Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 5: Francis

| October 5, 2016

Tonight’s Dark Sentiment examines a very special kind of forbidden knowledge. The kind we simply can’t know. The kind of knowledge that comes of no living witnesses. Francis is the tale of 17 year old Francis Brandywine, and originated as a short story written by Dave Eggers at the request of Ira Glass for reading […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 4: Most Loved and Frightful Seed

| October 4, 2016

Most Loved and Frightful Seed By LFM I would show you a thing To uplift and inspire. Cast a glow on the path To whate’r you desire. This mysterious thing’s, Filled with magickal quirks, It holds wishes to grant — If you know how it works. It can give you ideas To review and compare […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 3: Premier Automne

| October 3, 2016

Knowledge may be forbidden by circumstance, both accidental and by design. But even the best laid plans may have an unexpected expiry date after which nothing will ever be the same again. Premier Automne (First Autumn) is the story of Abel and Apolline. “Abel lives in the winter and Apolline lives in the summer. Isolated […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 2: The Life of Death

| October 2, 2016

“True Love is the darkest of sentiments both because it has the power to motivate those blessed enough to be possessed by it to the performance of feats that are incomprehensible to the great unwashed, and because, in its truest form, it does not exist to most of the world. In that, it is truly […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 1: Forbidden Knowledge

| October 1, 2016

“If you know something, you know something. If you do not know something, it does not exist in your world.” ~ Musashi, What You Don’t Know Whether you’ve spryly hopped the hedge to get here, crawled, or were dragged through it backwards, welcome back, Goode Reader, to this seventh season of Dark Sentiments! Research for […]

Dark Sentiments Eve

| September 30, 2016

The 7th season of our annual Dark Sentiments series begins tomorrow. We love the Autumn, and it evokes such joy in us that Mrs. LFM and I got married on an All Hallows Eve a long lovely time ago. In celebration of all that, and a bunch of other things I could no doubt remember […]

Al Dente – With Bitey McBighterson: Taking the Piss

| August 20, 2016

“Long heralded and now about to become reality, let this stand as official announcement of a new and semi-irregular LFM feature – Al Dente – With Bitey McBighterson! Beginning Saturday, 30 March 2013 and appearing whenever he gives a shit, Bitey will give you his unbridled, well gnawed interpretation of current events. After all, what […]

The Last Englishman

| August 5, 2016

In his comment on Troy Zwicker’s The Sidearm of “Swank Syd” Lawford, published here a few days back, reader Simon Tanner kindly wrote, in part: May I recommend a book called “The Last Englishman”, an autobiography of Lieut-Col.Alfred Daniel Wintle M.C. (lst the Royal Dragoons). c.1968 Copies will be few and far between and most […]

An Election Needs a Soundtrack

| August 3, 2016

As a Canadian bystander witnessing the bizarre train wreck that’s slowly and painfully morphed into what is now supposed to be the really serious part of the 2016 US Presidential Election, I’m reminded of a few things. The first is an article I posted here on 20 January 2013 that highlighted one published to The […]

Full Yellow Jacket

| July 26, 2016

As you all know, I don’t mete out death lightly. That being said, there are some affronts that cannot be ignored and being the recipient of an unprovoked attack by a Wasp is one of them. I would also point out that had I come to know the offender was a transient whose home was […]