Randy | October 4, 2017
Artificial intelligence is a field that offers opportunities both for wondrous good and ultimate evil, for as man strives as a god to create sentience in his own image, much of known history and current reality is at risk of sacrifice upon the altar of wishful thinking. That being said, tonight’s Dark Sentiment was brought […]
Randy | October 2, 2017
“Through every life, lived fully or not, taken note of or not, cycles repeat within and without our mortal vessels. Tiny samples of starting and ending match the macroscopic in their ebs and flows. Rises and falls. Wins and losses. Loves and hates. Embarkations and abandonments. Just as a spell of ascendant convergence may arise […]
Randy | October 1, 2017
“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. “The […]
Randy | May 31, 2017
“Each iteration of Man, leading up to the current free ranging model we meet for good or ill when abroad in the land every day, was a step on the road to development of advanced cognitive function including, very importantly, imagination, and the manual dexterity to put it to work. Every rung on the evolutionary […]
Randy | April 20, 2017
On Day 18 of last season’s Dark Sentiments, I spoke of Dan O’Brien, Esq., and his film project based on the legend of the Dagger Woods Howler, a still from which appears at the top of this piece. Dan found me through my previous writings on the subject, and has since done me the honour […]
Randy | March 28, 2017
Those of us who create know that flickering moment when the newborn sun comes to illuminate what the dying candle no longer can. From The Animation Workshop comes Once Upon a Candle
Randy | March 17, 2017
Today for your edification, I’m offering up a concentrated dose of St. Patrick’s Day goodness gleaned from LFM utterances on St. Patrick’s Days past. Too much goodness to lie forgotten in the archives. It’s been said that God invented whisky so the Irish wouldn’t take over the world. So far it’s worked. I’ve always appreciated […]
Randy | March 5, 2017
“Map-makers mark the unknown with a giant serpent and the words, “Here Be Dragons”. The unknown becomes the known in this exhibition – because the Dragons are now here… “Here Be Dragons explores the myth of dragons through culture, literature, folklore, religion, paleontology, history, science, and live animals. “Their allure is mythic, but they are […]
Randy | January 21, 2017
Denying the claims a Buckingham Palace spokesman told us, “All allegations in this matter are false, and records will clearly show these men were neither up nor down.” Last year I shared an article to Facebook titled Duke of York strenuously denies he had ten thousand men, and the sharing caused no small amount of […]
Randy | December 31, 2016
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state for Commonwealth nations, including Canada, and now at 90, well past the finish line in the race for longest lived and still reigning British monarch (Queen Victoria died at 81). Now, at the end of this year of death and dishevelment, there is something that […]