Author Archives: rdavies

  good taste and sensibility. Two features sorely lacking in today’s crass, crazy, irrational, violent world.

complete with champagne bottle popping sound effect and glasses of vino offered between maestro and key orchestra members. In a Western world gone dumb and dumbed-down, very clever and eminently civilized.

flitting along like some uninhibited butterfly until the maestro turns to the audience and says, laconically “Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera…”

than watching one of the recorded fabulous New Year’s concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic while sipping coffee and munching on Dad’s Classic oatmeal cookies as the sun comes gradually up on the nearby trees and houses through a large patio … Continue reading →

One set of parents lets a child die rather than provide necessary medical attention and help. Another allows a child to roam freely unsupervised in a rural area. Both children die needlessly and tragically alone. Maybe it’s time for a … Continue reading →

before we fall. Tell it all brothers and sisters. Tell it all.” –Alex Harvey (for Kenny Rogers and The First Edition)

(Conrad in 1904; photo by Beresford, Radio Times Hulton Picture Library) “What makes mankind tragic is not that they are victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal kingdom under the … Continue reading →

And when the European economy and Europe collapse, how many Albertans will still be queued up in big-ass monster trucks for cheap coffee at Tim’s?

Frank Shuster’s great recurring line in “Rinse the Blood off My Toga”, Wayne and Shuster’s classic spoof of Julius Caesar and private detective tv shows of their day. They knew what the core of this tragedy was really about. To … Continue reading →

“There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.” –Joseph Bronowski