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train into London
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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Scratchy film reel, photoshop filters, buildings passing as seen from a train.
I'm coming into London, London not London, there's St. Pauls and the Opera House, great architecture writ large upon the landscape of childhood, buildings behind buildings, not London but the small town where I grew up, the prairie architecture replaced with grand old European architecture, recognizing both the buildings and the map upon which they stand, central park and the library, London not london...
Now I'm flying, swooping more, finding high buildings to leap off of, falling and then at the last moment swooping, someone is chasing me but I'm busy with this, fly up, find another perch, jump and swoop again...
Kamp Krusty
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Now the boy has finished his Kamp Krusty 3 day "Leadership Training Course". And it was pretty much what you'd expect, standard cult-indoctrination techniques, being shouted at, broken down, every free moment of every day filled with challenging "assignments" and "leadership" exercises, short sleeping patterns (5 hours a night), metrics that change from the beginning of the camp to the end, which culminates in the children accomplishing such great feats as breaking boards and such, (the boards weakened first in an oven), emotional and tear-jerking moments where they read their "love letters" from their parents...
If I was any other parent I'd be damned concerned, most of the exercises meaningless brainwashing techniques, unrelated in any meaningful way to the task at hand, the only reason in this instance I'd overlook it is that the boy is astute enough to see through most of it, describing it as being of "limited value" - which is probably fair. All life experience is of value. But he states that a lot of the other pupils rated it highly, thought it was a "life changing" experience, which worries me. And the other parents are the ones that are so indoctrinated and uninvolved they won't question it...
And so the madness continues.
Rampart
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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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: 1889
Sam Shepard's classic play, at the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary.
Well done, well acted, worthwhile.
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