Randy | October 12, 2010
The sense of smell has power to instantly bring memories to the forefront of consciousness, with all the mood altering effects that come with recalled experience. The response can be positive or negative depending on the nature of the memory. Music can and does have a similar effect. Lovers have “our song”. Tears well up […]
Randy | October 11, 2010
Nature doesn’t care if you live or die. She only cares that, moment by moment, you keep proving your worthiness to remain breathing, and as in the theatre, you’re only as good as your last performance. In this day of instant gratification and miraculous cures, an unfortunate majority live in a 911 mindset, ill prepared […]
Randy | October 10, 2010
“Russian roulette is not the same without a gun, and baby, when it’s love, if it’s not rough it isn’t fun.” ~ Lady Gaga ~ Most men live their lives in daylight, And when darkness wraps its claws around them, they are blind. But embrace the darkness, my cherubs and you can see. Most men […]
Randy | October 9, 2010
I was three when my parents bought the house on Lunenburg’s Cumberland Street where I grew up. It was a Cape Cod style house located in the “Old Town” section, and had been built in the late 1700’s or early 1800’s. The perimeter of the house rested on a foundation of whitewashed native slate, its […]
Randy | October 8, 2010
When I was in late elementary school, and before I was the person I am now, I became the target of a bully. Admonished by my mother not to fight, I substituted instead the kind of ravenous hatred that can, at least for a time as one entertains hopes of salvation, be restrained from any […]
Randy | October 7, 2010
One hundred and sixty-one years ago today, a light of dark genius was extinguished forever under bizarre circumstances that remain unclear to this day. At approximately 5:00 AM on Sunday, 7 October 1849, at the end of several days of delirium, Edgar Allan Poe regained complete consciousness only long enough to speak his last words […]
Randy | October 6, 2010
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) was an unauthorized film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula. Released in 1922, the movie was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starred actor Max Schreck in the role of Count Orlok, the vampire. Silent and shot in the grainy black and white of its […]
Randy | October 5, 2010
Revenge. It’s among the top ten of my favourite topics and our society likes to pretend it’s fallen out of favour. Bullshit.
Randy | October 4, 2010
Here’s an uplifting little bit of rhyme for you. Not sure who wrote it, but I find it catchy. Can’t even shout, can’t even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven And they might take yours. Can’t call to mom, can’t say a word. You’re […]
Randy | October 3, 2010
I am privileged to know a policeman with whom I have shared many a working and non-working hour, occasionally whilst quaffing an ale or ten. Our man is a retired member of the now disbanded Whynacht Security & Survival/Lunenburg – Mahone Bay Police Expeditionary Force who now plies his trade as a crime scene investigator […]