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The Presidential Debate
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I missed the debates, went to CIFF instead, but have seen enough of the recaps and meta-analysis to get the gist. There were no surprises.
Yeah, Donald. No, Donald.
And, Hillary, good, very good, much better than the Donald, but still no.
Donald, he's not better, he's the end. He's the end of the financially empowered aristocracy that rules the US. He's the end, period, overdue, he's the "OFF" switch for the United States of America. And despite all urging by the reasonable people of the US, I see no offer to put a better selection of candidates on the table. I mean, fuck, why, any TV presenter hosting the news-satire shows would do better. Think Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, and even John Oliver. They know what's going on. But the people that know what's going on - not Donald, think Hillary - they're too invested in the system to make a change. They represent the continuation of a system that will continue to exploit and develop the class and income differences that are destroying both America and the world...
Vote Donald. Someone will kill him soon anyways. And then let's see how the world develops...
CIFF - SHORTS
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Late Monday, saw "Shorts" at CIFF. Seemed the best way, an averaging of short films would guarantee that my limited time would find some reward, rather than chancing it all on a single film (and there were a few that piqued my interest) I would see Shorts and be done with it.
The standard mixed bag, some OK, none really bad, an astonishing amount of manpower and work went into the simplest of them, credits as long as a feature film...
2 stood out: CURVE - by Tim Egan - a girl above a dark void, clinging on for dear life, and 90 DEGREES NORTH (90 Grad Nord) - About a German Pedestrian stuck at a traffic light (on a traffic Island in the middle of nowhere) - evoked "Waiting for Godot" and a lot of other surrealist/absurdist films. Well done.
SO 2 hits, fuel for nightmares to come, worthwhile, and maybe, fingers crossed, I'll find time for another film...
Time Passes
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And it was her birthday, and I sent her the email, every year, 25 now all told. It wouldn't be different, no matter what.
She's someone who never found me, I know those who've found me, searched for me, I'm not that much of a Luddite. She's passed, moved on, we both have, but I'm curious...
And so, burning Calgary, moving on, the end of October, maybe, after 25 years, time to catch up, come to visit, see how she is...
Curious...
I send the email. There won't be too many more chances, we get older, one of us, sooner or later, will be disappearing. And there are few people that were as important in my life as she was. At my age, it's more funerals and the regrets that we didn't finally connect before they departed...Spain, 4 or 5 days, a week maybe, catching up, laughing, reliving old times, it could be good. Necessary. Closure. Always it was finished, we both knew, but now - well, closure, the definition changes. Closure, then the crossing. Maybe in a year, 10, 50, but we are so busy we don't know, can't anticipate, and there are no assurances we'll meet on the other side, and so maybe we should lets live while we can....
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