Operatic tragedy on streets of home
David Sherman Reisa decided I needed to expand my musical culture, something beyond electric guitar, bass and snare drums. On good...
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Earl Fowler
6 days ago14 min read
It’s getting very near the end for Sgt. Pepper’s Enlarged Prostate Glands
Whatever happened to the life that we once knew? — The Beatles, Free as a Bird Earl Fowler Half of what I’ll say here is meaningless, but...
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Earl Fowler
7 days ago1 min read
Nothing Can Quench a Lover’s Thirst
Quinn McIlhone With a Sony Walkman I can read at night while listening to music at the kitchen table without disturbing you. Shut out...
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David Sherman
Nov 202 min read
Romance and reverie in Nonchalance
Contributed by the artist currently known as John Pohl from his present exhibit in Montreal. Nonchalance on the wall of my kiosk/tent,...
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Jude Klassen
Nov 193 min read
Comfort TV for Canadians: The Handmaid’s Tale
By Jude Klassen Why The Handmaid's Tale is a Canadian Comfort Watch -- for now. Margaret Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s...
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David Sherman
Nov 164 min read
Compassion in the corners of life
David Sherman If you needed a mechanic and lived anywhere near Lachute, QC, rated 200th on a list of 200 best Canadian cities, your...
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David Sherman
Nov 141 min read
Democracy is comin' to the USA
With apologies to Leonard Cohen David Sherman The voters have decided Hate’s not really sin Polish your swastikas And be a good Christian...
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Earl Fowler
Nov 132 min read
Talkin’ Deep State Conspiracy Blues
Earl Fowler Great horny-toads, Meemaw! Woke up in a cold sweat and sat bolt upright in bed last night when it occurred to me that...
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David Sherman
Nov 124 min read
Coping with Trump redux: Hockey can save your soul
From our archives, first published during Covid lock down, Aug 2020 David Sherman If you’re not a hockey fan, become one. I’ll spare...
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Earl Fowler
Nov 101 min read
The white vote
Unprincipled people cash in on uneducated people’s disdain for educated people’s disdain for uneducated people.
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Earl Fowler
Nov 95 min read
Passe-moi le Valium
Earl Fowler So where were we before we were so rudely interrupted? Oh yes. I read in the paper this week that 2024 — punctuated by...
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David Sherman
Nov 71 min read
Election noise profitable click bait
David Sherman There will be tales of woe and beating of chests. Millions of words will be written as to why and how. That is how they...
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Earl Fowler
Nov 41 min read
Waitresses and Pilgrims
It’s 1972 and Leonard Cohen hesitates to ask a waitress her name at a late-night café on Eighth Avenue and Van Morrison is singing about...
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Earl Fowler
Nov 12 min read
Smile. You’re on Candid Canada!
Earl Fowler Back in the Westinghouse-Samsung Era, before HGTV Canada was bringing us such compelling fare as Property Brothers and...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 311 min read
Too Cold for Comfort in the West End
Quinn McIlhone Given such happy nights were spent playing love games on a couch with you, it is curious I should find myself weighing a...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 293 min read
AI postmortem (asking for a friend)
You said: Why does my friend think AI is dead? ChatGPT said: The idea that "AI is dead" might come from several possible perceptions or...
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David Sherman
Oct 285 min read
The many myths of America
David Sherman Swift Removal New Orleans: The judge’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by unhoused people who were subject to...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 272 min read
Modern Prometheus: The Obituary
I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel. — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Earl Fowler It is with a mix of bemusement and...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 256 min read
Land Acknowledgement Ho!
There was an Indian head … drawn by an unknown artist in 1939, broadcast until the late 1970s to American TVs everywhere after all the...
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David Sherman
Oct 244 min read
With fascists at the gate, a perfect time to take a ball and puck break
David Sherman There is a place to hide in plain sight. The drama is intense but unscripted. There are no polls to tell you how it will...
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