Randy | October 13, 2012
This poem has been marinating for a while. It came to be from observing the self inflicted misery of several people – two in particular – and is presented here by special request from Mrs. LFM. I can deny her nothing. Suffice it to say that we’ve all met people who bring ugliness into the […]
Randy | October 12, 2012
Back in the last century … I’m talking WAY back ’round about the autumn of 1975 … I was studying alchemy and arguments for and against the Earth being round, along with staying one step ahead of the Inquisition, at Nova Scotia’s prestigious Dalhousie University. Costly and time consuming as it was, most of what […]
Randy | October 11, 2012
Murder by poison has a long dark history. For example, whether historically accurate or cooked up by rivals, the Borgia family name is indelibly stained with it. Poison is less used today for killing things that walk on two legs for reasons well presented by Esther Inglis-Arkell in her article The Deadliest Poisons in History […]
Randy | October 10, 2012
This was supposed to be two articles, but try as I might, they kept melding so bugger it. Obviously I’m having a two for one sale. Pareidolia is a phenomenon of cognition in which perception of a stimulus becomes connected with other present or remembered stimuli so that a pattern emerges in the mind of […]
Randy | October 6, 2012
We first met Stella last year on Day 30. Her saga continues. Stella On Her Own By LFM It was a day in August when Young Stella got the word – “Report thee to thy dream job lass, The sooner is preferred.” The night before she moved away From home at twenty-one, Stella kissed her […]
Randy | October 5, 2012
On Day 23 of last year’s Dark Sentiments, we looked at issues surrounding the announced discovery of what might be the first known artifact to bear an inscription that refers to the Biblical Christ. Here at LFM, we enjoy a good mystery as much as the next bloke or blokette, and today we’re going to […]
Randy | October 3, 2012
“Everything in Nature is about efficiency and balance, which is why life is, first and foremost, an exercise in energy management. For example, the Way of the Wild demands of each parent that their offspring be made self-sufficient as quickly and efficiently as possible. A tool need not be a physical artifact – rest assured […]
Randy | October 3, 2012
Love Thine Enemy By LFM T’is said to love thine enemy Is much to be admired, And I only learned just yesterday It’s something I desired. It happened near a month ago, I met a man one day, The fate of whom converged with mine On roads where trouble lay. So I sought the village […]
Randy | October 1, 2012
October again, and the harvest is in, by every definition of the word. Welcome to another season of Dark Sentiments! If you’ve never experienced it before, “Dark Sentiments” is an annual series that appears here every October, each day of that month presenting observations and tales of people, things, doings, and goings on that come […]
Randy | September 30, 2012
The sky is grey, the moon is full, and Dark Sentiments returns tomorrow for a third season as dark as six feet up a Moose’s ass. In case you’ve never experienced it, take a walk on the wild side with this retrospective from the past two seasons. The intro to the inaugural season of Dark […]