How are you?
Twice today, from regular, our better regular, customers. "How are you?" they ask, and then look at me meaningfully. "Things OK?" Twice. I'm paranoid now that I look as if I have cancer or some other terminal illness, "Fine" I assure them hastily...."Couldn't be better....".... I could, I could be rich or unemployed or painting or writing on a half regular basis, but this isn't what they're asking, so I play it cool and tell them I'm fine. I blame it on the haircut.
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Keeping Up
It's impossible. Much is made of the age of information overload, but even without this, the internet, it would be impossible to keep up. The internet, it swallows an hour, maybe 2 a day. But it points the way to other things, plays, films, books that I should be seeing or reading, music to be listened to, galleries to attend, until, finally, there's no time left whatsoever. I need to seriously rearrange my priorities, not sweat missing a film or two and get to work, because, after all, time is passing...
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360 Panoramas of Cities & Other Destinations
A web based browser that lets you zoom in to incredible detail various of the world's great cities. For the armchair traveler....
Link: http://www.360cities.net/ or try the Strahov Library (were the titles only in English....) or London. Must get out of Calgary....
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Kung Fu Panties
Took the boy to see "Kung Fu Panties" by Rebecca Northan tonight, and while not my cup of tea entirely it was amusing. I've been a fan of hers since Blind Date. Some clever staging, choreography, a light theatre night out. The audience quite enjoyed it, to judge by the laughter and applause, and to be fair it wasn't your typical night at the theatre.
It did remind me, or confirm actually, a suspicion I had that I might be quite fond of latex tights on fit bodies. But I suspected that already.
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