Monthly Archives: December 2019

(Staying up late looking for Waldo) Always a family event here. Grandkids getting into the spirit more and more. New Year’s Day a.m. always starts beautifully with the Rose Bowl Parade on tv with mimosas, pop tarts, and leftovers from … Continue reading →

you star in yet another unnecessary version of Jack London’s Call of the Wild (a violent dog story). Harrison Ford.

Listen to the hummingbird Whose wings you cannot see Listen to the hummingbird Don’t listen to me (from the recommended, posthumous album Thanks for the Dance)

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” –Eden Phillipotts “In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” –Aristotle “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” –Thoreau … Continue reading →

(Brian hamming it with the Art Club which I hung out with one fall Sunday at the legislature and Union Station; friends Hugh and Dave on the ends of the upper row) A cold call today out of the blue … Continue reading →

In the bank vestibule early this morning, a street guy fast asleep on the hard floor with an empty chip bag beside him. Must have been his late night snack or supper yesterday.

“Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-coloured snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, … Continue reading →

A mad, frenzied dash to the ‘finish line’ by Albertans who still have jobs.

Will finally be judged by the physical destruction he has brought to Edmonton, the ultimately unfinished LRT, and by the litany of crazy projects city council has wasted time and money on from expensive dedicated bike lanes to widespread, irrational … Continue reading →

the ‘conscientious’, elitist absentee brown/blackface PM who did not deserve a second term. He is the biggest fake PM in our history. Fake feminist. Fake diversity promoter. A massive, vacuous zero who has never said anything but b.s.