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The Royal Wedding. Refinement, ritual, respect, dignity, grace, ceremony, order, artfulness. No North American rubes, rudeness, coarseness, hate, violence, abuse, political agendas. A reminder of some of the best of disappearing Western civilization via Brit culture.

Heard from a reporter during Hawaii volcano coverage: “We moved our people when the sulphur dioxide smell became palatable.” Yum! Yum! Two more lost words: palatable and palpable. So many of these reporters throw out words they don’t even know, … Continue reading →

is when no solicitors call. -RD

Construction site with big hills of dirt. Couple pulls car over by the side of the road. Get out with shovel and garbage bag and walk to the hills. Free dirt! Help yourself! I have long maintained that if it’s … Continue reading →

Trimming my ears periodically at 68. The many things we don’t have to do when younger. This morning, doing same, I was suddenly mentally back to spring, 1998 in Winnipeg General Hospital–where both my Dad and I once worked–trimming his … Continue reading →

The disgruntled female customer in a Langley Tim’s who dropped her pants, then defecated on the floor, and who next threw her crap at a Tim’s employee behind the counter shows that Screwball Central has really taken over and that … Continue reading →

I can still remember reading his first collection of essays, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) in 1971 (as the most modern American writer in a 20th century American lit course) and really enjoying his funny Las Vegas essay which … Continue reading →

Don Iveson and city council for systematically, physically destroying Edmonton and laying it to waste while wasting billions of taxpayer money on frivolous, useless projects.

Margot Kidder, 69. She will never be forgotten because of one good role in the first Superman movie. A chance, too, to remember the late Christopher Reeve who died too young after being paralyzed from a fall from his horse. Remembering him … Continue reading →