Monthly Archives: July 2022

Only Shakespeare could have come up with a phrase like

“fretful porpentine”. (Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5, line 20) It was believed in his time that porcupines in bad moods ‘threw’ their quills.

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“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”

–George Eliot

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“The Goodbye Girl” (1977): Still a Good ‘Un

Simply one of the great movie comedies of all time. ‘Twas funny back then and still is thanks to an Academy-Award-winning Best Actor performance by Richard Dreyfuss at, arguably, the peak of his fame. He plays Elliot Garfield, an up … Continue reading

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Brooke Henderson, Canada’s best-ever female golfer,

won the big Evian tournament, her second major, which moves her further into the ranks of top golfers. At 24, there are more big wins to come. Kudos and congrats!

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Joni Rises Again!

(Joni in peak form, 1998, 4 years after she appeared here at the Edmonton Folk Festival)) Performing at 78 for the first time since the early 2000s at Newport’s folk festival. This, also, being her first full set since her … Continue reading

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Only Edmonton would send out an irrelevant trucker convoy

and even more irrelevant nude cyclists to meet the Pope. Coarse, dumb-ass politicking Alberta-style.

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Virginia Woolf’s Accurate View of Life

(as presented by critic Elizabeth Drew): “Life never builds itself into the convenient symmetry of a plot. Life is the quality of the immediate present as we live it from moment to moment. Experience is made from the silt of … Continue reading

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The Two Endings of Great Expectations

(previously posted on September 14, 2016) I think Dickens got it right with the original short, ‘sad’ ending. Much there is in the book before that, that supports an unhappy ending. Both Pip and Estella were both so used and … Continue reading

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Historically, people have spent much of their time

sleeping (leaving shorter days), preparing food and eating ( 3x a day; in the olde days they had to spend a lot of time finding and growing food daily), and ‘going to the bathroom’. They also had to have a … Continue reading

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“Never discount

the power and value of things and place.” (RD) Had the grandsons over yesterday for their first visit here in 2 1/2 years. I knew, in advance, that this would be a powerful experience, their returning to our house and … Continue reading

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