Author Archives: rdavies

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.

My folks, before me, in the late 1940s, Winnipeg.

In 2006, a city council in Sydney, Australia, used Barry Manilow’s greatest hits to drive away local youths hanging out in car parks, revving their engines and annoying residents. Now, in 2023, in New Zealand, Celine Dion’s music is used for … Continue reading →