Coprolites in Amber (etc.)

Vignettes culled from a late-life basement scouring.

  • sardonic.ca
  • N. A Few Snapshots (intro.)
    N. A Few Snapshots (intro.)

    Introduction: I have not abandoned the hope of organizing a legacy package of family photos and videos. Such a project will involve much photoshopping and video-editing–– work which grows more daunting as time dwindles…   In the meantime, I have several more themes to explore.’ Perhaps the editing of raw journal excerpts is rather like ‘photoshopping’.…

    lefthook51

    July 16, 2021
    Memoir
    Domestic poignancy
  • M. A Few Clearings (intro.)

    It felt strangely intimate this morning to be lying in a chilly darkened room with a young female technician standing beside me. Her wrists protruding from the long sleeves of a wool jacket looked delicate. With one hand, she tapped a computer keyboard while her other briefly tugged her brown ponytail. On the monitor screen…

    lefthook51

    May 29, 2021
    Humour, Philosophy
  • M. A Few Clearings (con’d)
    M. A Few Clearings (con’d)

    It was only when we moved from the table to the sofa that the conversation turned to the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life (SETI). I asked my old classmate in his capacity as the acting president of the western chapter of the Canadian UFO Research Centre, if he really believed any claims of direct contacts…

    lefthook51

    May 29, 2021
    Humour, Philosophy
  • V. A Little Levity: (intro.)

    Introduction After thumping dirges, the old fingers need a break. It is time to play a few lighter pieces. The common thread of the following vignettes is a certain levity of tone. The humour tends to be dark so the  ‘levity’ in some pieces applies more to the manner in which the self-flagellating lash is…

    lefthook51

    April 3, 2021
    Humour
  • V. A Little Levity (con’d)
    V. A Little Levity (con’d)

    “You must be the fella wants a coupla pet mice!” The door was opened by a grinning Herman Munster holding a spoon. “Com’on in fellas–– I was just feedin’ our kitty. Don’t worry about the shoes.” My son gave me a nervous glance as we followed the tall man with a large forehead into his…

    lefthook51

    April 3, 2021
    Humour
  • Z. Endspec #2:
    Z. Endspec #2:

    In the breadth of history, how many humanoids have glimpsed the world from coral reef to mountaintop, dabbled in arts and crafts, gorged on a host of sweetmeats––not to mention having gasped in the fireworks of innumerable orgasms? How many have had second, third, fourth and fifth helpings of such delights? If a person can…

    lefthook51

    February 26, 2021
    Memoir, Philosophy
    Imagining the Reaper
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