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Meanwhile, still no touching of the brushes or pen, time passes, scroll, scroll...
This, an event I would like to get to, although something needs be done about my budget and transport:
That's a for certain, the Mr. Tickles Family Reunion is a must attend. A spectacular lineup of empowered female speakers, which confuses me, Mister Tickles is definitely not capitalizing on his endangered inter-species status...
Facebook, with it's adaptive algorithms, is bending over backwards to keep me entertained and diverted.
First of all there are the bad 80's comics - some pair of grandparents, and while it's never funny I always slow down enough to read the captions and confirm it wasn't at all funny. Then there's the "Fun Side", or a hundred other feeds, that contribute Pirraro's "Bizarro" comics, or Gary Larson's "The Far Side", most of which I've seen. And then there's "Calvin & Hobbes", whom I actually do enjoy, and there are the "Kuh-nif" or "k'nif" or "Knif" files, which are cartoons/caricatures of busty women with torpedo shaped bosoms being picked up by lecherous degenerate men. And even while I find them revulsive I always have to read the caption, which is seldom enclosed and almost always irrelevant, the joke is in the woman, the kind of comics that might have been the "serious intellectual backbone" of a 70's girly magazine.
These I've just reconciled myself to, report so many and they keep coming back. Like the photos of girls in lingerie and bikini's, I used to report this, but - the longer you're on it, the more garbage it feeds you, the fault is not Facebook it's in my endless desire to be diverted away from more serious chores.
On a more positive note, there are the 3D photos, something new, which if you've come across are quite impressive, you look at photo, move your phone around and the photo tilts and shifts as if you were there. This is amazing (as if the internet wasn't amazing enough, but there's something to be said for novelty). But these are not so common.
From here - I mentioned the endless girls in bikini's, lingerie ("Follow me for more!!!!"), which I think I figured out (only-fans drumming up business), look at a few, confirm they're not AI - they're not, although for sex-workers they do seem to inhabit some nice houses/beachfront spaces. This, however, is a short-lived wealth, AI will soon be rendering hot girls and posting them to Facebook faster than these girls can change bikini's, it's only a matter of time.
This does, however, go a long way towards a "Mutual Friend" of Tickles & I's who is frequently recommended on Facebook, looking at her profile she lives (Alabama?), pictures posted of her in bikini's, lingerie, etc, I wondered how he "knows" her - and I think I've figured it out...
And, finally, there are the short videos, no longer am I getting the treasure ones - or the crystal diggers (winter in the northern hemisphere has probably slowed production), instead I'm getting "Painting Reveal" videos, in which the artist stands with his back turned to the camera, holding the camera, the caption: "My hard days work" or "100 hours of painting" or "3000 hours of painting", the artist then turns and shows you their canvas.
The more creative ones use the "reveal" to cut to them painting, time lapse, the more straightforward ones just show you the canvas, and - lemme say...
Well, they're artists only in that they made something. The paintings - everything from elephants, lions, apes, to fantasy landscapes, always "In The Style Of...", never their own, there's a range of techniques, competencies, mastery, but nothing that however vague your definition would qualify as "art", merely decorative slop...
In inspires me to create my own set of video reveals, every one different but the same in that the reveal, the painting, it's a cock-and-balls affair, graffitti, grade-3 style..."1000 hours work and a MFA", one is led to suspect the money isn't in the paintings, it's in the short reels that keep people clicking on Facebook.
And I want to swat these people, seriously, I mean, their look of glowing pride, this giant resin-covered painting of a "local" (Indian, African, North American Indian) with a wolf/giraffe/tree seamlessly painted into their forehead, it's dross, I don't care how well you did it it shouldn't have been done, it's fucking mental vandalism...yes, it's well done BUT IT'S THE FUCKING MALL ART OF THE 21st CENTURY...
...and these are the rabbit holes that keep me drowning in inanity...
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An old vape pen I've had forever, a cartridge that needed replacing because it had dried out from underuse.
And I'm ready to start the Kootenay experiment, Friday, Saturday, dawn to dusk, wake and bake. "Gone Local" they'll say of me...
Now I'm not exactly current with this vice, a little late getting on the Kootenay Page, but, having tried it, the discombulent moment-to-moment stream of unrelated consciousness, where exactly do these little pictures come from, because it's hard to credit my head...
Anyways, I tried it, understand completely now how nothing gets done out here, a 2 day step away from all pretense of productivity, only I have not set up "my rounds" to take me to Yoga Classes, sound baths and psychotherapy appointments.
2 days to the left of reality and I'm ready now to jump back in, time to get a job...
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Something tells me these puppets aren't telling you everything. I wonder if I could sell them on my Character of "Mister Tickles"?
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So, the days since New Years we've had the pleasure of snow and more snow, as if January were the catch-up for all the winter we'd missed. Some freezing winds and temperatures, the wind's have died, the temperature has warmed, yet still it snows, big wet flakes, a foot deep where unshoveled and untrammeled on the sidewalks, big piles at the edge of city blocks, the town, with the lights wound round the trees and pines, old buildings lit up from within, it's a Hallmark Movie.
Time, now, to be looking for work, I've scoured the internet for a 1000 places to go prospecting, places to spend the summer, but - for the moment I need money, some stable employ, an income that can accrue and buy me up the mountain...
And I find it, an ad for the old Cock-&-Suck, the trauma of which I'm still processing. They're looking for a cook. Of course they are, they always are, always have been.
But it sets the fire under my ass, get a job, don't in any way be so desperate that in the spring you're forced to go back there.
That won't do.
I suck it up, contact the mother-in-law, get the news. JR hasn't gotten a job, still, and the restaurant is reopening so he can work the summer. He's planning it on doing it with his wife.
This is - darkly - hilarious, you've probably read posts wherein I discuss his eagerness to work, earn money, take on responsibility, his ease with customers and staff, there's a comedy under way to be sure, the darkest reality TV series of them all.
It's funny, for the longest while the owners - JR's parents - kept the restaurant going because he was in school, they needed to pay for that, then he'd get a job. Only after school, and a typical - wham-bam-shit job it was, he was no more employable than before. SO now the restaurant, it's his living legacy, they're hoping somehow that he's going to grow up enough to take it over, only he won't, he'll sink it into the ground...
In any event I won't be there, just seeing the ad was trauma enough, I need to find something quick, then maybe something better...
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Yeah, it's YouTube so by and large junk-candy, but - a couple of creators there that have some interesting stuff.
Wintertime, the snow and the cold are settling in, the daughter's off in Bankok (the sane one in the family, and why didn't I think of that? Or budget for it...) - so - look at videos of interest to me.
The first, a long video on the rubies of Mogok - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjaRE1bE5MU. Of interest noting the landscape the finds are made in, the rocks, the many, many similarities with our geology here...
And then a couple of interesting short videos made by "The Trek Planner" and "Desert Drifter", who basically scour the desert on Google Maps - Utah, Arizona, etc, then go looking for what's there....
Always, Ancient Ancestral Pueblos, potshards, arrowheads. Short adventures for those trapped in a cold climate. Always they find something interesting, and they're responsible adventurers, leaving the potshards and arrowheads behind for others to find and enjoy.
Anyways, my media diet as of late, could use some improvement (but no more fucking-how-to-art-videos!!!).
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Dating
OK. I've been on a few internet dates. I confess this with the same reluctance I would admitting to masturbating, adultery, or excessive drinking and drug use.
This is a list of some of my best -- AND WORST -- dates ever. Note that you gotta go on a lotta dates to get this kinda list, this kinda discouraged. And my online dating thing has been sporadic - an every few years kind of thing at best. Some of these dates go back 10 years, others are a little more recent. And to answer any people who might argue "It beats hooking up at the bar", well, you don't have to hook up at the bar, and at the bar you can see what your getting...
Anyways - apologies to the countless normal, decent dates that I went on but just didn't hit it off with. Memory is selective, it tends towards the extreme, and in this you will find the extremes...
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