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A Vintage Box of Kleenex
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I mean, not really a "Treasure" per-se, but in one box of donations found an intact, original box of Kleenex. With Kleenex still in it. It's like the guy bought it and developed some sort of lifetime immunity to runny noses...
On a side note, while the vast majority of donations are boring, china, cups, plates, etc, they not infrequently come wrapped in vintage newspapers from the day - 30's, 40's, and onward. Which keeps things interesting...
FIrst outing of the season...
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With Chris, to points around Nelson exploring and doing some light panning. A nice day to be out of doors, a quartz seam that yielded up a few small crystals, hints of bigger ones, some microfine gold, paths at elevation still are obstructed with snow - nice weather is to be had only at the lowlier elevations, but the season begins...
Thai Kitchen
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This, the only choice for Thai Curry at the Co-op, and so I try it. I have low expectations, and they're completely defeated.
It advertises itself as "Vegan", then recommends adding lime, chicken bouillon, fish sauce, sugar. It's Vegan only until you want some flavour....
7$ for a 2 oz jar, triple what I'd a paid in Calgary for 16 oz of an authentic curry paste...Bloody fucking hell. And the curry? Completely unremarkable. I mean, follow all the instructions on the jar (and when do I ever to that?) and still it's bland. Maybe I was meant to snort it? Anyways, Thai Curry - Mae-Ploy is the brand to buy, Aroy-D is the brand for Coconut Milk, you can still enjoy a reasonably priced curry and with the money you save you can buy some Bitcoins or NFT's. No Shit.
Dave Duchovny's Left Nipple
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Like, line it up already....
OK. Sometimes I drink too much and start shit I probably shouldn't finish but at some point (episode 6) I get annoyed about trifles and call bullshit.
That said, on, off, episode 6 and I'm thinking this is the therapy I need at the moment. Some episodes are better than others.
Fun Fact: I think actually Dave Duchovny actually joined Sexaholics Anonymous. I seem to have some vague memory of this. And - probably false, but - hey, fits in with the whole "Californication" thing way too well. So I won't be bothered to fact check or Google it...
That said, I'm getting it. I mean, no, nowhere near as much as the titular Duchovny, but - yeah, I get it. The poolside conversation, I've had this epiphany before, understood
And her....my god, but the cheekbones - the swollen cheeks, artificially implanted, watch it and see - the same as Vancouver's "Spitting Image" puppet wives, the mockery of beauty.
Their weird-assed kid? WTF? Where did she come from? Who writes the dialogue for her? Have they ever met a child before? Really? She's the queen of awkward, irrelevant, and I doubt anyone could imagine a child like that and in any way think it's OK. They should have used a robot. Just my take...
So, did some googling, apparently "Hank Moody"'s based upon the persona of "Charlie Bukowski", contemporized, some 30, 40, 50 odd years later. Not a surprise, plenty of references, more surprised at how poorly they've done it.
And by Episode 8, enough already, I'll finish the season but it can't continue to be this patchy, I'm in need of amusement, not some sort of half-witted catharsis...and the way it ends, fucking bloody hell.
Overall, too much gratuitous sex, shallow and poor character development, mediocre writing.
Downloading Season 2 now...
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