Stranglers in a Strangled Land
The American people have been conditioned from the cradle by the cleverest and most thorough psychotechnicians to believe in and trust...
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David Sherman
Oct 185 min read
Phones only as smart as their users
David Sherman Smart phones get a bad rap. Cell phones don’t chew your brain, people invite phones to chew their brains. It’s just a...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 155 min read
How the light gets in
I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. … Seen in...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 122 min read
Love Hides in the Strangest Places
Quinn McIlhone I do not fall in love in a day or a week, I fall in love in a quarter hour. I am in ecstasy, the world bathed in a liquid...
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David Sherman
Oct 104 min read
Hockey & hurricanes: it's all just TV
David Sherman In between watching the first hockey game of the season, a 1-0 nailbiter between Montreal and Toronto, we watched another...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 101 min read
Done Unto By Others
Sometime around what used to be known as the year 2080, the androids stopped believing that they had been created by human beings. It...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 66 min read
Hollywood’s Steamiest Sex Swaps
Earl Fowler Dunno about you, but I sort of miss the fusty Motion Picture Production Code implemented by Hollywood studios in 1934 in...
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Earl Fowler
Oct 424 min read
A Round Trip to Bogotá
Gerry Klein PROLOGUE While cleaning up after a recent flood in our house I came across a letter I had written and sent to a Swiss friend...
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David Sherman
Oct 11 min read
A Day in the Life
David Sherman Coffee Hamas Trump Hezbollah Text Email Zelensky Eggs & toast Houthi Putin Othani Rattling Subaru Doctor Ouch Bank machine...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 301 min read
Call of Duty: Modern Drawerfare
A whole generation now, maybe two, of friendless, unattached, habitually whacked-out men in their 20s, 30s and 40s cowering in their...
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David Sherman
Sep 283 min read
How a painting left an artist's life
Story and art contributed by John Pohl. Last month, I wrote about Booting It To Wellington, a painting that had found a home with a...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 251 min read
Axe the tax, hike the hype
Here’s a not terribly audacious prediction for you. Once soon-to-be Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre has killed the carbon price,...
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David Sherman
Sep 221 min read
Bits
Contributed by Niall Mcilroy in and further in extremities digits joints vertebra skin nails hearing in and out bending standing walking...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 2011 min read
From Bad to Verse
Earl Fowler No one has ever described the human condition with such dour accuracy, a sadder heart or more diminished expectations than...
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David Sherman
Sep 174 min read
We're invaded by white people
David Sherman Our town has been invaded, overrun, seized, plundered and pillaged. By white people. Thousands and thousands roar in,...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 162 min read
A Quiet Weekend in the ’Hood
You phone me Friday and ask if I’d like to get together. As fine as Thursday was, I cannot do it. It has been only eight weeks since my...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 76 min read
Not everyone’s a critic
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can’t drive the car. — Kenneth Tynan Earl Fowler My stint as a rock critic lasted precisely one...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 411 min read
Requiem for a record store
Drove downtown in the rain Nine-thirty on a Tuesday night Just to check out the late-night record shop Call it impulsive, call it...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 32 min read
Booting it to Wellington
John Pohl My great friend Barry M. and I were walking toward Wellington St. in Verdun one day in the spring of 2019 when the sun dipped...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 3017 min read
Leave ’em laughing when you go
Earl Fowler I didn’t know George Ferguson. I’m glad I never lent him money. But I wish we’d knocked back a Guinness or two. And I...
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