T’ick o’ Fog (Part 1)

| January 8, 2025

2025 blew in over the shore with its own version of the vapours, alleging worldwide envelopment in mystery obscurants portending doom, and offering me an invitation, if not an outright demand, to give the situation a sniff of my own. At first, I was inspired to recall the intro to this episode of Get Smart […]

A Long Winter’s Night — Advice As We Embark

| January 1, 2025

Greetings Goode and Weary Pilgrims as we embark together on another Hunt, joyous in the comradeship of our Worthy fellows even as many among our number may have been lamed by the vicissitudes of months past. We aren’t dead yet. An odd time this. In my travels upon the land, I find even the Wise […]

Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 16: It Is All Really About You

| October 16, 2024

Does the World exist to torment you and trample your dreams, along with your best efforts to achieve them, into the dust with a cackle? If you answered yes, then tonight’s Feature Artist is here to help.

Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 15: Period Drama

| October 15, 2024

“When young Georgiana Crimsworth finds blood on her sheets and thinks she’s dying, she spirals into fear imagining what’s going to happen to her body.” And so is framed tonight’s Dark Sentiment, Period Drama; a short animated treasure produced at the Ringling College of Art and Design brought to us courtesy of TheCGBros. Dark Sentiments indeed!

Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 14: Be As The Bay Leaf

| October 14, 2024

In this age of divided loyalties and unending crisis, some cower. Some assert themselves from the perceived safety of throngs screaming a common slogan understood differently by each throat and hearing ear. Some look to a saviour. Still others understand that if there is a saviour, in the hour of need it’s going to have […]

Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 11: Best Day Ever

| October 11, 2024

“Best day ever!” An all too common utterance from the mouths of the same subset of the Great Unwashed who seasonally prattle on about their “Resolution” for a new year, and the check boxes (most of them fated to remain unchecked) on their “bucket list”. Spoken as though the speaker is dead but refuses to […]

Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 10: Violence?

| October 10, 2024

Back on Day 3 we had a word from Maestro Adam Crown that, if you haven’t yet heard, you should go and lend an ear to now. We’ll be hearing from him again tonight as we look at a question that is both Naturally simple, and made more vulnerable thereby to being convoluted by certain […]

Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 7: Handicrafts for Long Nights

| October 7, 2024

Paper as an element of expression is not limited to a simple passive platform for paint or ink, and tonight’s Dark Sentiment offers two delightful examples from that other fold — Origami.

Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 5: A Man Of His Times

| October 5, 2024

“All this to bring us here tonight where no man is of a piece, unless that’s all you’ve left of him.” ~ Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 2: Authority With your blood clearly still up from last night’s Sword Dance, I would be remiss in abandoning the saga of Donald McBane whose early experiments […]

Dark Sentiments Season 15 — Day 4: Sword Dance

| October 4, 2024

Tonight’s Dark Sentiment grew out of two inspirations. This oft quoted witticism: “Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.” ~ Celtic Proverb And the other, the life of Scottish soldier, prize fighter, Swordmaster, brothel keeper, notorious duellist, and all around self-made sonofabitch, Donald McBane (1664 – 12 April 1732), author of The […]