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Janet Sobel
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The under-rated female abstract/surrealist that preceded Jackson Pollock.
I love the abstractions and color harmonies.
Read the Wikipedia on her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Sobel
the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220307-janet-sobel-the-woman-written-out-of-history
and a quick Google Image Search: Jane Sobel - Google Images
The Other Black Actor...
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Watching Netflix at a friends, the price I have to pay for dinner.
It's my meal-of-the-day at the moment, and I don't want to miss it. And I don't mind the break from my head, it can get a little claustrophobic up there at the moment.
We'd started on "The Gentlemen", Guy Ritchie, then given up after 4 episodes, derivative, silly, Guy Ritchie has a knack for dialogue, stereotypes, but it was proving far too predictable, and even the presence of Giancarlo Esposito from "Breaking Bad" couldn't save it. It would have been a bad 90 minute movie, spread out over 8 1 hour episodes it was unbearable.
So we switched to "The Brothers Sun", absolutely no better, another "Crime Family" ala every other show on Television, the 'hook' is the fact that most or all of the actors are Asian. I sort of recognize some of them, but can't remember their names, and jokingly put it down to the fact that all Asian Actors look the same.
This is of course a heinous prejudice that I sincerely don't share, but it was funny at the time, most probably because there weren't any Asians present.
But you can see the room for confusion - I mean, I recognized all the black actors in "The Nutty Professor" and "Meet the Klumps", but other than Eddie Murphy I don't think I could name a single one...
But it recalled a certain interview - and I'm pretty sure my memory deceives me, but it's of Samuel L. Jackson on a talk show - David Letterman maybe? And the host, or perhaps one of the guests, congratulates him on his work in ... such & such a film, to which Samuel L. Jackson dead-eyes him and replies as only he can "You must mean the Other Black Actor", which from the movie I knew to be Morgan Freeman...
It sounds like something Ricky Gervais would do, and I thought it's be funny to confuse Samuel L. Jackson for Robert Downy JR's character of Kirk Lazarus from "Tropic Thunder", which would be even more offensive and therefore funny...
But since the memory is somehow compromised and I can't really say where it's from, or how it's compromised, but damn, I'm pretty sure Samuel L. Jackson would even have a laugh at that...
Garbage in, Garbage out
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And, as per the previous post, I unbox a fine stainless steel Bavarian pub-mount corkscrew. Brand new. It's quality, how to price, say $20.00, put it on the shelf.
Later in the morning a box comes in, full of that dirty pressed-crystal, vases, canape and olive plates, straight into the garbage, we get so much of this, hundreds of pounds of it per day, it never sells, none of it. Even the finer cut crystal is a hard sell, can't give that stuff away.
But in with the garbage there's another freestanding corkscrew, with a price - $5.00 still on it, my handwriting, I remember this from last spring or fall...
On a hunch I check, the fine stainless Bavarian Corkscrew has sold, somebody is organized, bought the clearly better one, re-donated the old one. Garbage in, Garbage out.
Garbage at the Thrift Shop
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4 days last week, keeping up with the flow of garbage so we don't get backlogged. And doing pretty good until Friday, when I went in and discovered some 30 large UHAUL boxes, an older lady slipped on the ice at Wal-Mart, brought to Kelowna to be with her family. So her estate was packed up, all of it, no room in the home for it all. And what a lot of shit she had.
Baking pans, maybe 50 counting muffin tins, all in good shape, some used once if at all. Every conceivable kitchen appliance. A hundred electric labour saving carrot slicers, radish dicers, cucumber spiralizers, blenders, mixing bowls, coffee mugs, brand new in the case, quality shit, for sure it'll sell, only, only we already have a hundred more just like them on the shelves.
And so it goes, and I'm wondering, how does one person have so much kitchen shit? I mean, how many baking pans do you need? And gadgets, do-dads, what-nots, many never even used, straight from the Wal-Mart to us...
I'm talking it over with a friend, baffled by this consumerism without end, and she explains it well. That as the Matriarch with everything she's probably stumped her kids, grand-kids, great-grand-kids for gifts, what to get the person with everything, and so the things she once liked are repeated endlessly without end, the inanity of custom demanding acknowledgement of every anniversary, birthday, Xmas, and so it piles up and up..
And yesterday, watching the cars pull up and unload their shit, more shit, more shit, boxes and boxes of stuff that will buy a little time on our shelves before heading for the landfill...
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