Scrolling, ...
Through the obituaries, looking for Nanu's, when I find another obituary, this one of a longtime customer of the restaurant. Coincidentally at the restaurant the last day we were open, friendly, pleasant people, good customers. Older, and therefore a little more acceptable, natural causes always are, but still, my God, this town can be a graveyard.
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Nanu
And news, via Facebook, that Nanu had passed away. 62 years old, living, courtesy of Nelson Cares, at the North Shore Inn. Details were scant, I suspect he took his own life.
Fall and winter are the seasons of despair here, and - adding up just off the top of my head the numbers of people I've known to die from Suicide, OD's, well, it's scary.
And these - largely, go unreported. The newspaper does not publish obituaries unless the family pays, and estrangement is often part of the picture. Thus it's probably that there are more people I've known that have simply dropped off the radar, moved away, when in fact their relocation has been a little more ... permanent.
Nanu, I met at the restaurant when he lived in Balfour, he sold me a copy of his book. Friendly, apparently cheerful (although, talking to him you realized he had a lot going on, didn't want to burden you with his shit...), ran into him downtown in the summer, he seemed fine, free time, time to make plans, do other things, practicing the piano, always a load of trifles to keep him occupied. Now, another local character that has vanished, and we're all a little poorer.
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Online & Amusing
A few links to some things that amused me online recently.
#1) A breakdown of why Patagonia's Non-Profit Donation was more about power than Charity, courtesy of Adam Conover (Adam ruins everything) - to summarize, money wasn't charitably given away, it was merely exchanged for power. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I
#2) An amusing go-deep episode on "Cracked" that shows 10 Conservative messages hidden in "Con-Air". I never got it when I watched it, found it a generally mindless action flick, but - upon watching their analysis I have to concede Jerry Bruckheimer did a pretty good job of getting his message out to his target audience: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyTkIK4wn8
And, finally, a little less political - although it's hard to look away, given the state of the nation/world...
Art Without Intent - an online gallery of found art. I'm finding this stuff all the time, but still it's inspiring... Link: https://artwithoutintent.com/
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The Play
Off to see a play. By which I mean "A Play, A Play, What Could Be More Boring Than a PLAY!!", read in the voice of Homer Simpson.
Now, community theatre, the best of intentions, the What, this play, a suspense/horror? In the vein of Agatha Christie supposedly. And the Who - well, local community thespians, all of whom turn in a fine job; this town is filled with talent, the Where - at the theatre, of course, the When, showtimes as advertised, but what eludes me is the "Why". I mean, suspenseful it is not, not at all, and looking up the play, it's not locally written, it's not particularly good, it seems to be a staple of the "dinner theatre" crowd, which is an artform that constantly eludes me. Mindless entertainment, of the ilk you might find on any TV set, done live in front of you, suspenseful not in the least, and I'm perplexed as to why it was written (to fill seats in empty theatres, presumably, but - no other reason??), and why it was chosen (and a good time was had by all...or maybe it demanded no royalties?), and were I a little less considerate I would have taken the lead of the people next to me and vanished during the intermission. There's the real mystery, where did they go? And why were they here? Why am I here? Maybe that's the point of it, to bring me to an existential crisis...
Anyways, short of burning the script and starting completely over - and shooting the playwright - I was at a loss as to how to improve it when it occurred to me that it could be greatly improved with a little - a lot - of "Audience Participation". By which I mean perhaps the audience could be involved, prompted, to give loud gasps of shock-horror-surprise - at all the right moments, prime them, and then, really, maybe then a good time could have been had by all.
Otherwise I was just watching the thespians having a great time while I myself felt that any reaction would have been so over the top - act surprised, gasp? Clearly your faking this Mr. Boyle, you should have seen that coming a mile away - you did, in fact, didn't you?
Anyways, all about supporting the local community theatre, but maybe we have to get them some better scripts...
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