caroljane

Jesus, Emile! What kind of advice columnist are you? You are supposed to be freakin sympathetic and supportive! Now half my team thinks there is a curse and it's spreading and we lost again and now I might lose my j..... R.C.

I don't know about feudalism , but it is fairly messed up in North America too.

OK, I'll give it a go. I realize I also read Garp and Hotel New Hampshire, back when they were published ( though the latter is confused with The White Hotel in my memory. After that I didn't follow his output until Cider House. I wonder if maybe he is too masculine, too patrician , possibly too American for me to appreciate fully?

Yeah, but you don't miss her when she's here!--BranthypocriteI miss you too, and bear in mind Mr Gaede, that when I am away and DDL also absent, you are essentially Men Without Women here, which was either a bad 1950s horrorfest or a description of Aristotle's ideal society, I forget which.

Just what a thought for me: Owen Meany, a twit, escorting my dead body from California to Arizona.--BrantIrving ought to know about Canada normal, doesn't he live here? But I have not read Owen Meany, what is its Canadaview like? I read Cider House Rules and found it baseline depressing, though impressive. Meanwhile (note resisted pun) and speaking of depressing,Toronto normal is also back, Leafs just fired the coach again, for failing to master the art and science of cat herding.

Canada reclaims World Juniors gold medal after I five years in wilderness. OUR AMAZING TEENAGERS PROVEN BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE'S Tournamnent darling however was , deservedly theSlovakian goalie Godla (sp?) who was heroic.

Jules, you are a magic photographer. have you ever had an exhibition? That eagle reminds me so much of my ex with his so-called penthouse!

Brad Pitt as Tankman was pretty good too. My dad spent his late teenage and early twenties as a turret gunner in WWII, having been advised that it was the safest place in the tank. that is the only thing he ever said about it, he survived the war, so maybe he was advised right. Brangelina forever!

there are a few. Check out Joe Juneau, Adam Oates, Ken Dryden....

Dear Cursed, Yes, you are. Emile

Adam , I mean Brother Embedded, how many times have I told you never to call me here? Old Emile is compromised enough. sleeper agents are supposed to SLEEP , not blabber. Geez!

You would,! Funny, but not thankfully as raunchy as some of the chirping players dish out to goalies for example, when implying they are of feminine tendencies (throwing tampax "helpfully" at them is a mild example.

:Dear Emile, I am desperate and don't know where to turn,actually I don't dare to turn at all for fear turning will aggravate my latest Freak Injury. The team is calling it Lower Body, I managed to damage my left Achilles' tendon with the toe of my right skate, the medics say it is nearly an anatomical impossibility, but what do they know. I have tried everything to stay un injured and healthy. I gave up partying and I help out old people in the neighbourhood and I watch out for cracks in the pavement, but I get back on the ice and into a points streak it happens again. I slip on a piece of gum even though gum is ,sticky, and fracture an elbow. I grip cutlery and it splinters in my hand...and I'm talking plastic cutlery. Both hands! Why, why? I try to do everything right and everything goes wrong ! Am I cursed? Bitterly, "Glassman" J.L. Toronto

To play, probably. Not that I can, but considering the inconvenience and expense most players gladly endure,, it must be a highly exhilirating experience,,as indeed most beer leaguers, shinny regulars and road hockey warriors report.

You can say that again! Pauline Kael

We can assume that the wage they are getting immediately prior to Jan 1, 2015 is the free market wage. We can assume that the wage they are getting immediately prior to Jan 1, 2015 is the free market wage. Lol.

So true. Truth, justice and th Randian Way have not historically conduced to comedy, although that is what life is to the Man Who Thinks, as the sage said. I haven,t read The Man Who Laughs. I am however a big Fan of La Vache qui Rit.

Yeah, him.

And not only but also. I owe you thanks Adam, because of you I, Respectable Widow and Ancient Relic, understand the ethos of BDSM and was outraged when local criminal tried to use his devotion to consensual rough sex to justify his nonconsensual assaults. I leave the jokes for later, as needed.

So, is this our Official Christmas present Carol? Glad to see you. A... Me too you too Adam. Beats a lump of coal doesn't it?

Would the Salem witch accusers have all decided to recall their wrongs, and attract even more afflicted victims, forty years after their initial traumas? Women do not change so entirely over the centuries, Like men they care about their own well being and place in society, and generally about the truth. just asking.

. steady on....Are you sure you didn't, almost turn Scottish? Were you almost turning Papist or good solid Presbyter or a Wee Free or something heathenish? Ye had a lucky escape, beware they sudden shocks in future!

Greg, with a helping from feminized libertine logic, merely swaps a word in to deflect. His pretense of 'knowingness' is the same empty verbal gymnastics I expect from the left feminist archives: "Different ways of knowing." It is postmodernist praxis to swap out words or equivocate on their meaning. Knowledge, in this feminized logically-libertine cul de sac, is something one proclaims, but not something that can be shared. This is such a weak, feminized, anti-science superstition wrapped up in a trite pink bow. Greg has quite a progressive left feminized relativist habit of proclaiming his discussion partners of belonging to the devil's party. Not for him the robust masculine knowledge that has been tested, tempered, and found strongly in accordance with reality. No, he prefers a solipsist inner wind of feminized superego. Why does he so easily fall into the female thought pattern of needing a spirit? Perhaps equivocating on knowledge, aping a feminist historian of science such as Sandra Harding, he can subtly position himself as an expert guide to the ineffable. All anti-rational bullshit, all with the same end. Anti-knowledge, anti-Man, anti-reason. Such a soft, weak, limpwristed, feminized passive travesty of hard-won knowledge. . Bravo. I see you even know your Fay Weldon.. As philosophical in her way as AR, more prolific and much more entertaining. You write what I knew I knew but too hazily and lazily . Ah, still Just My Bill. la Vache qui Rit

Always come back, too. It is good to see you still feisting and truthing away despite the scanning of cats and docs. As a. Discharged veteran of double digit scans and tests I can only say, thank St Thomas I live here, yes, I checked out your excellent contributions to the same old same old Perigan grudge holding after the sad loss of NB.Honestly, the guy has done nothing but repeat himself since before he shrunk Solo to its current insignificance. Isn't,t it time to call the taxidermist?

Friends who are dear to me....thanks for still being here and yourselves. I think the fates will allow fine things for next year, and I intend to get some of them! carol Muddling through somehow