Randy | October 9, 2020
If you’ve never dug a grave you should try it some time. No cheating with power equipment mind. Pick and shovel or it didn’t happen, no matter how much you cried in the process. Whether or not you’re a member of that singular group, tonight’s Dark Sentiment will present musical selections from a genre you […]
Randy | October 5, 2020
“Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. He is known for writing songs about vehicles, rural life, down-and-out characters, lost love and quirky rural folk. His songwriting uses techniques of short story writing, including unreliable narrators, surprise endings, and plot twists.” ~ […]
Randy | September 30, 2020
Oh joy of all joys and bliss of all bliss! Dark Sentiments Season 11 finds its dawn at sunset tomorrow. Let us ring it in with this memory of formative Lust from my youth, and a lesson learned. Dark Sentiments Season 10 — Day 13: Weep Not for the Willfully Blind First published on October […]
Randy | September 27, 2020
Tonight’s mind dropping is drawn from the Season 7 section of the Dark Sentiments archives. I have marvelled ever since at the restraint of the musically gifted among my Goode Readers as exhibited by none having expressed interest in recording this toe tapping ditty. Ah well, my door is still open. Dark Sentiments Season 7 […]
Randy | September 25, 2020
Tonight’s appetizer first got knees to being slapped far and wide on Day 16 of Season 5 and has become a fan favourite. Whatever you drink with this, it should be something bubbly. Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 16: The Bum Puff Fairy Previously published on October 16, 2014 Today’s Dark Sentiment is about things […]
Randy | June 7, 2020
Yet horns of war and strife now blow, And echo through the land. Loud enough, I hear them yet From where I choose to stand. For Peace is in that place, you see, That strife is furthest from, But no vantage have I ever found Whence I can’t hear its drum. ~ The Woodsman’s Song […]
Randy | December 31, 2019
On the Long Winter’s Night of 29 December 2017 I proclaimed this morale booster. The Fire Without and the Fire Within By LFM It’s only just started, but coming to pass Is a Winter as cold as a well digger’s ass. Yet it’s still not extreme if the truth’s to be told, For it used […]
Randy | December 30, 2019
“You’re dying but you don’t have to cooperate so enthusiastically with the process.” ~ Leonard Cohen Back on Day 4, Season 10 of our annual Dark Sentiments series, I wrote,“If ever human flesh were formed to personify the Truth that only in darkness can one see the light, it’s Leonard Cohen.” I will forever stand […]
Randy | December 29, 2019
This Long Winter’s Night is dark indeed, coming as it does hard on the heels of yesterday’s preamble. Be warned that it will deal with extremely adult entertainments, the plurality of that word serving to set apart what follows from the distinctly singular “adult entertainment”, which term has come to define all things that are […]
Randy | December 28, 2019
A Long Winter’s Night is the perfect time for telling stories around the fire, and often those take a reflective bent on where things are, how they got here, and where they’re going in that handbasket. We’re doing that tonight to the chagrin of those younger members of the assemblage who suffer the stories of […]