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The Muppet
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And I have this neighbor, I run in to her all the time when stepping out for a cigarette.
A proper muppet.
In appearance, tall, slender, dressing to great advantage, she has a certain style. "Pretty Woman" if you know what I mean. It becomes her.
But she's not well. On disability of some sort, she claims to have a heart palpitation, a weakness, condition.
I've seen her around with an older man, balding, sunglasses, reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson.
I ask her about him. She denies knowing him. I point out that I've run into them together in a few places, at the mall, bus stop, out behind the building. She corrects me, I saw a man near to her who looks like Hunter S. Thompson but she doesn't know who he is.
She's a muppet. She sits, desponding, for hours on end reading Rumi, the Sufi Poet. She has a dozen editions, different translations. She has loud arguments on the phone, cursing, swearing, walking up and down, waving her arms, she gets incredibly animated, her arms thrust out in front of her, 90 degrees, and then she runs up to them, bobbing up and down like a muppet, her eyes wide, eyeballs like ping-pong balls looking madly off in all directions, hair flying everywhere. I said she has these arguments while on the phone, but often she doesn't have a phone in her hand, these arguments, they're a rehearsal for when she picks up the phone. If she sees you nearby she'll abruptly stop, ask you for a cigarette or to push-start her car, normalcy resumes, you've interrupted her inner monologue.
Her car, apparently it's the source of a lot of her problems, according to the neighbours (a vituperative group of old ladies) she's behind on her car payments, hence she's always looking for a boost or to move it, she's afraid of it being repossessed.
Anyways, a proper character, and a good reason to start taking my cigarettes a lot further from my building...
KAOS ***
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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So finished up the Binge watch on this. Better than expected, some original interpretations and an appropriate amount of justifiable confusion.
Good, in the sense that I'm looking at old material through new eyes, good in that I suspect it might be somewhat a satire on the current state of affairs, with the Gods of Olympus replaced by tech bros Bezos, Musk & Zuckerberg (or not?) - it's openness to interpretation is a strength, not a weakness. The tragedy/comedy of Gods in our own image, played out upon the screen, a subject I'm surprised Yorgos Lanthimos didn't undertake - although if he should choose to I would definitely watch.
I was surprised that Eurydice didn't love Orpheus, it had occurred to me, a long time ago, and then again I had dismissed it as inconceivable, in that same voice from "The Princess Bride", and then again and perhaps it is true?
And while I have my own interpretations that is not what I'm getting, and being challenged is always a good thing.
So, very good, curious, interesting, a surprise as far as Netflix goes...
Watercolours
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And, having come across a few pats of watercolours at the thrift shop I've turned my hands to a new medium.
Watch the YouTube videos, seems straightforward enough, should be a cinch.
How many times have I said this?
Anyways, putting the "mixed" into mixed media, with mixed results. More largely failures and slight (accidental) successes.
Slowly, slowly...
Meltdown, Favourite prospector
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Social media, following a favourite prospector, he posts good shit. Gemmy spessartine garnets, rubies, etc, etc, he's off in the high country living the dream...
Only, of course, if you read between the lines he's not, I mean, he is, but his perspective is a little off...
His posts, up and down, now he's on some tirade about a claim he sold, feels he's due some residuals, he should be rich, should never have sold it (true, true, but he needed the money and didn't want to do the work), the residuals he's calculating based off of a popular YouTuber Channel wherein a particular YouTube Celebrity ("") claims to have extracted a million dollars worth of material from a claim he sold.
He's like this, I've heard rumours, his own private Idaho, his non-prospecting posts are a little "weird" for want of better word, partnering with him - in any capacity - is impossible, he's perfectly suited to the finding of treasure and little else.
The treasure, "1 Million Dollars worth of ..." doesn't speak to the raw material, it's click-bait, bollocks, every little bit of the find needs to be cabbed, polished, faceted, turned into money, which is in itself no small expense, no small investment of time, Our Favourite Prospector doesn't get that, then there's the cost of recovery, helicopters, men to be paid, inventory to be held, this claim, like most claims, is utterly worthless, a liability even, if you don't do the work...
Anyways, favourite prospector is melting down all over Social Media about how he's been taken advantage of, an unsympathetic point of view for an adult, but still I have to follow him, if only to live the dream vicariously...
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