Monthly Archives: November 2016

listening to Cohen’s “Going Home” in the car. (Interesting how Cohen knew he was on the home stretch years before, but still managed to polish off his last 3 albums. Smart and very lucky.)

“Mandatory” and “tyrants”. Expect much less personal freedom as we move more toward government control, nationalism, and extremism. A no-brainer.

Driverless cars for Alberta streets and roads or texting lanes for drivers on Edmonton streets? Bets?

with its former emphasis on traditional school subjects is being systematically gutted in favor of government propagandizing of whatever populist minority fads, select causes and agendas of the day. With the complete surrender to e-technology, kids continue to get dumber … Continue reading →

is full and goes on Sat., Nov. 26 at Woodcroft library in Edmonton. Some notes on Poetic Sensibility (by Richard Davies): Sensibility  -the ability to be open to, to feel or perceive, and sensitively respond to sensory stimuli and related … Continue reading →

Well, I see the ones who crawl like moles Who for a front would trade their souls, A broken mirror’s the only hole for them; And for you who’d exchange yourselves, Just to be somebody else, Pretending things you never … Continue reading →

(2006: undauntedly starting his comeback after facing bankruptcy; with Anjani signing his last poetry book) ………………………………………………….. …Canada Post to publish a commemorative Cohen stamp, the Mint a Cohen coin, and for Columbia to re-release his collected albums with extras in … Continue reading →

Personally remembered as the most entertaining cool, sneaky villain from Colombo (the cruise ship episode) and as the corrupt boss in Bullitt. It’s turning into a revolving-door week of obits…

(on left) my father, Delmar (Del) Vernon Davies (1926-1998), in Royal Canadian Navy (Sept. 9, 1943 to Apr. 23, 1946 and–in its Reserve–Sept. 13, 1960 to Sept. 12, 1965). He also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from Mar. … Continue reading →

(We were all young once. Cohen’s 1963 photo on the back of the U.S. ed. of his first novel The Favorite Game.) (my rare inscribed copy of a religious poetry collection for a Canadian fan) ………………………………………………….. Obit Leonard Cohen, 82, Montreal. … Continue reading →