Monthly Archives: November 2023

Works for me. Peaches from the sunny country that gave us Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Herodotus, Zorba the Greek, the Grecian marbles, and the British Museum’s Grecian urn which inspired Keats to write his famous ode. A vision of dark blue … Continue reading →

apparently, for a mere $300 /hr. (by yourself, no one else in the room). I visited for free twice on my early 1990’s fall New England literary trips (in the company of a few other tourist-fans). Both times, her famous … Continue reading →

Leonard Cohen passed in 2016; the Thanks for the Ride memorial CD was assembled by his son Adam Cohen in 2019. Leonard started with poetry and finished the same way. These 9 poems have been set to music by Adam … Continue reading →

is by Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company, 1992, 3 CDs–complete text with sound effects and music by Patrick Doyle. (Made just after Branagh’s Henry V movie.) Stars Branagh as Hamlet Derek Jacobi as Claudius Richard Briers as Polonius Judy Dench … Continue reading →

Here is the Gunung Padang pyramid in West Java, Indonesia, built in the Ice Age (25,000-14,000 B.C.); later buried in 7,000 B.C.

will be welcomed and much appreciated by downtown street people who won’t have to brave the elements and have a cozy, long indoor bathroom to curl up in.

Now that the Trucker Convoy and Palestinian protestors have desecrated Canada’s national hero’s statue, it is time for it to be removed and placed in the National Art Gallery before more exploitive political crap happens to it.

Last Canadian PM: Trudeau First American PM: Polievre Last Canadian AB Premier: Notley First full-fledged American AB Premier: Smith

Rats infesting two recycling plants in Calgary. Always knew there were more rats down that way. But I could have told you that when Danielle and the UCP got elected in the last election. Coda: Apparently this has been happening … Continue reading →

as Clause. Guess he must have had that written into a clause in his contract.