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Abe Lincoln Signature
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 2017
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When Western Illinois University's University Television (UTV) Associate Director Roger Kent looked a bit closer at a picture that had been hanging in his office for a few years, he noticed what looked like a signature belonging to the nation's 16th president. Curiosity got the better of him, so he contacted a Lincoln authority: the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield."
Of course it's real, otherwise I wouldn't be linking to it. Read more at Science Daily. Hidden in plain sight...
Austrian Jewelry Hoard
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 1838
Man goes to dig up garden. He's expanding his pond. And he finds around 200 pieces of medieval jewelry, brooches and rings encrusted with pearls and inset with gems.
"Austria’s department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments."
Read more here: Gizmodo & CBC.
The Office
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 2027
I refer to the original, BBC series starring Ricky Gervais.
I've been showing it to the boy, preparing him for life in the real world. He hasn't yet had a job, and so for a moment or two I was worried he wouldn't catch it, but he's catching it just fine.
It's fucking brilliant. I mean, literally, it's genius. Savage, uncomfortable, and dead on. The American version, with Steve Carell, I can't comment on that, I've never seen it but I suspect that like a lot of things the Americans do it's been substantially dumbed down. Hugely dumbed down.
But this, the original BBC version, it's genius. The timing, the expressions on the characters faces, there are moments - too many - where it almost feels like doing a couple of hours of overtime at work. But the boy, he's laughing out loud, getting every joke and I tell him - "It's really like this...." and he's hesitant to believe me but even in school he's had experiences that are bringing him to understanding. On the off chance you haven't seen it, download or rent it at Bird Dog Video.
Opus Pistorum - Henry Miller
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Books
- Hits: 2093
It's been a while since I've read Henry Miller. Like 25 odd years, and so when I saw "Under the Roofs of Paris" I picked it up. Inside the flap it advertised itself as having 10 times the sexual content of Tropic of Cancer.
And it's true, it's out and out pornography, fucking and more fucking and if there's a paragraph without fucking it's only to help the main character (read Henry) get from one location to the other, where he can fuck some more (and break more taboos....).
"There are books to be read with one hand, and books to be read with two..."
That noted, this is a one handed book. Now I wonder how much of what he's telling us actually transpired, and how much he's making up, it seems a bit much and then I think some more and realize he's probably, if anything, toned it down. I mean, if you were so inclined you could have all of these adventures and then some. But personally, I'm more interested in the characters, the environment, the art scene of Paris in the 30's, etc. Which is my fault, because it really isn't that sort of book, not at all, it teases you with the introduction then proceeds immediately to the main chance.
It's good, he can write for sure, but - be warned, it's all about the fucking.
Link: Henry Miller on YouTube
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