Monthly Archives: January 2022

Bogdanovich, 82.Director of several good films and one of my absolute favorites about the 1950s–The Last Picture Show. Interesting, realistic coming-of-age story within a 1950s small-town America context. Glorious Hank Williams background music. Very impressive cinematography and use of the … Continue reading →

“And the rocket’s red glare, the bomb bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there” (The Second Amendment has always favored yahoo insurrectionists. Has always been open to misinterpretation.)

Birthday signs waiting to greet him when he goes outside: “O frabjous joy. Callooh, Callay!”

My father was a soldier thenAnd times were very hardWhen I was young.”-Eric Burdon Thinking back yesterday to winters of olde, how bone-chilling, skin-freezing cold they’ve always been at their worst, epitomized by Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Bronte’s Wuthering … Continue reading →

Re. Jan. 6 insurrection:“Look at all these people fighting for me!” He reportedly “gleefully” watched “pressing rewind” on his PVR. How much more of a smoking gun does the U.S. need to lay treason charges against him for what Biden … Continue reading →

Parents who consciously and actively prevent their children from being vaccinated and then the child dies from Covid are committing murder.There is no way to sugar-coat this blatant dumb-ass crime. Equally reprehensible, letting the infected-through-negligence kid go out to infect … Continue reading →

(In response to someone else’s highly-organized schematic schema he sent me) I usually get twitchy with this many ‘neat’ categories. Something relative to Blake’s I must create my own system or be a slave to another man’s, has something to … Continue reading →

Edmonton Journal headline:No EI for Unvaxxed Who Lose Jobs(Fair and just for many reasons.) EJ quote from Alice Yang, a gr. 12 student who organized a Chinese rally at the Legislature, protesting against Kenney’s thoughtless, completely gratuitous “bat soup” accusation … Continue reading →

They were in great form, as was the band. Good representative song choices. In January 1971, there were 2 folk clubs in downtown Edmonton. One Sunday evening, we went to the open stage and I played a few songs. They … Continue reading →

especially in Arctic weather. Basic for backyard sparrows, chickadees, blue jays, and squirrels.