Randy | October 5, 2014
Film noir / film nwär / noun: A style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace. The term was originally applied (by a group of French critics) to American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work of directors such as Orson Welles, […]
Randy | October 1, 2014
“Welcome, Dear Reader, to yet another season of Dark Sentiments; being our traditional 31 October days of musings, revelations, exposé, poetry, literature, visual arts, and myriad dark expressions of the Human spirit, all chosen from the sort most in the world have spent the past year trying desperately to avoid, or pretend into nonexistence.” ~ […]
Randy | September 13, 2014
“The distance to the outpost by direct road was 12 miles but Laura feared she would encounter American guards that way and chose a roundabout route. She went first to St Davids where she was joined by her niece, Elizabeth Secord, and then to Shipman’s Corners (St Catharines). Elizabeth became exhausted and Laura continued alone, […]
Randy | September 1, 2014
On one sunny Summer’s day about ten years ago, the bountifully beauteous Mrs. LFM and I were shopping in the Halifax area when we decided a cup of coffee was in order. And so it came to pass that we pulled up in front of a coffee shop in the Bayer’s Lake district, facing the […]
Randy | July 23, 2014
The picture at left is of a new in the package Coghlan’s Brand machete, available as I type from the outdoor sports and leisure section of your nearest Canadian Tire store for $14.99 before tax. It’s posted here merely to illustrate that the machete is an inexpensive and easily acquired item of equipment pretty much […]
Randy | July 4, 2014
As I write this, the first named storm of the 2014 season, Hurricane Arthur, is shedding energy as it churns straight toward Nova Scotia with a load of wind and wet for the weekend. Speaking as a Man with a hand dug well, I like me some wet; and as one who lives in a […]
Randy | June 15, 2014
Totally Organic By LFM Conveyor belts at checkout stands Are monuments to careless hands, For as each turns it brings to view Smears that range from “Yuck!” to “Eww!” It may be water, maybe not. It might be drool, or might be snot. One critter’s blood? Another’s jizz? No way of telling what it is. […]
Randy | May 25, 2014
I personally espouse and teach what I hold to be the necessity of being as self-sufficient and savvy as one can possibly be in seeing to the welfare of you and yours. I believe in community and lending a hand in defense of those who can’t help themselves, and in knowing how to recognize evil […]
Randy | May 8, 2014
This was inspired by a CBC article Mrs. LFM brought to my attention today on the subject of those items of produce most infused with pesticide contamination. Ode to the Marketplace By LFM The money’s spent, the thing is built, It’s time to market, screw the guilt. Though testers, testing, met their ending, Still they […]
Randy | May 2, 2014
For reasons that don’t relate to anything I can remember dreaming about last night, I woke up with a particular song in my head that we’ll get to in a moment. Like most things in my life, it reminded me of a story from personal experience. In this case it’s one that, as in the […]