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Wren (kneeling) and comrades cooking stew in the North African desert on a trip to RAF base Gambut, following the path of Montgomery’s 8th Army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0c210b3298c48e89e1e7d/13cb7d56-9470-4f27-b06b-b052af6b7e49/Image8.+Monument+to+the+merchant+navy+in+Liverpool.JPG Notes from the People's History - We Must Listen to Voices from the Front Lines - Monument to the Merchant Navy on the banks of the Mersey River, Liverpool, UK, to honour all the sailors that were killed in WWII. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0c210b3298c48e89e1e7d/0708e37c-bb97-4f17-a472-fb5733578736/author-christoper-wren-the-war-diaries-of-louis-e-wren-book-9.png Notes from the People's History - We Must Listen to Voices from the Front Lines One of the most effective ways to prevent war is to show what it’s really like: the night watch on a frigid steel deck, a tanker’s engines wobbling under threat, rumours swirling among the crew, the wives and children waiting at home, and the politicians far away pressing “go.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0c210b3298c48e89e1e7d/774283c4-2c60-4023-a87a-e06522797b4f/Image3.+Arthur+and+Lilian+Wren+in+uniform%2C+WWI.jpg Notes from the People's History - We Must Listen to Voices from the Front Lines - Author Christopher Wren’s paternal grandparents, Arthur and Lilian Wren. 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And didst thou heat thyself for a devil’s half-score in each session?” “Umm… how… long is—” “Fifteen minutes, löyly; we’ve been over this a number of times.” “Yes… of course, right, of course… I didst heat thy—myself,” he said, smiling inwardly that he got it right, “for a devil’s half-score each time… Your Eminence.” von Shvitzensitter eyed the young recruit skeptically. Like he’d caught a whiff of expired milk. “And in the name of balance and equanimity and fairness and self-possession and Pekka Palokivi, didst thou cool thine jets in the coldest water available following your devil’s half-score?” the universally loved and respected Prophet of Sweat asked. The löyly thought hard because he was pretty sure he shouldn’t fuck this up. “I didst, Your Muckedy-Muckedness,” the löyly said proudly. “In ocean water of the western shores of the Coast Salish. As you may or may not know, Your Big Kahunaness, it is Kale-monath, and the water is the coldest of the whole year.” “Indeed, indeed. Kale-monath is a bitch,” the guru said, instantly flashing back to the cabbage days of 1614. He shivered. Collecting himself, von Shvitzensitter III said, “Excellent, young löyly. You do your father proud.” The löyly sat up straighter, confidence pulling the hunch from his shoulders. “Do you have any questions, löyly, before we part?” von Shvitzensitter III said, his eyebrows raised to indicate there were to be no questions. The löyly knew there should be no further questions, so his hesitance puzzled them both. “Who first schvitzed, Your Big Enchiladaness?” he blurted. They both gasped simultaneously. Questions, while encouraged in the formal literature of Schvitz Club, were strictly forbidden. Wide-eyed, the youthful löyly flashed back to his first Council of Brunch at the Denny’s on Douglas. The place was packed to the rafters with soon-to-be-hungover (not to mention unemployable) history in art students that day. The atmosphere was tense, the food: average to good. The meeting was called to order at 7:30 in the afternoon. “Don’t ask us any questions, löylies, we don’t have any answers,” said Schvitz Club’s co-founder, vibe coordinator and archivist Matti Virtanen as he scarfed his Grand Slam. Egg vaulted from his mouth and stuck the landing on the rim of his coffee cup. “That’s not a euphemism,” he continued. “You gotta figure this shit out yourselves, so don’t ask us. Just pay your weekly emolument and get on with the schvitzing. Otherwise, there could be devastating repercussions. Devastating!” Although often vitun löylynlyömä (“fucking steamstruck,” as the Finns say), Virtanen hadn’t exclaimed before or since in this löyly’s presence, so this was no joke. The löyly clicked back to the present and realized von Shvitzensitter III was smiling magnanimously, the worst kind of smile in Schvitz Club. He winced at his own ballsyness. A hare-brained amendment to the charter in 1752 meant von Shvitzensitter III was obligated to fabricate a wild story that may or may not be true in answer to the löyly’s question, so the fifty-oneth Grand Poobah of Schvitz Club was mildly panicked. He’d always followed the rules and never asked, so he didn’t have a fucking clue about the bloody back story! However, he’d been schvitzing for four score and sixty-two years, so his façade betrayed nothing. “A bold question, löyly. Pallit kasvaa—your balls grow—” he said, stalling. Then it came to him. The prayer card. “Löyly, Schvitz Club has a long and storied history. From the ancient Romans to blah blah blah … you’re going to have to come back another time because I don’t know. In the meantime, take this prayer card,” he said, sliding a 5” x 7” card into the milk chute and quickly shutting the door, lest the löyly catch a glimpse of his divine countenance. “After you’ve next shvitzed, slide it into the milk chute between us and knock three times. I will retrieve the card and recite to you the first chapter in the history of Schvitz Club. It’s … an … oral tradition, of course, so you can imagine that I need to get my notes together and contact the appropriate authorities to authorize the author blah blah blah… etc etc etc… you see what I’m saying of course…” The löyly understood. He picked up the card, turned it over, cast his eyes upon it. https://www.aldridgestreet.com/the-ongoing-history-of-door-dor daily 0.75 2025-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f0c210b3298c48e89e1e7d/b5ab7315-0cc1-4949-a826-ebafe9ac6969/250718_CarAndDriver_v2.png The Golden Door Gazette - Door d’Or Asks: Do You Believe in Rock n’ Roll? by Dakota CrvYaris For Immediate Release July 19, 2025 Fresh off their first show together in more than twenty years, the last thing the members of left coast indy band Door d’Or expected was a fake cover story in Car and Driver. “It’s quite a surprise, I must say,” said drummer and amateur schvitzologist Darin Steinkey from his cedar sauna perch at Crystal Pool. “You know, we just go out there, play our asses off and hope for the best. If the fake accolades come, you know, we’ll take them. But that’s not what we’re in it for.” As soon as yours truly entered The Coda in Victoria BC, the vibe was there. The bar was hopping, the conversations flowing, the laughing loud. On a Tuesday, you say? Yes. That is what I say. When reached for comment on the show, lead singer and recent 50th birthday boy Mat Geddes said, “What you want? I can’t hear you, I’m in my fifties and Tuesday night was really loud!” Opening their newest project with Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s classic “Cortez the Killer,” the band signalled they are not fucking around. They slipped into “Get on With Life,” (inspired by Kurt Vonnegut and a bass and guitar riff Steinkey says will become a song someday) and rolled right into the grungy groove “Ornithological Naturalist.” After the Tommy Douglas-inspired “Mouseland,” the bass kicked in on The Tragically Hip’s “Escape is at Hand for the Travellin’ Man.” In homage to Gord Downie, Geddes belted out, “Maybe hang back, maybe, maybe!” Set one concluded with the original and edgy “Fibre Optics.” “I mean, music and lyrics and art hold messages that are different for everyone,” Geddes said. “Fibre optics connect our world at light speed, and we can harvest our own light to travel as consciousness. Where we’ll go, we’ll go.” The band took a break while Geddes (aka thegediknight) did a solo acoustic set, choosing “Shake the World” and “Walk on Water” as long-term selections from his deep catalogue to bookend the debut of “The Dripline.” During the break, this reporter talked to everyone in the room, none of whom had any inclination of the coming cover story in Car and Driver, so the quotes he got are irrelevant. This reporter did find out, however, that Mick B. came straight from work and washed up in a sketchy hose somewhere, Ian F. didn’t show up until 7:30 because he figured no respectable band would hit the stage at 6:30 in the afternoon, and Geoff H. didn’t think the first set was loud enough, saying, “IT WASN’T LOUD ENOUGH!” After three more originals by Geddes: “Shades of Blue,” “Kintsugi,” and “Let’s Open the Door to Our Hearts,” Ryan Clayton (guitar), Mike Ison (bass), and Steinkey retook the stage and the band treated the audience to their version of “Taj Mahal,” a nod to their Canadian brothers in Sam Roberts Band. Of the three songs that contained overdubbed talking, “Phenomenology” worked the best, and then the band took off, rocking into Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” and their punk pop “What You Want?” two anti-war protest songs. “My CRV is much like our music,” said Ison through his interpreter. “Compact, practical, horizontal back door that opens at inopportune times.” As both he and the interpreter were speaking English, it was a little odd, but this seasoned rock reporter got the gist, I’m sure. The band closed the show with their lockdown-inspired “Shelter,” which flows from steady rock to Dead-esque jams, ending with the glorious pronouncement, “Here comes the sun.” It was a true highlight for this road-weary correspondent, filled with a classic Pacific Northwest yearning for the light. All in all, this newsy was thoroughly entertained—and not just by the band; the vibe in the crowd was joyful, electric, slightly inebriated. “Just how we like it! What a bunch of relics!” Geddes said before teeing off on the 14th hole at Gorge Vale. “Our friends and family are the best, and we are so, SO grateful for such an amazing turnout.” As for attaining a fake cover story for Car & Driver, Steinkey says, “It’s all part of the rock n’ roll lifestyle, you know? When I’m cruising to the gig in my 2012 Yaris, I smile and think, It’s going to be so easy to park this baby.”