Randy | October 3, 2013
The title of today’s Dark Sentiment is taken from that toe tappin’ Queen classic we all know and love, and most particularly its use in one of my favourite commercials of all time. Behold: This brings me around to two animated short films that I present today for your viewing pleasure, both dealing with the […]
Randy | October 2, 2013
Unnatural Selection By LFM I’ve had a gift these many years And ken not whence it came. I cannot claim to guide its ways, Nor even know its name. To outward signs, I have good genes, And carry aging well. I will admit, I’m all of that, But something else as well. It’s not that […]
Randy | October 1, 2013
Welcome, Dear Reader, to yet another season of Dark Sentiments; being our traditional 31 October days of musings, revelations, exposé, poetry, literature, visual arts, and myriad dark expressions of the Human spirit, all chosen from the sort most in the world have spent the past year trying desperately to avoid, or pretend into nonexistence. This […]
Randy | September 14, 2013
In a recent telephone conversation with my Esteemed Friend Gary Carbone, we spoke of matters that included the taking on of students, and the choosing of training partners. Specifically, the filtering of those who truly want to know from those who simply want to look as though they do, and how one may come to […]
Randy | August 19, 2013
“From One Second to the Next,” the rather unlikely film below, came together when AT&T approached the legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog and asked if he would direct a series of short films warning people about the dangers of texting while driving. “What AT&T proposed immediately clicked and connected inside of me,” Herzog told the […]
Randy | August 14, 2013
Father Thomas and the Bear By LFM Father Thomas crossed the sea With righteous blazing soul, In search of heathen sinners, Whose salvation was his goal. A month of sore privation Found him standing on a strand Wherefrom a forest primal Stretched across a trackless land. T’was there he met a people Who were naked, […]
Randy | August 11, 2013
Even though it was done to both of us in infancy, neither Mrs. LFM nor I hold with the practice of baptizing infants into any spiritual affiliation. By extension, this same sentiment applies to anyone else who, for whatever reason, cannot choose for themselves. The fallacies inherent in this sordid and inexcusable practice are beautifully […]
Randy | August 4, 2013
“It’s not that people don’t give a fuck; it’s that they don’t broadcast the topics for which fucks are given. Because giving a fuck can often lead to being hurt, fucks are given more cautiously and with lesser fanfare than was the case with the fucks given in previous time periods. The proper current etiquette […]
Randy | July 21, 2013
Greetings gentle reader! If you’ve made it here to these latest musings without reading Chapter the First and Chapter the Second of this series, I respectfully suggest that you do that before proceeding. To the left is a photograph that I personally took last week, in the bedroom of an 82 year old woman who […]
Randy | July 18, 2013
There is a component of the population that, due to professional obligations, may be called upon to step in harm’s way at any moment, but most of us go about our lives with no intention or desire to ever do so. Yet the risk exists now, as it always has, of finding yourself in a […]