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Mice, Guineau Pig & Adder
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I'm looking through a glass door into my house and I can see a mouse and I determine to catch it.
I've had mice before, I'm not going through this again...
Inside, the cats are hiding from the mouse (mice) in the dark, a guinea pig is waddling along, it's back torn open so I can view the organs within, there is the heart and the kidneys...it looks serious and I'll attend to it as soon as I catch the mouse....
It's in a dark corner, fleeting by a furnace duct, and somehow I sweep it up and ... (?) ... but I know there are more. There are always more. And so I go into a cupboard above the stove, there are loads of buns in bags here and sure enough I catch another 3 mice in the bread, throw them all into a plastic bag, they're fighting and clawing to get out and I have to find something to do with it quick, don't want to take it outside as they'll just find their way back in....
The half-witted dishwasher from work is there, she's watching me, goes into the cupboard and helps herself to a bun and stands there stupidly eating it while I puzzle over what to do with the mice....
Then there's an adder, the most venomous snake in Eastern Canada (or so the dream tells me...), the rat-king something or other, small, and now I have to watch while they dispose of it properly...it's endangered and they don't want to kill it so I assume an aerial view of the snake catcher and his two assistants releasing it into a river, the river right above a waterfall and beneath it some dirty water, rust colored, algae filled, the back-pond of somebodies estate and he's holding the adder with a forked twig, waves it in the center of the river until it's free, swims over the falls and I wonder if it will pose a threat to the people who live below the waterfall, but this is really irrelevant...
Frank Paris: Amazing Marionettes
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Jean Francois Rauzier Hyperphoto
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Tubby Dog
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Working tomorrow, so IFN with the boy has been moved forwards to today.
As there are no films I'm especially dieing to see (none, at least, released in Calgary) we instead opt to go for dinner. Someplace new, and so I have the idea to try out the The Coup on 17th Avenue, a vegetarian restaurant I've heard good things about.
Unfortunately they're closed on Mondays.
So we wander back down 17th Avenue until we come to Tubby Dog, another restaurant I've heard much about but not yet tried. The very antithesis, if ever there was one, of The Coup.
Now lets be fair, it's a dressed up hot-dog stand, with "gourmet" hot dogs. Decor, interesting, Prices: Good, portions: Large, Yam Fries and Onion rings, tasty. The hot dogs, while well dressed were, well, so-so. But their market isn't the 6:00 diners, it's the 2:00 AM drunkards staggering home after the bar, so lets be fair - for them it's excellent.
The boy, he has a problem getting his hot-dog out of it's chili bath and ends up dropping huge globs of chili and cheese and coleslaw all over the table. We banter about the possibilities of him becoming the enfant-terrible of the food-critic world, dining in restaurants and then signing his name in the swath of spilled leftovers that mark his presence, and we laugh at the possible reviews: "It sure looked good, if only I could have gotten some to my mouth..." or "I really like Vietnamese food but never really learned how to use chopsticks...".
Maybe it was just me laughing.
Tubby Dog: Overall good, but the hot-dogs are no big deal. Delicious Yam Fries and Onion Rings though. Worth trying once, not sure I'll ever go back. Certainly not sober anyways.
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