A Night of Art-ness Pt 2 via Dead Robot » Dead Robot
Last night Sharkboy, Mom and a couple of her friends were treated to A Chorus Line by my brother Michael, who I thank with all my cultured heart.
Mike had “arranged them”. So I had to get them from the press desk at the theatre, which resulted in this conversation with the two most bitterest press desk employees ever:
Me: “I’m here to pick up tickets”
PD1: “Name?”
Me: “They’re under Michael Healey.”
PD1: “You’re not Michael Healey!”
Me: “I’m his brothe–”
PD2: (finding the tickets during all this and thrusting them at me) “CONGRATULATIONS. NEXT!”
Me: “…And his mother is coming too, you really don’t want to cross her.”
Bitter cow. Not even giving me the...
What happens when you go home for mother’s day and someone’s found a big box of your things from 20 years ago? You have a trip down memory lane, that’s what. The box in question held old summer camp photos, sticker books, and my old button collection. The best of all was my News Kids on the Block [wiki] memorabilia (posters, note pad, eraser, pencils and case) and a few other goodies.
The button collection: Amidst the hundreds of rusty metal badges, I came across half a dozen from various pavilions at Expo 86 [wiki] as well as PNE buttons dating from 1980 to 1995 - there’s even one celebrating the inflation of BC Place [wiki]. Some have political messages that I’m sure I didn’t understand at the time, and others were just plain funny, stating...