Market Collective 2015
A pleasant Sunday off, head on down to the Market Collective, now moved to the Chinese Cultural Center. One of the better sources of Arts and Crafts in Calgary, there are some remarkable locally produced things...
Portraits out of leaves, owls, animals, extremely well done, brilliant, even, although unfortunately available as scanned prints and not originals, there are "fashionable" pictures out of rocks (cool, but you know you're looking at next years kitsch), artisnal belts, and handcrafted chocolates, knit toques and mittens, occasional stalls filled with Bric-A-Brac, a couple of accomplished children's book illustrators...it is a bit of sensory overload, and I make a few passes trying to think of everyone on my list..
There's a child artist, maybe 8 years old, small little postcard sized sketches, classic child art, one catches my eye, "The Moustache Girl", no end of people I could give that to, inquiring the price she tells me "$20.00". Having engaged her I'm now committed, her mother explains to me apologetically that it's her own business, she's bargaining hard, I offer $5.00, nope, we compromise at $10.00, the most expensive postcard ever, but charming...she could be hipster imitating child, or child imitating hipster, I like the uninhibited style, I like child art, "The Moustache Girl", an in joke with an Italian girl at work, pupils drawn so large and the smile so wide it looks as if she's seen her mom tripping, this will suffice.
And there are other artists, too many to list, and I know some of them, not them, personally, but I recognize them from their artwork, look at a dozen or so pieces of somebodies art and if it's good you can see into their soul, I know them but leave the conversation for another time.
They've a musician, actually several, a great little stage, $5.00 admission, really, it's even better than shopping at "Community Natural Foods", a couple of hours that brighten the day...
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Conservatives in Calgary
I recognize him, somehow, the bat-shit-crazy-stoner eyes. Don't know from where...
Anyways, he's had a bit of a rough go of it, a day with Alberta Conservatives, (and he lives here, where does he hang out, I wonder?).
Trust me, His day is nothing compared to mine. Every day of my life at that restaurant is like his day in Mount Royal, Times Ten...
I think I should meet him, and buy him dinner...Then he'd have an article, so far, he's had it easy...
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re: Inspirational Facebook Posts
I've been the victim of more of these than I can count. And I'm not even on Facebook. Finally, an article that confirms my every suspicion:
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The Quartering of G***
And it's begun, the quartering of G***. Some of the customers, a lot of them, they're going to miss him. Not so much that they'd boycott the place, after all, why confuse ethics with good food? But still, they liked him.
Others are a little less kind. They're the sycophants that declare to the owner they never liked his style of service, found him rude, abrupt, ill-timed, too aggressive, all of which can be forgiven if you know where he worked. They're shitbags, we keep our mouths shut, but they're not our favorite customers...
The owner, he's rejoicing, these post-mortem testimonials, they're all he needed to indict, condemn, him, meanwhile he'd tolerated S** and Z** for years, servers who'd polarized the customers far more than G***, a lot of our customers liked G***, the Nephew, his replacement, is easily more despised by a long shot, but nobody's complaining about him...
...and lets be real, if everybody likes you, we've a thousand regulars, well, if everybody likes you, well, something's wrong...
And G***, he's calling A******, wants to talk, about the restaurant, about nothing, he's in despair, and I can't help but think how fucked up do you gotta be to miss this place? Really?
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