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Kink Night
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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(Note. Old article finally finished. Yep, I'm behind, behind, behind...)
It's Kink night at a local bar, I saw the poster advertising at Beano, have noticed it a few times and always resolved to check it out, and, finally, without the obligation of partying with the ex-coworkers, I head on down.
I haven't any Kink gear so I simply wear a suit. To these people that will be plenty kinky enough.
It's a dire little pub, centrally located off of crack avenue in downtown Calgary, and a bitterly cold night outside, probably it will be empty, but if it's that bad I can bail and find a better bar.
First impressions aren't so good, the pub is dirty, poorly furnished, dimly lit, everywhere there are fleets of battleships in brightly colored corsets anchored around tables drinking schooners of beer and waiting for someone, anyone to take them away from this. These women, of the second, the third, and even the fifth freshness, the jade working the door, all managing to be sad, lonely, and eager at the same time, it's heartbreaking, there is nothing sadder than a pub full of masterless bbw subs, it's like going to the SPCA, and you want to adopt them all, but that's not why I'm here...
This is my out of the box night, my do something new, get out of my head, dip, briefly, my foot into the current and see what goes on in the city when I should be soberly at home and sleeping.
The show begins, and some of the seniors get up from the VLT machines they've been working all day, begin to pay attention, the early birds and hardened drinkers, they don't have to pay the cover, they're getting it all for free.
A haggard and overweight drag queen is hosting the venue, she does a little improv comedy, answers the catcalls in the audience, banters, I don't know the crowd, don't get the specific humerous insults she's tossing out and recieving, but it's not for long and she introduces the show.
These shows, they're always the same.
1st Act - a foot worshipper lovingly undresses, bathes and examines his lovers feet.
Some polite applause, well (check my watch...hmmmm...).
Intermission. People dancing, talking, it's a social thing, they all seem to know one another. I'm new here.
Now time to check out the audience in a little more detail. The men, well, the few that dressed up are nothing to look at. Gay men do a much better job of BDSM and Kink, they value the aesthetic, keep themselves toned and in shape, there's something to be said for the superficialities. These men, a good fat many with plaid shirts and long biker beards, their girlfriends dressed to the nines in stockings and bustiers, those that dressed up, generally as BDSM masters, invariably short, 5'6" a reasonable average, tight jeans and leather straps across their sunken chests and protruding bellies, fat or thin arms with preposterous leather cuffs, they're fooling no one.
Get in line, get a drink, I'm getting the feeling I'm gonna need a few...
Small Uranium Glass Vase/Perfume Bottle
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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The find yesterday, a small (3" diameter) Uranium Glass Vase. My camera doesn't capture the UV spectrum well, but it fluoresces a bright yellow/green under UV light. 25 Cents, curious as to what it will fetch on eBay, bought it on a hunch (the slight fluorescence in daylight), need to bring UV light with me and see if I can't find more pieces. Other finds of the day included a pair of antique candlesticks, with nicks in the bases where they'd been converted to Electric light, "A History of Russia" by Bernard Pares and "Street of Crocodiles" by Bruno Schulz. Left a couple of antique candlesticks at VV, too expensive and one, beautifully aged and polished beyond shape and recognition, but missing the push-up lever, shame, but I don't need more junk...
Takkakaw Falls
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This Sunday's prospecting trip a fail, largely due to the fact that the car developed a flat tire, and by the time I sourced another at Pick & Pull Calgary (brand new, on rim, $25.00) it was too late to reach any points of interest. So Tour guide again, this time to Lake Louise, (amazed, there really are selfie sticks, watching all the tourists with them made me want to beat them with it, watching themselves in their phones, not taking time to look at the scenery, this can be done later from the comfort and safety of their home...), Then Takkakaw Falls (good photostittch below), Johnston Canyon, Banff, and then home. All in all a thoroughly unproductive day...

(right click, open in new tab to embiggen).
& This sad photo of a great car doomed to be crushed at Pick 'n Pull...

Diamonds and Work
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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And dreams lately, vivid, a pastiche of work and prospecting blurred together, the discovery, my discovery, of diamonds in the glacial tills of central Alberta, but I'll have to move a lot of dirt, blending into work dreams, the owner shouting, looking for the other employees, they're late, pulling the restaurant down with tractors, it's filled with people, one wall removed and they're trying to escape, one more wall and it'll be fully collapsed, every morning I remember them and begin the drudgery again...
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