[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett
For anyone who has read Richmond P Hobson’s trilogy Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy or seen the TV series of the same name starring Yannick Bisson as Hobson and Ted Atherton as Panhandle Phillips it may be of interest that Panhandle Phillips daughter has written a memoir of her father and life on the Home Ranch.
Still with the entertainment business after nearly three-quarters of a century on air the Soap Opera, Guiding Light will cease production this fall. When I got back to updating my download files in iTunes I discovered yet another effect of the cut-backs at CBC—Podcasts of The Hour are now a paid service.
Driving north in Alberta confronts one with the affects of elevation and geography on climate. In spite of the fact that it is located at a far northern latitude the Peace River District was 10 degrees warmer than Calgary. In related news, the fact that the Mackenzie River took out the ice bridge leading to Yellowknife with a consequent month-long wait for the resumption of ferry service that area of the territories is closed to road traffic for nearly a month each spring and fall. A mile and a half long bridge is under construction but no one is predicting when it will be ready for use.
Commerce seems to create strange bed-fellows but the discovery in grocery stores in Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba that dairy products are imported from Montreal, Quebec left me scratching my head—it did serve to explain why I couldn’t find fresh cream. Whoever does purchasing for the National Parks System seems to have contracted with a company in Gatineau, PQ across the river from their Ottawa Offices hence a package of their bathroom tissue in a privy in Northern Saskatchewan.
I’ve run out of gall for my pen.
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