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More Shit from the Locker
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1863
Slowly it goes, and no sooner than I clear a path through the living room than I return to the locker and refill it. I reached the back today - some interesting finds, creepy dolls, jewelry for the daughter, watches, Thai Amulets, Cameras, and more, more, more. It's all gotta go. I want to be free.
I watch, every day through the beltline, the procession of homelessness, vagrants, junkies, the mentally ill, every one with a shopping cart filled to the brim with rubbish. Trash. They push and drag it throughout the city for the whole of their remaining lives, they can't let go of this, the poverty of material things, they're tied to it, bound by it, just as everyone else, only nobody else is migrating across town, living in the street, but they're all just as damned.
I'm letting go of it all, soon enough...
The House on Haunted Hill
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 1269
With Vincent Price, eminently watchable, with a few plot holes, from the days when Hollywood would pay writers. Not bad, but there's a lot of better movies I should be watching...
The Premonition of Love
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
- Hits: 1578
In Japanese it's pronounced "Koi No Yokan". One of those phrases for which there's no English equivalent, although I think "The Premonition of Love" works quite nicely. That feeling when you see someone for the first time and you somehow just intuitively KNOW, a little more pragmatic than "Love at first sight", it implies that you need to know them first, but when you do...
Read more at the BBC's website: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180103-the-untranslatable-japanese-phrase-that-predicts-love
Precognition
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1949
And this is an odd thing, that seldom am I interrupted from my naps but always I seem to awaken a minute before a text or phone call would otherwise disturb me. A pattern. The meditation is working...
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