Randy | October 10, 2010
“Russian roulette is not the same without a gun, and baby, when it’s love, if it’s not rough it isn’t fun.” ~ Lady Gaga ~ Most men live their lives in daylight, And when darkness wraps its claws around them, they are blind. But embrace the darkness, my cherubs and you can see. Most men […]
Randy | October 9, 2010
I was three when my parents bought the house on Lunenburg’s Cumberland Street where I grew up. It was a Cape Cod style house located in the “Old Town” section, and had been built in the late 1700’s or early 1800’s. The perimeter of the house rested on a foundation of whitewashed native slate, its […]
Randy | October 8, 2010
When I was in late elementary school, and before I was the person I am now, I became the target of a bully. Admonished by my mother not to fight, I substituted instead the kind of ravenous hatred that can, at least for a time as one entertains hopes of salvation, be restrained from any […]
Randy | October 7, 2010
One hundred and sixty-one years ago today, a light of dark genius was extinguished forever under bizarre circumstances that remain unclear to this day. At approximately 5:00 AM on Sunday, 7 October 1849, at the end of several days of delirium, Edgar Allan Poe regained complete consciousness only long enough to speak his last words […]
Randy | October 6, 2010
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) was an unauthorized film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula. Released in 1922, the movie was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starred actor Max Schreck in the role of Count Orlok, the vampire. Silent and shot in the grainy black and white of its […]
Randy | October 5, 2010
Revenge. It’s among the top ten of my favourite topics and our society likes to pretend it’s fallen out of favour. Bullshit.
Randy | October 4, 2010
Here’s an uplifting little bit of rhyme for you. Not sure who wrote it, but I find it catchy. Can’t even shout, can’t even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven And they might take yours. Can’t call to mom, can’t say a word. You’re […]
Randy | October 3, 2010
I am privileged to know a policeman with whom I have shared many a working and non-working hour, occasionally whilst quaffing an ale or ten. Our man is a retired member of the now disbanded Whynacht Security & Survival/Lunenburg – Mahone Bay Police Expeditionary Force who now plies his trade as a crime scene investigator […]
Randy | October 2, 2010
Mrs. LFM and I were recently asked to dinner at the residence of the kind of friends that don’t require the services of a food and drink taster before anything passes one’s lips. In the course of the evening I had cause to mention our preferences for dark, even black, humour. I further recounted how […]
Randy | October 1, 2010
Throughout human history and up to an amazingly short time ago, people lived in more intimate contact with Nature. The reality of what constituted a “work week” was driven by whether or not the sun was up, the current weather trends, the time of the month, and the season of the year. Self-sufficiency of the […]