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  • A REVOLUTION IN THE FILM INDUSTRY: Movie Musings #6

    Glory Days of Home Video #1 I grew up during the dawn of home video players and video rentals. (in my old man voice)” Young people today could never appreciate the massive advancement home video was at the time!” Before that the only way you could see a movie was at the cinema (or Drive-In)…

  • MUSINGS ON THE JOB ABOUT THE JOB

    Blue collar work isn’t very intellectually demanding, so there’s plenty of time to ponder. I’ve always been a nerd, but university was never on my radar. I didn’t enrol until I was in my late 30s – that’s another thread and one I will be eternally grateful for. Anyway, this sideroad concerns all the contemplation…

  • THE CLOSEST WE CAME TO NOT WRECKING THE JOINT: Rise of the Tycoons #9

    Before the rise of the first great empires there must have been an era of nothing larger than a great village. Some sliver of time before towns became a thing. Nothing but a spectrum going from hunter gatherers and/or nomadic tribes through fledgling farming communities and peaking with a scattering of big ass villages. I…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #11

    This one is a double bunger. Legend has it that Bon Scott, the original front man for AC/DC, died by choking on his own vomit after a heavy drinking session. I cannot positively confirm if this is true, but I can assert that it nearly happened to me on two occasions. One was at the…

  • DID THIS MOVIE PREDICT YOUTUBE/PODCAST CULTURE? Movie Musings #5

    Pump Up the Volume (1990) ***SPOILER ALERT*** Hard Harry is the alter ego of Mark Hunter, a high school student in small town America. Mark is an intelligent introvert who goes about not being noticed. Hard Harry is the rebellious DJ of a pirate radio station who tells it like it is. The station theme…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: A Hard Truth

                    “This used to be a place                  Where a man could find some work                  Put together Holdens or a foundry job at worst…” Chorus                 “They’re shutting down our town                  They’re cutting down out town                  No more production line blue collar can be found                  They’ll tear it to the ground…”…

  • THE NEW LORDS AND THEIR HEIRS: Rise of the Tycoons #8

    The surviving nomadic/ hunter gatherers kept doing what they did best. Some may have found a nice, secluded space and settled. Some of those may have grown and joined the space (as in taking it up) race. Many remained humble and lived a simple life; for as long as they could anyway. As for all…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #10

    Previously I used the image of Indiana Jones running from the giant boulder in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. Believe it or not I had another similar experience. I was helping my father and his mate (Steve) working on a brewery truck. We were delivering kegs and I was down in the cellar. Steve was…

  • MY TROUBLE WITH GRAN TORINO (2008): Movie Musings #4

    ***SPOILER ALERT*** I will begin with a question: Do you think that this film has a happy or at least a fulfilling ending? Every person I have asked usually says yes. Call me a jaded film buff, but I disagree. The final scene sees Thao Vang joyfully driving Walt’s prized Gran Torino – all has…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: I Need to Speak to The Person in Charge

    The people on the shop floor know they are just numbers, expendable numbers. They look at their supervisors (team leaders, leading hands or whatever other bullshit title) and know that those Schmoes are standing on even thinner ice. No sympathy for them of course, they took the step up, they enforce the shitty rules –…