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1 month ago
Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.
Excellente nouvelle: le gouvernement du Québec va finalement sévir contre les vapoteurs et interdire les parfums dans leurs produits. Vous savez, ce qui rendait ça plus attrayantpour les jeunes. Il était temps. J'exècre le tabagisme depuis toujours et pour moi les vapoteuses c'était une stratégie cynique pour rendre accro une nouvelle génération à la nicotine. On va se le dire: les producteurs de tabac, ce sont des barons de la drogue. Et puis on va se dire autre chose: les vapoteuses ont l'air de gros dildos. Fa que...
C'est la rentrée des cégeps cette semaine et j'ai appris que mon alma mater, le Cégep de Chicoutimi, a fait produit une campagne humoristique pour appliquer son ràeglement concernant le tabagisme. Voyez la photo de gauche. Elle a été prise par l'un de mes anciens profs. Il y a d'autres affiches, avec d'autres animaux (et quelques autres créatures), mais jusqu'ici c'est celle avec les deux alligators que j'aime le plus. On aurait eu besoin de pareille règlementation du temps de ma jeunesse folle, parce que de mon temps, ça fumait jusque dans les corridors et ça empestait partout.
"Girls, I think it's about time you start smoking. So here, have a cigar!" This is what I said to my wife's friend's nine year old daughter and her friend (aka the Ticklers) when I offered them... chocolate cigars from the local sweet shop. I like to encourage local businesses and thought offering chocolate cigars would be really funny, especially with these words. It made everybody laugh, so I think it deserves to be a great unknown line. But the girls were underwhelmed by the chocolate itself, sadly. A shame. At their age, I thought chocolate cigars were the most sophisticated kinds of chocolates. I even used them as props when I played certain characters in our make-belief games, either mobsters or businessmen. It's funny how little I needed to be convincing. Then I would just eat the cigar instead of smoking it. So next time, I will buy some for myself. I will appreciate them better.
Sometimes I receive bits of news that get me excited. Like recently, I received a mailer from a local art gallery about an upcoming exhibition of Fabian Perez's new paintings. The very same gallery that made me discover his work two years ago. The gallery has sadly moved from my town, but they relocated in a nearby town, so I can still visit them. I love his paintings for many reasons, the main one being that they often look like scenes taken from a crime fiction story, old pulp magazines with a Latin twist. Pulp magazines, but not cheap ones, images that would have abandoned naïve imagery for lush and unapologizing glamour, even when he paints a man offering to light a woman's cigaret at a bar. I have decided to upload this painting to accompany my post. Sadly I have no idea of its title. I hope to take some pictures of my own when I visit the gallery.