Randy | April 18, 2010
I recently contributed to a thread on BladeForums.com on the subject of corkscrews on modern knives and that started me thinking. This post is the result. I personally subscribe to the practice of never being without such an implement whenever there is a risk of wine being encountered which, one lives in hope, is perpetually. […]
Randy | March 17, 2010
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 a good toast, tastefully delivered, no matter how ribald the content, but the Irish are an odd people. Their toasts are full of statements like, “May you die in Ireland”, which for most […]
Randy | February 21, 2010
At left – Actress Kim McGuire in the role of “Hatchet Face” in the 1990 John Waters movie Cry-Baby. The movie postdates the events described here. My utterance had nothing whatsoever to do with Ms. McGuire’s characterization. I know it will be hard for most of my readers to believe, but I sometimes succumb to […]
Randy | February 12, 2010
The daily dose of sunlight is obviously longer now than it was a month ago, but this fact notwithstanding, I’ve noticed in my travels that a lot of you are singing the blues of “seasonal affective disorder”, apparently to explain why you’re still the same pissy bitch you are at every other time of the […]
Randy | February 7, 2010
A few years back I did a fictional RCMP Air Services 70th Anniversary paint job on the beautifully modelled deHavilland Tiger Moth that was created and made available to the world of virtual aviation by Messrs. Warwick Carter and Garry J. Smith. The nose art that appears in the screen shot above is decidedly not […]
Randy | February 4, 2010
I grew up in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in a time when most families made their own versions of every day food staples that we now simply go to the supermarket to buy. One of those was the pickled herring delicacy locally referred to as “Solomon Gundy”. Making Solomon Gundy requires herring that has been cleaned […]
Randy | January 17, 2010
The following story has recently been declassified and can now be released to the public. Back in my second year at Dalhousie University I was living in the men’s residence, Howe Hall. At the beginning of that year we started finding cockroaches everywhere. I had none in my room, but caught a couple in, of […]
Randy | December 11, 2009
Jim Keating brought a timely website to my attention yesterday, the topic of which is the perennial December blossom called, by its correct scientific name, the “Sketchy Santa“. If you grew up in North America you’ve met at least one, and observed still others from a safe distance. The site needs no further introduction from […]
Randy | October 26, 2009
The Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) will soon be considering an application from “local” television stations aimed at forcing cable and satellite television providers to pay them what they claim to be a “fair share” of their profits. My biggest exposure to both sides of this argument comes from my morning dose of Canada […]
Randy | October 17, 2009
It’s with thanks to Bruce (Uncle Fluffatron) Shephard that I post this because it’s his fault I found it. Die hard Border Collie fan that I am, it goes to my blog without further introduction.