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Shots Fired

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Rants

Published: 06 March 2018

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And, with interest following the story of the Alberta Farmer who shot at people on his property that were in the act of robbing him, and after slight investigation (read: Angry Farmer Confesses to shooting at thieves) the police intervene to arrest the farmer...

Uh-huh.

Now I get that the Police don't want people taking the law into their own hands. But I also get that the "Sit back and let them rob you" recommendation isn't a hell of an approach either, and given the general level of interest police show in these cases (none), given the fact that they don't even manage to recover and return even 10% of stolen property, and that's of what is reported - easily 90% of property crimes go unreported - because we're all familiar with how interested the police are in these situations - well, it seems a bit absurd to demand that he allow himself to be robbed and trust the police to solve it, return his property and bring the thieves to justice. Given, as well, the rural nature of farms, which imply even slower response times (if the police indeed bother to respond) - well...

I'm curious as to what develops here. 

Packing up my University Locker

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Dreams

Published: 06 March 2018

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I'm back at University (dark, dimly lit, rows of lockers, bathrooms, swimming pools hidden behind locker rooms and closed doors, an imaginary place in my dream with no real world equivalent) - with my son, he's helping me to clean up some things that I've forgotten here, and we're going to all the places I used to hang out, to the lockers, and there are papers and notebooks here, and into the parkade/student dormitory, and ask the students and get more papers, and from place to place (always inside, underground, dark) we're going and collecting my possessions, long overdue this, and all of my possessions seem to comprise only notebooks and papers...

...behind a couple of old wood doors there's a locker room, and through this a darkly lit swimming pool...

Enter The Void

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Film

Published: 03 March 2018

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Which was not the easiest film to watch, but - like a lot of things - the reward is directly proportionate to the effort you put into it. 

It loosely follows "Oscar" - the protagonist - through his life and flashbacks, into his hallucinations and death. There is, of course, an awful lot more, but for a film as experimental as it is it still maintains interest and a cohesive narrative (the problem with a lot of these films - as experimental as they are, is that they lose all touchstones of humanity and narrative. This one doesn't). Worth watching - but, fair warning, at 2 hours and 40 minutes it's a bit long. And, for the record, while it requires a fair bit of attention it might benefit from a small dose of the many psychedelics it recommends. And ensure you watch it on a big screen...

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Void