The Pipes Are Calling Ye

The Riot In Dublin The “Troubles​” began in the early 1900’s with Irish defiance of British colonialism. Over the years protests, assassinations and rioting would be very intense for a period of time. Then there would be something akin to a cease-fire and the problem would fade out of the World’s consciousness for months, even years on end.…

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Trump Vs Trudeau…..what started it all

Trump Has Held A Grudge Since This Incident  President Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in February of 2017 in what was  hailed as a significant tightening and reaffirmation of the historical bonds of friendship and economic cooperation across the world’s longest undefended border. A “diplomatic success on all counts” was how mainstream Canadian…

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Fickle Finger Of Fate

“Chance” in a positive sense comes in two species: Fortune and the avoidance of Misfortune. True story: This dude, charicatured here as a sort of hapless loser, survived an astonishing series of deadly situations. A train derailment into a river drowning 17, an airplane crash that killed everyone else on board, three serious (and bizarre) car accidents and after all that, hit…

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The Best Shows Ever Gave

Barry Keane and I have come up with some interesting “Themed” tours. A Surreal Evening of Tibetan Twang                                                                 Dolly Parton Salvador Dali Dalai Lama The…

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Left At Albuquerque

As part of this trip we’re currently on, we had to fly from El Paso TX to Scottsdale AZ. We passed over Albuquerque NM at 40,000 feet and I was reminded  of an emergency landing we made there just last year. We were heading back to Toronto from Scottsdale and at around 1:00 am MST…

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Sacramento

Hi everyone. It’s been a while. I’m going to try and get these posts going again on a regular basis. You’ve heard that before from me, I know. We’re into day 3 of a western US trip. At the moment I’m 10,000 feet above California just skirting the Bay Area on our way from Sacramento to…

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MtH #23 Relativity Speaking

MtH #23    Relativity Speaking I was feeling a little funny about the “Benevolent Universe” thing I got into a few weeks ago.  “What was I smoking?” I thought, “my readers are going to mistake me for a sensitive new age guy”.  After a few attempts at reworking it I thought “screw it” and resolved to…

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MtH #22 Alternate Reality

The Passage It’s like a separate universe. Ten or eleven times a year I get on our airplane de mois in Toronto, wedge myself into a cramped nook formed by the seat, my backpack and the wall of the jet and promptly fall asleep. I wake up sometimes and realize, after a puzzled moment or two, that I’m in…

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MtH #21 Little Caesar Part 2

Little Caesar  Part 2 We had a house cat. An orange and white female who had been de-clawed and abandoned. We adopted her in November 2005, two years before we started maintaining the colony. Her name was Lillie. We were warned by the lady who ran the foster home that she would not tolerate other…

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MtH #20 LITTLE CAESAR Part one

I Believe In A Benevolent Universe    There are those who would argue that the world is bitter, cold and indifferent to the ordeal that is our existence. That we start life by being ejected violently from the womb in a hurl of blood and mucus and end it usually, in another blast of bodily fluids. And all the trials, travails…

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