Randy | February 23, 2012
To quell the panic that’s abroad in the land, I’m here today to assuage your fears that ol’ LFM has thrown in the towel or some such. Not a chance. Mrs. LFM and I have been grappling with the latest iteration of black death, and are now well on the mend. In the mean time, […]
Randy | January 27, 2012
Today, at approximately 12:30 PM Atlantic Time, Mrs LFM and I were with Dusty when he took his last breath. He wasn’t in pain or discomfort, but the past 48 hours had seen a decline in his health and joie de vivre that told us it was time. He was 15, and throughout his long, […]
Randy | January 23, 2012
Today we’ll celebrate the True Arte of the Sabre in all its lethal beauty. Rarely seen here in North America, this connects with what I talked about in my 16 May 2011 article, To the Point. I assert that society suffered a major setback when it cast aside swordsmanship as one of the essential foundations […]
Randy | January 16, 2012
Doers and Talkers By LFM The Doers and the Talkers Are as a breed apart. While Doers work and get things done, The Talkers never start. The Talker never does a thing But bend the Doer’s ear, The noise he makes comes from his mouth, Not tools and working gear. This happens from a simple […]
Randy | January 15, 2012
The inspiration for this poem came while I was reading the intro to my Esteemed Friend Laurie Lacey’s 15 January 2012 Natural Healing Talk newsletter. Some day soon, Mrs. LFM and Laurie’s Lady Rita, will tolerate Laurie and me sitting by a fire all night inspiring each other to even worse inscriptions than this! The […]
Randy | January 2, 2012
If you’ve gotten far enough to read this after Mrs. LFM’s title photo, and if you believe the hype, the year just ended will also mark the end of the calendar printing industry because 2012 is it. Well, Mrs. LFM and I have appointments the day after Armageddon so that shit’s not on for us. […]
Randy | December 31, 2011
I’ll be looking at the past year in a retrospective tomorrow. In the mean time, here’s my favourite New Year’s Eve song, dedicated tonight to Sarge, a persecuted dog you’ll be reading more about here in the very near future because in my opinion, what’s being done to Sarge and his family in the name […]
Randy | December 30, 2011
Mahone Bay is a tiny and picturesque town on the south shore of Nova Scotia with a population that has been steadily shrinking for decades, mostly due to natural causes. On the thirty-first day of January 2001, a landmark business in that town, Bills Department Store, closed for good, but not before it had borne […]
Randy | December 29, 2011
As promised yesterday, here we are for a romp on the dark side. What else is new? Northern Europe is home to a rich cornucopia of mythology centered around the doings of entities, deities, and personalities that practice their own rituals at this time of the rolling year. Born of harsher times, these are naturally […]
Randy | December 28, 2011
Every time I embark on a series of articles that connect with a theme, for example Dark Sentiments that runs the entire 31 days of October each year, and now A Long Winter’s Night which will likewise be an annual event running from 21-31 December, my fevered brain generates content that far o’erflows the allotted […]