McCartney at 80: Things he says today
Earl Fowler Remember how unimaginably far in the future the year 2000 seemed when we were kids? Who doesn’t recall that tantalizing,...
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Earl Fowler
May 27, 202212 min read
Suis-tu un autre?
Secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce, Ulysses Earl Fowler Sarah Jessica Parker’s...
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Earl Fowler
May 18, 20227 min read
Rust in piece
Earl Fowler It’s a familiar refrain in my cohort that things aren’t as good as they used to be. Perhaps you got the memo. And no wonder...
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David Sherman
May 15, 20224 min read
When there's more junk than time
David Sherman Downsizing is a euphemism for, “The place is too big, the stairs are too long, I have too much shit and I don’t want to...
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Earl Fowler
May 11, 20226 min read
Poo-tee-weet?
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night Earl Fowler One of the...
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Earl Fowler
May 6, 20222 min read
Gone with the chins
Earl Fowler Even if it’s not quite a GLAAD, GLAAD, GLAAD world we’re living in, I have a feeling, Toto, that we’re not in Kansas any...
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David Sherman
May 3, 20225 min read
The world changed without our help
David Sherman Maybe this will seem familiar. You went to high school and maybe university in the 60s and 70s. While the Americans were...
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Earl Fowler
Apr 29, 202215 min read
Hand me down my walkin' cane
Earl Fowler Yes, and on our spring walk along the Galloping Goose bike trail, dilapidated railway tracks and Capital Regional District...
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Earl Fowler
Apr 22, 202210 min read
Smoke got in our eyes
Earl Fowler Mike Bossy, 65, lung cancer. Guy Lafleur, 70, lung cancer. Both dead in a week. Both hockey superstars and wonderful men. You...
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Earl Fowler
Apr 10, 20224 min read
And I'll Call Rusty
Earl Fowler Dear Rusty, you old Rhode Island Red cross-breeder, you: How’s it hanging? The old seed pecker, I mean. For a change, I just...
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Earl Fowler
Apr 8, 20228 min read
N-word negation to the nth degree
Earl Fowler Remember the good old days when the student movement was an ally of university and college faculty members who dared to...
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Earl Fowler
Apr 3, 20228 min read
Blinded by the Light
We are all earthworms, digging our wrinkles. We live beneath the ground and if Christ should come in the form of a plow and dig a furrow...
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David Sherman
Mar 31, 20222 min read
Putting the family on canvas
Painting and text by John Pohl. This is a painting of my grandchildren from a photo I took of them in 2020 (four then; two more were born...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 30, 20224 min read
Plumbing the depths of Covid cocooning
Bob Morrissey The knock on the door came as a surprise, given that it was eight o’clock in the morning and I was still in bed. Like a lot...
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David Sherman
Mar 25, 20221 min read
What GOP slime balls would really like to ask Ketanji Brown Jackson
David Sherman & Earl Fowler Where the hell did you get a name like Ketanji? Aren’t you really a Muslim Jihadist? Wouldn’t you rather be...
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David Sherman
Mar 21, 20224 min read
Stop the world, I wanna get off
David Sherman Hello fear of nuclear war, my old friend, good to fear you again. Those fond old days of air-raid drills and hiding under...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 17, 20223 min read
Lewd Indigo
Earl Fowler Since muscling hundreds of independent bookstores out of existence in recent decades, box-store giant Chapters Indigo has...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 16, 20225 min read
Rice and Eggs are Hard to Beat
Bob Morrissey This is about rice and eggs, two words that are simple to spell, almost impossible to mispronounce, and yet so fascinating...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 7, 20222 min read
On the Road Again
Earl Fowler Interesting confluence. Jack Kerouac will turn 100 on Saturday, March 12. Ulysses, from which Kerouac borrowed his...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 2, 20223 min read
A pandemic of senior moments
Bob Morrissey Another day, another senior moment, which I blame partly on Covid-19. This time it was early yesterday morning at my local...
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