Randy | September 29, 2020
The subject of tonight’s fossil utterance comes to you from Day 4 of Season 9, and unlike toilet paper last March, is something that is in far from short supply. Dark Sentiments Season 9 — Day 4: Anxiety First published on October 4, 2018 Anxiety, like feeling stressed, depression, anger, boyhood, and a plethora of […]
Randy | September 28, 2020
As we approach the day when Dark Sentiments springs anew in this Year of the Great Unravelment, here’s a lesson from Season 8 to fuel your day’s meditations. Dark Sentiments Season 8 — Day 9: Lessons First published on October 9, 2017 Lessons By LFM To raise a child is one of Nature’s fundamental things, […]
Randy | September 26, 2020
When people speak of “manners”, they commonly have in mind some superficial behaviours first impressed upon them as something to be sure to do at Grandma’s dining room table. Just as all things of True Importance become trivialized by common usage among the Great Unwashed, we have manners, and Manners. The Dark Sentiment uttered on […]
Randy | September 21, 2020
As our regular readers know, the month of October has a special significance to Mrs. LFM and me — Hallowe’en marks the anniversary of our marriage on the blessed 31st day of October 2008. On the first day of October in the year 2010, we launched what has become an annual event here at LFM […]
Randy | July 19, 2020
The title of today’s utterance is taken from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s favourite code phrase, and delivery, for signalling to his audience that they are being lectured to. From not enough physical distancing to people owning things he is ideologically opposed to, he’s used the term before and no doubt will again, hopefully at […]
Randy | July 12, 2020
These are fraught times strewn with fears; both the named and nameless. This is nothing new. As in other times past when the barbarians weren’t merely at the gates but dwelt among us, the thinness of the veneer called civilization offers little contest to genesis of a mindless rabble bent on the taking of advantage […]
Randy | May 18, 2020
Back in March of 2018, I published an article here titled Smoke, Mirrors, and a Soldier, the inspiration for which was summed up in its first paragraph: I read an article the other day written by Josh Makuch and published last Friday to Vice with the title, “I’m a Veteran In Favour of More Gun […]
Randy | May 9, 2020
“The first time I read Lord of the Rings, I’m sure I was personally responsible for skyrocketing values of stocks for companies involved in the production of bacon, mushrooms, and dark, full bodied beers. I absolutely enjoy any literature that confronts me with a description of food consumed by the characters that leaves me wanting […]
Randy | May 8, 2020
“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander — idiom — chiefly British: Used to say that one person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated.” ~ Merriam-Webster Further to my comments here a few days ago, I will speak today specifically to the officially […]
Randy | May 2, 2020
All these weeks into the global clusterfuck spawned by The Pestilence, it seems natural that as governments have become comfortable with the new reality (notwithstanding whether or not the body politic has) they would revert to the old habits inherent in partisan politics and party defining ideologies going back to great great great granddad’s generation. […]