Randy | October 10, 2016
Ed’s Manifesto, which I have previously mentioned only in passing, is the name of a Facebook page associated with other internet outlets ( like this one) belonging to a Mexican Gentleman by the name of Ed Calderón. Ed lives in Mexico City, and until recently was employed by the Mexican government. His job description, to […]
Randy | October 8, 2016
My poem, The Strange Case of the Caller at the Library Window, published here on Day 7 of last year’s Long Winter’s Night, “… is the story of two fellow beings. One, a solitary Man interrupted at his ease by a persistent caller. The other, as it turns out, merely in quest of a last […]
Randy | October 7, 2016
Back on Day 1, I laid before you some specific flavours of forbidden knowledge. I want to refresh your mind, Goode Reader, before we get too far gone, as is said. To begin, there are historical practices, now treated as anachronistic in this self-crowned “enlightened” age … “… There were, and are, cultures in the […]
Randy | October 6, 2016
The 1953 Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 is set in a totalitarian future version of our world. Inspired by a combination of his love of libraries, and his coming to know in his formative years that Adolf Hitler was burning books (in concert with incarcerating and murdering intellectuals), the book tells how at first, only […]
Randy | October 5, 2016
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment examines a very special kind of forbidden knowledge. The kind we simply can’t know. The kind of knowledge that comes of no living witnesses. Francis is the tale of 17 year old Francis Brandywine, and originated as a short story written by Dave Eggers at the request of Ira Glass for reading […]
Randy | October 4, 2016
Most Loved and Frightful Seed By LFM I would show you a thing To uplift and inspire. Cast a glow on the path To whate’r you desire. This mysterious thing’s, Filled with magickal quirks, It holds wishes to grant — If you know how it works. It can give you ideas To review and compare […]
Randy | October 1, 2016
“If you know something, you know something. If you do not know something, it does not exist in your world.” ~ Musashi, What You Don’t Know Whether you’ve spryly hopped the hedge to get here, crawled, or were dragged through it backwards, welcome back, Goode Reader, to this seventh season of Dark Sentiments! Research for […]
Randy | September 25, 2016
Here’s an irony for you. On this day in 2011, reacting to yet another wave of panic of the kind that inevitably follows recirculation of the rumour that Facebook is about to become a pay for use service, I wrote on my personal Facebook page: I gladly pay to have my websites hosted. There is […]
Randy | August 5, 2016
In his comment on Troy Zwicker’s The Sidearm of “Swank Syd” Lawford, published here a few days back, reader Simon Tanner kindly wrote, in part: May I recommend a book called “The Last Englishman”, an autobiography of Lieut-Col.Alfred Daniel Wintle M.C. (lst the Royal Dragoons). c.1968 Copies will be few and far between and most […]
Troy | August 1, 2016
Introduction by LFM: I first met Troy Zwicker when I joined what was then called the Bridgewater Fencing Club, now the South Shore Duellists, in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, back in the last century. I came to know him as among the most aggressive épée fencers I’ve ever crossed steel with, and it was at that […]