Monthly Archives: February 2020

(a resplendent little UK movie which won Best Picture in 1981; Ian Charleson #451) Watching him in Gandhi (1983) and remembering him as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire before that. Various speeches from that movie are on Google Video, … Continue reading →

The late Pepper (right) would respond to invitations for a walk on a word-by-word basis: “Do (head cocking)-you (moreso)-want-(getting excited)-to( very excited)-go…anyway by the time you got to walk, she was by the door. Also went crazy upstairs if you … Continue reading →

knowing what I know and as sure as I am, without a good crap detector. Thank you, Aristotle, Hemingway, and Postman.

Make no mistake about it. He has been hanging out in Africa for a more subtle reason: to do penance for his multiple blackface episodes. This way if he comes off ok with the people there, he will really ‘reproved’ … Continue reading →

One of many fun, interesting, unique artifacts I have collected along the way. Quotations on the mug: -When you have eliminated the impossible,whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -Be aware: All great criminals have a complex mind. -Singularity … Continue reading →

Obit: Canadian no-nonsense, truth-telling journalist, Christie Blatchford, 68.

37 hit-and-runs in E-Town’s snowstorm yesterday. 37 frightened, self-centered, morally irresponsible drivers loose on the streets of Edmo.

natives block the pipelines and railways and coronavirus potentially threatens Canada. And where is our absentee PM today? Africa, of course!

–Bill Clinton. “Is” is often equated with “true”, “the truth”, “facts”, “exists”, and “verifiably true”. Which is why I have no patience with liars (e.g., Trump: over 16,000 lies and misrepresentations since taking power over 3 years ago). He has … Continue reading →

pronounced “drowned”, not “drownded” and “mischievous”, not “mischievious”.