absurdly delightful. I'd happily give it 4 and a half stars....I'd a given it a 5 if Thierry Guetta (later known as Mr. Brainwash) had been a better videographer, but then maybe I'd only have given it a 4....
Further Links: 25 of Banksy's coolest murals (another persons list), banksy.co.uk
a body in the Ascension Islands
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
- Hits: 1606
I'm in the South Pacific somewhere, close to Antarctica, on a tiny island filled with sapphire blue hot-springs .... it looks a bit like the mineral flows in Yellowstone, each terrace deep and filled, small patches of emerald green grass between them...I'm in the hot-springs before shipping back, unwinding, it's beautiful and there's a bigger island somewhere behind me, South Georgia Island or Ascension Island, a name I recall from a whaling book I recently read....
There's a body in the ship, for some reason it's stuffed in a trunk and we have to return it, one of our shipmates who didn't survive the voyage, and in the cabin of the ship, looking in the trunk where he's packed I'm discussing with someone (?? who?) what we should do with the body, we're supposed to return it, but we're discussing burning it, or a burial at sea....we have to pull him out of the trunk first though, and as he's been in there a while it might be messy....
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