Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 31: All Hallows Eve

| October 31, 2014

Throughout this series I’ve applied the title of  “dark sentiment” to a variety of emotions, events, human acts, portrayals, and situations. Tonight we’ll talk about the darkest sentiment of all – True Love. True Love is the darkest of sentiments both because it has the power to motivate those blessed enough to be possessed by […]

Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 30: Home Invasions

| October 30, 2014

We of the LFM Clan reside in an antique farm house sitting atop a granite foundation that readily affords access to our basement by all manner of creatures. To the degree, in fact, that our basement stands as its own balanced ecosystem. Mice and Moles, for example, regularly pass through, as do the Minks from […]

Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 24: A Word from Ray Villafane

| October 24, 2014

“‘Darkness’, as it inspires me, isn’t limited to expressions of evil, mayhem, and bad outcomes. Something can also be considered “dark” if it is unknown, misunderstood, or incorrectly interpreted.” ~ The Book of Dark Sentiments The Artistry of Ray Villafane (sample above) and his fellow Artists Andy Bergholtz and Chris Vierra who together form the creative […]

Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 18: Privacy, Secrets, and the Sliding Scale

| October 18, 2014

If there is one very dark pit modern society is hell bent on careening headlong into, it’s the dangerous, dangerous, and I emphasize really fucking dangerous idea that demanding privacy is somehow suspicious, and tantamount to an open admission that you – indeed anyone who wishes to have it – must have “something to hide”. […]

Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 11: I’d Put You on a Pedestal

| October 11, 2014

T’is not to say all women crave Such ravishment as this. And if you think that’s what I’ve said There’s something that you miss. A Lover worthy of the name Is one who’s come to find That the truest path to heart’s desire Lies through a woman’s mind. ~ Dark Sentiments 2012 – Day 28: […]

Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 9: Aubrey Beardsley

| October 9, 2014

The Valiant A ballad The valiant was a noble bark          As ever ploughed the sea, A noble crew she also had          As ever there might be. When once at night upon the deep          The Valiant did sail, Her captain saw a pirate ship          By the moonlight dim and pale. Then up […]

Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 4: The Erotic Art of Yoji Muku

| October 4, 2014

WARNING: Images and links contained in this article are of an EXTREMELY ADULT nature that may be disturbing to some readers. If your sentiments run against subjects that include bondage, nudity, and torment in a sexual context, then please leave this page now and come back tomorrow when we’ve moved on to a different topic; […]

Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 2: A Fairy Tale

| October 2, 2014

Fairy Tales, as they were originally written, weren’t the saccharine offal children who don’t belong to Mrs. LFM and me, or a few notable Friends, grew up with. They were intended to convey valuable life lessons to the offspring of people who lived a lot closer to reality than most in the so called “first […]

Dark Sentiments 2014 – Day 1: Welcome Back

| October 1, 2014

“Welcome, Dear Reader, to yet another season of Dark Sentiments; being our traditional 31 October days of musings, revelations, exposé, poetry, literature, visual arts, and myriad dark expressions of the Human spirit, all chosen from the sort most in the world have spent the past year trying desperately to avoid, or pretend into nonexistence.” ~ […]

Home From th’ Wars

| September 21, 2014

If you have to doff multiple kilograms of gear before you can even start taking off your clothes at the end of the day, then you will sympathize with this soldier. Gone to years worth of war, he’s returned to his Wife who, not unlike my own would do, has wrapped herself around him in […]