When I was young, long, long ago, there was a magazine called Fate. It was one of the only ones of its kind at that time, and dealt with “True accounts of the strange and unknown”, things like aliens &… Continue Reading →
My sister Suzie has recently opened a souvenir store at Old Harry in the Magdalen Islands (Îles de la Madeleine), Quebec, in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It’s called La Trappe, after the iconic local lobster traps,… Continue Reading →
A few years ago, I wrote about modern music. It seemed to me at the time that the music of the current generation was a lot more limited than the music of mine. It did not deal at all with… Continue Reading →
I am very excited to announce that I have been asked to participate in RAW Toronto: Impact, a multimedia art show featuring my various works on May 23 at the Mod Club in Toronto. The show is actually May 22 – 24, and you ticket covers all 3 days. Love to see you there!
I wish I could remember the name of the teacher of the art class I took at McGill in 1973-4; he was excellent. Every week our homework was a self-portrait in a different medium/style.
Call me an old codger, but in my day music dealt with a variety of themes: love (of course), politics, fantasy, drugs, sex (all varieties), history, religion, the environment… in an even greater variety of styles: on a single radio… Continue Reading →
X While surfing Youtube for odd finds, I recently came across a really odd one: a film from 1930 called Sunny Skies. And as I flipped through it, a revelation hit me: this movie is totally gay! At first glance, it’s… Continue Reading →
I haven’t seen the latest Star Wars movie, but did see The Force Awakens when it came. I wasn’t that impressed; it was basically the same as the first one with more realistic, if less interesting, special effects. But the… Continue Reading →
My 25+-year quest has reached, let’s say, a significant milestone. I have published Book I of my novel The Acts of Simon Magus in the First Century AD. Well, what’s published is a beta version, still undergoing final editing, basically… Continue Reading →
I have decided that I really need to finish The Acts of Simon Magus, and have redone his website, as well as adding a blog to track progress. Check simonmagus.com for all the latest!
An interesting article on the BBC website today, presenting the results of a study on the evolution of the hand. Apparently, uniquely among our relatives, humans have the ability to make a fist, which is optimized for both the force… Continue Reading →
From: Glen Cram To: Rick Santorum Subject: Job application Mr Santorum, Having read with interest your interpretation of God’s instructions to Adam regarding his rights and responsibilities vis-a-vis the Earth, I would like to offer my services as steward to… Continue Reading →
Two nights ago, in a secret location somewhere in Los Angeles, someone we will call “Jim” won an award. A very prestigious award, voted on by some of the best-known figures in show business, and it was earned for work… Continue Reading →
How did homo erectus get to remote islands like Crete or Flores without boats? Floating rock from local volcanoes may be the answer. A recent article proposed a new theory regarding the origin of life on earth. Pumice, a rock… Continue Reading →
Up to now, I have admired Barack Obama and really wished him well, but this oil spill thing seems to be right over his head. Can you imagine this happening in Japan, or anywhere in Europe? BP might have been… Continue Reading →
Almost every commercial on your TV lies to you blatantly and outrageously. How can this be, if lying is against the law? What they are trying not to say is that commercials are not considered lies if you accept certain basic premises, the same premises in fact which underlie the whole of the modern economy.
…with the rockin’ Del Aires! A favourite of my youth, from The Horror Of Party Beach! http://www.zombiestomp.com
You’ve all seen the charmingly-worded epistles from the Dark Continent, calling down God’s blessing on you if you can just see your way to accept a 25% share of the vast fortune the writer’s late dear daddy or foreign client… Continue Reading →
Further to my post Smells Nice! regarding the show Hoarders, it’s very instructive to see how the English handle the same problem. In the American version, counselors try to reason with the poor victims of their compulsion, and persuade them… Continue Reading →
Everyone has an opinion about the Quebec government allowing the expulsion of a Muslim woman from a language class for wearing her traditional garb, a niqab, or veil covering all of her face but her eyes. Here’s mine. Quebec has… Continue Reading →
The Alchemists said… “As above, so below.” But according to Quantum, It just isn’t so!
For some reason we were watching a show called Hoarders. It’s a reality thing about people who live surrounded by piles of shit because they can’t bear to throw anything out. I could somewhat identify as I have had, let’s… Continue Reading →
It’s not true that there are no transitional forms. Every living (and dead) thing, including ourselves, is transitional between its ancestors and its descendants, both of which are different from itself. The ones that are best suited for their environment… Continue Reading →
Please read this: http://www.skepticalscience.com Again, just because somebody got overexcited in trying to persuade people of the reality of global warning does not make it a fraud. The science is there!
Those fundamentalist creationists who maintain that evolution is “just a theory” will be delighted to know that I agree with them. A theory is the best overall explanation for the known evidence. Creationism has no evidence and explains nothing.
My response to a friend who, having heard about the Climategate scandal, decided that global warming was discredited: Climategate is real but so is warming. Carbon trading is a big scam, but that does not mean the problem is not… Continue Reading →
I have been thinking for a long time about the evolution of consciousness: how did it emerge in the human species and I guess where is it going? The first thing I have to do is to define consciousness. Usually… Continue Reading →
If “Know what I’m sayin’?” Is half of what you’re sayin’, You ain’t sayin’ half Of what you could be sayin’! Know what I’m sayin’?
in “The Case of Twenty-Four”.
Notes on the inauguration ball: He obviously gets his rhythm from his mother!
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The Market. That austere and unforgiving entity that has replaced God and the Communist Party as this age’s deity. There are three types of players in the financial markets, of which only two are in evidence for most of the… Continue Reading →
Another email. I like this one better than the last one: Hi, [FIRSTNAME] Income in the year since the strike. in factories two weeks’ vacation with full wages. Zetta gave childless old couple, and was dragging them forward At their… Continue Reading →
For all you Canadians out there, what do you think of this email I got? >>…there are far too many overly-sensitive ‘New Canadians’ that are trying to change everything we hold dear. >>For example, our National Anthem: Don’t know what… Continue Reading →
My daughter is a fan of hiphop music, and has been since she was about 14. Up to that time I was not really aware of this music as a cultural force. Apparently it is as influential and as all-pervasive… Continue Reading →
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