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Aaron Haspel
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The Collected Aphorisms of Aaron Haspel, via Boing Boing.
A few favorites:
"It is often only slightly more trouble to do a thing well than to do it badly."
"If you want to kill your marriage, talk about it."
"No-brainer, n. An idea that is extremely persuasive provided that you don't think about it."
"I might have had a proper education if I had not been forced to spend so much time in school."
"He who can, writes books. He who cannot, writes books for children."
Hairdresser Loyalty
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's been a week since I last went out to eat, surviving on leftovers and handfuls of nuts and berries. Getting ready for prospecting.... Today I'm a bit hungry, but there's a problem, the Indian curry shop I frequent is next to the hairdressers.
Alberto's or Alfredo's, I don't know which, but I stopped by there a couple of times and got my haircut. Alfredo/Alberto - a short, muscular greek/spaniard/??, thick accent, long permed hair, mullet in front, lisps his words as he massages my scalp, tells me not to stand under the shower, that's why it's thinning on top, too much water, he explains, will kill your hair just like it will kill the grass...
I wonder, especially as I have to duck in the shower to wash my hair, and the hair on my ears is growing in at a record rate (I have an ear-to-ear combover planned in the next couple of years, not long now...)
His haircuts, they're OK, he's very meticulous, but somehow they always seem to grow out in a couple of weeks and I find myself needing another. SO I give up, go to Jen, dire salon in the NE of Calgary close to my thrift shop tour, Jen, a huge girl, 6' tall, 300 lbs, covered in tatoos and piercings, but she's quick, no BS, in-and-out with the haircut you wanted...
And with the haircut I wanted I can't walk past Alfredo's/Alberto's, walk instead around the block, approach it from another angle, eat, but on the exit he's there, outside the salon, having a cigarette, he just looks at me sadly as I guiltily hurry past...
XO - 042 - Je t'aime tellement, pour un temps
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Great discovery, a new (to me) series of podcasts. With Valentines coming, start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrDK_z4HsEY, for more podcasts that look equally promising try Keith Courage's website, the XO series so far is proving very satisfactory.
The Transmigration of Souls
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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While perusing the vintage photos at the flea market I find this:
Which is good, not least because it bears a striking resemblance to a certain dishwasher (ELMO). I gave it to him, he professed not to see the resemblance, everyone else did, and I held it up as proof of the transmigration of souls, that this was Elmo in another life, probably killed in the Austian/Prussian war, and asked if he remembered anything, anything at all, and like all good conversations at work it's ended before it begins by the need to get back to work...
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