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For something different I take the boy to a poetry reading. He's never been to one.
It's at the Auburn Saloon, beneath the Calgary Tower, an interesting crowd, poets, poetesses reading their work. And every poem uses the word "Fuck".
Every single one.
Now I can see using it if the intent were to shock, you don't generally see it spoken aloud in public forums other than by Comedians. It would appear that comedians and Poets have something in common. But, as we listen to more and more of this poetry, the power of "shock" is eroded, it has been overused, shocking, now, would be a poet who got through their work without using it.
The boy, he's not so impressed, not his thing, really, it's really not that interesting, I have to agree, we'll try and attend a poetry slam, where there's a little more audience involvement and the possibility of more interesting, less poetic material.
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Now I'd bought myself some hot chocolate discs - premium, at a correspondingly high price, while doing my Xmas shopping, and never gotten around to trying them. So today I brought one in and frothed some milk and stirred it up - chipotle chile & chocolate, a curious combination, but I'm a curious guy.
It was amazing. Not sweet, simply rich, pure chocolate. The best hot chocolate in the world. Now I'm curious to try their other flavours....
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In that limbo of decompression between work and vacation I take some time to catch up on my recommended television - the series "Storage Wars" - oft recommended to me by a few people at work. Which is good, in it's fashion, silly characters and some awfully staged looking scenes, still it informs one of the value of things one never would have guessed, and expands one's horizons for searching for treasures...
Favorite character is Barry (by far), who's really into it for the love of the chase, then there's the whipped Jarrod and his whipping wife Brandi, the ass Darrell followed by the complete ass Dave...
Some interesting treasures, amusing viewing, otherwise completely ridiculous and strangely addicting. Inspiring...