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Clutter
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's impossible, paralyzing, this clutter. I'm paring down, selling shit off, not nearly fast enough, I want results now. NOW GODDAMN IT NOW!!!
I should be careful what I wish for or there will be a fire...
Boxes, stuff listed for sale, no writing now for ? weeks, months, longer even, the table I no sooner bought was filled with shit, clutter, and so I cleaned it off and it's a much healthier space. Space to work. Space to stare across the way at a brick wall and think...
Unpack a couple of boxes. A few suitcases. I have paper, pens, art-supplies, that predicate me living for ever if ever I hope to use them all. I want for nothing. Here, in the living room, the other table, there are still a couple dozen unpacked boxes, lots to sell, lots to give away, mail off as surprises to randoms who've long forgotten me, lots to do, and I have to resign myself to "slowly...slowly". Maybe, by the time I go to leave, I'll be ready. Or maybe, by the time I'm ready, I can leave. One way or the other I'm working...
Notebooks, notebooks, read through - transcribe, tear up pages, you have to tear them up or the army of homeless that live in the alley will be reading my personal shit, Xmas cards, letters, tear it all up, tear it up.
The shit that sells - a wood block - a runaway best seller, this is the ad that everyone is clicking on, and no fault of the copy, that's it, as described, wood block, makes noise, everyone wants one, 35 visits in 12 hours, crazy, the half-witted child's acceptance into Band, dozens of views, completely random, posting items the things I gauge least likely sell, the most likely sit on the shelf. If there's a lesson here it's list it all - you never know what people will buy.
It feels good to let it go.
Upward Mobility in Calgary
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Images
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Spotted this in a crack-alley near my apartment. The ladder of success. Is it to get in or out?
Velvet Buzzsaw
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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This - from the director of "Night Crawler", which was as horrifying as it was true:
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Jake Gyllenhaal and John Malkovitch. This could be good...
Hocus Pocus
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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From the Latin "Hoc est Corpus" - The medieval priest holding up the bread and water and turning it into the body and blood of Christ. Hence the ignorant or superstitious peasant adapted "Hocus Pocus" to apply to any magical act of transmutation or change, the classic mockery of power and authority.
There are alternate theories of the etymology, according to Sharon Turner in The History of the Anglo-Saxons, they were believed to be derived from Ochus Bochus, a magician and demon of the north, and the old Oxford English Dictionary attributes the term term to an abbreviated "hax pax max Deus adimax", a pseudo-Latin phrase used as a magical formula by conjurers.
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