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The Great Solitude
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Calgary
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Thrift shopping, assemble the necessities of life. What do I need? I have - finally - a place of my own; small pleasures, a table, a lamp, a chair, a bookshelf, what could I need from the locker, and I sit down to quietly think...
Here it is, finally, The Great Solitude, found in the heart of the city, not the mountains or the forest, never were they lonely, but this apartment with it's echoing and unfurnished rooms, long hardwood floors that overhang the alley on concrete pillars, safe refuge for the homeless looking to set up a tarp, park a shopping cart, smoke a bowl of crack, the moonlit parade of furtive shadows that loiter and flit between the cars and dumpsters; here, in the heart of Calgary I've found the perfect solitude.
Russel Brand
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
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Down the clickhole of Russel Brand on YouTube. He's bright, clearly, and his mind frequently struggles to keep up with his mouth. And he does a fine job of being outrageous, cheeky, the seducer, the bad boy, and he's damned good company (to watch), throwing his invariably dry hosts on their ass or otherwise upsetting or challenging the situation.
So, click, click, click, and eventually you hit his "TREWS" channel, True News, an oxymoron if ever there was one. A few years since he's started this, he's clearly an awful lot less manic, calmer, he's kind-of doing the Jim Carey, Guru, Comedian come Messiah, the grey beard of wisdom, the 12 steps, they trampled him with the higher power, I don't disagree, I could use his advice at every turn, but - for the layperson, at least, I think , all this newfound enlightenment makes him boring.
From when the Internet Used to Be an Interesting Place
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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Ha! Not everything good has been destroyed:
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