Monthly Archives: October 2020

The Passing of James Bond

The other good Bonds and Bond films aside, there was, after all, only one true founding James Bond in the most popular, famous movie franchise: Sean Connery. Obit: Halloween, 2020 at age 90. And what Bond treats he left us … Continue reading

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Grandkids’ Costumes, 2020

Oldest wants to be a futurist architect-scientist. Youngest is more here-and-now.

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My Continuing Connection to the ’50s and ’60s

via two Winnipeg teachers. Betty Shaw (grade 5: 1959-60). Brian Kells (grade 11: 1965-66). Betty–we email back and forth. Brian–we phone back and forth. Brian called this morning and we talked for an hour about his studio apt. at an … Continue reading

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No Brainer: Dumb-Ass Cops

A man with a knife on the street surrounded by many police with guns pulled out. Instead of say, using a Taser or net to control him or, at worst, shooting him in the leg to stop him, they outright … Continue reading

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Of Perception Is Reality, Trump’s “Alternate Reality”, Memory, Connection, and Consciousness

Perception is reality. What you see/subjectively experience is what is fact/true. Shades of George Berkeley and the role of consciousness on the ‘inner’ side/experience of perception. For the individual, it exists if you can perceive it. Trump’s “alternate reality” crapola. … Continue reading

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A Great Canadian Songwriter

(above: my signed photo of GL) Well, of course, there are Bruce, Joni, Buffy, and Ian, but–going back to the 1960s– Gordon Lightfoot has had a solo career spanning 7 decades. There are two large audio archives of his consistently … Continue reading

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Still the Basic Must-have Book for Writers and Poets

Roget’s College Thesaurus. I first acquired the one on the right in 1965-66 (grade 11) and still use it today as a basic, fast thesaurus when writing. The 2002 edition on the left is well-worth picking up as well: many … Continue reading

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The B & W Bona-Fide Halloween Classic

The Haunting, based on Shirley Jackson’s spooky novel The Haunting of Hill House. I taught it once in grade 10 in my first year of teaching (on the curriculum then)–1972. Kids loved it. The 1963 movie is faithful to the … Continue reading

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My Sherlock Holmes Mug

“You see but you do not observe” and many other Holmes quotations.

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The Old Games Are the Best

1950s game inherited from their great grandfather

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