Monthly Archives: June 2022

(brilliantly written by Alan Price and performed at the end of the classic movie of the same name) If you have a friend On whom you think you can rely You are a lucky manAnd if you found the reason … Continue reading →

(Bibliography: my 1971 Aesthetics course textbook) -Aesthetics suggests, correctly, that it is possible to arrive at criteria to sort out good and great art works from those which are lesser or inferior. Some of these, across the various mediums and … Continue reading →

is it always gets worse. –Bruce Cockburn

The sanitized convenience world of phones and tablets vs. the real, ongoing, ever-increasing eruptions and revenge of Nature leading, again, to a Doomsday scenario. I am reminded yet again of Wordsworth’s classic admonition: The World Is Too Much With Us … Continue reading →

CNN headline: Russia is ‘hemorrhaging’ millionaires

What would people all over the world do and how would they manage if The Big One strikes, plunging the Earth into communicative and connected darkness. And, the even bigger question, how would people manage to carry on with their … Continue reading →

Purex /Cashmere probably wanted to emphasize the softness of their toilet paper, but using an intimate love song “Sometimes When We Touch” will add a truly bizarre/kinky twist for users of the product. To say nothing of the consequences of … Continue reading →

The limitations of technology as opposed to the Arts, Nature, and Love. No question that people and kids today have lost touch with the Greats and great works produced by pre-20th-century Western civilization. Out there is a naive, limited/limiting belief … Continue reading →

“Give us this day our daily shooting.”

-B.C.’s legislation decriminalizing hard drugs -Canadian cities approving of alcohol consumption in parks ………………………There will be increases in drug use and drug trade in B.C. There will be more assaults in parks and fewer families using parks. They will become … Continue reading →