Randy | October 11, 2020
“We all know what rotting meat smells like, and hence the term, “What died?” has entered the popular lexicon. Just words though, Goode Reader, for there is a quantum leap in the experience that lies between pulling the lid off something found forgotten at the back of the fridge, and the full flower of meaning […]
Randy | October 10, 2020
Hard on the heels of last night’s The Grave Digger’s Song Book is tonight’s LFM original. Join me now on a romp through the thoughts of a Man on the subject of holes, what goes in them, and his place in the void. The Grave Digger’s Song By LFM He’s a miserable thing who won’t dig […]
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 4, 2020
While tonight’s Dark Sentiment may appear to be inspired by the current state of unpleasantness, history shows that everything in it has played out innumerable times in the past. What makes it so special this time is that the travails have never before played out in such a time of simultaneous connection and division, global […]
Randy | October 1, 2020
The warmest of welcomes back to our fireside thou Weariest of Pilgrims, for in this year of years, any who have made it this far will personify that epithet. Unless this is your first time, you will know Dark Sentiments has been an annual fixture here since this day in 2010. Now marking the advent […]
Randy | September 24, 2020
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment first appeared by the light of a waxing crescent moon on Day 10 of Season 4, and predates Canada’s formalized legal foray into medically assisted dying in 2016. Any choice of meditative elixir will go well with this one. Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 10: Death Comes to Call First published on […]
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 | 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 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 4, 2020
Mrs. LFM has asked me to put out an announcement that readers may be encountering, or come to encounter, cases in which links found in articles here that should take you directly to another on the LFM site may instead present a message that the page does not exist. This is due to a long […]