Author: RossK

. …Who’s Crazy Now? A couple of months ago, when the all three polling sub-categories (eg. LINO’s Down/Dippers Up/BCCons Way, Way Up) first made it readily apparent that the BC Liberal Party, at least as currently configured and branded, was doomed, we wrote the following: “What if the (Fed) Cons

BigWheelsKeepOnTurning Round&RoundVille Personally, I mark my bike riding calendar by the need to wear gloves. Or not. And, despite the fact that it was grey, that there is new snow on the mountains, and that the wind was at my back when I left the near Eastern Townships this morning,

. …..To Bloggers! Surprised? Of course not. Although, I must confess that I was caught a little off-guard by the pluralization of the pejorative. Ha! ______ You can hear it here, at the (notso) Giant 98 audio-vault on Sean Leslie’s program (about 3:34pm Sun April 1st, just to go 3pm

WhyIndependentsInTheArtsMatter OurNeighbourhoodVille So. If Rich Coleman himself tried to do the right thing, who is really working to keep the movie ban (without bar service) at the Rio Theatre from being lifted? .

AllTheTunesThatFit WeekendsWithoutWhiskeyVille From the first girl that kissed a girl. On the radio at least. Jill Sobule. ______ And, unlike the Uke Kids who have gone the other way, Jill is probably one of the first establishment acts who successfully went the other way in terms of making the fan-funded

MakingStuffUpWillAlways ComeBackToBiteYouInTheEndVille Look. Nobody has to make stuff up about the tragic George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case to demonstrate to all concerned how egregious Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law is. But NBC did its best to do both. To make stuff things up to make look things worse, I mean. And

NoHoldsAtTheInk-StainedBar PunditsInTheOctagonVille This week’s combatants in the Write Harder Battle Royale… The Vancouver Courier’s Bob Mackin and The Vancouver Sun’s Vaughn Palmer. The Battle Cry…. “Christy Clark’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, van Dongen-Type Day!” And without further ado, here comes the best the battling pundits had to offer:

AllTheScaryMonsterEvilLiberalBabiesThatMustBeStrangled InTheBathtubVille …Prime Minister Harper announces massive cuts to all funding for anything remotely associated with amateur boxing. _____ Although, under bilateral Sly-Arnold agreements with the US American Republican Tea Guzzlers and Hummer Drivers, there is absolutely no truth to the rumour that Burgess Meredith’s ghost has been permanently denied

There’sNoUkeLike CoverUkeVille First, the Original, which will be flock of dive bombing hummingbirds in your ear holes for the next week, at least… And now, the Uke Cover, which will do your heart, as well well as your auditory canals, a whole lotta good… _______ It’s ‘The Night of the

BigWheelsKeepOn Turnin’Ville littler e. and me went for a ride today. The weather was not good. But it was fun anyway. Except. e. had to go to the Vice-Principals’ offices. But that is only because she really, really likes owls. It’s true. (and yes, there is no grammar in bike

AllTheRhetoricThatFits ForTheOtherSixtyPercentVille Thomas Mulcair was on the long wave with Evan Solomon this morning. I, for one, was impressed. No wishying…. No washying… As he chopped a number of Republican/Conservative frames to bits. **** Now. I realize that there may be issues of real politick that could wear a little

. ….’Telepathy’. Unless, of course, you believe, in the paranormal. Neither I, nor Ian Reid do. Believe in such things, I mean. You can read Ian’s follow-up to all this here…. (I’ll be back to comment in more depth later) .

. ….And Sometimes It Is Something More. Way more. In late 2009 Hansard and Irglova unveiled a ‘new song’ while they were on tour, a tour the E’s and I saw piece of, that presaged a lot of what was to come. And then, just a couple of weeks later

Blogs,BlogsEverywhere ButNoTimeToEatLunchVille It’s noon on Friday, and the former BC Liberal Party government Attorney General, Mr. Geoff Plant, has been gracious enough to answer my question regarding his interpretation of the propriety of the ‘Six Million Dollar Deal’ that, in my opinion, effectively ended the BC Rail Trial of Mess’rs

AllTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodBadDaysThatFit Connin’WithChristyVille. Bob Mackin has the story. And the day-by-day blow-by-blow of Ms. Clark’s horrible month of March. My favourite is the coda to March 26th, the day Mr. John ‘Ain’t No Lead In These Feet Now’ van Dongen fled the premises… “….Clark’s whereabouts are publicly unknown….” Sound like a

PattyCakePattyCake SaveHerAgainVille Justine Harper, in The Globe & (no longer Empire) Mail has a suggestion for Christy Clark today that she reckons might just make it possible for the (not)Premier to save her tattered political party’s free enterprise ‘brand’. Which is to go for broke, and actually do something real

FareBoxForMeEveryTime OtherwiseIMightForgetVille A little under the weather this moring. And the weather still a little lousy. So I left the bike behind and caught the bus. And. As I was was sitting there scratchy throated amongst all the school kids, I could only hope that. I wasn’t infecting anybody. .

HereABlogThereABlog EverywhereABlogVille Former BC Liberal government Attorney General Geoff Plant, who is now a civilian, has a blog. And yesterday he had a question for John van Dongen about the Six Million Dollar Deal, which was the following: “…What would you have done?…” Now, one of the interesting things about

TheKingAndHisCourt FiveStringVille The banjo king, Earl Scruggs, is dead. His music will live on forever. Interestingly, Mr. Scruggs wife Louise was his, and his partner guitarist Lester Flatt’s, business manager beginning in 1955. At the time Ms. Scruggs was only in her mid-twenties, which is amazing to consider, considering the

. …At Rocky Mountaineer’s False Creek Flats Train Station? Why do I ask? Well, if it hadn’t been for a wee little provincial ‘statute’ change awhile back, it might still be possible for the current (not)Premier to declare passenger rail service in British Columbia essential so that she and hers