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Covid JN.1
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And been feeling a bit under the weather lately, told myself it was the flu. Shortness of breath, thick green mucus when blowing nose, slight fever, chills, etc, so I get curious, look up the symptoms, pretty sure this is it:
Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/10203470/jn1-covid-symptoms/
Today was worse, up, feeling clubbed, back to bed, up, feeling clubbed, back to bed, up briefly, clubbed, and back into bed.
This - reading up on the variants expected, predicted, is going to get a lot worse, most people I know have had it - in the past couple of weeks, and - for something that's going around and laying us all low (and no immunity to this to be expected from the current Vaccines, too different) - it's getting surprisingly little press. Everyone, keep calm and carry on and DON'T MISS WORK ANYONE.
If I can stay awake long enough time to make some congee and head back to bed...
Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
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This was an interesting, 3 hour watch by the Soviet director Andre Tarkovsky it's a semi-biographic film on the life of Andrei Rublev, famous Russian Icon Painter of the early 15th Century.
Slowly shot, black and white (1966), a minimal of dialogue, - the background dialogue, when it's happening, isn't translated, but strangely moving.
A note, it's 3 hours long, and - in being filmed and set in a different era, Tarkovsky set a cow on fire, clubbed a dog to death and shoved a horse off a stairwell then stabbed it - not a film the SPCA would endorse, and in parts difficult to watch. Reminding me of "The Holy Mountain", where Jodorowsky killed hundreds of rabbits and blew up hundreds of toads. Unnecessarily cruel, and for people that seem to have a fair bit of Spiritual - ?? - well, it's a hard reconcile.
Then, given the time it was set in - early 1400's, when entire villages were razed by Tartars, raped and pillaged, where the King or Prince might as well decide to do the same, when the Plague was passing through Europe and killing 1/2, 2/3 people, comparing the age where death was of no consequence and seldom grieved, of no account, compared to now, where every war - Gaza - Israel, Rawanda, Ukraine, every plague - by comparison - is inconsequential and every life is held of immense value (unless you're killed by the cops). A - to the Western Mind - almost inconceivable point of view.
This is not to excuse the current state of affairs, but we've never had it so good, and it will be a long, long time before ever we have it so again.
Anyways, read up on it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev_(film)
The Holdovers
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Which was a quiet, understated film, about a group of students "held over" at their boarding school. A charming, melancholy, Character-driven film.
Good. Not, as reviewed, "Great", but better than a few others I've seen.
Great Kentucky Hoard
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I don't know how I never heard of this. To summarize, sometime in the 2020's a farmer stumbled across a hoard of 700+ buried gold coins in his field.
Gold Dollars, $5 and $10 Pieces, with a value over a Million Dollars.
Links: Wikipedia on the Great Kentucky Hoard, The National Post, LiveScience.Com - which is of interest as it mentions a few other unrecovered hoards of even greater Value:
Many wealthy Kentuckians are rumored to have buried huge sums of money to prevent it from being stolen by the Confederacy. James Langstaff left a letter saying he had buried $20,000 in coins on his property in Paducah, William Pettit buried $80,000 worth of gold coins near Lexington, and Confederate soldiers quarantined for measles reportedly stole payroll and hid it in a cave in Cumberland Gap. None of these caches has ever been recovered.
Of interest as well, other hoards in North America - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoards_in_North_America, and be sure to follow links to the Baltimore Gold Hoard and the Castine Hoard.
And, finally, a post on other rumored undiscovered hoards of Kentucky: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/, which has me looking up all sorts of things on Google Maps...
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