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Stagecoach
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Waiting for my movies to come in, there's a few I been hoping to see, but small town and they're taking there good time getting here. Meanwhile I'm stuck with "The Marvels" and some other Disney garbage at the cinema, but it will pass, and I'm waiting on the Nicholas Cage "Dream Scenario" (and a couple of others).
(1939, John Ford)
Loved this. Every Western Convention ever - the honorable outlaw (Ringo, played by John Wayne) meets whore with a heart of gold, the terrifying Apache raids led by Geronimo, the sidekicks, evil banker, drunk doctor, vaudeville gambler, Dead-Mans-Hand, Saved by the Cavalry, it's a movie of stereotypes all put together in service of narrating the imaginal American History. Whether these tropes existed before John Ford put them together, or whether they became tropes after the movie, I don't know, and I don't care enough to go searching, I only know it was a darned good movie.
Went down a few rabbit holes afterwards looking up Geronimo, who was quite the character. His own history is every bit as interesting as the movie.
What if Money Expired - NOĒMA
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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An interesting article that examines the idea of money, and various other means of currency.
Interesting, because money is the biggest lie any civilization has ever bought into, bigger even than religion - certainly a lot more universal.
Ellerby Area Hoard
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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Once you've done a couple of searches for these they start cluttering up your feed.
Every day, somewhere, someone, is digging up something of inestimable value.
In Yorkshire, 2019, a couple renovating their kitchen discovered beneath the floorboards the Ellerby Area Hoard, 266 silver & gold coins valued at close to $1, 000, 000.
Which, I'm guessing, paid for their renovations...
The Boot of Cortez
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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It's by-and-largely Australia that fills up my news feed with stories of preposterously large nuggets, and so it's good to hear that there's still a few good sized ones being found on this continent:
Link: The Boot of Cortez, the largest nugget (still in existence) - 389.4 Troy Oz, found in the North Western Hemisphere, just a few scant miles south of the US US/Mexican border.
There are, upon searching, a surprising number of others that have been found, ranging from California to Nevada and all the way up...
The problem with Canada, of course, is glaciation, which leaves many of the best finds buried under hundreds of meters of overburden.
But the deserts of California, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico are a good training ground before heading to Australia.
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