Monthly Archives: December 2016

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(decorated her blue Betta’s fish tank today–he’s at Santa’s feet putting in his requests)

Winter City? Frozen North? (fact) Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” or Sam McGee incarnate. Too bloody cold for rats. Snow blown across Xmas potholes. Someone else’s bad dream rammed down a senior’s throat like feckless mayors, windrows or snow-covered … Continue reading →

(after Glenn Gould’s The Idea of North) dedicated to Dean McKenzie …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. (We have administered these vast territories of North in an almost continuing state of mind…) High latitude vast flatness of poles wind a whitewash breathing lungs stone-cold (I … Continue reading →

Frozen North aka Edmonton. A good day for chestnuts roasting on an open fire as opposed to insanity on the roads as people stress-out shopping and driving to stores everywhere in pursuit of materialistic Christmas. A good day to stay undercover/s or to … Continue reading →

I can remember being back at Golden Gate High in Winnipeg, February, 1962, and the radio broadcast of Glenn landing in the ocean and being recovered was broadcast via radio over the intercom in our classroom. A rare historical moment; something … Continue reading →

Days where a man could perish from simply being caught outside. (relevant viewing: rare DVD ready by Orson Welles of Jack London’s classic freezing-to-death story)

Every year at this time I break out my favorite Christmas CD–the diamond anniversary edition of Holiday Inn and White Christmas with songs by the great Irving Berlin. Warm memories of watching those movies annually with my parents on the … Continue reading →

There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons– That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes– Heavenly Hurt, it gives us– We can find no scar, But internal difference– Where the Meanings, are– None may teach it–Any– ‘Tis the Seal … Continue reading →

A B.C. teacher at a private school got fired for answering a student who had asked him what he thought of abortion. He said he didn’t believe in it, was later forced to apologize to the student in class in … Continue reading →