http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog The Les Becker Blog: Writer (fiction, non-fiction, story-telling, memories, screenplays, radioplays, lyrics, ghost-writing, magazine articles, tourism and event promotion) and amateur photographer from Northern Ontario. Looking to escape Northern Ontario. Rescue me. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:46:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2009/07/24/the-loudest-man-i-ever-slept-with/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2009/07/24/the-loudest-man-i-ever-slept-with/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:40:42 +0000 Les awakecatdeadFluffyhideinsomniamovierandom song-for-the-daysheikhsleepsleepingvideoyoutube http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=1664

]]> Insomnia by Cat He was wonderful company for the last few years. I’m really going to miss him…I took this video in May, when Sheikh was still sleeping above my head. Not very long ago, he was his usual fat and fluffy self, but then became boney and light as air in a [...]

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]]> Out-Numbered and Surrounded… This video was taken in Clergue Park almost three years ago. Those of you familiar with the visage of The Evil Hypnotist as a teen may enjoy the journey back. She was not quite 12 when she was nearly eaten by these monsters. And yes. I sic’ed them on her. [...]

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]]> R.I.P. Walter Cronkite1916-2009

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]]> R.I.P. David Carradine1936-2009 No, not a good day. At. All.

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]]> The Melt DownTaken March 15, 2009 with Canon PowerShot A550 I did the only thing I could think of to do, which was shriek for Kyla to come.So the other night, in the middle of one of The Evil Hypnotist’s dark, white nights, which, incidentally, turned into one of my own, I sat straight up [...]

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]]> Birds on a WireTaken March 15, 2009 with Canon PowerShot A550 I will find him, though… I know what barstool he sits on.In the movie, “Blow”, George’s dad tells him that money isn’t real. “It doesn’t matter, Georgie…” My dad would have disagreed with that one. I sure as hell disagree with that [...]

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]]> R.I.P. Bea Arthur1922-2009 This upsets me to no end. It also upsets me to realize that she was gone for a week before I read the news…

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]]> On GuardTaken August 9, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 He can be a real arse at times, and no one has ever had to point that out to my child.I’ll be using a lot less of my little stepper machine in future, I think… Since I bought the Prissy-Van, “Walking-About” has declined to “walking across the [...]

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]]> Is It, or Isn’t It…?Taken November 7, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 I look around as nonchalantly as is possible when one comes across what might be seriously illegal ziploc baggie-filler in the middle of the night at one’s place of employ-ment, with Han Solo’s voice running through my head: “I don’t know! [...]

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]]> R.I.P. Paul Newman1925-2008 “The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.”

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