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White Noise & A Catastrophic Event

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Blog

Published: 17 February 2023

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I mean, barely a month out on Netflix and then there's the train derailment in Ohio. And - while the book is some 40 years old (??), the movie foreshadows the - quite literal - Catastrophic Event - in Ohio - and not only are the parallels uncanny extras from the movie were actually evacuated from their homes for this. Life imitating art?

Since when - as the news has veered away from the shooting down of garbage bags, weather balloons, it's now ALL train derailments. 

Sadly, all of this has been building for quite a while now and can't be in the least bit seen as a surprise, what is surprising is the inadequacy of the response and the dearth of good advice/damage control at ground level. Also extraordinarily well predicted...

Qi Coils

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: WTF

Published: 16 February 2023

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File this under New-Age woo. There should be a full on electronics store that sells shit that does nothing under the umbrella of "Wellness, electricity and magnetism". 

Would make an absolute killing...

Link: https://www.etsy.com/ca/market/qi_coil

The Saragossa Manuscript

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Film

Published: 16 February 2023

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I don't know how I've never heard of this.

Absolutely bloody brilliant, 1965 Black & White Polish movie about...

Well, I don't want to spoil it, but it's an Arabian Nights of sorts, and as I'm going to briefly describe it (Spoilers below - don't do the read more unless you've first watched it...) 

 

Read more: The Saragossa Manuscript