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Dark Arrows: Chronicles of Revenge - curated by Alberto Manguel
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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An anthology of short stories, none of which particularly grabbed me. Some good writing, great authors, but the topic... well, not my topic.
This was started with the purpose of getting out of Malcolm Lowry's head, as that book - well, reading it, all the action taking place almost entirely within his head - neurosis, etc, I have mine own. That said I have another book to leap into and finger's crossed that it will be better, or at least more to my current humor.
May December - 2023 Netflix
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This ended up on my "Best Films of 2023" list, or rather, was found and added to the list.
It wasn't. About a couple that have a Hollywood Actress come stay with them due to some unsavory business in their past that's now being made into a movie.
Again, another movie about people I didn't in the least care about. I've got to start pulling the plug on these films a lot quicker, there's no need to watch the thing through, half an hour in I know what's going to happen. Anyways, OK, but not my cup of tea.
Snow and a Fire Lit Under my ass...
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So, the days since New Years we've had the pleasure of snow and more snow, as if January were the catch-up for all the winter we'd missed. Some freezing winds and temperatures, the wind's have died, the temperature has warmed, yet still it snows, big wet flakes, a foot deep where unshoveled and untrammeled on the sidewalks, big piles at the edge of city blocks, the town, with the lights wound round the trees and pines, old buildings lit up from within, it's a Hallmark Movie.
Time, now, to be looking for work, I've scoured the internet for a 1000 places to go prospecting, places to spend the summer, but - for the moment I need money, some stable employ, an income that can accrue and buy me up the mountain...
And I find it, an ad for the old Cock-&-Suck, the trauma of which I'm still processing. They're looking for a cook. Of course they are, they always are, always have been.
But it sets the fire under my ass, get a job, don't in any way be so desperate that in the spring you're forced to go back there.
That won't do.
I suck it up, contact the mother-in-law, get the news. JR hasn't gotten a job, still, and the restaurant is reopening so he can work the summer. He's planning it on doing it with his wife.
This is - darkly - hilarious, you've probably read posts wherein I discuss his eagerness to work, earn money, take on responsibility, his ease with customers and staff, there's a comedy under way to be sure, the darkest reality TV series of them all.
It's funny, for the longest while the owners - JR's parents - kept the restaurant going because he was in school, they needed to pay for that, then he'd get a job. Only after school, and a typical - wham-bam-shit job it was, he was no more employable than before. SO now the restaurant, it's his living legacy, they're hoping somehow that he's going to grow up enough to take it over, only he won't, he'll sink it into the ground...
In any event I won't be there, just seeing the ad was trauma enough, I need to find something quick, then maybe something better...
My YouTube Diet
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Yeah, it's YouTube so by and large junk-candy, but - a couple of creators there that have some interesting stuff.
Wintertime, the snow and the cold are settling in, the daughter's off in Bankok (the sane one in the family, and why didn't I think of that? Or budget for it...) - so - look at videos of interest to me.
The first, a long video on the rubies of Mogok - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjaRE1bE5MU. Of interest noting the landscape the finds are made in, the rocks, the many, many similarities with our geology here...
And then a couple of interesting short videos made by "The Trek Planner" and "Desert Drifter", who basically scour the desert on Google Maps - Utah, Arizona, etc, then go looking for what's there....
Always, Ancient Ancestral Pueblos, potshards, arrowheads. Short adventures for those trapped in a cold climate. Always they find something interesting, and they're responsible adventurers, leaving the potshards and arrowheads behind for others to find and enjoy.
Anyways, my media diet as of late, could use some improvement (but no more fucking-how-to-art-videos!!!).
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