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Isolde - Theatre Junction/Grand
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Tonight, night off, first Theatre Grand production, for me, of the Season, ISOLDE, a contemporization of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, curious language, at times difficult to follow, but in the end worthwhile. Worthwhile, perhaps, because it's addressing issues in which I can find some relevance and corollaries, relevant to me...
Afterwards, hor d'oeuvres and wine served upstairs, hob-nob with the patrons and sponsors, the actors and actress, a lot of people I recognize, a couple I speak to, she knows me, I only recognize her husband, but can't place either, the house party at Martins' in Brittania, nope, I want to ask "Martin the Crack Dealer?" but a distant and better part of me intuits this is inappropriate...
Theatre Grand, the best theatre crowd in Calgary, the best performances, without a doubt, the most "Theatrical" or "Artistic" of any of the groups in Calgary, the crowd reflects this, theatre is not dead, it merely needs relevance and reinventing, and dollar for dollar they're doing it. A good night out.
Ending Gun Violence
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Since the idea of restricting firearm sales and ownership in the US is so repugnant I've come up with a different strategy for eliminating Gun Violence.
First of all, it would involve the renaming of guns to reflect their intent and purpose. Away with the cool names like "HK SAM" or "AK 47" or "GLOCK" or "Smith and Wesson". In with brands like "The Mall Destroyer", "The Schoolyard Chum", "Bully Bully" ("The tragic but understandable reaction to bullying? Really? WTF PEOPLE!"), "The Terrorists...", "Gangsta's Choice", "Clear and transparent abuse of Authority", & "I AM THE LAW", "Above the Law", "The Compensator", "Revenge", the "Al Queda", the "Xenophobe", the "Vigilante", the "I lose fist-fights", I'm only scraping the surface here folks, there's a radical re-branding underway and the possibilities are endless. Only one rule - name every gun to it's manufactured intent and purpose.
Secondly, and this is a tough sell, but let me explain. Make every gun manufacturer and distributor accountable for the misdeeds of the weapon. I know, I know, there is something so fundamentally un-American about holding any corporation accountable or liable for it's actions or products, but such accountability would:
- Make the gun distributors a whole lot fussier about who they sold their shit to.
- Raise prices of guns, which given their awful possibilities should really be a little more pricey than they are. The increase in price would be necessary to pay out the many foreseeable lawsuits.
Well, that was easy enough. Now on to world peace...
2016 - Deathwatch
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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And for some reason 2016 is starting off with the expected deaths of a lot of people I somehow knew...
David Bowie, Edgar Mitchell, Glenn Frey, Alan Rickman, George Jonas. All older than me, but culturally relevant. To me.
People have been dying forever, there's nothing new there, but these people, they are intruding upon my generation, they're the people I know, and they're the scouts preparing me for my time...
Every new death where I know the participant, it's a bit the death of me, and I prepare accordingly. I now understand what the last generation was feeling when they were witness to the deaths of Frank Sinatra, George Burns, Etc, it's not so much their loss as the realization that this death, this mortality, is but a foreshadowing of their own...
Will Stratton - You Divers
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And this, recommended to me by Pam as the answer to Joanna Newsom's "Divers".
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Don't know if it's the answer, but I like it nonetheless...
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