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Earl Fowler
2 days ago7 min read
Heart of Parkness
Earl Fowler Must be somewhere (sweet life)  to be found  (out there somewhere for me)  instead of a concrete jungle (jungle) , where the...
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Earl Fowler
3 days ago1 min read
Movie Sequels for Seniors
Earl Fowler Gone with the Wi-Fi? Snoozin’ in the rain? The empanadas striking back? Here are 10 movie sequels for 12 gangrene men sure to...
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Earl Fowler
5 days ago6 min read
The Big Slip
Earl Fowler It was a Tuesday morning. The kind of day you don’t remember, the kind of day you just don’t care about. Nobody would. The...
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Earl Fowler
7 days ago3 min read
LAST LAUGH
Earl Fowler RD.com , the online version of Reader’s Digest, ran a fun (if slightly macabre) piece by Lauren Cahn last year titled “19...
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Earl Fowler
Jan 108 min read
Devil in a Blue Pinafore
Earl Fowler Chapter 1: The Place It was the kind of place that’d make a man want to ask for a refund before he even stepped through the...
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Earl Fowler
Jan 88 min read
Here Come the 70s
Earl Fowler Seventy signs that at 70, you’re older than dirt: • Think DoorDash is making it home just in time with a bursting bladder....
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David Sherman
Jan 64 min read
Bad-news junkie goes cold turkey
David Sherman  I’ve gone cold turkey. Gave it up. Killed the apps. Deleted the barrage of newsletters that track me, unsubscribed to the...
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Earl Fowler
Jan 22 min read
Enjoying Court Time in Paradise
Quinn McIlhone Our first day on the island you are laissez-faire toward my drinking. We revert to the pattern of the café on Crescent as...
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Earl Fowler
Dec 30, 20249 min read
In the Jingle Jangle Evening
Earl Fowler Like the shy kids on prom night they fidget on the sidelines, waiting to be summoned to the dance floor of consciousness. We...
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Earl Fowler
Dec 18, 20242 min read
51 Ways to Lose Your Country
Earl Fowler Top 10 reasons for Canada to become the 51st state of the United States, as being advocated by some schmuck stateside: 10....
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David Sherman
Dec 17, 20244 min read
Words of wisdom for the aged. Really?
David Sherman News is harrowing. As comic Lewis Black said, every story in the New York Times was enough to give him colitis. And those...
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Earl Fowler
Dec 13, 20244 min read
Funeral Songs Touch Me in the Mourning
Earl Fowler As the fabulous Fran Lebowitz has observed, it was way more fun to be in one’s twenties in the seventies than in one’s...
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Earl Fowler
Dec 11, 20241 min read
Fakir News
Earl Fowler Some pastors are like the nubby nibbed tips of God’s editorial pencils dripping venomous Christian nationalism toward the...
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Earl Fowler
Dec 9, 20241 min read
When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin
To bidet, or not to bidet, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the hind to suffer The springs and narrows of outrageous fortune,...
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Earl Fowler
Dec 8, 20241 min read
I don’t want to
You know. At the end. Be just another watch-wearing schnorrer plunging toward my own reflection. Fretting about thieves stealing cans...
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Earl Fowler
Dec 6, 20241 min read
Kangaroo
And at the centre of it all where the bookstore used to be a Tim Hortons full of lost souls and a store called Cash Money where they lend...
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Earl Fowler
Nov 30, 20243 min read
I’m in Pieces, Bits and Pieces
And now, another of those muted, placid, gentle hints from the universe that one might be spinning on the B side of life: Earl Fowler One...
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David Sherman
Nov 24, 20244 min read
Operatic tragedy on streets of home
David Sherman  Reisa decided I needed to expand my musical culture, something beyond electric guitar, bass and snare drums. On good...
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Earl Fowler
Nov 22, 202414 min read
It’s getting very near the end for Sgt. Pepper’s Enlarged Prostate Glands
Whatever happened to the life that we once knew? — The Beatles, Free as a Bird Earl Fowler Half of what I’ll say here is meaningless, but...
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Earl Fowler
Nov 21, 20241 min read
Nothing Can Quench a Lover’s Thirst
Quinn McIlhone With a Sony Walkman I can read at night while listening to music at the kitchen table without disturbing you. Shut out...
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