To thine own self be true

has to come to an end. This T.O. crazy who killed an innocent woman in a store with a knife should be locked up for life. (I agree that jail is not the place for her. But she needs to be contained away from the public as punishment. Cannibal-killer Vince Li should have likewise been locked up longer.)

For some weird reason Canada just gives free passes to these dangerous people. They are dangerous offenders like the sane offenders who get convicted. But no way they should be allowed to walk free sans consequences. The current policy of closing down mental institutions has to stop as this is the proper place for these people to go. There needs to be more justice for innocent, unsuspecting people being brutally murdered in public. This is just common sense, too–something sorely lacking in Canadian society today.

Kevin Quinn has made a point for some time in calling Alexander Overchkin “the great ape”. He’s the only person I know who makes a point of calling this hockey great by an animal name. Why does he continue this insult?

Based on simple empirical observation.

1. If it’s a cloudy day to start, and if the sun is still going to come out, it will do so by noon-hour, more often than not.
2. If there’s a bad storm–rain or snow–it will often come in from the east or northeast.

(My daughter’s pet rabbit)

(Awaiting guests for a Halloween repast)

(cupcake treats for sure)

(some teen ghouls show up)

Hand-feeding chickadees at Laurier park on a quiet weekday morning.

was the American Redstart in our backyard. (Enlarge for a better view.)

(Who needs Shakespeare in a dumbed-down, screen-obsessed North American society?)

(as in great books, great visual art, Great architecture, great music, great music, great thinkers, great men and women), there are no civilization, lofty ideals and idealism, optimism, confidence, higher education and learning, cultivated thinking or conversation, enlightenment, refinement, common courtesy, manners, and refinement of language, individuals and society.

Welcome to our restless, frightened, paranoid, soulless age with much alienation, much stupidity, many agendas, obsession with money or materialism, and little communication of consequence.

The Live in London DVD (Columbia) from 2008, ten short years ago:

Dance Me to the End of Love
The Future
Ain’t No Cure for Love
Bird on the Wire
Everybody Knows
In My Secret Life
Who By Fire
Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
Anthem
Tower of Song
Suzanne
The Gypsy’s Wife
Boogie Street
Hallelujah
Democracy
I’m Your Man
Take This Waltz
So Long Marianne
First We Take Manhattan
Sisters of Mercy
If It Be Your Will
Closing Time
I Tried to Leave You

All delivered by a true witty gentleman with honest self-deprecating humor. (No performer has ever talked this way or will again.) The band outstanding; numerous solos; great players and singers.

And then there’ are all the fine songs from his huge catalogue he did not do!

Darkness
Chelsea Hotel #2
The Partisan
Going Home
Famous Blue Raincoat
Dress Rehearsal Rag
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Diamonds in the Mine
The Stranger Song
Winter Lady
You Know Who I Am
Jazz Police
Priests
Diamonds in the Mine
Story of Isaac
Alexandra Leaving
Joan of Arc
By the Rivers Dark
Here It Is
etc.

Canada’s greatest contribution ever to the world of songwriting and one-man live performing. We shall not know his like again. Unquestionably, our best poet ever.