latest night of summer

5am
worst party in years

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so we`re leaving about four
its hammered guys doing very little
plundering the be freer
some guy the whole time in a sleeping bag in the
middle of the living room floor
over-animated shouty hippy-grunge types
and i find my jacket and then
put it coat down and it ain`t there
so i wander round
its a harrington
black
very english
with the check lining
so i delay the folks i`m leaving with
and look for it
and look for it
and then look for it where it can`t be
out the back of the house
and there`s some guy wearing it
really?
sitting there by himself in it
so i say
is that my jacket?
it is?
can i have it back?
so the iffy wally takes it off and gives it me
and we leave
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that was the post-spoof night party
me and berkeley stait from the fringe hosted
an annual ttradition
where everybody spoofs everyone else
names are pulled from a hat three days before and no-one knows who's spoofing who
and it was not bad
great even
allan gridon
and dockery
and jayson/ meghan
did great spoofs
except it finished at 2.40
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depositing me into the
early lunchtime kinda morning
with a
fagfilled beercan for a head
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nicetimes

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having a nice time in this town
streets to walk
shows to see
folks to meet
easy strolling easy thinking easy talking easy living
as nice a time as i've had in this town
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fave shows of summer are still die rotenpunkte and wanderlust/ biketrip
here have thoroughly enjoyed death live
and one man show
goofy goofy fun from young very funny toronto guys
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i like walking but sometimes i think
i'm not that good at it
i always forget to stop and sit down
and read
and think
i always keep going and
arrive a tad knackered from what
should have been
a relaxed ramble.
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witness yesterday
off up the saskatchewan to see the pelicans and
walk over the railway bridge and
come back
too-soon
with legache
for ...
another Daniel McIvor
Marion Bridge
which i liked alot
zipped by
some great lines

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tonight is spoof night
and i am hosting
its going to be a long long night
starts at midnight
and my show is this aft at 2.30pm
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edmonton reviewers still not been in
maybe they won't come
my last show was a killer so i wish they had
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film of me on
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http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/videos/featuredvideos.htm?fvPgID={15AAF02C-CA3A-4D5E-A7E7-81EE03161E4B}&fvTitle=Fringe%20Veteran%20Jem%20Rolls&href3D171C4BD6BC=mms%3A%2F%2Fprdmediax1.shaw.ca%2FStart%2FShawTV%2FSaskatoon%2F073010-5-arts.wmv
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you have to view it through internet explorer
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its not bad
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show doing ok
50 on thurs lunchtime isn`t bad
my time slots were horrible
but i`m never up against anyone strong
and it feels great
superstrong
though physically murderous
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also have realised i only have two months left of this blog
i said i`d finish after this year`s fringe tour
so i spose i will
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the shrinking of the possible

p's show
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so she did ok in winnipeg
with her show falling people
she didn't do great
but it wasn't a disaster
which it looked it might be when
she got trashed by the free press
two and a half stars
but towards the end she got
good word of mouth
and nice reviews from cbc and uptown
and was half full
...
she made little money
and probably won't do the piece again
why not write a better one
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and its still shocking to have to
realise again
how cruel the fringe
can be
how all that work
months of writing and rehearsing
culminates in
one destructive review

...
what's particularly telling
is that
well
priscilla's show did not have a linear narrative
she went back in time for a few scenes
and there were references to events in the past
and she revealed the story in bits
so at first you couldn't know what was going on
and only later did the viewer have all the pieces of what was going on
and be able to see the whole narrative picture
which is of course a valid way to structure a story
however
with the fringe
you clearly cannot take the risk of
structuring a show in an oblique way because
the chances are so high a reviewer will
see the piece as muddled
and simply abolish your show in
two adjectives and a couple of
missing stars
and
as reviews are so important
and
constantly threaten to
completely nullify
months of your best work and
creativity
certain aesthetic approaches are made
near impossible
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more ice cream

ICE CREAM EVERY DAY
or A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE

when i was little i loved ice cream
yet only rarely had one
so i thought,
when i grow up i'll have an ice cream every day
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but i forgot about it till i was 38 or 39
which is handy in a way
because i was always ridiculously poor till i was about 36
and only when i was about 41 4

when i could very easily afford them

did i realise i could have one every day
without any worry
so now i do
i give myself an ice cream
every day of the summer
why not?

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strawberry, rum'n'raisin, tiramusu

great stuff

sometimes its easy to make your life better

and as the cockney song goes

a bit of what you fancy does you good"

surely does,

new york cheesecake, please

one scoop

waffle cone

thanks

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great stuff

why not?

and it was in lampang

in northern thailand

we found the

ALL YOU CAN EAT ICE CREAM PARLOUR

yes the

ALL YOU CAN EAT ICE CREAM PARLOUR
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the
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ALL
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YOU
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CAN
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EAT
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ICE CREAM
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PARLOUR
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twentimental soddle

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blimey its

august
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how did that happen?
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we are paying rent on the edmonton apartment as from today
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fringe day

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fringe day

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wake up
coffee
rehearse slowly over saskatchewan river
very carefully as edmonton reviewer likely
show
small house, 12.30, great show, lots of fun, no reviewer
ice cream
see show, hockey dad, fun show, does what it says on the can
see wanderlust again, great show
thai foood with dockery and eden the hong kong street performer
chit chat
flyer
see show
unadulterated me
have known rachelle a while but never seen a show
and suddenly she's doing great, when before she struggled
great clown show
very sweet, super face, endearing nervous pathetic funny mousy sweet
chitchat
flyer
see show
the pig of happiness
good to finish the day on some songs
pub
4 beers
pop corn
whingeing
spraffing
martin jayson amy bremner meghan dan
home by 1.30
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out 15 hours
good simple fringe day
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