Author Archives: rdavies

Emblematic of the toxic culture Trump has spawned is his spiritual adviser wishing for all “satanic pregnancies” to miscarry. We’re talking sick, demonic superstition firmly taking hold in the presidency.

Greatly reduces no. of bus routes. Builds a massive LRT which no one will ride because there is no free parking near terminals, because connecting routes have been cancelled, and because people can’t get to terminals or main routes, and … Continue reading →

My Dad took me to a lot of good theatre movies in my formative years. I particularly remember going with him in my elementary years to a Robert Youngson Laurel and Hardy compilation featuring all the old silent comedians. And … Continue reading →

Beautiful day for a walk at the U of A. Woodpeckers out working on the thawing trees. A good time to knock off the snow dump weighing down your bushes, allowing them to straighten out again.

(cover of the rare 1997 UK songbook not available in Canada) “Everybody knows the plague is coming Everybody knows that it’s moving fast” –as predicted by Leonard Cohen, 1988, “Everybody Knows”

Henry VIII, uh, Donald Trump’s “head on a pike” threat to GOP senators thinking of voting for witnesses and documents. Again, the threat of a monarch-dictator-mobster and supreme examples of witness intimidation, bullying, and continuing non-stop obstruction.

–spoken by the gangsta-mobster-thug in the White House today.

are a good excuse to defer brekkie until after labwork, especially. Denny’s is a good go-to place for breakfast. For me, it’s an especially treat since I normally do not drink whole milk or more than 1 cup of coffee … Continue reading →

“For though we say that we know nothing about Shakespeare’s state of mind, even as we say that, we are saying something about Shakespeare’s state of mind. The reason perhaps we why we know so little of Shakespeare– compared with … Continue reading →

Virginia Woolf writing about the greatest writers and greatest minds like Shakespeare– “If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman must also have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge … Continue reading →