Randy | October 9, 2016
All thematic threads be damned, let’s take a little side road, shall we? Believe me, you won’t be disappointed. In the past year, we’ve found Canadian singer-song writer Lindi Ortega. If you’ve never heard of her, then prepare to be delightfully educated. She’s been described as “country’s most delectable vixen”, “not-quite-saintly”, and having a voice […]
Randy | October 5, 2016
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment examines a very special kind of forbidden knowledge. The kind we simply can’t know. The kind of knowledge that comes of no living witnesses. Francis is the tale of 17 year old Francis Brandywine, and originated as a short story written by Dave Eggers at the request of Ira Glass for reading […]
Randy | October 3, 2016
Knowledge may be forbidden by circumstance, both accidental and by design. But even the best laid plans may have an unexpected expiry date after which nothing will ever be the same again. Premier Automne (First Autumn) is the story of Abel and Apolline. “Abel lives in the winter and Apolline lives in the summer. Isolated […]
Randy | October 2, 2016
“True Love is the darkest of sentiments both because it has the power to motivate those blessed enough to be possessed by it to the performance of feats that are incomprehensible to the great unwashed, and because, in its truest form, it does not exist to most of the world. In that, it is truly […]
Randy | September 30, 2016
The 7th season of our annual Dark Sentiments series begins tomorrow. We love the Autumn, and it evokes such joy in us that Mrs. LFM and I got married on an All Hallows Eve a long lovely time ago. In celebration of all that, and a bunch of other things I could no doubt remember […]
Randy | September 25, 2016
Here’s an irony for you. On this day in 2011, reacting to yet another wave of panic of the kind that inevitably follows recirculation of the rumour that Facebook is about to become a pay for use service, I wrote on my personal Facebook page: I gladly pay to have my websites hosted. There is […]
Randy | September 3, 2016
The largest of our Small Fierce Mammals, Viktor, is three years old as of 02:10 Atlantic Daylight Time today. Tall for his age, smart, charming, witty, straight of stance and sound of limb, he’s developed a pattern of behaviour with his female contemporaries that is a wonder to behold. Released into any social setting that […]
Bitey | August 20, 2016
“Long heralded and now about to become reality, let this stand as official announcement of a new and semi-irregular LFM feature – Al Dente – With Bitey McBighterson! Beginning Saturday, 30 March 2013 and appearing whenever he gives a shit, Bitey will give you his unbridled, well gnawed interpretation of current events. After all, what […]
Randy | August 5, 2016
In his comment on Troy Zwicker’s The Sidearm of “Swank Syd” Lawford, published here a few days back, reader Simon Tanner kindly wrote, in part: May I recommend a book called “The Last Englishman”, an autobiography of Lieut-Col.Alfred Daniel Wintle M.C. (lst the Royal Dragoons). c.1968 Copies will be few and far between and most […]
Randy | August 3, 2016
As a Canadian bystander witnessing the bizarre train wreck that’s slowly and painfully morphed into what is now supposed to be the really serious part of the 2016 US Presidential Election, I’m reminded of a few things. The first is an article I posted here on 20 January 2013 that highlighted one published to The […]