Eric F.-X. Perrault
Regaining my true path
When I was eighteen all I wanted to do was draw cartoons and be a photographer. Few other things interested me with the exception of...
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Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
The kid and the old man on the pier
This little story was told to me some fifty years ago, by whom I can’t even remember, and has stuck with me ever since. An older...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 2 min
Greedflation... the illegitimate child of immoral capitalism
Forget about shrinkflation, slumpflation, stagflation, good old regular inflation, or any other “flation.” What’s occurring around the...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 2 min
Stock Odds - creating horseracing wager style odds for stocks.
Most of us have been to a horseracing track or seen a race on TV. Wagering at these races is based on an odds system, the underpinnings...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 5 min
Showbiz in a snowstorm
At around 24, I worked on various projects after leaving my job as assistant advertising manager at Atlas Copco Canada. I also lived with...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
The magazine mutiny
Back in the late eighties, magazines, real ones printed on actual paper, were entering their last great decade of popularity. City...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
The big knife versus my little thumb
My father had the habit of taking me to the woods from an early age. Six years old, to be precise. Back then, one didn’t have to drive...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
Mother leaves me on my thirteenth birthday.
My birthday fell on the same day as my mother’s and my maternal grandmother’s, which someone once told me the odds for were quite long...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
My first paying job
Like so many others, my first job was a summer job. As I was heavily interested in photography, I would go to Simon’s Cameras, Montreal’s...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
Supermarkets automating unemployment
The devastating effects of self-serve check-out systems at supermarkets. I occasionally take a few minutes after doing my weekly...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
My father, International Harvester and Kosher Chickens
For the last 20 or so years of his working life, my dad sold trucks. Big trucks. Big International Harvester trucks to be specific. In...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 2 min
The nine-year-old hockey reporter
When I was nine years old and my folks had been divorced for a few years, my mother and I lived in an old apartment building on Gatineau...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 2 min
My first of 600,000 cigarettes
The year was 1967 when Montreal was host to Expo 67, the international world fair. I was thirteen, and both my father and mother smoked...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 2 min
My final little universe
I've spent a lifetime of work in marketing communications and publishing, traveling, clubbing, concerts, fine wining and dining, outdoor...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
My (simple) horseracing wagering system
Let me start by stating that there is no guaranteed system when it comes to wagering on horse racing. Betting on horse racing can be...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 2 min
Punishing the profiteering petrol pump.
Everyone knows the gas-powered automobile has heard its death knell loud and clear. So the oil companies are staging a full-frontal...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 2 min
That big lake trout
A few times a year, back in the eighties, we’d all go down for family gatherings of various sizes to the Howard family camp at Breeches...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
The anchor
My dad was a very stern individual. Once in the great outdoors though he relaxed a bit but remained a strict man. As I grew into my late...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 3 min
Grousing along the Notawissi river
Back starting in the nineteen sixties my father and I would religiously go fishing and hunting for 5 to 6 weeks starting in early August...
Eric F.-X. Perrault
- 2 min
Kaboom... or when I nearly blew my face off.
Back in the sixties, in cases of separation, custody was given to the mother. That continues to a large extent today, from what I...
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