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The Weather Network
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This, always on one of the TV's at the restaurant, a "highlight" reel of the days most extreme weather culled from around the world.
It's really more "The Disaster Network", not only meteorological phenomena but they zoom in on disasters of all sorts, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, Wildfire Smoke, spiced up with CGI footage of people drowning, burning up, getting swept away in Tornados, it's all about getting the hook in, getting our attention, always there's somewhere in the world where something heinous is happening and if not there's a CGI guy whipping up compelling footage and recreations...
It's comforting, in that "End of Days" sort of way...
A flying squirrel faking it's death...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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Yeah, you're daily dose of internet saccharine...a flying squirrel knocks over a broom and then poses beneath it as if it were squashed. Who knew squirrels had a sense of humor?
The Booksellers (2019, Documentary)
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Found this downloaded on my phone, my repository of videos I have on my list.
So, this was fine, a character study of the eccentrics that make up the independent booksellers of New York. The bookstores, while I've never been, are after a pattern of places similar I've been, the proprietors, after my own heart, collectors and readers, watching them being interviewed I find it curious how people so different from myself can reveal themselves to be so similar, there's a point about 10 minutes and thirty seconds in I find one of them living in virtually the same squalor that I frequently (when landed) find myself in, you could swap me in and I wouldn't change a thing; the curios, maps, art...
And this, again and again, and you can see how people - however different they may appear in personality, the mind does shape the world without in a pattern that reflects itself.
Anyways, greatly enjoyed this, it was like spending time with people you know but simply haven't had the opportunity to meet.
Pinched Nerve
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driving, leaning out my car window, a pinched nerve, left arm. It's able to move, work, but for some reason it's become tingly and clumsy, as if my brain doesn't get any feedback as to what it's handling, I'm unable to efficiently pick up anything with it, holding a cigarette with it and it flips out of my fingers, trying to tie a balloon becomes an effort of will, this is bizarre and I'm getting a good foreshadowing of what a stroke will feel like if I don't mend my ways...bloody hell...a peculiar sensation this, when your limbs don't respond to your will or accurately report upon their senses...
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