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The Full Nelson
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Thursday last, a lecture at a local gallery by local author....
It's on the UFO experience, abduction, dream paralysis, ET contact via the dreamworld, etc.
Why not, I live in Nelson, if you're gonna live here might as well drink the Kool-Aid.
The author/lecturer, he's promised a 1 hour lecture and - by an hour and a half I've had it, silently tip-toe-out and grab my shoes and run for the street.
He's a transplanted American living in the Valley with his wife, and - while not a PHD or Therapist hints at his education by saying his message was too important to further his studies with a PHD...
Basically, without him spelling it out (and there were any number of "abductees" in a room with a dozen people) - his "Theory" is that people are confusing the hypnopompic/hypnogogic state with abduction experiences. Only he's not going to say so because everyone lives in their own reality...
One of the abductees, herself a "Therapist" living on the North Shore, reports a dozen abductions...
I personally would want disclosure from any therapist that believed they had been abducted by aliens even once, let alone a dozen times, but she's pretty passionate and annoyed by it. You would be too.
Notable lines: ”I don’t want to get into ‘Too Much Science’” and, towards closing (always towards closing...) he asks the audience to consider what "Drove them to be here" and a younger member volunteers that the author drove him, in his car...a completely literal answer to a figurative question.
Pretty much sums it up, and he glosses over it.
He's a very handsome young man, fit, tight trousers, dress shirt, maybe 30 years old, immaculately coifed, large effeminate glasses, a forelock that he twirls suggestively...again he mentions his wife...
I guess if you're buying the UFO thing you'll buy anything, although I'm a big fan of knowing yourself before attempting to help others. Which is the purpose of this talk, to promote his books (more than 1), and offer his services ("I'm not a Therapist") which - without saying out loud (don't confront people with other facts) would involve him listening and helping the 'patient' realize they probably had a certain type of dream experience known variously as the Old Hag or Sleep Paralysis...
I mean, there's nothing new, original or even novel here, what is amazing is how un-self-conscious he is and how much time and effort he's spent spinning his wheels and trying to persuade others he has the answers...
It's too much even for me, hence the tip-toed departure, and the self indulgent nature of his "lecture" wherein he roamed freely past the clock and showed no sign of losing steam even when I left.
Anyways, that was the "Full Nelson", my community soak in weirdness, today, a well-earned day off, there's a rock show at the Prestige, Pride week kicks off in Lakeside Park with a BBQ (and he won't be there, because while he figured out the UFO-Dream Paralysis connection he's still a bit short figuring out a few things about himself) and a dance-party, free, DJ in the park, and so my day off today should be relatively normal and full...
$20 Shipping for a handful of bumper stickers?
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AND I'm shopping local, looking for bumperstickers to ornament my Son's van, things like "Shaggin' Wagon" and "If this Van's a rocking...don't come a knocking" and holographic little Unicorns and Bigfoots and Rainbows and all the things a tree-planter needs to advertise their lifestyle...
It's a Canadian site. And I get to check-out, register, and bloody hell if they don't try and charge me $20 shipping...
For a handful of bumper stickers that would fit all together in a 8X11 envelope.
No. Fucking. Way. But it pisses me off I spent so long looking for the right stickers, filling my cart, only find the grand fleece at the end is the bogus shipping charge...
Night Market & Dreaded Work
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It's been all week dreading the "Night Market" during which we run as quick as we can and never catch up, every waiter's nightmare. There's no staffing for this. I spend a couple of days trying to employ the unemployed around my building, dishwashers, hosts, busgirls, but nobody's biting...everyone in their swimsuits heading down to the beach with their floaty toys and pool noodles and inflatable rings...
Something about people that are always broke, complaining about a lack of funds, and then when the work comes in they all scatter to the beach...it's the Kootenay Way.
I'm cursing my life, down a pint of medication before work and struggle through, it buys me a measured indifference I couldn't do without. Saturday, a double, predictably quiet, slow, interminable, and I'm getting the DT's, a bowl of sriracha & chilli oil soup is having entirely predictable on my digestion, which has become entirely unpredictable.
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Saturday, day done, I've tasked the neighbour with cooking dinner, bought a couple of cave-man sized steaks and potatoes and carrots, she does fine. And then retire to watch "House", Season 2, House's "All In" where he plays cards against Cuddy via Wilson was amusing and again in "House VS God". The character development gets better and I enjoy the banter between House/Cameron/Wilson but - the episodes, the plots, well, they seldom or never vary; last season it was the seizures to illustrate the situation getting serious, this season it's the flatlining and paddles...
Fur & Gold - John Pearson
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A fine selection of stories about early B.C.
Most, a page or two long, about the early fur trade and the Gold Rushes, interesting notes on the old (200+ years) forts set up by the Fur Trade and early explorers, as well as Buddhist artifacts found along the Skeena & Telegraph Creek, Chinese bronze coins found at Cassier, the suggestion that Kublai Khan made it to the Naas River area, rumours of the Spanish, other out-of-situ artifacts that have been not been adequately explained, all this requires a little further research...
Otherwise history, folk tales, legends of the Lost Lemon Mine and Slumach's Gold, a slender read that leads the mind off in all directions...
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