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Rilke
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Finished, an easy read, poetry after all, it takes time only in finding the right mood to appreciate it. I shall have to pick it up again, in the meantime...
Could it be that Fate measures us in spans of being,
And hence seems to us so alien?
Think how many such spans stretch from a woman
To the man she longs for and avoids.
Ouiji: Origin of Evil
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Teenage girls love horror films.
A date with the daughter, she brings a friend, give them a choice: A one man show playing at the Pumphouse (Star Wars, Charles Ross) or a movie. After the last "One Man Show" the daughter chooses movie...
Not surprising. My movie pick, in keeping with the Halloween and horror theme, is "Ouiji: Origin of Evil". Her friend is agreed, she wants to see this. They text their mothers, get permission to be up a bit late, we kill time at the mall...
Movie. OK. Not a masterpiece by a long shot. But for the girls, it was a screamfest, and as they are howling and hiding their eyes I can't restrain my mirth, the movie, it has a few moments, for sure, but for both of them (I thought one was experienced in the genre, she claimed to be, she wasn't...) it was the fuel of nightmares..."Don't Breathe" was the better movie, by far, but this has them terrified, and I suggest that for Halloween I pop by with my Ouiji board...
Eric Andre
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Do these people not know what they're getting themselves into? Actually, clearly a lot of them don't, and therein lies the joy and spontaneity...
That said, there's a peculiar stoner-brilliance to his schtick...
Link: Eric Andre Interviewing
- Jillian Michaels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTGpBdVtf4s
- Jack Black - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAiyDrgcRKo
- Jack MacBrayer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqFg0autvM8
Read the wiki on him - apparently he credits his success to Transcendental Meditation. Who would have guessed?
Dominoes
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The nephew calls me up, after work, we go for drinks. He's seriously frayed, coming undone, the hours, too long, doesn't want the responsibility, he's adjusted the tip-outs to reflect the fact he's now working, no longer content with an even cut he's taking double what the others are getting. He's not putting up with it.
I knew it. It's not unfair, well, not entirely, some do more than others, but when I was working he sat on his chair on the phone the entire day and was an equal. As were the part-timers, or close enough, 75 or 80% cut minimum, but he's cut them back to 50%, and there's been some grumbling...doesn't matter, he'll fire them, get others, he's leaving anyways, told the owner, he's only got a couple of months left, he'll be leaving January 5th, he told him, there was a scene...
There's been a few scenes as of late, the owner, selling, waiting for "his price", but in this economy nobodies getting their price. And his selling, it's half-hearted, he's not ready for a retirement spent with his girlfriend, who would happily retire as well and move in with him to make his final days a living hell.
He's coming undone, M******, the new waiter, he's caught on, already threatened to leave, ask for news of the old Italian waiter, returned to Italy, he's good, off his anti-depressants, they were entirely related to the job, the nephew, he's telling me about his anxiety, unable to sleep, his own anti-depressants, he can't wait to leave, this is no life, no way to live, he wants friends again, to go for drinks and have fun, and I know what he means, but after 7 years there I've almost forgotten, now, trying to remember a life outside of work, it's hard...
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