When you walk into a room, stop and look around you find the most amazing people – I recognized her smile and ease instantly. I meant to go back and get her name, but Saturday night got twisted and it wasn’t to be. Maybe I’ll have another chance to sit down and get to know [...]
Off to Wal*Mart to pick up some cheap essentials and I ran into this young woman. I’d love to make a crack about People of Wal*Mart, but just can’t. I spent a few minutes watching how she interacted with people and her pet, and have been left with this picture. Fielding questions about the type [...]
Lydia’s life is full. Lydia owns a pair of beat-up, Red Converse All-Stars that she unknowingly used to make me take notice. She’s a beautiful contradiction.
I’m trying to find a way to flow between Facebook, Twitter and this site better. Running around and taking pictures of the interesting people I meet has been uh, interesting. This picture was taken in Okotoks last night — sometimes you see something about someone and just have to capture it.
I promised Gabe that I would write in a journal everyday for the sake of catharsis. It’s been her experience, she explains, that having some quiet time to reflect on life’s ebbs and flows increases visibility into one’s own life and direction; as a result this can make one happier and more complete a person. [...]
This past week was silly. It was another week where every single day was a train derailment of hours colliding into each other and spilling across time and space. Hard Knocks 11 is in the bag and for all intents and purposes it was a really good show. During the run up there’s always a [...]
It’s amazing to me how much our generation has influenced the world we live in, and by influence of course I’m talking about the Internet and popular culture. Allow me to explain. When I was a young boy in the seventies and early eighties we had scrawny-thin, hard-wheeled skateboards, so unstable that if you hit [...]
Forester woke up inside a dumpster with a splitting headache wearing only one shoe and surrounded by rats. This was not unusual — he’d come to expect these sorts of things when he started writing again. It smelled bad. Somewhere in the corner of the dumpster a rat was clawing at what sounded like a [...]
This week has been crazy. Epic crazy. The run-up to Hard Knocks Fighting Championship 10 this Friday has me working flat out. The only reason I’m writing this is to decompress a little before the next activity spike. We’re adding some new sponsors to the cage so me and Kierin were at the Casino de-decaling [...]
Welcome to MichaelDargie.com and what used to be FreeThinkingRadical.com and www.PrehensileTales.com. The entire point of this website is to give me a place I can post shit about what I do and how I do it as well as just publish the things I create. In exchange for continuing to “put stuff out there” I’d [...]
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