George Case's Blog, page 4

Re-posting my appreciation of the existential horror writer Thomas Ligotti...

Another source of Trump's support: his enemies.

There’s an apocryphal 2016 quote from US television executive Leslie Moonves, who supposedly said that Donald Trump’s surprising visibility as a presidential candidate “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Whether he was being cynical or just shortsighted, Moonves might have added that Trump’s rise and the polarization it engendered […]

A collection of my sidewalk and driveway chalk art from over the years...

Why competing genocides in Canada leave no winners among Canadians.

Autumn is my favorite of the seasons, for its natural elements and, inextricably, for the human responses we have projected on to them.  It is the time of John Keats’ “Ode to Autumn” (O season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...), of the jazz standard “The Falling Leaves,” and the iconic Canadian painting The Solemn Land, […]

  Bill Wyman of the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll band is alleged to have said once, “I’m in the Rolling Stones, I don’t need to practice.”  He might have meant, We gig constantly, so I don’t need to play more than I do anyway, or he might have meant, I’m already successful, so why […]

Here’s a small tip: if you ever find yourself with an irresistible hankering to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long,” or Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” but don’t have them in your music library, no problem: just tune in to your local Classic Rock radio station, and wait fifteen […]

As we look at all the radicalism recently displayed by America’s far-right militias and conspiracy theorists, the outrageousness of their beliefs is often noted but seldom considered in depth. The QAnon specter of a Satan-worshipping pedophile ring operating within the deepest recesses of the US government is a wild charge, to be sure, and there […]

In Canada these days, many events like graduations, musical or theatrical performances, awards presentations, lectures, and other public functions are prefaced with an official statement acknowledging that the proceedings take place on the unceded ancestral territory of the local Aboriginal group.  As well, some Canadian institutions, such as the Ottawa Public Library, have installed permanent […]