Breakfast of Grampians, or Goodbye Wide-Open Beavers
Earl Fowler And so it occurs to me that 50 years ago on Father’s Day, I finished reading the novel Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had written while...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 17, 20234 min read
Senior forecast: Cloudy with a chance of caskets
Bob Morrissey I don’t mean to sound cranky, but this getting old business is quickly getting old. Do the aches and pains ever leave? When...
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Earl Fowler
May 30, 20235 min read
The Evil of Banality
Earl Fowler There’s a wonderful scene in Ian McEwan’s 1998 Booker Prize-winning novel Amsterdam in which senior staff of a British...
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Earl Fowler
May 27, 20231 min read
John Cleese skit thematically updated (to suit modern sensibilities)
Earl Fowler A fashionable eco-friendly gourmet vegan restaurant in a posh part of a seaside town. At a romantically lit table sit a...
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Earl Fowler
May 25, 202316 min read
Correctile dysfunction, fake nudes
Earl Fowler Former Montreal Gazette colleague Jim Withers encapsulated it in his sparkling essay in Fish Wrapped: True Confessions from...
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Earl Fowler
May 24, 20235 min read
Navigating Japanese Customs
John Pohl I had a little more than three hours to make my connection in Tokyo for Fukuoka. My son and his family were waiting for me...
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David Sherman
May 19, 20234 min read
The planet's going batshit
David Sherman The planet is out to get us. Don’t blame it. We’ve treated it like a septic tank, though we clean our septic systems every...
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Earl Fowler
May 17, 20235 min read
I am Music and I bite the thongs
Earl Fowler Dear Dr. Mangled Song Lyric, My wife has always been extremely beautiful, but lately she has been putting on an awful lot of...
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David Sherman
May 15, 20235 min read
Invasion of the swamp creatures
David Sherman Swaths of the continent have been occupied by aliens, an invasive species of proselytizers, preaching that an invisible,...
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Earl Fowler
May 12, 202310 min read
Let’s Make a Doll
Earl Fowler “Why write,” Chekhov once wondered in a conversation with a fellow author, “about a man getting into a submarine and going to...
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Earl Fowler
May 5, 20237 min read
AI Am Your Retribution
Earl Fowler Hi kids. It’s me, Artificial Intelligence. AI for short, but let’s not get hung up on formality. I prefer ai — though I’m...
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Earl Fowler
Apr 28, 20238 min read
SEE BELOW FOR INSTRUCTIONS
Earl Fowler A friend of mine was taken aback the other day by the instructions on a package of tamarind chutney: DO NOT HEAT Deforest...
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Earl Fowler
Apr 17, 20236 min read
At last! A sequel to The Big Chill
Earl Fowler Well, it took 40 years. But I was ever so glad to learn of the coming sequel to the smash comedy-drama The Big Chill, as I’m...
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Earl Fowler
Apr 7, 202310 min read
Oubliettes and Mondays Always Get Me Down
Earl Fowler So it’s a Saturday in 1960, say, one of those 40-below mornings in January when the sun, encircled by ice crystals and...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 31, 202313 min read
It Was 60 Years Ago Today, Side One: Beatles
It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 31, 202312 min read
It Was 60 Years Ago Today, Side Two: Dylan
The purpose of art is to stop time. — Bob Dylan Earl Fowler Like Please Please Me, which showcases Angus McBean’s classic photo of the...
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David Sherman
Mar 27, 20234 min read
Hockey in the bedrooms of the nation
David Sherman I’m proud about being heterosexual. Some nights I’ve been prouder than others. On some occasions I’ve been really proud, as...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 21, 20237 min read
Screening Bloody Murder
Earl Fowler If I could have back the hours I’ve spent mindlessly watching British crime drama series, I could devote that time to the...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 17, 20237 min read
Chekhov’s Gun
… in short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because — I don’t know why! — Anton Chekhov Earl Fowler I’ve been...
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Earl Fowler
Mar 10, 202315 min read
For the Anniversary of His Death
Now It Is Clear Now it is clear to me that no leaves are mine no roots are mine that wherever I go I will be a spine of smoke in the...
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