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Supersized Galactic Rings
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Found this out in a Penrose interview (which one I don't remember) - large scaled "Galactic Rings" that refute both the size and age of the universe by their being billions and (I'm sure we'll discover) even hundreds of billions of light years across, and the fact that their size means that somehow they existed or were forming before our current understanding of the big-bang. I'm with Sir Roger Penrose (& Eddington & Others) in that something very major is fundamentally wrong about our understanding of the universe. And it starts with Big Bang - remember, even Eddington, who's theory it was, later came to refute it.
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Machete - 2010
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Starring Dan Trejo, Don Johnson, Steven Seagal, Robert DeNiro, Lindsey Lohan, others.
An absolutely 5 star B movie, filled with ridiculous dialogues, oversaturated blood and violence, sex, car chases, showdowns, etc.
A perfect mash-up of old Japanese/Westerns, tilted towards an audience generally not myself, but - it wasn't trying to be anything else; just shock/humour/fun, in the ultra-violent Grindhouse-B-Cinema sort of way. That said, definitely not for everyone...
Odd, though, the central conflict is the hispanic community dealing with "patriotic" prejudice, illegal immigration, ICE agents...wow; they saw the future. Only in the movie they knew how to deal with it...we're still wringing our hands, and the baddies we have now are far, far worse...
Now, apparently Sisu: The Road to Revenge is out, and if I do nothing else this evening it'll be that...
Thoroughly soused
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Wednesday, the kids arrive. An early Christmas of sorts, celebrating a landmark birthday. The boy, lavish in ordering the biggest Charcuterie they had, we dine, drink a bottle of wine, catch up. From there to a pub, then another, more, mutually roasting us and then finally back to the apartment where we drink even more and discuss terrible childhoods and even worse childhood vacations "CHARACTER BUILDING" I tell them and thump my cane on the floor.
Thursday morning they're off, back to their separate lives, and I'm keyed up the whole time, never sober, I took an extra day off work for this and so Saturday begin the slow recovery.
You can have too much of a good thing, and this is something that needs to be recovered from if I'm to have any hopes of getting to my next birthday, and - the reminders of mortality, how many years left, and how many will be productive, and time to reign in a few of my vices, but it's hard this, lowering the anxious vibration. And time to start saving for next summer's jeep, the neighbour cash loans, she's repaid none of it, all of it with promises but it's getting on time and I think she's got it figured out. She'd better have, because if I have to say it...
The Christmas Train
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Last night, the Christmas Train comes through town. A couple of reservations for after the train, 7:30, it's an event for sure.
A couple of reservations meaning 2, one for 3 people and the other for 8.
Only it's never that easy, they're late, and there are the other "reservations" made 10 minutes before they arrive, a 7, 5, 9, 4, 2, 2, ...
There's a machine gun outside the restaurant firing people into it, we're full and the phone doesn't stop ringing, all this over maybe 10 minutes, "Kootenay Style", I call for backup - and more backup - but it's 15 minutes away...
Nonsense, absolute nonsense, there's no keeping up, no coming close, but here we are.
The night goes, I'm home just before 11:00. We close at 9:00.
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Today a double, there's no Christmas train but it will be more of the same. Kids are out of school, kids love sushi. It's gonna be a bloody nightmare but I just - somehow - have to keep my sanity and make it through.
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This morning, Kramer sauntering through to grab some coffee and toilet paper. She's in a fine humour - turns out she's won some $76, 000 on a jackpot last night. Now - I don't mean to be skeptical - but - well, you get it.
She assures me that the bulk of her winnings will go to pay off her debts. I'm not her only creditor, and I'm wondering where I'll be on the list, but let her have her victory and we'll see how things go. In any event I'm not certain she's won anything, no doubt she'll pop round tonight to borrow a few hundred dollars because that's what she'll need to "free up" her winnings...
In any event, my worries are on the day; if I make it to tonight we'll see how her story's holding up.
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