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Rampart
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 1833
Killing time between theatrical events today the boy and I see Rampart, movie playing at The Plaza in Calgary about a bad cop turned worse, starring Woody Harrelson. Good, but bleak as all out. So - how to recommend a film that makes you want to throw out the entire police force (because, sad to say, I've met a few that this film would persuade me is more the tale of the norm than the unusual)?. It's good, well directed, well acted, and very true to life, but it's bleak. Bleak bleak bleak...
Fool for love
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Theatre
- Hits: 1964
Sam Shepard's classic play, at the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary.
Well done, well acted, worthwhile.
The Daily Fig
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
- Hits: 1582
An online writing resource that sets goals and allows unpublished writers to find their readership.
Some interesting reading.
Link: The Daily Fig
The Drunken Waiter
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
- Hits: 1846
"The most important thing..." he's telling us "is to breathe..."
He's sitting on a chair by the front door, he's just gotten in and he's regaling us with his opinions. Most of them, like with the nephew, I've heard before, but once in a while he comes up with something new.
M is drunk. It was a condition of his rehire that he not be drinking, but he got the lunch off (slow) and when he returned at 4:30 was just a little more opinionated than usual.
The evening, slow at the beginning of the day, is steadily picking up. More and more reservations, walk-ins, it's a busy night.
And G tells me "He's fucking hammered, haven't you noticed...?"
Really, given how often everyone there is either hammered or stoned I hadn't, and if he did his job I wouldn't care, but he's leaning upon a chair talking to a table, his voice, intonation, he's got an exaggerated manner now that I notice...I wonder if the table knows he's drunk, cares? Or is it simply another little charming quirk in their favorite Italian restaurant?
"And I said to him....and he said to me...."
He's famous, he's worked everywhere in the city, and before the shift was in a tirade about all the shitty places he's worked, now he's amusing the tables with anecdotes of his travels and friends, there's a line up at the door, food to be run, people waiting to be sat, tables to be cleared, offered dessert, more drinks, but M is off in the midst of his story and all these things can wait...
I wouldn't care, but we're busy, counting on all hands being somewhat vaguely productive, if the owner notices he's done and I don't want the owner to notice, this job, it's like the monkey's paw, there's no giving it away when anyone understand the strings attached, and so we'll all keep quiet and hope nobody says anything.
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