{"id":110,"date":"2004-05-09T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=110"},"modified":"2004-05-09T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T11:11:00","slug":"the-ocean-basket-rosebank-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/the-ocean-basket-rosebank-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ocean Basket, Rosebank Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Sunday, May 09, 2004<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * * * 1\/2<br \/>\n<br \/>     Food: * 1\/2<br \/>\n<br \/>     Ambience: * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Babe Count: * * * 1\/2<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The babe count is almost acceptable, cos I&#8217;m sitting facing the Rosebank Zone escalator, and there are enough teenage vamps learning high-heel swagger to keep my hormones half-topped up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just seen a vaguely amusing movie, and I&#8217;ve truly already forgotten its name. Something to do with &#8220;Polly&#8221;. Probably something like, &#8220;And Then Came Polly&#8221;. Or &#8220;Along Came Polly.&#8221; Well, bad news. She didn&#8217;t come. Not once. Not that I could make out, anyway. The movie gets a big fat 2 out of 10 on the Roy-O-Metre. <\/p>\n<p>Made me feel hollow and empty and sad and glum and in dire need of a relationship with a woman who can actually tell that I&#8217;m an okay dude to be with and who can make the simple decision to commit. (I&#8217;m not mentioning ANYBODY&#8217;S name now, am I? If you wanna read between the lines, that&#8217;s your business, yeah?)<\/p>\n<p>I order the fish and chips special, but with rice instead of chips. It arrives. And there&#8217;s this little midget piece of fish in the pan. And the rice is on the verge of being mealy from being undercooked. And it all tastes like cardboard.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe that&#8217;s cos even freshly squeezed virgin juice would taste like cardboard to me right now, seeing as I&#8217;m in a foul mood.<\/p>\n<p>All because of the conversation with Jacqui on       Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well. The massage was beautiful. And I&#8217;ve bought Jacqui       a voucher for one too. Talk about mixed messages.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, there&#8217;s the exhibition of my portraits at the Spaza Gallery in Troyeville this coming Saturday. I was there earlier today. And it&#8217;s deep in the Bronx. Really. I&#8217;m not going to be expecting ANY of my friends to come to this opening. Heck&#8230; I&#8217;m not even sure I can make it myself, cos an ex-girlfriend of mine has invited me to her baby shower on Saturday, and then later in the evening I&#8217;m doing one of Chantal Nativel&#8217;s shamanic trance dances.<\/p>\n<p>But hey. My work&#8217;s going to be up on the walls, with price tags affixed. And hopefully those little red stickers that say, &#8220;SOLD!&#8221; Not that I&#8217;m going to make a trillion bucks off this gig. Cos nobody really knows about the Spaza Gallery except for fringe artists. I found out about the place through Lionel Murcott, my artist buddy whose work adorns my walls. He&#8217;s starting up his portrait circle again, and I&#8217;m part of it, and we&#8217;re going to be doing it at the gallery on Wednesday or Thursday nights. <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 09, 2004 Service: * * * 1\/2 Food: * 1\/2 Ambience: * * Babe Count: * * * 1\/2 The babe count is almost acceptable, cos I&#8217;m sitting facing the Rosebank Zone escalator, and there are enough teenage &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/the-ocean-basket-rosebank-zone\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ocean Basket, Rosebank Zone<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-1M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}