Randy | July 8, 2012
Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. ~ The Hobbit ~ My 24 June 2012 […]
Randy | July 6, 2012
When I go into a coffee shop it’s always serious business, for I am in need of the blackest, most evil brew they have. The one that, if not sold quickly, will eat through the pot, the floor beneath, and on to the Earth’s core. Yesterday I was doing a routine inspection on some equipment […]
Randy | June 27, 2012
I serendipitously found this on my current path of study. The live action fight choreography in the segments that weren’t excerpts from other productions is stilted to say the least, and a few other fluffs appeared that I won’t elaborate on, but what the hell. Mrs. LFM and I are Mark Decascos fans, and, while […]
Randy | June 24, 2012
Miyamoto Musashi‘s teachings come down to us today through his Book of Five Rings, a short but very pointed bit of work that exists on store shelves in a variety of translations, most of which are little more than exercises in linguistics rather than being true interpretations rendered from any meaningful foundation of martial understanding. […]
Randy | April 29, 2012
A long time ago, I had a brief and exceedingly primal relationship with the Deer that is the inspiration for this poem. In brief, I had come to kill him but, at the moment we met for the first and only time, he made a compelling argument to the effect that he had more pressing […]
Randy | March 25, 2012
Last night Mrs. LFM and I were watching Billy Joel night on American Idol, meaning that each contestant had to choose and perform a song from the Billy Joel play list. We’re both fans of the man himself, and I was delighted to hear a performance of one of my all time favourites – his […]
Randy | January 23, 2012
Today we’ll celebrate the True Arte of the Sabre in all its lethal beauty. Rarely seen here in North America, this connects with what I talked about in my 16 May 2011 article, To the Point. I assert that society suffered a major setback when it cast aside swordsmanship as one of the essential foundations […]
Randy | January 17, 2012
“I wanted girls to gain confidence to be themselves, and not just quiet wives working, working and swallowing all the time their own dreams….” ~ Katerina Tarnouska, founder of Asgarda If you’ve spent any time here, you’ll know a couple of things. First, how much I appreciate strong, intelligent women; and second, that the foundation […]
Randy | January 7, 2012
Many of the most entertaining movies I’ve ever seen are in the so called “B movie” category. There is a lot of absolute crap to be found there to be sure, but the number of true gems that one uncovers among them makes the hunt worth while. Once upon a time, in my neck of […]
Randy | January 4, 2012
The way our work weeks are structured, field work in the service of clients runs from Friday through to Tuesday with Sunday usually taken for personal use, and Wednesday through to Thursday is reserved for administrative paperwork, writing and other creative pursuits, training and development of our own Pack, and quality us time. Yesterday being […]