Monthly Archives: February 2018

to propose a downtown playground for street people and dopers to hang out in, leaving needles for kids to discover. Likewise, stupid enough to build an ankle-deep fountain in front of city hall, and, simultaneously, to propose an obvious e-coli … Continue reading →

(the young Van Johnson) watching a play. We ended up sitting beside one another. He looked as of old in the ’50s onscreen, still intact. “Hey, I played you in my high school production of Brigadoon in 1967.” “Well, stranger … Continue reading →

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

title of front cover image`by RD: Song for Jackson Pollock

The forgettable woman who dumbly messed up the first reign ever by a Canadian female PM, lasting less than 5 feckless months, has re-emerged to speak out in the media, with great authority and credibility, on a hugely major social issue … Continue reading →

Trying to clear snow off skating-ice on bike lanes for all those riders riding their happy ways into ferocious northern arctic winds. What fools would be out riding bikes today, dodging trucks, ploughs, and graders? Having a massive stock and … Continue reading →

The Thrill of the Grass

“Walls windows trees, waves coming through You be in me and I’ll be in you Together in eternity Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me” –Bruce Cockburn, “Wondering Where the Lions Are”

“Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket to the moon.”–Merle Shain, Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others “I touch the future. I teach.”–Christa McAuliffe, Aug. 1985 speech “I have everything I need, … Continue reading →

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops–a neverending black hole into which the hoi-polloi regularly pours money into. The planned obsolescence and the mass’s common denominator desires to own the absolutely latest gadgets, first pointed out by Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman … Continue reading →