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Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Östlund
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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In a pop-up cinema, tiny, lined with black curtains like an old-school porn cinema in the back of probably the only surviving DVD rental place in the western world.
That said, it's a little more personal venue than the cinemas in the city, which is a good thing. The film quality, via laser projector, terrific, sound as well.
Bringing me to the movie. Billed as a black comedy or satire ONLY if you're comfortably entrenched in the middle class, or wealthy as they seldom have the self-awareness to realize how accurately they've been portrayed.
Otherwise, visceral, familiar characters and dialogue in engaging situations, not even a step removed from reality - the events, contrived for the script, but given the representations of class any characters would have arrived at the same conclusions. In short, an excellent film, just a little too close to home, we're living through it on a much larger scale even as I write this, but frame it as entertainment and maybe people will pay attention...
Arrowhead & Flakes
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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These, gathered from the jeep, idle pick-ups from the summer. Not enough time spent gathering these for sure, but the location - work - well, time off I avoid the place.
The arrowhead's on the left, the black stone on the far right is a curiosity, curved, shows definite signs of knapping, heavy, harder, not local.
Detail of arrowhead. This is small, at most an inch long.
Floor796.com
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A bit of time on your hands? Clearly, you're here.
Visit Floor796.com, a massive animated .gif filled with detail and amusing pop-culture references.
A throwback to when the internet used to be a fun place...
Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Basically, a list of every pop-psychology buzz-word, pseudo-science "news" articles you've ever read the last 20 or so years.
Worth reading, because any article that uses them needs clarification and unambiguous interpretation. Upon the slightest perusal you quickly realize that very little "news" is, in fact, news, it is simply verbiage to fill your time while the notes from the sponsor creep in the edges
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100/full
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