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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You - 2025
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Classified as a 'Comedy/Drama' this is a tour-de-force performance by Rosa Byrne ('Linda') of a Therapist who's slowly losing her grip.
The comedy, in the increasing knowledge that she's in no position to be giving advice, the varying degrees of problems her patients come to her with, the symmetrical aspects of her own family and others, the slow unravelling of her life as small incidents become gradually larger, and the surprise appearances by Christian Slater and Conan O'Brian add to it all.
I'll give no spoilers or plot points, merely that if there's an Oscar for Best Actress this year it better be her.
Piss Poor Weather and Mental Health
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Blog
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The weather the past week, piss poor, raining, cold, and I've no motivation. Even cooking is better left undone, go find a restaurant, and groceries expire in the fridge and I'm not made of money, not with the dependants I have...
Last night, upstairs neighbour, her boyfriend strangely absent these last few days, up late moving furniture, noises, banging. She'd been texting to go for a cigarette, but I'd had my own long day at work and just wanted to decompress. Then, sometime as I was trying to fall asleep, a giant crash, voices, the sound of the rail outside being banged (a peculiar reverberation), and then it's quiet.
Still, restless, the day was long and not enough got done, I sleep poorly.
Today, running into her in the lobby, querying her about the noise, at first she denies it, then confesses it was the ambulance/paramedics trying to get her out of the house...
Which explains the voices, and some of the other noises, and she's telling me she's sick, needs an operation, that she came home to an apartment covered in blood, she's doing laundry and needs an operation scheduled in Trail and she can't talk about it...
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I have my suspicions, but I know nothing and don't want to ask, I've staggered about drunk more than a few times, kicked up a racket, broken things, but she is I suspect a long ways ahead of me...
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I checked the obituaries, once in a blue moon, another old customer from the old restaurant, married to J**, grown cranky and cantankerous in her old age. And the Pastor that founded this housing, the thrift shop, the Christian ministry above it, his wife also died. Coincidentally both widowers have the same name. Death out here, it's a season. J**, former customer from the restaurant, comes into the Sushi place for lunch with his son. And I give him my condolences, and he's sad, but he seems as well to be - well, not so sad, the relief the dying give the living - when finally dead - is no small thing. A coincidence, I've never seen him in the restaurant before - but - there is a pattern...synchronicity, a symmetry hidden in the ordered workings of life...
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Today, cold, miserable, rain, wind, wet, I make it out for a coffee, come home, make a big pot of clam chowder, eat it all. Then take some pictures, out again to list the former closet contents (old computer, projector, monitor, suitcases) on Facebook marketplace, sell it or give it away but be done with it finally.
The computer, there's work there, need to move all the files off of it and wipe, then to Library to list, then again home to wash dishes, read, listen to podcasts (nothing good), read all the news that was never fit to print, ever, and now - after a final walk to make my minimal exercise - to watch a movie, read a few dour books on German Philosophy (Shopenhauer) and then perhaps an early bed...
The Turnagain Nugget
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 29
This, the largest gold nugget still in existence, found by the wife of a prospector wedged between boulders while walking Turnagain Creek in Northern BC. The nugget weighed 52 Troy Ounces, and was bought by the Royal BC Museum for the price of $1500. The creek was later renamed the Alice Shea Creek in her honour.
Read a little more here: https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/bcs-gold-rush/turnagain-nugget-largest-existing-gold-nugget-from-bc2-1200x1033/
Note the late date of the find; almost 50 years after any of the major gold rushes in BC.
There's still a lot left to be found...
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes - 2020, Japan
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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This was actually brilliant, a madcap time-travelling movie set in Japan when the owner of a cafe discovers a two minute gap in the monitor in his cafe and the monitor in his apartment. His future self appears in the cafe monitor to advise him what he must do, soon his friends find out and things get out of hand. More or less hilarious, and for a low-budget high concept film does an amazing job.
Brilliant. And I sure and the hell appreciate the plot wrap up - no 3 season's of "Dark" or (How many seasons?) of "The Umbrella Academy" for a completely unsatisfactory resolution to the time-travelling paradoxes, this finishes well.
Link to the Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2Ey9hoGOg
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