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Forgotten
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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And I'm trying to find old music, links, information that I dimly remember from a decade or so before.
An old music video, popular in Prague, Fall of '93. Searching, searching, I can find nothing.
Another, an old piece of music from Paris, bookmarked on a computer that died a long time ago. And a long list of favorite links that died with it.
To watch a home movie, recorded on an old webcam, format not longer supported, or the blistering foil on the CD making it unplayable.
Trying to find these lost souvenirs of my life, lost to time and place and increasingly the failings and shortcomings of the digital age. Lost, lost, the digital afterworld proving to be a an unreliable shifting memory...photos, however bleached, can still be held, records can still be played and film can be restored, but these early years of internet and innovation, they're somehow both dimly remembered and lost forever...
End of D&D
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Finally, the sad and necessary end to the this portion of Kootenay adventure. To live here I need to increase my income by a couple of orders of magnitude. Find a different livelihood. A year, maybe 2 in Calgary to wrap up my affairs - see the daughter off to college - empty my locker, reduce my baggage, wrap up countless creative projects and make my plan to return. Finally, after 2 years living on sofas, under bridges, in buses, guesthouses, trailers, dingy staff accommodations, by the side of the highway and off logging cuts, tents and roommates, time again for a place of my own.
The pub, I'll miss it, sort of, some of the people, the more unique characters and nut-jobs that fill the area, some of my co-workers, but this is not why I came here and it's worn it's own rut, time to move on, when I return it'll be to the Valley side, a place, however humble, of my own, but I've a couple years now to plan for that.
Cops just being cops
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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Cops in America. Cops in Canada. Not so different.
Mel Magazine on the Botham Jean story.
Link: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/how-to-kill-a-black-man-twice-in-america-the-botham-jean-story
There is a point where something is so broken it can't be fixed. It's time then to throw it out and start over. We've been there with the police for a while.
Wild Thing
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Audio & Podcasts
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Another good Podcast, this one revolving around Bigfoot. And while I might be inclined to throw him on the same dust heap as Santa and the Loch Ness Monster, there's something about the myth that's hard to shake. It's good to look at things from another point of view, and there's a few points of view covered here...
Link: https://www.foxtopus.ink/wildthing/listen
OF course, it's easy to dismiss things you haven't seen or experienced, but if you had would it be so easy? Food for thought...
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