I cried all through The Shipping News but it was because of Julianne Moore’s 12 differentaccents. youtu.be/BcRsD5HZFxM?...
(The prettiest accent in the world of course is from Cape Breton)
Plus there’s a lot of actual Newfoundland actors in it, which means getting to hear one of the prettiest accents in the world.
Every time I think I know where the show is going, they throw in a weird little hint to say “no you don’t.”
Yes the Ring! I haven’t seen enough yet to know where they’re going with that bit but I’m dying to know.
The acting is a bit patchy (and so are some of the accents) but it’s nice to see a big glossy show set in, and about, the Atlantic provinces.
“Below” (on Netflix) is pretty fun. Twin Peaks meets Jaws in a Newfoundland fishing village.
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True!
Somehow, Cross Guy returned. (And this time with loud music, as Jesus would have wanted it.)
Or just a few that drive ‘round and ‘round all day …
They didn’t vanish: the convoy trucker-antivaxxers BECAME the separatists. The throughline is that they’re deeply aggrieved and terribly gullible.
Sadism and psychopathy are predictors for owners of loud cars:
It all hangs on that first “if” and a hundred other ifs that tumble after.
I always put on my thickest skin before heading into New Brunswick. Thank you for giving them a death glare. I have no choice, but you did. I appreciate that.
Exactly!
Had the same happen in Saint John. While I was sitting right there.
We’d never risk it
We’ll be second class citizens in our own country as it gets strip mined and pillaged. After a century of pretending to be a neocolonial power without a neocolonial army, our chickens, feathers bloody, will finally come home.
