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Insect in Opal
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Insects in Amber are, while interesting, rather commonplace. This isn't. Someone is going to get rich...
Insect in Opal: https://entomologytoday.org/2019/01/18/fossilized-insect-discovered-amber-opal/
And, bonus, almost entirely unrelated: http://digg.com/video/opal-reveal
And a good day of losing shit
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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A good day of random shit selling. Bulk purchases, one lady, grotesque chalkware piggy bank head, 3 tip-n-strip pens, a file drawer and old clock. Another a set of Irish Linen Tea-Napkins. Another a wood block (clave, apparently, is what they call it in the percussion world, and when I knew that I wanted to charge a dollar more...). Dive watch gone to buddy who wanted to smoke a joint with me outside...
I have this feeling that a lot of these people are just buying junk trying to work up the courage to ask about the Banana Pump.
And a load of random stuff for Batshit to shopdrop next time I'm passing through Nelson - an artist's mannequin with a fishhook to replace a missing hand, a horses tooth, a scarab from the Tomb of Tutankhamen, a preserved souvenir alligators head, a voo-doo doll, more, more... all with notes as to provenance...
So it goes. slowly, slowly, there's no predicting - I mean NO predicting - as to what will sell, and after 12 weeks it hasn't gone, why, wait another 2, relist it, and it'll sell. This is experience speaking. It's keeping me in cigarettes.
Sneeze The Day
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Spotted these in the supermarket. WTF? Motivational Kleenex?
Load of bullshit. I could get "Sneeze the Day" but the rest? Bloody Hell...
Kill Bill 1
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Haven't watched for 15 years, but it's the daughter's prize for putting up with the first 3 episodes of "Lone Wolf and Cub". She likes it, loves it even, and is perplexed when it ends, there's another 3 people on Uma Thurman's List...
"That's Kill Bill 2" I explain, "We'll watch that when we finish the last 3 'Lone Wolf and Cub' Movies". I doubt she'll wait. I try to explain the debt that Tarantino owes the Baby Cart movies - without them there would be no "Kill Bill" - she gets it, but doesn't care, she wants to watch Kill Bill. So it goes.
Review: "Kill Bill", even after 15 years, holds up remarkably well. Especially if you know the source material.
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