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Goberg Candlestick
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: For Sale
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Candlesticks, taking a big hit and nobody's swinging...wrong product, wrong town...
This is beautiful, I mean, German, Arts and Crafts, see another one for sale here: https://www.decorativecollective.com/dealers/antiques-and-decorative/p/goberg-candle-holder-aad012
I've easily got a dozen boxes full of antique candlesticks and I don't think I want to let them go at Calgary prices. I might have to set up some sort of online shop for the higher end items...
A luminous butterfly in an old hotel
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm checking into an old hotel, the walls are yellow, outside it's surrounded by green trees. There's a dim comfortable light at the front desk, they know me when I come in, "Yes, yes Mr. Boyle, we have a room for you"...
They know me in a creepy kind of way, I don't know them, it reminds me a bit of Jack Torrance being finally welcomed to the Overlook Hotel...
The desk clerk shows me to my room. The room, dingy, yellow walls, it'll do, when I spot on it, flickering just out of reach of the light from the bedside lamp - a butterfly, camouflaged, then opening it's wings to reveal a beautiful burst of color, I try to bring my phone close to it to take a picture, share with a friend, but it flies away...
The desk clerk is apologizing, they don't usually have bugs in their hotel, but I'm looking for it now, on the wall in the hallway, opening it's wings a beautiful blue-green that casts a stunning penumbra onto the wall and I have to get a picture of this...
Cabaret (Review)
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Theatre
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O.K. The "Cabaret" - read Burlesque, well, I've probably seen 1 too many. Not exciting. The Venue - upstairs at Saltlick - not at all suited, standing room with limited visibility and lots of blocking.
The audience - well, boring Calgary Theatre People. The kind of people Homer Simpson was thinking of when he said "...a Play ... A PLAY! WHAT COULD BE MORE BORING THAN A PLAY!!!". It's a fundraiser, so there's food and snacks - that's good. And they replenish it, so that's good because theatre people eat like every meal's gonna be their last.
But the act - fine, but you can't see it - or only in glimpses through the crowd, and these girls, I've seen 'em before in Nelson, wouldn't matter if I've never seen 'em before, Calgary, it's not the place to see Burlesque - Nelson, easy a dozen or more girls per show - this show, 3 girls, 4 acts, and really, I can't criticize, I've seen one too many burlesque shows is all and I need a break.
Doggerel
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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'TERENCE, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well, the horned head:
We poor lads, 'tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.'
Reading aloud, now adding Shelley, Keats, in addition to T.S. Eliot, it's good practice - often taking a few pages before I settle into the rhythm of the verse, scanning ahead for unfamiliar - or rather, more familiar but never pronounced words, to work them into the rhythm. It gets better, like meditation, seldom am I ever anywhere close to Zen but I imagine, I fancy that with a bit of practice I'll get better at it.
But the quality of reading - especially when reading the likes of Shelley and Keats and Eliot, well, it rather infuriates me. These people were writing a poem or 2 a day; I have no excuses, for the doggerel that I'm writing there's no high bar, I should be cranking out a book a day, and so, really, what the fuck is up? Both inspiring and chastising...
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