More Champix Dreams
They've settled in, gotten longer, although never quite "good"...
#1 - I'm visiting my boy in Moose Jaw, at a school play, we're in the basement watching. One of his teachers does some tricks, they don't work out so good. Then I'm outside, going to go over to his Mom's for dinner with their family, the boy is wearing what look like plastic shin pads but have devils on them, that was for his part in the play. Only the boy has decided he doesn't want me to go, he's crying and having a fit at the thought that I'll come, so I'm going to go back to Calgary. I find my way to a gas bar and drink some water while I figure out how to return, eventually his mom and him come running, he's spotted my backpack and they come to get me.
#2 - I'm writing proverbs with some friends. Not writing them, so to speak, but finding things that famous people have said and am turning them into proverbs. I'm working on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, these proverbs, once they're approved, will be added to the Bible, the Church is looking to bulk up the New Testament, and I argue "But Mozart was a Libertine..."
#3 - I've taken the boy to Cadomin Cave. It's been forever since we've been, and I'm surprised to find that the C-train goes right there now. We take the train and get off, it's inside something of a shopping mall / new suburb development, but they've preserved a few of the cave chambers so that people can crawl in them and get their picture taken. I check a couple of them out, as does the boy, it's not the same. So I go and ask the people at the information Kiosk about the Mess Hall, how can we get there and they don't know, sort through their papers and look for maps and I know one of them used to have a map but she can't find it now and eventually they tell me that it's been closed due to developments being built on top of it and there's no way in and I'm very, very annoyed...
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Ladislas Starewicz - The Devil's Ball - The Mascot Part 2
An early Soviet animator - clips of his work available on YouTube. Delightful.
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$5 Dollar Pollock sells for $50 Million
Well, not exactly, but I've taken a page from the tabloid press and gone with the big headline. In short, a woman buys a painting at a garage sale for $5.00, later finds out it may be a Jackson Pollock, valued at $50 Million, but it's seldom as easy as that.
Read more here or here, or for a more detailed look at the controversy that enveloped the sale (or not), click here.
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Octopus Flavoured Crisps
The Boy wanted a snack to take to his drama class, and being near the Chinese market on center street provided endless inspiration.
"Let's just go to Safeway or 7-11" he said, but I assured him that we'd find loads for him to snack on at the Chinese Market.
We started in the bakery, the bean-paste buns or the elaborate hot-dog pretzels. Nothing more suspicious than a Chinese hot-dog. He won't be persuaded.
So we go the the market, root through the aisles, they have dried cuttlefish, chilies, and hundreds of products that looks somewhat western, until you read the ingredients. We finally settle on a couple of things of Pocky, a mango juice and a bag of Octopus flavored crisps. He's not into the crisps, not really, not at all, but I tell him he'll look very cosmopolitan in Drama class ("who else will have brought Octopus flavored crisps for lunch, I ask you? Tell me one!...") and he doesn't have to eat any of them, he can just offer them around in trade for scraps of other peoples lunches and he gets all resigned and buys them finally to placate me.
Moments like this I tell myself, there is no better father in the world.
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