by Keiron | Oct 13, 2019 | Steeltown Rambler
According to scientists, the planet is dying. They are not in dispute about this. They may debate the speed of the decline but they agree on where we’ll end up and it’s not pretty. It’s pretty ugly, pretty disastrous with profound ecological and...
by Keiron | Sep 27, 2019 | Steeltown Rambler
I’m sitting in the darkness waiting for the fireworks. I mean this quite literally. I’m on a grassy hillside in Butchart Gardens, one of Vancouver’s premier tourist attractions. There are thousands of other people waiting, mostly Canadians. They are...
by Keiron | Jul 23, 2019 | Steeltown Rambler
There are a lot of angry people about. I find myself one of them, as today a tiny minority of people hand the keys to number ten Downing Street to a man palpably unfit to be Prime Minister. On a blisteringly hot day, my patience is further tested by a driver crawling...
by Keiron | Mar 23, 2019 | Steeltown Rambler
A man wakes up, he’s slept fitfully. He’s excited, nervous and focused as today is the day. A day two years in the making. He showers, grabs something to eat and loads up the car. He checks his social media, the live stream is ready to go. By the time he...
by Keiron | Mar 11, 2019 | Steeltown Rambler
That red leather jacket, that monster dance routine, Vincent Price’s creepy voice and then those glowing eyes at the end of the song. That’s what I, and I suppose most people remember about Thriller, the title song from an album that secured Michael...
by Keiron | Dec 18, 2018 | Steeltown Rambler
Six Saturdays before Christmas I find myself on Newcastle’s Northumberland Street. It’s heaving with people all swerving and dodging one another to avoid invading precious personal space. Everywhere I look I see stressed faces, people clutching shopping,...
