What Josiah Saw

"What Josiah Saw simmers throughout, always potent, always dangerous." | Photo: Courtesy of Fantasia                  Thomas (Scott Haze) isn’t quite right. Perhaps it stems back to the time when, as a child, he found his mother hanging from a tree out back; perhaps it was something else. He gets confused, and forgets things. Faith gets him through. He lives alone now, but for his father Josiah (Robert Patrick), who continues to torment him in spite of everything. Mother’s absence is felt ev...

Fine Lines: Created to address a fuel crisis, the Mini became a dream car for the masses - Toronto Star

When the Mini was launched in the late 1950s, it was supposed to be an answer to fears that the global supply of oil would be reduced to a trickle. It was 1956 during the Suez Crisis. Britain, along with a number of other countries, had succumb to gas shortages and invoked rationing. What was needed was a small car that was cheap to own and good on fuel. That’s it, that’s all. Little did anyone know the Mini would become the coolest car in the world — a fashion statement, the ultima...

USA and UK and The Middle East and Oil - and on Samuel Johnson - etc