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Four glorious warmish nights of outdoor classical music. Nature and music do go together nicely. We usually go one night and farm out the other 3 shows to son, daughter, and extended family. Nice balance. Everyone is entitled to this … Continue reading →

(Calgary) A lowly spider crawled into air quality monitoring equipment and produced ridiculously high readings recently. Man proposes, spider disposes. Technology vs. Nature. Nature wins. Easily. Reminds me of the spider that had webbed my garage door detector, interfering with … Continue reading →

Portion of average Canadian family income paid to municipal, provincial, and federal taxmen.

“Great thoughts come from the heart.” –Marquis de Vauvenargues “O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!” –John Keats “Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with … Continue reading →

“He is strongest who is most alone.” –Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People “Without contraries is no progression.’ -William Blake “In delay there lies no plenty.” -William Shakespeare “All is flux, nothing stays still.” -Heraclitus “Time held me green … Continue reading →

(Truffaut rehearsing kissing scene on Day for Night), still from the excellent British Film Institute Francois Truffaut’s comic masterpiece Day for Night is mainly the story of a film shoot, but it is also an homage to film, a spoof … Continue reading →

The first book to seriously challenge mock The Age of Reason and the inadequacies of optimist Leibniz philosophy (“the best of all possible worlds”). The narrative is a massive negative catalogue of violence, absurdity, meaningless coincidence, sexual violence, human vice. … Continue reading →

“Social media, lotto tickets, and cheap Tim’s coffee are the opiates of the Canadian masses.” –R.D.

Lean against the warm van waiting for the others to return from a grave. Cotton ball clouds roll across the blue sky above. Afternoon tree shadows trembling on grass. A hundred yards away the freeway traffic never ceases its preoccupied … Continue reading →