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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Halloween and I decided to do something different with the Boy and take him to see "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the Plaza. He'd just turned 14 and I suspected he might enjoy it, and as plans to take him and some of his friends to Screamfest had fallen through this just might make up for it.
Now I've been to the "Rocky Horror" a few times, the last time a few years ago at the Plaza, and it was, well, it was as it's always been. A bit better organized, with noisemakers, rice and water pistols for sale at the door, but basically the same.
SO I was a little surprised - more than surprised even, to see they've been tampering with a proven success.
Essex - Bronze Age Hoard
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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Another find, courtesy of a metal-detectorist (metal-detective?) in Essex. Mind you, you can't plough a field there without turning up something, and bronze is a humble metal, but still... Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11651691.
MOPBA
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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More art to inspire: The Australian version of MOBA, The Museum of Particularly Bad Art. I've attached a sample:
Note: This is not a detail from a larger, finer work. If it were it might be clever. Nope, this is the whole goddamned painting.
Champix
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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I'm out of the restaurant and it's time to quit smoking. So I use a friends leftover Champix prescription, enough pills to wean me from the weed, or so I'm assured, and if it's successful I can always get my own.
4 days now, the 1/2 doses morning and night.
Initially I was skeptical, did independent research that seemed to indicate it wasn't so successful. But I never met anyone who didn't have success on it, and those people who failed in the restaurant had the very legitimate excuse of the environment - surrounded 18 hours a day by fellow smokers. And so decided to try it.
Now it's strange, and I'm not yet at the point of quitting, but already I can feel the limited effects smoking is having on my mood. Cigarettes, they're doing less and less for me. They taste different. And I've given up on the afternoon naps, whether this is just acclimatization to civilian life or a side effect of the Champix I can't tell. When I take the pill I - for a few minutes - feel a bit lightheaded, and when I sleep my dreams are strange. They're always strange (dreams, by their nature , are strange, but I mean strange for me...) - shorts, not long dreams but many disconnected shorts, irrelevant, they don't last....
I'm getting more done. There's more energy, slightly, and I'm starting to move through the many lists I've made myself.
I'm hopeful. This might be it, there really might be a magic pill, but perhaps I'm premature....
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