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And now for a subsequent 200 columns, something wholly opposite – er, maybe. And afterwards again . . . REM’s editor has never threatened to glow me nonetheless I’m certain he perceived several clever suggestions and during slightest one criticism from former Prime Minister Paul Martin in a final century, when a then-finance apportion indeed responded to one of my columns in that we complained about a taxation burden. Today that weight would seem a bargain.
Speaking of looking back, we glanced during final September’s mainstay and found a outline of a really excellent Vancouver Island Music Fest with a tie-in to a preliminary to a Realtor Code of Ethics (“Under all is a land . . .”) If we missed this year’s event, and many of we did, it featured David Crosby – yes, that one – Randy Newman – can we contend Academy Award Winner? – Holly Cole and Alison Krauss to name dump only a little. This is a small festival large names adore to attend – Roberta Flack, Arlo Guthrie, Jennifer Warnes, Stephen Page and Leonard Bibb – all in a final 3 years. If you’re on Vancouver Island subsequent July, devise to attend. www.islandmusicfest.com.
I attended an early incarnation of what is now a VIMF. They had to change a name as partial of a relocation and/or declare insurance program. A child of a ’60s, it was called a Renaissance Fair – weren’t they all? Wandering musicians personification strangely stringed instruments, bell bottom pants, tie-dyed shirts, bursting pot seeds melting a polyester accessories, all accompanied by tambourine song and flushed with scent and aged sweat. Alternate bathing choices were everywhere. we saw my initial ‘au naturale’ womanlike armpit during a Renaissance Fair and swore to equivocate them during all costs in a future, seeing a instruction given to Tom Hanks by Sally Field: “Run Forest, run!”
I note a art of a tie-dyed mantle refuses to seem on a involved class list – so astray when we cruise income would have been improved invested in a some-more sartorially worthy; knitted ties for instance or plaid pants. And a large shout-out to Hilary Clinton for grimly holding on to a breathe suit!
Ah, a conform of a ’70s. Memories of a tweed coupler finish with leather bend patches. In a ’70s, we were welcoming immature U.S. males from south of a 49th together concerned to equivocate a Vietnam War. Bearded buyers were visit drop-ins on building avocation on a partial of Vancouver Island, gateway to idealized Shangri-La’s like Cortes and Hornby Island – always dual ferries divided – arrange of an early warning complement for those occasions a policeman sent his posse to demeanour around.
One civic fable describes one organisation entrance into a Comox Valley real estate office, scanning a in-out house for names and picking Ron Field during pointless since – well, only since Field sounded some-more in balance with their opinion on life than Gunn or Hunter. We were propitious Bacon wasn’t in that day. There are, I’m sure, identical stories in each farming community, with names altered to fit – Waterman, Baker, Green or my all-time favourite, Saprunoff.
And that meanders my small mind to surnames with an change on career choice. Hooker for example. Or Wagemaker. Or Diver. Or how we look. Doll, White, Brown. Or what we drive. Pickup. Sedan. (Honest, these are all from my phone book – delayed day during a bureau goes though saying.)
Thank we Google for heading me to www.oddee.com for humorous names in each category, gathered from a universe of folks with zero to do. Meat manager Mike Slaughter leads a list followed by counsel Sue Yoo. Law firms with a purpose – Low, Ball Lynch, Boring Leach, Smart Biggar contest with a matrimonial law use of Bickers Bickers. (I did discuss it was delayed in a office?)
Finally – appreciate we sighed a reader – a holiday weekend in Aug brought me to a internal festival where they have mastered a art of creation me compensate income for acknowledgment so they can try to sell me something out of a tent or from a behind of a truck, crafted by an ‘artisan’. This year’s fury seemed to be anything metal, preferably recognizable, remade to a new function. “Hey, demeanour honey, that slotted portion ladle looks accurately like a ladybug – arrange of. And check out a cowboy’s legs – isn’t that a horseshoe?” Every venue overseen by a unapproachable artist, interacting with a intensity patron while they painted, potted, welded or punched holes in leather.
Except one.
Such a glower – like he’d only been comparison for a Revenue Canada review or as a halt personality of a sovereign NDP. Semi-sneers daggered a backs of those who initial deserted and afterwards walked divided from his phony potion bottle stoppers and knitted tea cozies. we couldn’t assistance though consider of a Chinese proverb, “A male though a smiling face contingency not open a shop.”
Keep smiling.
You can find Marty Douglas on Twitter – 41yrsrealestate – Facebook and LinkedIn. He is a handling attorney for Coast Realty Group, with offices on Vancouver Island, a Discovery and Gulf Islands and a Sunshine Coast of B.C. Marty is a past chair of a Real Estate Errors and Omissions Corporation of B.C., a Real Estate Council of B.C. , a B.C. Real Estate Association and a Vancouver Island Real Estate Board. mdouglas@coastrealty.com
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