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 | September 22, 2020
Tonight’s feature in our countdown to Season 11 was first published here on Day 26 of Season 2. Hunter’s Moon is a terrible tale of primal travail, murder, cannibalism, infanticide, frontier justice, and absolute revenge. Whatever you drink with this, it shouldn’t be anything particularly smooth. Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 26: Hunter’s Moon First […]
Randy | July 19, 2020
The title of today’s utterance is taken from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s favourite code phrase, and delivery, for signalling to his audience that they are being lectured to. From not enough physical distancing to people owning things he is ideologically opposed to, he’s used the term before and no doubt will again, hopefully at […]
Randy | July 12, 2020
These are fraught times strewn with fears; both the named and nameless. This is nothing new. As in other times past when the barbarians weren’t merely at the gates but dwelt among us, the thinness of the veneer called civilization offers little contest to genesis of a mindless rabble bent on the taking of advantage […]
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 | May 24, 2020
“Growing up, I was always ahead of my contemporaries in my skills with the written and spoken word. To my great fortune, that gift was recognized and cultivated by a succession of exceptional Teachers. While I can’t pin down the date beyond the certainty that I was still in elementary school, I remember a day […]
Randy | May 18, 2020
Back in March of 2018, I published an article here titled Smoke, Mirrors, and a Soldier, the inspiration for which was summed up in its first paragraph: I read an article the other day written by Josh Makuch and published last Friday to Vice with the title, “I’m a Veteran In Favour of More Gun […]
Randy | May 9, 2020
“The first time I read Lord of the Rings, I’m sure I was personally responsible for skyrocketing values of stocks for companies involved in the production of bacon, mushrooms, and dark, full bodied beers. I absolutely enjoy any literature that confronts me with a description of food consumed by the characters that leaves me wanting […]
Randy | May 8, 2020
“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander — idiom — chiefly British: Used to say that one person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated.” ~ Merriam-Webster Further to my comments here a few days ago, I will speak today specifically to the officially […]
Randy | May 2, 2020
All these weeks into the global clusterfuck spawned by The Pestilence, it seems natural that as governments have become comfortable with the new reality (notwithstanding whether or not the body politic has) they would revert to the old habits inherent in partisan politics and party defining ideologies going back to great great great granddad’s generation. […]