Randy | October 21, 2020
When last we met it was to look at a world in panic at a steadily building sense of dreadful certainty that all would be snuffed out by something that had been noticed to occur at 75 year intervals and that at no point in recorded history had done anything but come and go with […]
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Randy | October 20, 2020
The longer I live and write about the experience, the more I find that without prior knowledge of what I was referring to or clues provided in the content, it’s possible for someone to read something I’ve written in the past and believe it’s about what was in the news this morning. For example, there’s […]
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Randy | October 19, 2020
In the lead in to every Dark Sentiments season, I look around at the career path of some of the notables I’ve spoken of here to see what they’ve been up to, who did what to whom, living, dead, incarcerated, on the run. Those sorts of things. Tonight’s treat is a result of one of […]
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Randy | October 18, 2020
Autumn Delights By LFM A timeless Autumn pleasure is a simple pile of leaves, To toss and roll and jump in, filling chilly sweatered eves. With nothing but a rake or two, construction is a cinch, The higher heap the better, made more joyful by the inch. A heap of leaves is pleasure pure to […]
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Randy | October 17, 2020
Every societal upheaval gives birth to period specific terms. This is most commonly brought to the fore when soldiers return from war, and every major conflict births a dictionary all its own. But it doesn’t take a war. for as we will discuss today, the current world wide pestilential unpleasantness is societal upheaval enough for […]
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Randy | October 16, 2020
Hard times bring some to self-justify the most heinous of acts. A few even pre-position themselves for it as I have chronicled in the matter of a young technician I was once called upon to mentor: “… in the midst of the long hot summer of 1981 the Halifax Police Department went on strike and […]
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Randy | October 15, 2020
Truth Be Sewn By LFM Should need arise to air your mind, Speak from the front and not behind. Be silent ’til to break your stillness Reflects the cure and not the illness. Don’t be as those whose mouths will close Only in their sweet repose. Let this stand as introduction to this item from […]
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Randy | October 14, 2020
Uglification By LFM When the ideal state of any nation’s Not shared across its population, And any voiced opposed opinions Call to arms the frenzied minions, With history and fiction melding, Mark you now your freedom’s gelding. When princes vie for favour’s sway Each pre-proclaimed he’s won the day, Disciples bleed upon the grass, Unknowing […]
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Randy | October 13, 2020
Grist for the Mill By LFM Tim lives in the city in a tiny wee flat, He says he hates “fascists” and wears a black hat. He has lots of friends and they go on the town To fix what is broken by burning it down. Dontrell finds his fire in historical crimes, Committed by […]
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Randy | October 12, 2020
“An acquired taste is an appreciation for something unlikely to be enjoyed by a person who has not had substantial exposure to it.” ~ Wikipedia Of this very subject, I once wrote: “I like fruitcake. I also like marinated herring, Danish blue cheese, scotch whisky, anchovies, the smell of a good cigar being smoked – […]
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