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 27, 2020
Tonight’s mind dropping is drawn from the Season 7 section of the Dark Sentiments archives. I have marvelled ever since at the restraint of the musically gifted among my Goode Readers as exhibited by none having expressed interest in recording this toe tapping ditty. Ah well, my door is still open. Dark Sentiments Season 7 […]
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 25, 2020
Tonight’s appetizer first got knees to being slapped far and wide on Day 16 of Season 5 and has become a fan favourite. Whatever you drink with this, it should be something bubbly. Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 16: The Bum Puff Fairy Previously published on October 16, 2014 Today’s Dark Sentiment is about things […]
Randy | September 24, 2020
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment first appeared by the light of a waxing crescent moon on Day 10 of Season 4, and predates Canada’s formalized legal foray into medically assisted dying in 2016. Any choice of meditative elixir will go well with this one. Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 10: Death Comes to Call First published on […]
Randy | September 23, 2020
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment appeared here on Day 8 of Season 3 and draws heavily on intimate personal acquaintance with a lovely and quite innocent house bearing a striking resemblance to the one atop which this particular, and singularly nasty, room abides. Any libation bearing a strong hint of brimstone would go well with this I […]
Randy | September 22, 2020
Tonight’s feature in our countdown to Season 11 was first published here on Day 26 of Season 2. Hunter’s Moon is a terrible tale of primal travail, murder, cannibalism, infanticide, frontier justice, and absolute revenge. Whatever you drink with this, it shouldn’t be anything particularly smooth. Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 26: Hunter’s Moon First […]
Randy | June 7, 2020
Yet horns of war and strife now blow, And echo through the land. Loud enough, I hear them yet From where I choose to stand. For Peace is in that place, you see, That strife is furthest from, But no vantage have I ever found Whence I can’t hear its drum. ~ The Woodsman’s Song […]
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 | April 20, 2020
Indigenous Ability is the title of an excellent blog written and updated regularly by Mark Hatmaker for the purpose of “Examining & Resurrecting Indigenous Skills and Frontier Rough & Tumble Combat”. In this, it succeeds admirably, to the point where even those labouring under the travails of urban living would do well to drink deeply […]