Insect in Opal

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

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Category: Found

Created: 26 January 2019

And a good day of losing shit

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.

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Category: Miscellany

Created: 21 January 2019

Sneeze The Day

Spotted these in the supermarket. WTF? Motivational Kleenex?

Load of bullshit. I could get "Sneeze the Day" but the rest? Bloody Hell...

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Category: Miscellany

Created: 21 January 2019

Kill Bill 1

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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Category: Film

Created: 21 January 2019