I just recalled a few wonderful experiences I had on the golf course that I think only a Marshall can relate to. It struck me early in the summer halfway into my shift. The golf course was crowded but everything was running absolutely perfectly. Everyone spaced out like a golf Marshall’s dream. No gaps. NoContinue reading ““My Life as a Golf Marshall” : Final Final Last Thoughts! Golf as Ballet”
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“My Life as a Golf Marshall” : Time to Say Good-Bye
What a miserable last couple of days. Yesterday 4 hours of bone chilling weather at 5 degrees but add on the wind chill I was shivering after hour three and suffering a bad windburn. I mean it looked like I’d spent too long at the beach in Cancun! Then this morning I think that weatherContinue reading ““My Life as a Golf Marshall” : Time to Say Good-Bye”
“Mutantism on the March” Chapter 111 Is a Zorollian-Zortixian Friendship Possible?
A Zortixian spacecraft landed on Mount Royal that evening to take passengers back to Zortixia. Switchboards lit up at police stations throughout the island of Montreal reporting sightings of a UFO over the city! Squid had asked 10 earthling mutants to join him as a guest on the voyage but only two accepted. The firstContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” Chapter 111 Is a Zorollian-Zortixian Friendship Possible?”
Poetry Corner :Big Bird A Member of Hitler Youth?
Yes a cute and a seemingly innocent and loveable character Big Birdseemed to choke on his impartial turdby saying to little children on November 6th in a Twitter Tweet get vaccinated and be safeon my ass his comments chafehe will soon be forming a Hitler Youth to be called “Vaccination Safe”turn in your parents, friendsContinue reading “Poetry Corner :Big Bird A Member of Hitler Youth?”
“My Life As A Golf Marshall” : Some Final Reflections Before Closure of the Season
This Sunday I will have my last shift as a Marshall. The course will close at 4:45 and I will help round up the power carts, park them in a locked facility and then perhaps take a last look at the darkened golf course I have spent seven months of my life at and breatheContinue reading ““My Life As A Golf Marshall” : Some Final Reflections Before Closure of the Season”
“My Life as a Golf Marshall” : Stories from the Edge : He Died with Two Birdies and a Smile
I ran into a golfer today who related a semi-sweet story. Several years ago he was golfing with his ageing father at Scarlett Woods Golf Course in Toronto. On the 17th hole Dad smacked a decent drive that hit a sprinkler head from the irrigation system. It took an aggressive forward trajectory resulting in aContinue reading ““My Life as a Golf Marshall” : Stories from the Edge : He Died with Two Birdies and a Smile”
Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog is Back: Why Do (some) Humans Hate Us Dogs?
In Egypt I was cursed, kicked, spat on and shot at. In human eyes I am a simple beast. Why was I thrown out in the street like an old rag? Why did animal control try to shoot and poison me? I can say you are mean fucking bastards. You are lowlife scum and yesContinue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog is Back: Why Do (some) Humans Hate Us Dogs?”
“My Life as a Golf Marshall” :The Beginning of The End
The beginning of the golf season may be riddled with April frost delays but that is the beginning and the golf hormones are raging. The frost delays creep back in late October and early November. Yes it is like the end of a life of a spawning salmon. Tee-Off times can be delayed anywhere fromContinue reading ““My Life as a Golf Marshall” :The Beginning of The End”
Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog Is Back: “We Rescue Dogs Are All Hurting”
You have been reading about my adventures and thank you for so doing. These adventures are perhaps the most amazing that ever have been experienced by any dog let alone a rescue dog. Winning a Nobel Prize for literature, hanging out with Drake, Mr. Gordon Lightfoot, President Biden and his wife, being on national televisionContinue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog Is Back: “We Rescue Dogs Are All Hurting””
“Mutantism on the March” : Chapter 109: Protests Against the 76 Montreal Summer Olympics
Jiber had been whisked off to Zortixia by Frizzy The Smicket Boy to face a trial for crimes against inhabitants of the galaxy so with him many problems disappeared. But deal with one struggle and defeat it another one appears. The United Mutations were fighting against the sinful expenditures Montreal was becoming heavily indebted forContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” : Chapter 109: Protests Against the 76 Montreal Summer Olympics”
