Monthly Archives: November 2021

Dangerous, misleading tv commercials.Like Magic Eraser.Smiling guy bare-handing an eraser in his kitchen on all his appliances, counter, etc.This stuff is very toxic.What damage will the toxic stuff do to his hands?What if he touches his mouth or eyes?Why isn’t … Continue reading →

(my Dad in WWII, Vernon Delmar Davies) Acted. Made a difference today. Chose and expressed ourselves tangibly on the basis of core personal values. Made our donation today to the above worthy charity. A total no-brainer.Simple cause-effect stuff. Effect: How … Continue reading →

(Alberta Desert Dog, 20+ above @ Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, in early January. Meantime -35 and a blizzard back in E-Town. Over 55 degrees difference. No wonder Albertan passengers applauded the pilot when we arrived on the ground at … Continue reading →

have long been cameras (black and white, originally) and now computers and phones with Internet broadcasting, sharing, and ‘permanence’. Our expanded possibilities and ‘presence’ thanks to technology.Images per se go beyond death thanks to old photos at home and the … Continue reading →

-Let all your thinks be thanks.-The basic stimulus to intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.-Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.-Routine, … Continue reading →

Entire worlds that opened up to me beginning with top 40 radio via a 2 transistor radio, watching CBC Saturday night hockey games on our new B & W tv set, reading Classics Illustrated comics, following The Beatles, going to … Continue reading →

“Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.” (Another of my favorite poets)

A true master of metaphor, irony, ambiguity, and juxtaposition. Song: Sweetest love, I do not go Sweetest love, I do not go,For weariness of thee,Nor in hope the world can showA fitter love for me;But since that IMust die at … Continue reading →

This time around on Halloween, re-viewing the first of the 1960 AFI/Roger Corman-directed films starring Vincent Price, closely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of moral and psychological corruption and insane self-destruction. Nothing like a creaky old mansion with … Continue reading →

(Napoleon Kenney and his pig police keeping all the exploited peon-underlings under his/their absolute control. Only in Alberta you say….) A corrupt fascist party/premier wants its/his own private police force to not lay charges against them and to lay charges … Continue reading →