Home
Princess on my chest
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
- Hits: 2201
A short nap, and I'd barely drifted off when I dreamed that my old cat, Princess, was sitting on my chest, trying to wake me. And tired of waiting and flicking her tail she leaned forward and bit me hard on the fingers, woke up suddenly with the pain of the bite still in my fingers, shaking them out, no pain, but I think that I should call L**** and see that the cat is alright...
We Buy Gold
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
- Hits: 2377
A well written article on the ethics of pawnbrokers. Having had to frequent these places in my financially chequered past, I can assure you the picture he paints is probably on the kind side...noteworthy how he started off in Calgary, and ended up becoming a professor of philosophy...
Link: http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold
What We Do in the Shadows
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 2536
Monday night off and there isn't a bar in the city worth attending. But there was this:
What We Do In The Shadows - a brilliant New Zealand mockumentary playing at Eau Claire, only cinema in town, and it's definitely a 5 star piece. Written by and starring Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) it provides a hilarious and unconventional (yet oddly still conventional) take on the maladapted vampires of Wellington, New Zealand.
5/5 Stars, view the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv568AzZ-i8
Saturday Night Off
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 3101
So the owner approaches me and offers me a Saturday night off. It's been forever since I've had a weekend (ish) off, with cash in my pocket, we're trying out a couple of new waitresses, and so I pounce....
Saturday Morning. A Saturday Night Off.....I'm a waiter (at the moment) - this never happens, never, ever, ever,....what to do? What to do?
And my head is reeling with the possibilities...
I'm sober, 2 days, and so I'm a little bit quicker on the draw than I should be, probably...
The possibilities, the possibilities....All morning, afternoon, considering...
In the end they collapse - as they must - and I take the boy to see "Famous Puppet Death Scenes" at the Grand (3rd time for me), after which we head over to the Loose Moose Theater to take in the "Cinema of Regret". A long day, night, of high expectations that in the end were poorly met, a fall-on-your-face flat sort of Saturday off. Nothing could have lived up to the anticipation...
Page 763 of 1086