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Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Books
- Hits: 1650
I like him.
Poems like:
Love’s Not The Way To Treat a Friend
Love’s not the way to treat a friend.
I wouldn’t wish that on you. I don’t
want to see your eyes forgotten
on a rainy day, lost in the endless purse
of those who can remember nothing.Love’s not the way to treat a friend.
I don’t want to see you end up that way
with your body being poured like wounded
marble into the architecture of those who make
bridges out of crippled birds.Love’s not the way to treat a friend.
There are so many better things for you
than to see your feelings sold
as magic lanterns to somebody whose body
casts no light.
And
RESTAURANT
Fragile, fading 37,
she wears her wedding ring like a trance
and stares straight down at an empty coffee cup
as if she were looking into the mouth of a dead bird.
Dinner is over. Her husband has gone to the toilet.
He will be back soon and then it will be her turn
to go to the toilet.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 1240
Visually splendid, but I have a feeling it will be a bit devoid of plot and meaning. Time will tell.
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The Poseidon Adventure
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Monday afternoon, January 2nd, take the daughter and the boy to see The Poseidon Adventure. By which I mean the original, 1972 version with Red Buttons and Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine, etc, etc.
Both brilliant and absolute rubbish, laughable fashions (that I'd kill to replicate), overly explicit dialogue, the complete adherence to all the moral conventions of disaster films. Gene Hackman does well, Ernest Borgnine bugs his eyes, Roddy McDowell, well, I'm sure it paid well. Just a good introduction to the world of bad classic disaster films, when it's over the boy's spent an hour and a half laughing while the daughter happily exclaims "That was good...how come I've never heard of it?...".
Oh, there's a lot more you've never heard of. Have to get her out to the Koot's to show her "Towering Inferno" and "Airport" and maybe "Earthquake" and, for a bit of comic relief (that she'll then understand) - Airplane.
Iceland curbing teen drug abuse
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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I like Iceland, another reason why:
Link: https://mosaicscience.com/story/iceland-prevent-teen-substance-abuse
There are solutions to every problem, we lack only the will and intelligence to pursue them.
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