Drying Up and Blowing Away

| December 11, 2013

Going Postal By LFM I killed a man the other day, He’d just himself to blame. First my patience emptied Then my pistol did the same. Disposing of his carcass Was an easy thing to do. So simple that you’ll wonder why It never came to you. I bubble wrapped and boxed him up And […]

Thanks Bunches Harry

| November 2, 2013

This past Hallowe’en, a seance was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia in keeping with a long standing tradition: “Each year since his death 87 years ago, a séance has been held somewhere in the world on Halloween in an attempt to contact Houdini. This year it was held in Halifax. “Organizers said about 85 to […]

Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 18: The Dog in the Tempest

| October 18, 2013

On Sunday (Julian calendar) the 4th day of August in 1577, a thunder storm of wrath of God proportions unleashed its fury between the morning hours of 9 and 10 o’clock over Suffolk, England. Within four weeks of that event, a slim volume titled Straunge and Terrible Wunder wrought very late in the parish church […]

Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 12: The Old Hag Returns!

| October 12, 2013

As if yesterday’s coverage wasn’t enough, I couldn’t resist trotting out The Old Hag just one more time. After all, in another life, I was married to her for quite a while, and back then, trotted her out more than a few times. Today we’ve got the trailer, and a sequence of ten bits of […]

Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 11: The Old Hag

| October 11, 2013

So on his Nightmare through the evening fog Flits the squab Fiend o’er fen, and lake, and bog; Seeks some love-wilder’d maid with sleep oppress’d, Alights, and grinning sits upon her breast. ~ Night-Mare ~ Erasmus Darwin O’er her fair limbs convulsive tremors fleet, Start in her hands, and struggle in her feet; In vain […]

Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 9: Your REAL Net Worth

| October 9, 2013

Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man! What are you but a warped, frustrated young man? A miserable little clerk crawling in here on your hands and knees and begging for help. No securities, […]

Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 6: Frozen Dead Guy Days

| October 6, 2013

A whole 31 days in October every year, and it still can’t hold all the shit I find in the 12 months leading up to it. Ah well, one does what one can. “Frozen Dead Guy Days” is an annual event held in Nederland, Colorado – next scheduled for 7, and, and 9 March 2014 – […]

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 […]

Just Leave it to Uncle Argyle

| September 28, 2013

By the courtesy and unflagging vigilance of the Right Honourable Master At Arms James Albert Keating, I was recently made aware of an entertaining bit of information out of Scotland. According to her Behance and facebook profiles, Beatrice Sgorbani is a young woman living in Edinburgh, Scotland, working as a “brand and business development executive” […]

A Tale of Two Bints and a Bear

| August 27, 2013

The stupidity of sending out trappers after a bear who did nothing except be a bear is unbelievable. How about – if you’re going into bear country, expect to have a bear encounter. If you can’t handle that, DON’T GO WHERE BEARS LIVE!! And for fuck’s sake, wear something a little more appropriate on your […]