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The Meat Dealer
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This, the latest in "get your deal on", first it was the Cigarette guy, discounted native cigarettes, inferior in every way but it's a filthy habit no matter what and so I'm just going to use them as an excuse to smoke less and save up some money.
Then there's the meat dealer, apparently choice cuts for a fraction of the cost you'd pay at the grocery...He's been paid, but has yet to deliver.
It’s like I’m living in Mother Russia where all of your needs are met on the Black Market and everyone lives in a completely different economy...
Chilis, Tomatoes & Basil
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The cherry tomatoes has been giving a handful of red ripeness every few days, the basil grows profusely, and - what I am most interested in - the chili peppers have been flowering for weeks but I have yet to see a single pepper.
The tenant downstairs, I've checked on his chili plants, half the height of mine, and he had (rather boring) chilis a month ago.
My plants, double the size, clearly superior, and the tiny flowers just hang there, change, up the fertilizer, maybe - at most - 3 weeks left of summer, and I'd better damn well see some results for this 6 or 7 months gardening...
Foundation
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This, upon being unfavourably impressed with "House", a little too predictable, the recommendation of my brother.
There's really very little science in it, and quite a bit of fiction a space opera without the intriguing aliens, based on outdated ideas abut human nature and ideology, all these cable networks, reality TV, Disneyfication of DEI, everyone in the world is an actor now, the characters ridiculous, the steam-punk “huntress” with her bow, the ridiculous languages with Russian Accents (how do you portray a villain? Bad accent...). That said it's visually stunning, with stellar computer graphics - first rate CGI, and it's hard to imagine acting all this against a green screen, but given the inane dialogue and ridiculous plots they're not acting too hard.
Anyways, Season 1 down and it's not grabbed me in the least. I completely disagree with Asimov's vision of the future, space-ship-go-hyperspace is not science and if we're to cross the interstellar abysses and colonize the entire Galaxy I think we'll be finding a lot more miracles than are here portrayed and our nature will need to evolve substantially to allow these wonders in...
The Full Nelson
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Thursday last, a lecture at a local gallery by local author....
It's on the UFO experience, abduction, dream paralysis, ET contact via the dreamworld, etc.
Why not, I live in Nelson, if you're gonna live here might as well drink the Kool-Aid.
The author/lecturer, he's promised a 1 hour lecture and - by an hour and a half I've had it, silently tip-toe-out and grab my shoes and run for the street.
He's a transplanted American living in the Valley with his wife, and - while not a PHD or Therapist hints at his education by saying his message was too important to further his studies with a PHD...
Basically, without him spelling it out (and there were any number of "abductees" in a room with a dozen people) - his "Theory" is that people are confusing the hypnopompic/hypnogogic state with abduction experiences. Only he's not going to say so because everyone lives in their own reality...
One of the abductees, herself a "Therapist" living on the North Shore, reports a dozen abductions...
I personally would want disclosure from any therapist that believed they had been abducted by aliens even once, let alone a dozen times, but she's pretty passionate and annoyed by it. You would be too.
Notable lines: ”I don’t want to get into ‘Too Much Science’” and, towards closing (always towards closing...) he asks the audience to consider what "Drove them to be here" and a younger member volunteers that the author drove him, in his car...a completely literal answer to a figurative question.
Pretty much sums it up, and he glosses over it.
He's a very handsome young man, fit, tight trousers, dress shirt, maybe 30 years old, immaculately coifed, large effeminate glasses, a forelock that he twirls suggestively...again he mentions his wife...
I guess if you're buying the UFO thing you'll buy anything, although I'm a big fan of knowing yourself before attempting to help others. Which is the purpose of this talk, to promote his books (more than 1), and offer his services ("I'm not a Therapist") which - without saying out loud (don't confront people with other facts) would involve him listening and helping the 'patient' realize they probably had a certain type of dream experience known variously as the Old Hag or Sleep Paralysis...
I mean, there's nothing new, original or even novel here, what is amazing is how un-self-conscious he is and how much time and effort he's spent spinning his wheels and trying to persuade others he has the answers...
It's too much even for me, hence the tip-toed departure, and the self indulgent nature of his "lecture" wherein he roamed freely past the clock and showed no sign of losing steam even when I left.
Anyways, that was the "Full Nelson", my community soak in weirdness, today, a well-earned day off, there's a rock show at the Prestige, Pride week kicks off in Lakeside Park with a BBQ (and he won't be there, because while he figured out the UFO-Dream Paralysis connection he's still a bit short figuring out a few things about himself) and a dance-party, free, DJ in the park, and so my day off today should be relatively normal and full...
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