Randy | October 15, 2016
“The way Nature sees it, stress is the motivator for an organism to do something to relieve it. If you’re hungry, find something to eat and eat it. Thirsty? Find water. Too cold? Seek warmth. Too hot? Seek shade or some other method of mitigation. Tired? Find a way to get some rest. Sexually aroused? […]
Randy | October 14, 2016
Tonight we’re going to gather around the fire and consider something that will tax the mental equipage of the average citizen, and we’re going to do this with the help of our guest speaker, the incomparable Lloyd, prolifically publishing under the nom de guerre of Lindybeige. You would do well to click on his name […]
Randy | October 13, 2016
World of Living. World of Dead. A veil that lies between. It bars the Dead from coming back, Except on Hallowe’en. I’m troubled that it’s strong and true A year of days but one, Then weakens with the setting of The last October sun. But all this lies beyond my ken, Or powers to resolve, […]
Randy | October 12, 2016
“From generation to generation, some recipes and cookbooks have become treasured family heirlooms. “The Nova Scotia Archives has scores of them in its personal collections, and has created a digital exhibit featuring hand-written and early printed recipes, some dating as far back at the 1700s.” ~ Hand-written recipes featured in Nova Scotia Archives online exhibit […]
Randy | October 11, 2016
Welcome back Goode Reader. Please take your ease, for I ask your indulgence in what at first may appear to be a politically motivated argument. As you will see, it is nothing of the sort, notwithstanding that I have been moved to act by the complexion of reactions to someone who is most decidedly and […]
Randy | October 10, 2016
Ed’s Manifesto, which I have previously mentioned only in passing, is the name of a Facebook page associated with other internet outlets ( like this one) belonging to a Mexican Gentleman by the name of Ed Calderón. Ed lives in Mexico City, and until recently was employed by the Mexican government. His job description, to […]
Randy | October 9, 2016
All thematic threads be damned, let’s take a little side road, shall we? Believe me, you won’t be disappointed. In the past year, we’ve found Canadian singer-song writer Lindi Ortega. If you’ve never heard of her, then prepare to be delightfully educated. She’s been described as “country’s most delectable vixen”, “not-quite-saintly”, and having a voice […]
Randy | October 8, 2016
My poem, The Strange Case of the Caller at the Library Window, published here on Day 7 of last year’s Long Winter’s Night, “… is the story of two fellow beings. One, a solitary Man interrupted at his ease by a persistent caller. The other, as it turns out, merely in quest of a last […]
Randy | October 7, 2016
Back on Day 1, I laid before you some specific flavours of forbidden knowledge. I want to refresh your mind, Goode Reader, before we get too far gone, as is said. To begin, there are historical practices, now treated as anachronistic in this self-crowned “enlightened” age … “… There were, and are, cultures in the […]
Randy | October 6, 2016
The 1953 Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 is set in a totalitarian future version of our world. Inspired by a combination of his love of libraries, and his coming to know in his formative years that Adolf Hitler was burning books (in concert with incarcerating and murdering intellectuals), the book tells how at first, only […]