Randy | June 7, 2012
For those of you eagerly awaiting your chance to read The Book of Dark Sentiments, I’m releasing here the contents of that tome’s Introduction: Dark Sentiments is the name of an annual series that appears on my Large Fierce Mammal website every October, each day of that month presenting observations and tales of people, things, […]
Randy | May 17, 2012
The current slate of projects has been keeping me away more than anticipated, so I feel you all deserve a preview of things to come. The Book of Dark Sentiments, being a collection of skullduggery gleaned from previous incarnations of my LFM Dark Sentiments series combined with previously unseen work, is very near completion. It […]
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 | 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 11, 2011
Canadian Tire recently began selling the Fasthawk tomahawk manufactured by SOG Specialty Knives and Tools. The local branch is a security client of ours and recently, whenever I was there, I could hear the damn thing calling my name. Fortunately, Mrs. LFM and I maintain a toy budget made entirely out of Canadian Tire Money, […]
Randy | November 27, 2011
“In considering how much you should care about the reaction of another to your own behaviour, it is always best to assume that they are armed, lethally skilled, and prepared to kill you at the slightest provocation. If the desired outcome of your course of action outweighs that risk, then you must proceed without delay; […]
Randy | September 25, 2011
Mrs. LFM and I live in the midst of plenty, all of it provided by Nature and requiring only the investment of time, effort, and gratitude to enjoy. An example of what I’m talking about is the succulent Blackberry that grows in abundance at our place. I decided this past spring to pursue a couple […]
Randy | June 16, 2011
“A goodly man the mower is, With sinews tough as twisted rods, A form of manly grace is his, A head as trenchant as a god’s “A man of thought; the harvest o’er, Its heats and triumphs left behind, He rests, and gives himself once more To pleasures of the heart and mind.” ~ from […]
Randy | February 17, 2011
What follows is a character development for the most important role in my present work in progress, Skrælingibók – A Skræling’s Saga. After all, without the Wendigo what would be the point? If you don’t yet know the concept of the story, click here for enlightenment. Lore holds that the Wendigo is a spirit. While, […]
Randy | January 8, 2011
A thousand years ago, Viking expeditions out of Greenland made incursions into North America. Much of what we know of this time comes down to us from a pair of Icelandic Sagas that were written two hundred years after the events they describe, supplemented by archaeological examination of the failed Vinland settlement at L’Anse aux […]