Klockwerks by Roger Wood
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familiar places, a so-so movie...
My dream landscape has some places that seem oddly fixed, recurring places that show up - once in a while - in different dreams. They have no counterpart in the real world. There's a thrift shop, Women In Need, beside the Higher Ground in Kensington, and there's another in a basement - Salvation Army perhaps? on 14 Street, just a bit North of Kensington Road.
Only, of course, it's not Kensington Road in my dream, or not the same Kensington Road, it's the Kensington Road in London, only closer to my house, the thrift shop is one that doesn't exist, only in my dreams, and always I'm arriving just before close to discover a few treasures, I always remember that it's fallen off my map and I rush down at the last minute, it's getting dark outside, the inside of the thrift shop is cozy and inviting and there are glass cabinets everywhere with all sorts of trinkets...
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And I dreamed that I was surfing the web and came across a website that was promoting a new movie, and I recognized the director as a friend of a friend and so I clicked on the play button to see what it was all about...
...and I found myself in a run down "artiste's" house, lots of people there for the special screening, it's on a tiny retro-tube TV on her dresser and we're all sitting on the floor to watch but as soon as she turns it on the size doesn't matter, everyone is watching and it's kind of silly with some special effects and Bob and Doug McKenzie, it's exactly that sort of movie and I don't know what to say other than "it will probably be very commercially successful"...
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Charities spend big trashing trash
I shouldn't let myself get riled, I shouldn't, really, but happening upon an article by the Calgary Sun I find myself quite incensed.
If you couldn't bring yourself to click on the link the gist of it is that Charities in Alberta spend in excess of half a million dollars hauling away useless donations. Don't click on the link, I just saved you the pain of reading the article.
Now it must have been a slow day in the news, and somebody was told in no uncertain terms to make something up, because - really...
A few observations & suggestions.
#1) How much do the charities make per year - off of free donations and volunteer labour? To me it seems that it's the smallest of reasonable expenses any business could hope to incur. I mean, their product is supplied free - and the decision not to sell something is frequently theirs and theirs alone.
#2) Who decides what is salvageable and what isn't? How many times have I wanted to root through a charity dumpster because I've had the suspicion that they were throwing away perfectly saleable merchandise (and once I did, found a stack of old books that I traded for $100.00 in credit at a local bookstore...not Fair's Fair.)
#3) Perhaps - nay, indeed likely - if they laid out the "rubbish" provided them by donors they'd find a fair measure of it hauled away - free of charge - by patrons that couldn't afford to shop their inflated prices. I know artists, myself amongst them, that would love and even pay for access to the materials they don't deem fit to sell. I'm talking to you, Salvation Army and Interfaith Thrift Store. Sometimes I wonder why their dumpsters are so secure - is it to prevent others from using them, or others from finding and reusing items they'd rather you paid for?
In short, a lousy article making a full page whinge out of local charities whining the quality of their donations isn't nearly what they'd like. Too bad, you should know better. What will the next article be - "Scheduling and Screening Volunteers Costs us Valuable Hours in Administration"?
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Reverse Speech
And there's this theory from this Aussie that suggests that our intent - our real intent - is expressed by hidden messages encoded backwards in our speech. It sounds like Mumbo Jumbo, but he's charismatic and seems to have attracted quite a few followers, and if you think about it it just might not be that far out....
Similar to Backmasking, only whereas in backmasking the record producers or artists deliberately encode messages backwards in records, Reverse speech suggest that these messages are encoded - backwards - by our subconscious.
Make up your own mind: Reverse Speech (Google search, choose your links carefully...)
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