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August 2013:             2014     2015

4th   1. Begin the beguine.                                                 Malvados - Andre Dahmer:     Having friends helps combat depession.     Halfway on the path towards happiness.     You've already got the depression, now all you need is friends.

8th   2. Doh ...                                                                                                     L'enfer, c'est les autres. Hell is other people. O inferno são os outros.

12th   3. Nobodaddy.                                                                     William Blake - To Nobodaddy, 1793; Leonard Cohen, sometime later: "The widowhood of every government."

16th   4. Is nothing sacred ?!                                                             Tom Robbins, Allen Ginsberg, & T.S. Eliot on the sacred: "Costing not less than everything ..."

20th   5. Pandora's Box (er ... jar). Wallace Stevens - Anecdote of the Jar, 1919; and, the story of Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus. Remember the Google motto: "Don't be evil." (Not.)

24th   6. Thugs & bullies.                                                             Stephen Gough - the naked rambler.

28th   7. Timeless Pot Pourri. Grigoris Lambrakis, Costa Gavras' film 'Z', Barack Obama speaks on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's 'I have a dream' speech - watch his eyes. A few lines from Chris Alexander's 'The Timeless Way of Building', 1979.

September 2013:

1st   8. Too little too late.                                                             "I ran to tell everybody but I could not get across." Wallace Bay near Ocean Falls.

5th   9. Je me fous du monde entier.                                                 David Suzuki as Mr. Mulvangel; Daily Maverick Newsletter; Sigmund Freud 'Humour', 1927.

9th   10. Och aye, ya wee scunner. Total US nuclear accident insurance pool: $12 billion. Projected Fukushima cleanup & compensation: $60 billion. A-and just exactly what do 'cleanup' & 'compensation' mean?

13th   11. You can't get there from here.                                     Old Woman Bay - Lake Superior, June 2005. Tuvalu or not Tuvalu, that is the question.

17th   12. De perto ninguém é normal.   (Up close, nobody's normal.)   São José do Norte: February 2008. 'Wereldverbeteraars', Dutch for 'do-gooders'.

21st   13. If pigs could fly.                                                 Tunel Engenheiro Marques Porto between Copacabana & Botafogo, April 2004. Broken Heart: </3 Pamela : RCMP :: cash : Pamela's cunt.

25th   14. Deadbeat misogynist asshole ... stinking chimpanzee!                                         Wind storm in Bonne Bay, June 2006. Jinx!

29th   15. It was a dark and stormy night ...                                                 Cape Spear & Black Head from Signal Hill, St. John's Newfoundland, September 2006.

October 2013:

3rd   16. Twit twat twot.                                                             Rio viewed from Icaraí, November 2006. Mensalão: Deputy, why did your excellency turn crooked? Because I wanted to!

7th   17. Velvet glove.                                                                                         Independence flag flying on Southside hills near St. John's, June 2006.

11th   18. Tuo tuas tuat tuamus tuatis tuant.                                                             A pond somewhere on the prairies, June 2005. Robert Crumb: Oboy oboy! Kiss me!

15th   19. Lost in the forest ...                                                             Nanabijou, Sleeping Giant, Lake Superior. Enfants, faites attention aux Baobabs!

A watershed moment.

19th   20. ... a-and not all that swift to begin with.                                                                           Mar Grosso near São José do Norte, January 2008. Hunter's Moon was yesterday. A line in the sand, stepped over.

23rd   21. Necessary & sufficient.                                                                         Table Lands, Gros Morne, September 2012. The elementary rudiments:   What actions are necessary & sufficient to stop the madness?

27th   22. Two pomes in Paradise.                                                     Great Paradise, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 1970. 'Huarango' by Martín Horta; and, 'Anoche cuando dormía' by Antonio Machado.

31st   23. Marking time. Landscapes waiting for the other shoe to drop: Toronto by pinhole (by Michael Chrisman); and, an early atomic explosion. In Rexton/Elsipogtog their eyes are on the ball.

November 2013:

4th   24. Suicide, sedition, or ... grace?   (Which occupy - in some order - the positive axis of a number-line around responses to the environmental apocalypse.)                                       The best bench in Kew Gardens park, October 2013; spiritual foundedness, suicide & the Golden Rule; graces.

8th   25. Mustn't grumble. Isla Amantani, Lago Titicaca, Peru/Bolivia. Amantaní is important because it is the home of mother and father earth (according to certain enthusiasts).

12th   26. (I am damned if) I will (not) play it any way but straight.                                       A birds-and-the-bees talk, circa 2013 ... "Well, for starters ... we've killed the bees."

16th   27. Is this it? Has my luck run out?                                     Palm oil plantation (possibly in) Tawau, Sabah, Malasia - a familiar pattern. Barack Obama considered as a red herring.

20th   28. From the vault.                                     Wonderkop, Marikana, South Africa, mid-August 2012; Chaparina, Yucumo, Bolivia, September 20 2011; Famine in the Horn of Africa, September 2011. Mmekutmfon (Mfon) Essien - 1968-2001.

24th   29. 'Insufferable ego-centric creep,' (Agatha Cristie on Poirot).                                       Self-portrait in Serpentinite, Gros Morne, September 2012. Portrait of Tony Abbott as a hurricane.

28th   30. Barking mad as a hatter. Photographs of Sudbury Ontario by Edward Burtynsky, 1996. Statement by Paul Calandra, MP for Oak Ridges—Markham and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, on behalf of Stephen Harper & the Government of Canada, November 12 2013. Morituri te salutamus.   NOT!

December 2013:

2nd   31. I have no idea really, none.                                                                         Atlanta airport sunset, October 2006. Repeat: Statement by Paul Calandra, MP for Oak Ridges—Markham and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, on behalf of Stephen Harper & the Government of Canada, November 12 2013.

6th   32. Decimate. (Obliterate? Annihilate?)                                                                         Perdido Bay Alabama, June 2010. Dr. King said you only need 5% to turn it around. This is what I call properly positive thinking. And featuring Miss Numa.

10th   33. Reprise.   [Reprise: resumption (after it is well over & done with).]                                     Haiyan aka Yolanda hits the Phillipines, December 2013. Repeat again: Statement by Paul Calandra, MP for Oak Ridges—Markham and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, on behalf of Stephen Harper & the Government of Canada, November 12 2013;                 and featuring Miss Numa again.

14th   34. Could be worse.                                         I was down and out when a little bird sang into my ear, "Cheer up. Things could be worse." So I cheered up, and sure enough - things got worse. Featuring Miss Numa again again.

18th   35. Telluride. Tellus. Telos. Thomas Pynchon & a far-fetched segue from tellus to telos. Alas, there is no Telluride in Telluride and never was. Like the rest of America it is fictional. Disneyland.

22nd   36. Obliging the nobility in their effortless superiority.                                       Lake Hongjiannao in northern China; Aral Sea on the border of Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan. Which is the basic model and which is the exception?

26th   37. Bitter, shortchanged.                                                             Elsipogtog, Rexton, New Brunswick, October/November 2013. A-and a delightful animation thanks to Miss Jodie.

30th   38. I don't know. I'm sorry.                                                             Dreaming of Rio at the end of another year. "Ain't no use jivin'. Ain't no use jokin'. Everything is broken."

January 2014:

1st   39. Not a word. (aka 'One hand clapping') Matthew 18,15: If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. It don't wash; an' the Golden Rule don't wash neither. A brief glimpse followed by brutal repudiation. Comparable to Paul's inexplicable loving your enemies by heaping burning coals on their heads.

13th   40. Oh k-k-k-Canada. Celastrus scandens aka American Bittersweet; Robert Frost on what home means; Good on Sean Devlin, Shireen Soofi & Brigitte DePape. The muse turns her back and dances away.

18th   41. A cracked pot. How to tell the awful truth without driving your audience either away or mad? Exemplars: Peter Sale (Our Dying Planet), and Louis Lesosky (Occupation Apple Tree). The big bang a probability event? Who knew?

23rd   42. Everything I do is wrong. I'm sorry.                                                 Excerpt from Thomas Pynchon's 'V'; and, Neil Young: "... can't go wrong till I get right."

25th   43. Neil Young: The rhetoric of authenticity. Bollocks to: John Gummer/Lord Deben, Connie Hedegaard, Christiana Figueres; ee cummings 'she being Brand' 1926. We could ditch the economy and possibly still preserve a civilization. Or we could ditch both.

27th   44. Neil Young: What was the point again? Recessional hymn by The Rolling Stones in memory of my friend Vincent: "May be the Last Time I don't know."

February 2014:

2nd   45. Listening and learning and turning. Defunct bookstore on Queen Street East, Toronto. Bob Dylan 'It's Alright Ma' 1965 cf. William Ernest Henley 'Invictus' ~1900 cf. Felicia Dorothea Hemans 'Casabianca' 1826.

5th   46. Vampire Beavers.   (Towards rethinking Coyote, Trickster Fox, Raven, Nanabijou, Loki ...)                                     Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

8th   47. Oh Greenland. Aleqa Hammond, Jens-Erik Kirkegaard, Shell, BP, Rosneft/Росне́фть, ExxonMobil: wildly mistaken notions of progress.

11th   48. Is energy drain the flip-side of bootstrap?                                       "It doesn't matter how you worship, as long as you're down on your knees." (Leonard Cohen 'Light As The Breeze' 1992.)

14th   49. Goblin dream transformations. Lake Urmia (aka Oroumeih), Iran. Kurt Cobain quoting Joseph Heller's Yossarian "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you".

18th   50. Oh k-k-k-Canada (again).                                     Gone friends. Thinking more about the verses from Matthew quoted here recently ... and unbidden - atavistic Tourette's - out pops "Let's hear it for heathens and publicans!"

21st   51. Mere anarchy is loosed?                                       WORLD DO NOTHING DAY.   &nbdp; Christine Shelly refusing to say the word 'genocide'; Kerri-Ann Jones not saying 'externality'; while big green cheers and applauds with the rest; William Butler Yeats 'The Second Coming' 1919.

23rd   52. John Kerry on Climate Change, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 16, 2014.                                     "Let’s have a frank conversation about this threat and about what we, as citizens of the world, need to be able to do to address it." (About fricken' time!)

25th   53. A secular condom. Intimacy. The notion here is that the shifting of intimacy's meaning from the days of Launcelot Andrewes to the present constitutes a kind of ironical secular condom. Roughly U-shaped; a comedy then.

28th   54. Good days. I notice that someone has cleared the snow off part of it. Ah! It dawns on me that I am not the only one who values this bench. (Renewed thanks to Mary Nearing & Dorothy Peacock whoever they were.)

March 2014:

1st   55. What's the worst that could happen? St. David's day today. Eat Leeks. Look up 'eutrapely'. "The capacity of modern humans to act without recourse to empathy, mind reading or any other feature of social intelligence is a key defining feature of the modern mind."

3rd   56. Holocaust. H. sapiens cf. H. neanderthalensis. Holocaust and Shoah are such loaded references, poor taste to flog them for effect. Perhaps the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1961 then? Ever heard of it?

10th   57. John Kerry on Climate Change (interrim conclusion).                                       It's a bust gentle reader, approximately.

15th   58. Oh k-k-Canada (again, again). A stupid guy: I am no smarter now than I was at 5 or 6, walking to school thinking I could put my toe on the tracks and it wouldn't get hurt by the streetcar because the shiny wheels flashed by so quickly.

20th   59. GCC HARMONIC CONVERGENCE. IMPORTANT! (Jumping the queue for an important announcement.)

25th   60. William Nordhaus, economist.                                                                         Is this the best we can do? Is this the 'necessary & sufficient'? A suite of William Nordhaus readings; and, Arvo Pärt Spiegel im spiegel. °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°

31st   61. How do you dig yourself into a hole this deep?                                     Not a rhetorical question. I can only guess ... and obsess over a glance ... and a stance. °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º

April 2014:

2nd   62. Changes.                                                                                                                     Imminent immanent isness; apocalypse (with readings); TEOTWAWKI doesn't quite capture it. °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,

7th   63. Fnord (quite muddled).                                                                                     Fnord fnast fnese, breath being a euphemism for spirit (which is becoming starved & pixelated). °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

12th   64. Spacious gracious moments (in k-k-k-Canada).                                       Music that soothes the savage breast (a-and beast): Goin' ninety miles an hour down a dead end street. °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø

16th   65. Spring snow.                                                                                                                                         Let's hear it for Kitimat! °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º

20th   66. Short of thinking ...                                                                                                                                       It takes two to tango? It takes two (or more) to think too. Games for Gustav from Yann Martel. °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º

22nd   67. Earth Day.                                                                                                                                                     °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`

28th   68. Watchimacallit. I am singing Mozart's 'Bona Nox' as loud as I can for all of the so-called 'Honourable' & 'Right Honourable' who are really really REALLY un-fricken-worthy of any kind of respect. °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø

May 2014:

1st   69. Worthy. If there were some arcane Buddhist practice to take this fat & forgetful old man naked into the moon and stars ... well ... it sure beats burning yourself up eh? °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°

3rd   70. How do you dig yourself into a hole this deep? and Worthy (continued).                                       The Global Climate Convergence that didn't quite converge. Why not? Also, Jacques Doillon's film 'Raja' with Najat Benssallem. °`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤

7th   71. Holocaust (concluded).                                                                                                                                     It is dawning on me that it is an urban situation.

11th   72. Mother's Day.

16th   73. From limen to lintel. The OED admits a confusion: 'limen' directly from Latin = ‘threshold’; and 'lintel' (indirectly) from Latin 'limit' = 'boundary'.

22nd   74. 22nd reprise. aka: About as well as they treat each other. The FIRST Bar None Award goes to Murray Minchin and ALL of the good citizens of Kitimat; and, the SECOND Bar None Award goes to Greenpeace. Good on 'em!

27th   75. Eye (I) of the beholder. aka: Aye aye of the beholder. For the record I neither think "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," nor "I don't know nothin'bout art buddi know whuddi like," except referentially.

June 2014:

1st   76. Photosynthesis. (Happy Birthday babe!)                                                                                                                                     How does it happen that the 'Grail' is neither 'Holy' nor a chalice, but a kind of green stone?

2nd   77. CLIMATE EMERGENCY COUNTDOWN (!) An IMPORTANT up-coming event in Toronto.

5th   78. Kryptonite. aka: Mauer Im Kopf.                                                     ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø

10th   79. Christopher Alexander vs. Q.   or ... The Star Trek episode  that never was.                                     ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`

13th   80. A kernel of truth in a bushel of vicious nonsense.   or Speaking of kryptonite ... or Praise the Lord and pass the (rhetorical) ammunition!                                     ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`

15th   81. Father's Day.   and ... Brown-skinned girls in jeopardy.                                     ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤

21st   82. Oh Africa. and ... The Earth is NOT our mother!                                                                                                                                     ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`

23rd   83. Climate Emergency Countdown (?)                                                                                                                                     ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤

28th   84. ¡YA BASTA!                                                                                                                                     ¿por qué estamos indignados?

July 2014:

1st   85. Panem et circenses.

6th   86. Pillock pillicock princox (præterite passover).   FUCK YOU - YOU FUCKING FUCKS! (to quote John Goodman.)

10th   87. Environmental Apocalypse Greatest Hits.      Caetano Veloso - Terra, Bob Marley - One Love (Playing For Change), This Little Light of Mine, Hank Snow - Dead End Street, Jane Siberry - Calling All Angels, Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skunk, and, Pied Pumkin - Mister Mulvangel.

14th   88. Chief Beau Dick - Breaking the Coppers. Be with Chief Beau Dick breaking the coppers on the steps of parliament in Ottawa, Sunday July 27 2014.   Follow the journey from B.C. at   Occupation Apple Tree.

21st   89. Ubiquitous complicity.                                                                                                                                     The Swallow                 He has two hearts instead of one.                 She cried, "Young man, what have ye done?"

26th   90. Hands across the water. Hands across the sea.   or: Chagrin, shaggreen, whatever.                                       Falling in love with love is falling in love with make believe.

August 2014:

1st   91. Tell thy piteous heart there's no harm done.

Dam Line 9 (!!!)

5th   92. I Stand With Jonathan Moylan.   (If that's worth anything; better late than never though I guess.)

9th   93. Oh k-k-k-Canada (again again again).

People's Climate March     350 Toronto: Bus & Lodging In NYC

13th   94. OK, here's a long-shot for ya. Lucky Thirteen!                                                                                                                                     `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,

17th   95. Bakken Kraaken Lac Mégantic et cetera.                     `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,

21st   96. It's enough to turn someone cynical. How about the wall at the edge of Frye's mythopœia? At the edge of Lakoff's seamless cognitive concepts? What's on the other side? Scary stuff. `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,

26th   97. You are my sunshine. Magge pye hagiolatry & Northrop Frye Inc. `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,

September 2014:

1st   98. Iubile (Jubile, Jubilee).                                                                                                                                     `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,

4th   99. Beautiful dream of Israel has become a nightmare.                                                                                                                                     `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,

7th   100. Te-oo banches o' voylets trad in the maad. How long has it been since there was a real election anywhere in the so-called free world? Where the candidates are far enough apart to actually see light between them?

13th   101. Sustainable?   All (good) things come to an end. Happy Birthday kiddo. Lucky Thirteenth! `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,

18th   102. Não vamos desistir do Brasil.   (As if somebody were goin' 'round sayin' "Vamos desistir!"   ?) `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯

23rd   103. Business models.                                                            Post Mortem. `¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,_,.-'`¯`'-.,

27th   104. Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.

October 2014:

1st   105. Golem. Or: Golem Fracasso Fricassee Weltschmerz. When humanity no longer has flesh there is no more reason to fear extinction. That it is only urban ideological idiots willing to flirt with the thresholds of cosmic black holes who can seriously entertain such nonsense ... well, that's the problem isn't it - nitwit know-nothing urban muggles!

Flood Bay Street! Toxic Zombies at Bay & King Streets, Toronto Noon on Friday October 31, Halloween.

5th   106. Round 1, she's done. Long Live Marina!   21% (like I said, I hope she loses, and she did).                                       ^~^-~^~-~^~~^~-~^~~-~^~^~-~~~.,__________

9th   107. Crossing the Rubicon ... or anti-crossing as may be. Full moon yesterday. Which one is that? ... Hunter's Moon was it? ^~^-~^~-~^~~^~-~^~~-~^~^~-~~~.,__________

13th   108. Climbing down Pisgah.                                                                     "Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers, then straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go." ^~^-~^~-~^~~^~-~^~~-~^~^~-~~~.,__________

19th   109. Hope ... springs eternal; though one may come to hate it. Is anyone really surprised after all of this, after 'we' have bombed 'them' back to the stone age again and again, decade after decade ... that the reaction is ... stone age? ^~^-~^~-~^~~^~-~^~~-~^~^~-~~~.,__________

31st   110. The Walking Dead Hallowe'en Special. A certain je ne sais quoi resonance with the memes of Ragnarök. The fucking wankers sank in the toxic flood. Oh my! ^~^-~^~.,_________________________.~^~.,_______

November 2014:

5th   111. Ground Zero. First snow on November 1st. Hump-day & descent into scatology. What's the plural of 'nexus'? 'Nexi'? 'Nexuses'? Anyway, there are two: 350 (the number not the org) and The Good Samaritan ... and that's all I know.

10th   112. I'll recruit my army from the orphanages. We've got all these environmentalists wringing their hands over being unable to communicate with the hoi polloi ... while they are using words like 'mitigate' to mean STOP. No surprise then that they are not getting across.

15th   113. Let me not. Lookout! The fricken' Antichrist is on the loose! The short answer is no one never writ nor never loved neither.

20th   114. Askance. Nothing says "I don't care," like silence.                                                                     ISIS is NOT the problem; ISIS is a SYMPTOM.

25th   115. A card so high and wild. (A red herring.)                                                                     Nuclear Fusion.

30th   116. Laugh so not to cry. / Rir pra não chorar.   Eles não param. Nem nós. / They're not stopping. Neither are we.

December 2014:

7th   117. Shitholder.   Love has no pride. Hangin' by a thread.

11th   118. Joeri Rogelj, Jim Hansen, Dave Foreman. Seriously.

13th   119. Oh k-k-k-Canada, they've got you upside down.

17th   120. Digressions.   Distractions? Hasta la vista, baby.

22nd   121. What to do?   Apply the Golden Rule and see if it sticks. Fuck, fight, hold the light.

30th   122. Grief. The day before the day before.

January 2015:

1st   123. It's NOT too late!   Though it IS close as dammit, so close as makes no nevermind, AND it's improbable we'll turn around in time.                                       Meditations on fatherhood and The Green Party of Canada.

13th   124. Aha! It's not necessarily cyclical!   It's a cook book. (Costing not less than everything.)

20th   125. It don't take much.   A cheap drunk. A pushover.

27th   126. Charlie.   (Obligatory y'unnerstan'.)

February 2015:

3rd   127. Sheep & Goats (Full Moon).   Lookout! The living-dead are on the loose!

14th   128. (Valentine's Day)   When the music (finally) stops and you're between chairs, and there's nowhere left to go. What then?

21st   129. The Last Ocean.                                                                                       I'se the bye that builds the boat and I'se the bye that sails her. I'se the bye that catches the fish and takes 'em home to Liza.

25th   130. Extra! Extra! Read all about it!                                                                                       Petroleum Industry [is] Grossly Incontinent While Governments Play Silly Buggers

28th   131. Putting Off (Off-putting).   ... and in that way, he would say, one can live. (J.M. Coetzee, 'The Life and Times of Michael K', final paragraph.)

March 2015:

6th   132. Two men in Rwanda.   And: Two recent books by two admirable women.   And: A modest proposal.

9th   133. And more, and more, and more!   And thick and fast they came at last, And more, and more, and more!

13th   134. Repent!   Can't go on like this: it can't and I can't neither.

19th   135. Keystone Kops. The Government Reflects the Nation.   You get the government that you deserve.

22nd   136. Shoures soote. A (vernal) toss-up.   (The voice of the turtle revises all.)

July 2015:

14th   199. There's a hole in the bucket.

August 2015:

14th   200. Leftovers - turns on a hair.

Alfred E. Newman:                                                                                                                                     "Wot?   Me worry?!"

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