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An old album filled with vintage postcards
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And another find, we get something similar every month, an old album filled with someone's collection of vintage postcards. The complete housecleaning of someone deceased, nothing left behind. Ranging from Dublin, England, to Yellowstone, Arizona and even Medicine Hat and Regina. Plus a few from right here in the Kootenays.
Right click on the photos to embiggen in another window and read the location.
It would be worth properly scanning the whole album, but I'm not paid for that, still, a curious thing...
EMF Healthcard
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One of the more interesting discoveries of the past couple of weeks - an EMF Healthcard.
Now I've been pitching these to the boy for a while, he should be manufacturing EMF Mitigation/5G Blockers/Vaccine Reversal Pills and all other manners of quack medical placebos to the Alberta Government. Because it's rare you get that level of top-tier stupidity elected, although it's becoming a bit of a rule in Alberta.
Anyways, the card is thick, plastic, heavy, and sells for approximately $85 Euros.
Bloody hell.
Link Here: https://emfhealthcard.com/nl/
I mean...Wow. I need to branch into the medical field...
Online & Amusing
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A few links to some things that amused me online recently.
#1) A breakdown of why Patagonia's Non-Profit Donation was more about power than Charity, courtesy of Adam Conover (Adam ruins everything) - to summarize, money wasn't charitably given away, it was merely exchanged for power. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I
#2) An amusing go-deep episode on "Cracked" that shows 10 Conservative messages hidden in "Con-Air". I never got it when I watched it, found it a generally mindless action flick, but - upon watching their analysis I have to concede Jerry Bruckheimer did a pretty good job of getting his message out to his target audience: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyTkIK4wn8
And, finally, a little less political - although it's hard to look away, given the state of the nation/world...
Art Without Intent - an online gallery of found art. I'm finding this stuff all the time, but still it's inspiring... Link: https://artwithoutintent.com/
The Play
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Off to see a play. By which I mean "A Play, A Play, What Could Be More Boring Than a PLAY!!", read in the voice of Homer Simpson.
Now, community theatre, the best of intentions, the What, this play, a suspense/horror? In the vein of Agatha Christie supposedly. And the Who - well, local community thespians, all of whom turn in a fine job; this town is filled with talent, the Where - at the theatre, of course, the When, showtimes as advertised, but what eludes me is the "Why". I mean, suspenseful it is not, not at all, and looking up the play, it's not locally written, it's not particularly good, it seems to be a staple of the "dinner theatre" crowd, which is an artform that constantly eludes me. Mindless entertainment, of the ilk you might find on any TV set, done live in front of you, suspenseful not in the least, and I'm perplexed as to why it was written (to fill seats in empty theatres, presumably, but - no other reason??), and why it was chosen (and a good time was had by all...or maybe it demanded no royalties?), and were I a little less considerate I would have taken the lead of the people next to me and vanished during the intermission. There's the real mystery, where did they go? And why were they here? Why am I here? Maybe that's the point of it, to bring me to an existential crisis...
Anyways, short of burning the script and starting completely over - and shooting the playwright - I was at a loss as to how to improve it when it occurred to me that it could be greatly improved with a little - a lot - of "Audience Participation". By which I mean perhaps the audience could be involved, prompted, to give loud gasps of shock-horror-surprise - at all the right moments, prime them, and then, really, maybe then a good time could have been had by all.
Otherwise I was just watching the thespians having a great time while I myself felt that any reaction would have been so over the top - act surprised, gasp? Clearly your faking this Mr. Boyle, you should have seen that coming a mile away - you did, in fact, didn't you?
Anyways, all about supporting the local community theatre, but maybe we have to get them some better scripts...
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