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I've decided in all fairness to review Dollarama products as I've been so damning with The Source and I don't want anyone to think I'm playing favorites.
First of all, the needles, really thin, maybe a hundred in a pack, they're sharp, I poked myself on one, so we know they're dangerous, and they're impossible to thread. The holes are far too small...If I was to design a sewing needle it would be in the shape of a badminton racket. Which is probably why I haven't been hired to design sewing needles.
Second, the thread. 2 Loose ends, one mid-roll, the other on the top in "The Hook" in the spool where they place it. Neither unwinds the spool. You have to pry the thread off the spool, and from the resulting knot gather the length you need and cut it.
But, hell, it was only a dollar. If I'd bought this at "The Source" it would have been $10.00, and another $5.00 for the extended warranty that would replace it with exactly the same spool of thread after a wait time of 4 weeks...
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I used to quite like Derren Brown - his stage shows and early television was excellent. But it's gotten to be the most vile form of reality TV, with a troop of trained actors and a dupe, sensationalist, with a preachy psychological moral at the end that reminds me for all the world of Jerry Springer's moralizing at the end of one of his particularly vile talk shows. Give it a miss.
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Found this painting at a thrift shop today, would have bought, but at $160.00 it was a bit out of my league...
What would appear to be a wizard or prophet lecturing a disinterested group of disciples under the light of a giant sea-shell. In a cave. If you look closely you'll see those souls being sucked into the light cast by the sea-shell...
Fucking genius.
I mean, really, If I could do better, I would, but there's no way...
I know who could but she's not speaking to me...
Note the detail. On the left the colorless crystals, the waterfall, the subterranean setting (why are they in a cave? Why is the seashell giving off light? Is this Darwin feeding the masses? Or letting them starve? I'm not sure...)
Here's a more detailed view:
Midget (black? pygmy) lady pulling on prophet/wizards coat. Nun on donkey. Bishop and yellow carrying lamp. Oh, this is so full-fucking-on, and looking at it again I'm wishing I'd spent the money. But curiously, I don't think it's going anywhere, except maybe the MOBA. They would LOVE this, find the artist, and make him/her a celebrity of outsider art...Absolute Genius.
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Brilliance in Advertising. No, really...
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The best thing I've seen since the Old Spice Commercials. I don't have a TV, but I hope this is on it...
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Having rediscovered a series I really should have watched in the 90's I began a marathon of stupidity, descending into the labyrinthine rabbit warren that is the X Files. "The Truth is Out There", never so out there as the stories that run roughshod over countless absurdities and convoluted plot-holes, preposterous, hierarchical nested conspiracies dealing with aliens, hybridizations, colonization, monsters, miracles and paranormal phenomenon. Strangely compelling, delighting in the bad retro suits, trench coats, haircuts and computers, the recognition of various guest stars (a young Jack Black and Scott Evil, still evil), in the end I could only manage three seasons. The best episodes were the stand-alone ones; internet dating done right in "2Shy" (and, believe it or not, I've been on worse dates), the best town picnic ever in "Our Town", and the outstanding: "Jose Chung's From Outer Space".