Cannon-Fodder is an unfinished novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The largely autobiographical narrative is set before World War II, and roughly continues where Céline's 1936 novel Death on Credit ended. Much of the novel disappeared in 1944. Surviving...
"You've just made your first number one Yoko" "Walking on Thin Ice" was released by Yoko Ono in1981. She and John Lennon finished recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to...
Dolly Parton and Queens of Country, though I guess Tanya Tucker was a Princess at the time. Dale Evans definitely the Queen. Classic garage door decor!
Legacy Awards Calgary Arts Development 2020. Katie Ohe
CHAPTER 34 Summer of 1975 My friend, Jack Moore was keeping a few horses; he told me I should have one. I thought about it. I had a brother-in-law that had a horse he wanted to sell. I asked him how much he wanted for it, he told me he wanted $90.00. It was a nice...
A long-time supporter of the arts in Calgary, and our dear friend, Harry Palmer passed away this month. When we think we know a story, it is easy to assume that the story is complete, that there is nothing more to uncover. However, Harry Palmer’s extensive...
I bought this when it came out, 1970-71ish, and I've owned it ever since, I always heard Ringo had made it for his mother, who loved country music. Ringo Starr Beaucoups of BluesA few reviews lifted shamelessly from Wikipedia: Writing for Rolling Stone,...
CHAPTER 30 The job that I enjoyed was working alone on the forklift - most of the time that was my job - to keep this forklift going. The operators were very hard on them, they never took a course on how to operate the machine that made my job very hard, and we had...
CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a license to work in the mill, they wanted all the mechanics to have their industrial mechanic licenses. The Department of Labour, Bruce Baker told the superintendent, Dave Crosby that I...
In our tiny beachside cottage on a sheltered Vancouver Island bay, a stones throw from the water, I felt like the painting by Millais, The Boyhood of Raleigh, peering out into the Salish Sea wondering what was going on out there, a not too distant horizon of islands...
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., founder of National Review and the father of postwar American conservatism. In his honor, here are six quotes by the inimitable writer on collectivism, freedom, and power. On government power (I):...