in most countries around the world. He is also a visual artist, sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter, who is adaptingbJPod/bas a television series. He lives and works in Vancouver.bRoger/bbrbrA few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age–regardless of how they look on the outside–pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don’t want to be who they are any more. They wantiout/i. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cast members ofiRent/i, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It’s universal.brbrDoiyou/iwant out? Do you often wish you could be somebody,iany/ibody, other than who you are–the you who holds a job and feeds a family–the you who keeps a relatively okay place to live and who still tries to keep your friendships alive? In other words, the you who’s going to remain pretty much the same until the casket?brbrThere’s nothing wrong with me being me, or with you being you. And in the end, life’s pretty tolerable, isn’t it?iOh, I’ll get by/i. We all say that.iDon’t worry about me/i. Maybe I’ll get drunk and go shopping on
eBay at eleven at night, and maybe I’ll buy all kinds of crazy crap I won’t remember I bid on the next morning, like a ten-pound bag of mixed coins from around the world or a bootleg tape of Joni Mitchell performing at the Calgary Saddledome in 1981.brbrI used the phrase “a certain age.” Wh@,8Që…¸ÿ¾Û€
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