Dog Days – Some Lessons From the UK Experience

| March 27, 2012

Since November 2010, Jemima Harrison has operated Pedigree Dogs Exposed – The Blog. for the purpose of exposing, “… the latest news and views regarding inherited disorders and conformation issues in purebred dogs.” Ms. Harrison also produced BBC investigative documentaries on the subject, both of which I will be presenting here. We here at LFM [...]

Dog Days – Pepper

| February 26, 2012

Most incidents involving an alleged case of a dog biting a human start out with a few common elements: the dog accused of doing the biting; the dog’s owner. who may or may not be present; the dog’s handler, who may or may not be the dog’s owner, and who likewise may or may not [...]

Guns + Explosives + Black Humour + Russian Accent = Entertainment

| January 5, 2012

Another serendipitous discovery happened today by the name of FPS Russia. A self described “Professional Russian“, this guy doesn’t need anyone to do his talking for him so I’ll turn him loose with a couple of gems to show you what I mean. And like he says, don’t try any of these tricks at home.

Who Needs a Title With an Intro Like That?

| 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. [...]

A Long Winter’s Night – Let the Good Guys Win

| 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 [...]

A Long Winter’s Night – The Mahone Bay Riot

| 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 [...]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 28: Hellfire, Damnation, and All That

| October 28, 2011

For my own part, I regard stories that involve people making a pact with the Devil, or an ever burning Hell pit of damnation, as suitable fodder for entertainment, but nothing else. As a case in point, in the course of my research for Dark Sentiments 2011, I found the original, accept no substitutes, Dante’s [...]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 25: The Shag Harbour Incident

| October 25, 2011

The skies over Nova Scotia were a source of great interest on the night of 4 October 1967 as large numbers of witnesses, including members of the Royal Canadian Mounted police (RCMP), observed moving and hovering lights in the sky off most of the province’s south shore, from Lunenburg west to Shag Harbour. At approximately [...]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 20: A Recent Zombification

| October 20, 2011

Yesterday we looked at zombies and zombification – the dark art of creating a zombie. Part of that was the bizarre tale of Clairvius Narcisse who turned up alive 18 years after his “death” with reports of his zombification, 2 years enslaved as a zombie, his escape, and 16 years trying to find his way [...]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 19: The Zombie Apocalypse

| October 19, 2011

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~ Albert Einstein ~ Apocalyptic events come in many flavours. For example, back in the 50′s and 60′s it was nuclear war that held the spotlight, and thus was born an [...]