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The Bird Stuffer - Crazy Cat
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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For some reason this came to me, a trailer I saw at the movie theaters as a child, it terrified me, in the vein of a bad acid trip, and yet searching for it I can find scant evidence it ever existed. A lot of searching and finally I came up with the title - "The Bird Stuffer" starring Krazy Kat.
Weird, you would imagine by now that everything would somehow, somewhere, would be online, only this isn't, and it took a long while just to track it down.
It doesn't matter, I don't need to relive that particular childhood memory...
Ad Astra
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Saw the trailer, read the early advance press, went to this movie. There's a lot of movies I want to see, only - small town, a limited selection, this was the one that was playing.
Been a long time since I saw a movie in the theaters, no surprise, given the quality of this film it might be a long time before I see a movie again.
It was supposed to be about - well, from the trailer, a broodingly atmospheric space movie, in the lines of "Solaris" or "2001: A Space Odyssey". But it wasn't.
It was long, though, that's for sure. At the beginning our hero survives a fall off a hundreds-of-kilometers-high space antennae. Whew. It would have been a short movie if he hadn't, and so - initially - you're glad, but then he goes to the Moon and battles Somalian Space Pirates on Lunar buggies, goes swimming on Mars, battles the attack of the killer space monkeys, all in the quest to find his pa, and by this point you're regretting that he survived the fall off the space antennae. If you knew how things were going to go you would have been grateful for his premature demise, but nothing can kill this guy, which, really, is a load of complete and utter bullshit.
And yes, I get that it was supposed to be in the language of metaphor - sort of a "El Topo" in space, but - no, no it wasn't. It was bullshit.
I'll save you 2 hours of your life and recommend you listen to "Mother Fudpucker" instead on youtube - which is also about a man trying to find his father, only - hate to say it - it's about as sincere and at a little under 4 minutes infinitely more entertaining. Not so entertaining that I'd link to it, but you gotta draw the line someplace.
Ad Astra. Ad Nauseum.
Ponzi & Facebook
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An excellent read on how Facebook keeps growing it's market and increasing it's "value":
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/facebook-mark-zuckerbergs-fake-accounts-ponzi-scheme.html
I gave it up, then recreated it, don't play that game but in the Kootenays it was a way for people to find you (many of whom couldn't afford a phone). And find the good parties...
An old mine by Zincton
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Another one I'd driven by a hundred times and never noticed, you're eyes have to be just right, so once spotted I made a plan to go back and explore. Nothing too interesting, other than the calcite flowing and growing into stalactites from the ceiling.
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