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The Mouse Suicides
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1989
3 Mice now, in as many months.
I sweep. Only once a week or so, I'm not here so much, but there's been no trace of mice. No shit, no nibbled food, no nothing. Yet, in that 3 months, I've found 3 mice dead in the toilet. Lid down, they crawled through, first through the chink in the plaster, second through the lid-down toilet, the rest you know...
Find them in the morning, double take, "Did I wake up in the middle of the night and...", nope, ears, whiskers, I'm not the only one to report this. Other tenants have reported the dead mouse in the toilet, only they thought it was a rat, nope, not big enough, it's a mouse, and it's dead, flush, good-bye, a poor end.
This is curious to me, I've had mice (up to 30 odd, a certain house), but never have I found one drowned dead in the toilet. Let alone 3. And no signs of them around the flat, no turds, nibbling, etc, I've only ever seen one (found him dead, in the toilet, the next morning), so, like, what's-up? Really?
Planting Drugs, Random Shootings
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rants
- Hits: 2573
This is the police, the new wave of empowered crime.
A bodycam video of a police officer planting drugs while 2 other cops watch, then returning seconds later to "find" them. Police are investigating...
It would seem that both he and his colleagues are guilty not only of planting evidence but of possession, conspiracy, and a myriad of other charges. Somehow the "Police are investigating" statement does not suggest that anything will happen.
And, the murder of Justine Ruszczyk, who called 911 to report a sexual assault happening in the alley near her house, and was shot by police responding through the door of their car, bodycams conveniently turned off. This is murder, plain and simple - the requirement for policing demands that bodycams are turned on - but too frequently the police ignore the rule and then mysteriously bad things happen. Hope for no real truth or reconciliation on this one, either, although they'll have to spend a little more defending their decision as she wasn't black.
The Disaster Artist
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 1727
I finally got around to watching "The Room". As bad as that. Worse. If you haven't seen it, you can't imagine. And despite Tommy Wiseau's good natured pretending that it was maybe - possibly intentional, it wasn't. It just looks better to pretend you were being ironic when really you were being heart-stoppingly incompetent and inept.
Nonetheless there's value - everything that you take for granted - even in a bad film - is laid bare and overturned in this, there's the continuity errors, random characters, questionable set choices, contradictory, over-explanatory dialogue, incredibly bad acting and embarrassing love scenes - it's a how-to avoid doing anything right in cinema. Most arts demand a long apprenticeship, wherein the artist learns his or her craft, but in this Wiseau started out - with a 6 Million Dollar budget - as if he'd never seen a film in his life...
Now Seth Rogen and the Franco brothers have made a movie about it entitled "The Disaster Artist", which documents the making of it as recalled by Greg Sestero- trailer below:
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The New Owners
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
- Hits: 1383
A younger couple, mid 20's, he, Australian, she from down east, arrived in the Koots a few weeks ago, loved it, so they took their money and bought a local business.
I know it, everyone does, hole in the wall between here and there, not worth stopping in, although I've done a couple of times. I enquire as to the costs - business, $15,000 - plus a lease of $600 /month in the summer and $100 in the winter. Yep. It's a pretty good opportunity, if they can make it work - it hasn't so far, every wing-nut and loon has given it a try, opening from 11:00 - 7:00, $100 sales per day, if they're lucky, bad art, consignment, no real reason to visit.
But they're excited, and really, they can't do any worse than the previous owners. We talk, I wish them luck, promise to drop by, if they have the right idea in the summer this place is a gold mine. We'll see.
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