Essex - Bronze Age Hoard
Another find, courtesy of a metal-detectorist (metal-detective?) in Essex. Mind you, you can't plough a field there without turning up something, and bronze is a humble metal, but still... Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11651691.
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MOPBA
More art to inspire: The Australian version of MOBA, The Museum of Particularly Bad Art. I've attached a sample:
Note: This is not a detail from a larger, finer work. If it were it might be clever. Nope, this is the whole goddamned painting.
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Champix
I'm out of the restaurant and it's time to quit smoking. So I use a friends leftover Champix prescription, enough pills to wean me from the weed, or so I'm assured, and if it's successful I can always get my own.
4 days now, the 1/2 doses morning and night.
Initially I was skeptical, did independent research that seemed to indicate it wasn't so successful. But I never met anyone who didn't have success on it, and those people who failed in the restaurant had the very legitimate excuse of the environment - surrounded 18 hours a day by fellow smokers. And so decided to try it.
Now it's strange, and I'm not yet at the point of quitting, but already I can feel the limited effects smoking is having on my mood. Cigarettes, they're doing less and less for me. They taste different. And I've given up on the afternoon naps, whether this is just acclimatization to civilian life or a side effect of the Champix I can't tell. When I take the pill I - for a few minutes - feel a bit lightheaded, and when I sleep my dreams are strange. They're always strange (dreams, by their nature , are strange, but I mean strange for me...) - shorts, not long dreams but many disconnected shorts, irrelevant, they don't last....
I'm getting more done. There's more energy, slightly, and I'm starting to move through the many lists I've made myself.
I'm hopeful. This might be it, there really might be a magic pill, but perhaps I'm premature....
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Canada Post
I've been a little addicted to Ebay lately. Searching for obscure things, ordering preposterous new garbage to replace all of the old garbage I'm getting rid of.
It's a vicious cycle.
And I order the new rubbish express, with tracking numbers and everything, so I can look on the Canada Post website and see just exactly where my parcel is in transit.
My parcels, I said addicted.
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