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Of Community Housekeeping & Strange Neighbours
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I was going through the house, finding bits of broken glass all over the floor. Kramer, it appears, didn't do a bang-up job. But I'm discovering chests of drawers and beds in other rooms and I'm discovering that she rearranged the furniture, then that she didn't I just have a lot of beds and chests of drawers and every chest of drawers has stuff in it, stuff I'd forgotten I had, a collection of ebony figurines and I'm showing my daughter and wondering if I have a collection of Ivory figurines as well, beautiful cabinets, there's a half-witted neighbour, he came by to show me a telescope he had, and now he's here sweeping the floors, and another neighbour tidying in the kitchen and yet another neighbour - pretty red head, she's popped by as well, and I'm finding old fridges and freezers and wondering why they're there and they as well are filled with curios and I'm discovering rooms I've forgotten about, never been in, and they are again filled with beds, cabinets, curios, and I'm surprised and appalled at how much I have to get rid of...
*(Woke up exhausted, strange dream, none of the "neighbours" in the dream were people I knew...)
Atmospheric Rivers & Slushing Outside
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Blog
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It snowed last week, or the week before, and for a brief time the town was like a Hallmark Movie.
Then it stopped and all disappeared.
Since when it has rained and rained and the clouds have hung lowering in the sky. Tuesday, a blue sky, not a cloud to be seen, but I'm working a double and so my vantage is only from the pavement in front of the restaurant when I'm smoking a cigarette. It would have been a mighty fine day to have off. I didn't.
Wednesday, it snowed/Slushed the entire day, by boots filled with slush, shoes, everything wet, grey and dismal weather. The snow, it just turns to slush on the ground, there is no snow.
And Thursday, the same, a little bit hungover - then a lot, too much of a good thing, went to the Royal to see a customer play, the place is packed, the music, good, but there's a drummer in my head and it's doing me no favours.
Then today, a text early in the morning, waitress sick, so I'm on a double, and still a little under the weather, lunch is busy, a 5, another 5, a six ,a four top, deuce, deuce, deuce and take-out orders out my a**...bloody hell. Way too much running for a called in shift...
But in the evening, quiet, and I'm out by 7:15, and glad I worked the lunch because otherwise my ring-out would have been zilch. And - the added benefit, the sick waitress is now obliged to work Saturday, meaning I have a proper week-end off, what to do? What to do? What's on at the theatre, about town, man about town on a Saturday off, l'm gonna start with a shower...
The Snow Ghost - Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Books
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This was a much needed read, perfectly suited to the short days and long dark nights.
Classic Japanese Ghost Stories, most dating from the late 19th Century and early 20th, they demonstrate the hold the dead have over the living, the power to kill, vindictive, violent, vengeful, no pale shades half-seen in a graveyard, or ghosts walking in abandoned temples, these are full-on malevolent demons, fairies, spirits, that can interact in ways with the living that the Western Tradition generally doesn't allow.
So worthwhile....
(My other books, I mean Shopenhauer, Jack Kerouac, US Anderson, too many more to list, they've rather stalled on me)
Wrath of Man - Guy Ritchie
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Guy Ritchie has lost his touch in a big way. A silly gangsta movie (all his movies are), but this one without style or substance.
The success of "John Wick" has brought everyone on board the revenge fantasies; only some do it better than others. This was a rather style-less interpretation and even the wooden performance by Jason Statham didn't save it.
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