Qi Coils
File this under New-Age woo. There should be a full on electronics store that sells shit that does nothing under the umbrella of "Wellness, electricity and magnetism".
Would make an absolute killing...
Link: https://www.etsy.com/ca/market/qi_coil
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The Saragossa Manuscript
I don't know how I've never heard of this.
Absolutely bloody brilliant, 1965 Black & White Polish movie about...
Well, I don't want to spoil it, but it's an Arabian Nights of sorts, and as I'm going to briefly describe it (Spoilers below - don't do the read more unless you've first watched it...)
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Prince Charming looking for Cinderella...
I'm hemorrhaging cash at a ridiculous pace and need work ASAP. Just until the restaurant opens, but I'm out of funds in my bank, at my limit on my credit card, and a couple of projected/anticipated positions have yet to manifest.
So, there's a shoe store up the street that's hiring. And I think to myself "Why Not?", only, it's a ladies shoe store, and so I float the idea of getting myself done up in a velvet cape and crown and treating all the girls like Cinderella, and, thinking way back, I did once as a kid work at Footlocker in the mall and again as a cobbler at "Heels", so, it's not like I haven't done this before...
Anyways, write up my resume with the Prince Charming spin and put it out there. A pleasant enough interview, although I think they were reasonably suspicious that I wasn't a very convincing Prince Charming. But you have to try...
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The Seven Dwarves...
So, apparently, as the story goes, at the original screening of "Snow White & The Seven Dwarves" in 1937 Walt Disney hired a bunch of real-life dwarves, put them in costumes and exhibited them above the Marquis on a little balcony, by way of drumming up business. Provided with free food and wine, they did what dwarves are expected to do, they stripped off their costumes (too hot!!) and got naked and quarrelsome with the audience and passers-by.
Now, I'd read this on reddit, and, rather thrilled at this piece of history trivia thought I'd do a bit of digging before sharing it with you.
There is something inherently comic and salacious about the thought of dwarves getting rowdy and naked.
And - you know it, the most trivial of research seems to disprove it, apparently it was the premier of Pinocchio, and there were 11 midgets (not dwarves), and, no, they just got hot, took off their costumes and went inside into the shade to play cards and dice and lie down.
Which kind of saddens me, it's one of those rare instances where the truth is far more boring than fiction, usually it's quite the other way around...
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