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The Resident Artist...
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...and this occurred to me, as director of Marketing, that this thrift shop needs a resident artist. Someone that can make use of the tons of garbage we generate every week, to upcycle and sell it in the store. This would be a paid position, maybe $3000 per month, and they'd be allowed to keep a couple of their pieces and the rest would be sold, in the shop. And every month we could rotate in a new one...
No, really, I shouldn't have to tell you this is a great idea. And I've told them, but it went over like a lead balloon, like every one of my other ideas, and damn, they are missing out.
Telescope
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And, the find of the day at the thrift shop - an antique telescope, marked "Ross - London", battered and in rough shape, but a cool thing nonetheless.
M*** doesn't want to part with it yet, and so I didn't get a chance to purchase. Probably for the best, what do I need a telescope for anyways?
Good Will Hunting
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Yes, I know, hardly new but like a lot of movies I hadn't seen it. Knew it by reputation.
So, younger - unrecognizable almost Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver (Heard about her, still no real clue as to who she is), and Matt Damon, because he was pretty popular in a lot of other movies I never saw.
Anyways, good, not great, and certainly in no ways deserving all the heavy-handed praise. Just good.
Sunday Night at the United Church
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Sunday, last night, finally forced myself to go out and do something.
I've been on the downlow, "Working" at getting bloody nothing done and doing a fine bloody job of it too, but all this do-nothing has seen me miss a few worthwhile events that I later regretted, and so I finally hauled my ass up to the church to check it out.
3 local artists, independent female singer/songwriters, a small audience of perhaps 70 people on the pews, the stage/altar they've done up to look like every folk musicians retro ideal, with old 50's, 60's & 70's style table lamps, a sheepskin rug, acoustic guitars...
And they were surprisingly good. Or, perhaps to better phrase it, not surprisingly, because this town has a superfluity of talent, and it made me realize that I have to make more of an effort to get out...
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