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IFN - AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story & The Coup
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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IFN, some time to kill and so the boy and I head over to Cafe Beano on 17th Avenue. We're going to The Coup for dinner, but it doesn't open until 5:00, and so we'll kill some time with a cup of coffee.
Now it's been forever since I've had a coffee there, despite having lived in the area for almost 20 years, somehow or another it just dropped off the map. A shame, it's great, the layout, the crowd, it's a proper coffee house, what coffee houses used to be before they became the dull Starbucks clones. An excellent place to while away the time, read a book, people watch...
From here to The Coup on 17th Avenue, a vegetarian restaurant I've heard good things about. And despite us arriving at 5:05 it's already half full, and by 5:30 there's a wait for tables. A busy place.
The food is good, vegetarian, I let the waitress surprise me and it's a pleasant surprise. The ambiance is nice, food is good, reasonably priced.
And from here to The Uptown for the movie - American - The Bill Hicks Story. I found it OK, the boy liked it, if you know who Bill Hicks is or was you'll probably love it. I didn't, such is life without TV, and the boy didn't either, but he's at the age where the rebellion against the establishment is a great theme warmly received and so I suspect upon dropping him off he was searching Google for more of his comedy.
Blizzard
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Morning, on what may be, what could be a day off. Finally.
And the weather the past week has been beautiful, getting ever better, the moss grows green on the paving stones outside the restaurant, tulips can be seen to bud, the sky is a clear blue, occasionally dotted with cumulus clouds, temperature reaches highs of +10, +15, and I'm looking forward to garage sales, planning my costume, lists of things to do and I sit about planning my first step.
It could be a day off.
Outside, unusually, it's getting bitterly cold - the sky a slate grey, and I rearrange my priorities - I was going to go to the garden center but maybe not today...and the Restore, to pick up some hardwood (long overdue), but ...
And as I debate these countless trivial things it begins to snow. I thought that it was done for the year, but before I have even finished the thought it's turned into a full scale blizzard. Blizzard. The Good Samaritan Rummage sale is looking a lot less appealing, 2 hours standing in bitterly cold weather, lined up in the snow and the ice....but, persevere and you may be richly rewarded...
So the restore is out today - will not be making trips to and fro with a car packed with Lumber. Nix that. But I could still hit a few thrift shops, line up some curtains and call it a day. Which might have to be it.
Classified Ads
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Killing time on the break between shifts and I think to pick up the Calgary Herald and read it, ostensibly to perhaps tear a hard copy of the classified ads and plan my garage sale route for Saturday.
And lo-and-behold there are a mere 2 pages. 2 pages to cover the real estate, cars, and every other classified market in the city.
Such is the internet that all things are now posted online, no one even thinks to run a classified ad anymore, why pay when you can get so much better exposure for free?
John Frame - Three Fragments of a Lost Tale
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