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Which personality are you?
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Wasting time, aren't we all. 2 minute personality test to see what fictional character you most resemble: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/
Mine was:
Starship Troopers - Paul Verhoeven
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Been meaning to watch this for a while - missed it when it first came out - largely because of lousy reviews, but it actually deserved better.
How to describe it? Stupidly good looking, blue-eyed Aryans travelling to the ends of the galaxy to stomp out bugs. The sets, effects, bugs, spaceships, costumes, all first rate. The dialogue and plot is stilted and 2 dimensional, but is intended to be that way - it's a satire, after all -- and if you understand that you'll be laughing all the way through - at the call for a medic, at the good-natured butt-slapping in the Co-Ed showers, at the pun "Roger Young" - look for it, the complete unaffected aspect of the troops when roaming through wastelands of carnage and bodies, at the 1-limbed infantryman who welcomes Johnny Rico to the infantry with a "One day you'll be just like me", at the ever-younger recruits, at the eagerness to die for "the species", the suspiciously prescient propaganda of the state "Would you like to know more...?".
Not a great movie, but a very good one, and certainly well ahead of it's time.
Other films by Paul Verhoeven include Robocop and Total Recall.
Podcast: Mystery of the Lost Cosmonauts
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I found this an interesting listen:
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jTzhEVBsoyXZ3CzUqvpYx?si=Tx_UBXwNR2m_ClpT0ARSWw
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judica-Cordiglia_brothers
More "EXTREMES" podcasts: https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8xzmzp/extremes-is-our-podcast-about-people-who-lived-through-wild-situations
Treats from the Calgary Easter Poodle
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Everywhere the Easter Poodle Doodles, little hidden treats dotting the Calgary urban cityscape, some coming soooo close to the garbage, resting on top...For Easter Sunday there should be a little hunt for all the children, they can collect them and unwrap the chocolates...
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