Mining for hidden gold
Students in university will often enroll in what I’ve heard is known as an “inventory”; a chance to study about a selection of authors and genre. Think English literature. What if we used, as a core for study, the impressions left after blipping through the cable channels on a single evening? It could serve as a way of analysis of, well, something. A survey of modern cultural examples, as seen through the eyes of everyman. The common denominator is the blipper, allowing linear or random access. I can feel a grant proposal coming out of this.
Tonight, as my significant other was busily jumping from one channel to another (did ADD exist before the remote was invented? I didn’t think so), we paused on a music channel. There, two girls were “covering” a familiar ballad, badly, and it ended up with the performers in tears? Why? Did they not like the song choice? Were they both deeply upset by the level of talent displayed? We moved on to another channel, so I’ll probably never know.
Or how about some other “inventory” topic. What about the PEI Department of Mines and Energy? That should give you pause. Both NB and NS have (had) gold mines, so why shouldn’t the Island? Has anybody really taken the time to prospect? Did they get lazy and not dig deeply enough to prove the point. There could be a wealth of new money out there, just waiting for the right pick and shovel team. It’s no more far-fetched than having a government department devoted to an industry that doesn’t exist.
So many (fruitless) endeavours, just waiting for me to have a bit more time to explore. I’ll probably forego the blipping course and head straight for the motherlode.
