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Okay, this type I'll copy and paste properly.

And I realized this...the starting things are lower down, so don't start here, start at the post lower down called...I forget...the one more recent than Going, going, going.


The only other thing I want to say today, comes from a sentence or two I put in the last post. It goes something like this. Yes, things I write are neat and weird and different. But, on some level, I’m not living a really different life, I’m just having an opportunity to look at things a little differently, then talk about it. Yes, I write for your enjoyment and entertainment along with an interest to convey culture. You’re also feeling the part of me that is a bit of an exhibitionist, as I shine the spotlight on myself at the same time as I do the whole culture and experience. But the point is that indeed, were any one of you to actually hold a candle to your own life, analyze, question, and document it, it would be of the same interest and value. And if you think that all you live is the same as everyone, and there’s no way to experience a different culture where you are, then I think you are subjecting yourself (by choice or by default, an even worse way to live) a very narrow range of experiences. Because even those living in Edmonton, if they wanted, could spend a good deal of their free time with people who live a whole different type of life. So, yes, enjoy my stories. Enjoy the differences. Learn from what I say. But don’t think that what I’m doing is not possible from where you are. And if you like it, find it enlightening, enjoyable, whatever, then use this as inspiration to start re-examining your life, the life of people around you and, put yourself in a different culture in the area you live if you need to be stimulated in that way.

(If you’re stuck for where to find a different culture, I think the easiest thing to do is hit up the inner city. When I was working downtown, I learned that you can, without even trying to, by not ignoring people in the place they are, and not being so busy that don’t have time to accept an invitation to a rooming house, or carry a drunk on the way out of your office, meet a whole different world than the college/university educated semi-affluent, good-looking, socially supported collection of people that predominate my circle, and perhaps yours.)