Randy | December 5, 2012
The strongest emotion I remember from every one of those trips was the overpowering sense of freedom that came over me the moment I felt my canoe leave the shore at the start. At that instant, nothing back in the so called “civilized” world mattered. Only the real things mattered, and if you’ve ever experienced […]
Randy | December 5, 2012
Here’s a thrilling little ditty that’s as unsafe for work as you can get at this hour of the day. Yes, writers are sexy. You’ve seen my Wife – I’m living proof! That’s why writers write – because we can’t contain all the sexy, even during sex! Here’s Rachel Bloom in the official music video […]
Randy | December 1, 2012
Before the foppery of fashion that surrounds us today there were old standards that stood the test of centuries. Most notably, the codpiece and the cloak. The latter is our subject today, presented by lindybeige as part of his A Point About series. If your accessory list for a night on the town includes daggers […]
Randy | November 28, 2012
If you want to be a musician, but the only time you play your instrument, or even think about it, is during your half-hour weekly lesson, you’ll never become a musician. You have to think about it all the time. Eat it, breathe it, dream it. You practice constantly, even when you have no instrument […]
Randy | November 24, 2012
Last Sunday evening, Mrs. LFM and I spent some exquisite hours soaking up the perfection that is Jesse Cook and his band of musical magicians, with the added spice of incomparable guest vocalist Emma-Lee. The tour is titled The Blue Guitar Sessions, and the venue was the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at the Dalhousie Arts Centre […]
Randy | November 21, 2012
Early in the present century, while Mrs. LFM was finishing her last year of University, we rented an apartment in Halifax near the Dalhousie campus. In the neighbourhood lived a woman who was regularly encountered walking her Dog, off lead, on sidewalks that lay adjacent to busy city streets. The Dog never strayed from being […]
Randy | November 7, 2012
Earlier this year, on the subject of The Book of Five Rings – The Definitive Interpretation of Musashi’s Classic Book by Stephen F. Kaufman, I wrote – Musashi was perhaps the greatest swordsman who ever lived, and yet it would be a mistake to approach the Book of Five Rings as a guide to learning […]
Randy | October 31, 2012
“True Love is passionately fierce on a primal level, and no mating pair possessed of its power can be defeated. The best an enemy can do is kill them. Both of them, for to leave one alive is to guarantee doom. A man blessed as I, and a woman blessed as Mrs. LFM, lives every […]
Randy | October 28, 2012
“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, Poker Face The sudden upswing in popularity of such books as Fifty Shades of Grey is at once unsurprising and inexplicable to me. Unsurprising because the dark side of desire […]
Randy | October 23, 2012
Last November I published a poem here that was finished too late to appear in Dark Sentiments – 2011. My Angelique is the strange story of a man who was one day visited by the Angel of Death, for the usual reasons, and seduced her instead. Carpe diem indeed! This poem is a bit more explicit, […]