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Isle of the Dogs - Wes Anderson
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Quite enjoyed this, the aesthetic, look, feel, animation, but on that note Wes Anderson commits the sin of having the "American Savior". By this point it should be obvious that they can't even save themselves. So - all in all, a very good film diminished by the gratuitous presence of an American.
The Ship of Fools
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Calgary
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At home, watching videos of the monkey Armageddon in Thailand, of the empty grocery store shelves in the US, the updates from WuHan and Italy, it's like a scene out of 12 Monkeys.
Then I head down to the co-op to get some groceries.
Fuck. The idiots always win - in Calgary it's by sheer strength of numbers.
Personally, when it's all over we should round the "survivors" up and choke them to death on their toilet paper.
Alberta to lend 100 million to oilpatch to cap orphan wells
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Calgary
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10:1 Odds that the companies take the loan...before declaring bankruptcy.
Article here: https://edmontonjournal.com/business/energy/alberta-to-give-100-million-loan-to-decommission-orphan-wells
Classic Alberta.
It seems intuitive that there be a retainer taken by the government BEFORE any wells are drilled to ensure they are capped. Mind you, they've only been doing this for 60 years so don't expect them to get their shit together any time soon. No, transparently this is a "Taxpayers subsidize oilpatch, help the rich get richer, even in this stagnant economy". I'd be very curious how many of these loans they recover and how many wells end up being successfully capped or remediated.
Some links to more information if your curious:
The Twilight Zone - Season One
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I downloaded this for the daughter, and as she's been away have been dipping into it a little myself. 36 episodes, approximately 25 minutes each - amazing - when was the last time a season of anything ran 36 episodes? And - no corners cut, all filmed with practical effects, each episode self contained, recognizing the hauntingly familiar faces of actors from my childhood, most long since dead. The "Twilight Zone" launched an awful lot of actors.
Only a few episodes in, in no particular order, you can usually guess the outcome - the intersection of "The Twilight Zone" - but this, largely, is because so much of what has followed has been reworked and redone in more contemporary films.
The "The Hitch Hiker" foreshadowing "Carnival of Souls", and I'm pretty sure it had some influence on "The Sixth Sense", there are others. 60 years later and it's still worth-while.
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