Randy | February 25, 2012
As promised, I’m back with the first in a new series – Dog Days. Unlike my annual Dark Sentiments and A Long Winter’s Night segments, Dog Days will run intermittently for as long as it needs to. It will focus on municipal dog control legislation and its impact on the realities of dog ownership, examining [...]
Randy | February 23, 2012
To quell the panic that’s abroad in the land, I’m here today to assuage your fears that ol’ LFM has thrown in the towel or some such. Not a chance. Mrs. LFM and I have been grappling with the latest iteration of black death, and are now well on the mend. In the mean time, [...]
Randy | January 27, 2012
Today, at approximately 12:30 PM Atlantic Time, Mrs LFM and I were with Dusty when he took his last breath. He wasn’t in pain or discomfort, but the past 48 hours had seen a decline in his health and joie de vivre that told us it was time. He was 15, and throughout his long, [...]
Randy | January 23, 2012
Today we’ll celebrate the True Arte of the Sabre in all its lethal beauty. Rarely seen here in North America, this connects with what I talked about in my 16 May 2011 article, To the Point. I assert that society suffered a major setback when it cast aside swordsmanship as one of the essential foundations [...]
Randy | January 17, 2012
“I wanted girls to gain confidence to be themselves, and not just quiet wives working, working and swallowing all the time their own dreams….” ~ Katerina Tarnouska, founder of Asgarda If you’ve spent any time here, you’ll know a couple of things. First, how much I appreciate strong, intelligent women; and second, that the foundation [...]
Randy | January 15, 2012
The inspiration for this poem came while I was reading the intro to my esteemed Friend Laurie Lacey’s 15 January 2012 Natural Healing Talk newsletter. Read Laurie’s words, then mine, and hopefully it will all make sense. Some day soon, Mrs. LFM and Laurie’s Lady Rita, will tolerate Laurie and me sitting by a fire [...]
Randy | January 7, 2012
Many of the most entertaining movies I’ve ever seen are in the so called “B movie” category. There is a lot of absolute crap to be found there to be sure, but the number of true gems that one uncovers among them makes the hunt worth while. Once upon a time, in my neck of [...]
Randy | January 2, 2012
If you’ve gotten far enough to read this after Mrs. LFM’s title photo, and if you believe the hype, the year just ended will also mark the end of the calendar printing industry because 2012 is it. Well, Mrs. LFM and I have appointments the day after Armageddon so that shit’s not on for us. [...]
Randy | December 31, 2011
I’ll be looking at the past year in a retrospective tomorrow. In the mean time, here’s my favourite New Year’s Eve song, dedicated tonight to Sarge, a persecuted dog you’ll be reading more about here in the very near future because in my opinion, what’s being done to Sarge and his family in the name [...]
Randy | December 30, 2011
Mahone Bay is a tiny and picturesque town on the south shore of Nova Scotia with a population that has been steadily shrinking for decades, mostly due to natural causes. On the thirty-first day of January 2001, a landmark business in that town closed for good , but not before it had borne witness to [...]