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at the Hillhurst Good Samaritan Rummage Sale
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I'm at the Hillhurst-Good Samaritan Rummage sale, and it's looking good. I've filled a bag with antique rosaries, jewelry, buttons, priced at perhaps a couple of dollars a bag, and I'm going from room to room, there are no end to treasures here...and there's an upstairs and another upstairs as well, and the prices are incredibly good when I realize that I haven't checked the watches and everything has already been marked down and I think that the dealers must have already beaten me to it and I run upstairs...already they are putting things into storage and I discover that the dealers haven't been to this room yet, and I have them pull down all sorts of treasures, there are antique clocks and old watches - and I hastily grab one, complicated movement, moonphase, and it opens to reveal yet another watch inside and inside of this there are more and it's watches as far as you can open them...and there's a Greek bust and there are antique wooden pieces of furniture and ornaments, and the staff are annoyed that I'm there so late, I'm buying everything I can lay my hands upon and no sooner do the bags fill than they seem to disappear and there are others that must be filled....time is running out...
invasion
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And from the office, where I sit writing this, I can catch a view of our new alien overlords hovering above the nearby school.
Possibly the Tibetan gongs I acquired a couple of years ago hanging on the curtain rod, but as I'm far too lazy to investigate we'll just have to chalk it up as yet another of life's inexplicable mysteries....
The Medium is the Message
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To borrow the phrase from Marshall McLuhan.
And with that as our theme, a variety of links to artists who exploit this (however inadvertently) in their art.
Mohammad Ali out of Punching Bags: http://www.realizeali.com/, note their site is flash handicapped, so to view better images of their project go to wired.com.
Matt Cusick using old maps: http://www.mattcusick.com/pages.php?content=gallery.php&navGallID=100
Jinks Kunst made a portrait of Serge Gainsbourg out of old cigarette butts: http://www.jinkskunst.com/land-art-et-recycling/ & http://webecoist.com/2011/03/27/butting-in-portrait-made-of-over-20k-used-cigarette-butts/
Wander Martich - Makes a penny out of pennies (I like the inherent recursion here..): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitsorf/5016306135/ & http://www.odditycentral.com/tag/pennies
Andrew Myers creates portraits out of screws: http://www.andrewmyersart.com/#/home
Marcus Levine creates portraits and figures out of nails: http://www.levine-art.co.uk/public/gallery_nails/
And there are a variety of artists are making things out of junk & garbage - Vik Muniz: http://www.vikmuniz.net/, Tom Deininger: http://www.tomdeiningerart.com/selfportait1.html & (previously Linked) Zac Freeman: http://www.zacfreemanart.com/ & Jason Mecier creates portraits of celebrities out of their own garbage (or close enough): http://www.jasonmecier.com/junk06/jdrawer.html & http://www.jasonmecier.com/junk06/jkitchen.html
Bosses Nephew (3)
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He's back in with his girlfriend. He had moved out, was living in the truck and there was the threat, for a few days, that he was going to come and stay on my sofa. But he's patched things up, she owes him money and so he swallowed his pride and moved back in. Just until he gets paid....
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Saturday night and it's slow, in the book it's busy as all out but with the storm warnings and foot of snow people have been calling to cancel. And so he's sitting down by the hostess station and having me help him improve his English...
"How do you say 'I'm want to fucking rape your ass'? Is that right...No...'I'm going to fucking rape your ass'? Is that right?"
I assure him that in this instance his English is flawless. The waitresses just shake their heads. He likes the attention.
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He's perpetually horny and groping the front of his trousers, pinching his manhood. Whenever there's a chance he's groping the waitresses, pushing himself up against them on the bar and playing with their hair, exploring and testing their limits...for a laugh, and to push things that little bit farther, he picks up a small knife off the bar and holds it against one of the waitresses throats while he rubs himself against her behind, practicing his perfected English: "I'm gonna fucking rape your ass, bitch...fucking..." and here his words drop off to grunts and moans. The waitress just bears it and shakes her head. When he's done I ask her how she explains a typical day at work to her boyfriend...oddly enough, it turns out she doesn't. And I think of all those law firms sued for millions by their pretty little interns who felt that a pinch or an inappropriate comment constituted harassment...
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It's slower than expected, still OK, just not as busy as it looked initially. He's decided that he has a trace of the flu and so spends the evening sitting on the overstuffed chairs by the washroom, trying to persuade the 16 year old hostess to go out with him as soon as he's finished breaking off with his girlfriend. And when it's obvious that he's doing nothing he goes outside to have a cigarette, then comes back in and sits again in front of the washrooms. "I'm sick...." he explains. It's not particularly a busy night, but it's getting busier with his insistence upon doing nothing, you tease him lightly, hoping to get him off his ass to help out, but he's insensible, "I'm sick...." he says in that thick accent, then pinches his crotch yet again and calls the hostess over.....
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