Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 13: Whither Thou Goest?

| October 13, 2013

I once convinced a small group of idiots that my birth certificate had an expiry date stamped on it. Don’t try this yourselves though, because my powers of persuasion exceed that of mere mortals, and I’d hate to be responsible for any of you hurting yourselves; at least if I’m not there to watch. Good […]

Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 4: The Watcher at the Window

| October 4, 2013

Here tonight for your edification is another LFM sleepy time tale! The Watcher at the Window is not to be confused with The Monster Under the Bed. which, as you will soon know, is an entirely different thing. As of last Tuesday, Son LFM is a month among us, and while there’s a while to […]

Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 1: A New Beginning

| October 1, 2013

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. This […]

The Apprentice

| September 14, 2013

In a recent telephone conversation with my Esteemed Friend Gary Carbone, we spoke of matters that included the taking on of students, and the choosing of training partners. Specifically, the filtering of those who truly want to know from those who simply want to look as though they do, and how one may come to […]

Made in Canada with Polish Parts

| September 8, 2013

The picture above explains the reason for my absence of late – Viktor Ryszard Lawrence Whynacht was born to Mrs. LFM and me at 02:10 Atlantic Daylight Time on 3 September 2013 – miraculously at almost exactly the same time and on the same date on which, in 2001, I grabbed his perfect Mother, pushed […]

In Ferro Veritas – Chapter the Fourth

| August 17, 2013

Welcome back dear reader, and may I introduce you to this fourth chapter of In Ferro Veritas! This summer in Nova Scotia has seen an extreme escalation in highway accidents and fatalities therefrom. Along with this has come a constantly fizzling, crackling background noise of daily close calls, and it is a rarity these days for […]

“Fucks” as a Sustainable Resource

| August 4, 2013

“It’s not that people don’t give a fuck; it’s that they don’t broadcast the topics for which fucks are given. Because giving a fuck can often lead to being hurt, fucks are given more cautiously and with lesser fanfare than was the case with the fucks given in previous time periods. The proper current etiquette […]

Of Shit and Shinola

| July 31, 2013

Recently one of my Esteemed Friends had occasion to say “shit” publicly. He did not do so without justification and, to my mind, he owes no one any apology. The identity of said EF shall remain confidential for a variety of reasons, but he will know of whom I speak when I say this poem […]

In Ferro Veritas – Chapter the Third

| July 21, 2013

Greetings gentle reader! If you’ve made it here to these latest musings without reading Chapter the First and Chapter the Second of this series, I respectfully suggest that you do that before proceeding. To the left is a photograph that I personally took last week, in the bedroom of an 82 year old woman who […]

In Ferro Veritas – Chapter the Second

| July 18, 2013

There is a component of the population that, due to professional obligations, may be called upon to step in harm’s way at any moment, but most of us go about our lives with no intention or desire to ever do so. Yet the risk exists now, as it always has, of finding yourself in a […]