Category: Crime
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3. Reflections on “the Farm”
Since moving to our Port Coquitlam neighbourhood a decade ago, the most common route of my morning dog walks has been through “the farm”. That seemingly mundane reference is to a two-block expanse of incongruously agricultural-zoned land fenced off from surrounding townhouses, a Home Depot and a golf course. The only resemblance…
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R. In a Darker Light (intro.)
Introduction: ‘You want it darker?’ the great Leonard Cohen called out in a seeming challenge to the enveloping void… Inspired by his courage to work to the very end, I take the title for this thematic set from the signature song on the album released just days before his death… A few of these pieces…
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R. In a Darker Light (con’d)
Amputee avengers have also been portrayed as ‘freaks’ to be ogled as much as mutiles to be feared or pitied… While I have never watched a martial arts film in entirety, apparently there is a sub-genre of such films featuring martial arts-trained amputees. In the standard plot (insofar as kung fu movies have plots), amputee…
Coprolites in Amber (etc.) 