Old Tire from a 240 DL Volvo
This came off of a Volvo 240 DL - Circa 1990. This is all that is left.
In the US they have a joke - it begins with a family, Mother, Father, Son Daughter, Dog, Donkey, What-Have-You walking into a Talent agency....all sorts of mischief ensues, limited only by the discretion of the comedian telling the joke. They call it "The Aristocrats". In Canada we have the same joke, only it begins with "Man took his car to Canadian Tire to get fixed...". And yeah, it goes pretty much the same way. Now - You can have the tire for $5.00. Cheap. OR - If you want to listen to the entire joke, which involves a car leaking radiator fluid, a man saying "Tail lights need a new circuit board", a $400 Charge from Canadian Tire to say "You were right the Tail Lights need a new circuit boards, don't know where you are going to get that fixed...", a suggested wheel alignment, tire rotation, new starter, transmission, $100 "Shop Fees" - read "Lube Charge But it's not feeling like I got any", etc, etc, multiple hands reaching up my *ss, an entire herd of donkeys, a car still leaking radiator fluid, a $2000 bill, a "Test Drive" that didn't roll the odometer a single KM, etc. etc. you can have it for free. It's a long joke and in the end it's on me, but if you listen to it all you can have the tire for free.
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Bez Konca - Krzysztof Kieślowski
Great, but we're going back in time now, he's a little - rawer, not as subtle, by which I mean he's still a thousand times subtler than any American equivalent, but his style is still evolving and in later films gets increasingly nuanced.
He can be brutal, too, and goes where Hollywood would never go, this, while great, would never pass a test screening, plump audiences clutching their popcorns and diet cokes, they'd hate it. It would go before a committee, get slashed to ribbons, redone, a new writer, director...yet he managed to make it in communist Poland...
There's still one more left...
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Pellet Gun
It was a revolver, heavy, Crosman, listed it on Kijiji with a map to the neighboring Circle-K's and 7/11, the dodgiest guys pick it up, throw it in the car, pay me, then barrel out of here, I'm pretty sure they had my map on the dashboard. Makes me laugh...
**Then this morning, more texts from the same buyer, now he's looking for silver jewelry, it's like I'm setting up new immigrants as entry level gangsters...
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The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future
An interesting and well written article via the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-psychiatrist-who-believed-people-could-tell-the-future
Which raises a lot of questions, of course. I like to cultivate a healthy skepticism, but some of the evidence, especially the evidence quoted in the article, is quite compelling. As are some of anecdotal reports of Twin Studies which suggest a psychic connection:
Link: https://www.livescience.com/45405-twin-telepathy.html
There is a point whereupon Skepticism - in the light of so much evidence, even anecdotal, can become it's own form of stupidity.
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