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Joan Ocean
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I've linked to this before, but - in light of all the Bigfood / Peter Caine videos I've been watching I thought I'd visit it again. Still LOL funny.
I mean, she's skeptical:
He was seeking advice and suggestions because he said, "I am trying to communicate with Bigfoot and I was wondering how you communicate with dolphins."
I read the email twice and wondered if the writer was joking....
Two weeks later, I received a gift in return. The Sasquatch had chosen a rock for me. A heavy quartz rock, weighing 5 pounds with many little crystal bits within it, gleaming in the light. Along with it came a piece of crumbled paper. On it was the carefully printed words: FOR WATER WOMAN.
Could this be true? I was still doubting the veracity of this.
They should go on a youTube Date, Joan Ocean as the skeptical Dana Scully to Peter Caine's too gullible Fox Mulder...the Truth is out There!
Let the right one in
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Watching Horror films, review all the available top ten lists. Some are pretty bad - as a result of one I watched "The Conjuring". Absolutely terrible. But it introduced me to the lead parapsychological investigators of the late 60's and early 70's, "Ed and Lorraine Warren", who's bio on Wiki was rather amusing.
From this to "Let the right one in" - a better quality film by far, an awful lot better thought out, some rather haunting themes, and a film that does a great job of integrating the elements of horror into day to day modern life. A lot to dwell on and consider - not, so much, horrifying, but it's there, it's there. No spoilers here.
So - one dog, one slight masterpiece, a few more to go...
The Broccoli Tree
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Hank Green does a lovely narration of "The Broccoli Tree", a modern fable about sharing the things you love.
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And a longer prose description here: http://thebroccolitree.com
Shots Fired
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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.
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