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Short Days
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The days grow shorter. There's lots to do, people to meet, coffee, wine, it's late when I finally get out of Calgary...
But it's worth it. No panning, merely surface collecting, assessing prospects, appreciating the harvest and colors of the season...
A few pictures...
Rainbow, after a brief summer rain...
Pebbles on sand...
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Stones becoming hoodoos. Small hoodoos, but you get the idea...
Thinking I'd found diamonds or gems, broken glass from the telegraph/telephone insulators. Old. Everywhere. Deep blue, light blue, clear, green...sunken into the sand....
And the Halloween bit, the rib cage of roadkill and a collapsed hoodoo....macabre, but there's an aesthetic there for sure...
Next week, up earlier, leave in the morning, no compromising the day, get it done...the days grow shorter, 7:00 PM and it was too dark to search, 8:00 PM and it was night, next week, up at 6:00, panning by 7:30, the whole day to move a few yards, see what results...
An Estate by Milk River
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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It begins with me moving to Nelson-not Nelson, I'm with a friend I vaguely recognize, going up the main street (not a mountain in sight, it's a prairie town on the high plains, flat, not Nelson but in the dream it's Nelson), there's some bands playing, they're giving away merchandise, hats, tee shirts, and I don't want to start here on this foot, freeloading, first impressions are important...
...now, in a tired, decrepit old mansion, somewhere around Milk River, tired in the sense of a mansion you might see in an old 70's VHS movie, structurally beautiful, but faded velour and dark and run down, it's for sale, surrounded by a ramshackle farm yard, and I'm here to look at it and buy it...pretending to be someone else, in the basement there's a small room, tiled, and in the center a hole goes deep beneath the floor, it's lined with gold and somewhere below there's a fire...
...the owner, a fat, gruff old farmer, he's telling me that it's up for auction, imagines that I've come down from Red Deer to bid on it, and I take some keys-not-keys, like antique letter openers with different figures attached to the ends, I'll need these, and pretending to have come down from Red Deer I play along, the auction will be on Wednesday, I'll be there to bid, cost will be 3 or 4 million dollars, I haven't the money, have to find a way to get it, there's treasure here I know...
In a Small Blue Room
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I'm in the restaurant not the restaurant, too brightly lit, North Dining Room, small windows, white/blue walls, dark wood furniture, pulling out the tables from the wall. All the other employees are here, that's how I know I'm in the restaurant, not talking to anyone, J** appears, holding my cheque up above the other's head, but it's not payday, and she tells me they're letting me go, firing me, my attitude, and I'm soo relieved and I'm thinking they are as well...
There Are No Forests
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: WTF
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I love a good theory, and even better, a really bad theory elaborately worked out. It turns out the Flat Earther's have expanded their theory to include the trees mentioned in the bible. Giant Trees. The proof is everywhere, if you know what to look for - and as the theory explains, most of the flat-topped mesas and places like Devil's Tower are actually ancient antediluvian tree stumps. They even go so far as to explain they're from a time when life was silicon based...for those of you that might suspect they were "rejecting science" this is clear proof that they're in fact embracing science...and additional proof is thrown in with a scene from "Avatar", which, as you know, is real...
LINKS:
- Flat Earth Science and the Bible
- Via Secret Energy
- Conjecture Views - (takes great pains to highlight bits of text to reveal hidden messages everywhere. Someone needs to take their meds...)
- Exohuman
The last actually has an 80 minute video explaining the theory and refuting our narrow-minded trust in "conventional" science. These ancient forests, of which remain only tree stumps the size of mountains, are from the "silicon age", and the narrator frequently exhorts us to "wake up" and see the truth. Ah, slippery truth, still, it keeps the world an interesting place, only make sure you don't sublet a room from one, that kind of craziness can be contagious...
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