Author: RossK

SpeakingNonsenseNon-StopWithUtter Conviction VilleFor the first time ever I have switched on the “comment moderation” feature of this Spotted Blog.I apologize, but it had to be done. There is no need to read any further unless you require an explanatio…

AllTheBlatherThatFitsHerdVilleYesterday, we mentioned that BC Liberal Party and Online Gambling Enterprise strategist Alise Mills floated a trial balloon on the Puffmaster Flash’s radio show about the possibility that Christy Clark may not call a snap …

AllTheStrategizingThatFitsBoostThisVilleIt was surprising to hear Alise Mills, who Rick Cluff described as a “BC Liberal Party strategist”, float an expectations-lowering trial balloon this morning on CBC radio about how Christy Clark will not be calli…

AllTheDeputiesThatFitCampbellClarksVilleSo.Not everything Auditor General John Doyle will be using to put together his report on the Six Million Dollar RailGate Payoff need come from super secret client-privileged sources.For example, while Vaughn Palm…

AllTheDeputiesThatFitHarmonizeThisVilleSo, The Dean has weighed in on the BC Supreme court’s ruling to hand over a bunch of documents to Auditor General John Doyle about the $6 million dollar deal that stopped the RailGate trial in its tracks just as i…

SheMightTryItOutreachIsEverythingVilleSo.Christy Clark won’t debate Adrian Dix on the HST.Well, given that Pamela Martin’s new job is, allegedly, to…. “improve public awareness and engagement and ensure communication is a two-way conversation.”maybe …

AllTheOldNewsThatFitsWhenThePunditThatMattersNoticesVilleMe, I was not at all surprised to learn that the AG’s office, through it’s special prosecutor was still fighting to keep RailGate trial documents that had been previously released to the media fr…

AllTheWordsThatFitWithMeaningVilleAlmost missed it following all the new arrivals at Clark’sVille station, but it is very much worth mentioning that the best of the proMedia writers on all things maritime off the coast of Lotusland (and more) is back a…

AllTheContactsThatFitClark’sVilleStationLast week, when we followed up on a report from Sean Holman (sorry Sean, had it as JFowlie in the original post), aghast, about what appeared to be a made-up-on-the-spot patronage appointment for former media mav…

CanYouHearMeKnockingOnYourWindowVilleIt has been a long time since I thought about the Franz Klammer house party story. A story that, if you’ll recall, never saw the light of day.But then this thing with the editor happened and it all came flooding bac…

AllTheCoolnessThatFitsPatriarchyVille’Star, Star’ is one of those Frames songs that all manner of folks have played with the band, live, over the years. Especially kids who come out of the crowdHeckfire – I have a sneaking suspicion it may have been th…

DivingDeeperProMediaVilleI do this very, very rarely. But this one is going to be pretty much a cut-and-paste job.Why?Because, in the wake of John Doyle’s call for a public accounting of the six million dollar RailGate gag-order, Paul Willcocks dives d…

GenerationalProcurementGamesCanEverybodyWinVilleWhile I find it ironic in the extreme that a number of our current legislators who have demonstrated a penchant for union bashing in the past (and yes, we’re looking at you cookie boy) are now pitching th…

GoodTimesNeverSeemSoGoodHeadsTheyWinTailsWeLoseVilleWell whadd’ya know.Pamela Martin is now Camp Christy’s newly-minted ‘Director of Outreach’.Jonathan Fowlie of the VSun has the story:VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark has hired former CTV news anchor …

ARealMusicalBeggar’sBanquetMic’NGlenVilleOne day in June, our friend Donal Scannell let his cameras loose on what just might be the best Busker-Du session of all time. June of 2001 that is. Which makes it ten years ago, already, since Mic Christopher a…

….Is It Your ‘Families First’ Program?“If you were a part of this, and I’m speaking to people who may have been responsible last night, I promise you this. You won’t be able to live in anonymity, you won’t be behind your bandana or under your…

…..The Band.Good-bye Clarence. We, and especially littler e., will miss you.______Greg Mitchell explains how the Big Man kept Scooter from being turned to mince-meat in Sing-Sing prison, post-Folsom, but pre-Run, in 1972..

AllTheThanksThatFitAllMyKids’HopesAndDreamsVilleI’ve been climbing in and out of the cigar tube a lot lately on my way to and from not-so-secret science geek bunkers dotted around the country where peer reviewers are fighting it out to the figurative d…

PlayHardListenHarderVilleSean Kangataran is part of that newly re-minted Dublin diaspora that is taking the musical world by storm.And he’s living the life in all sorts of ways, including, according to his Tumbleresquederian bio, these ones:…(Kantaga…

YouThinkYou’reImmuneButICanSellYouAnythingVilleThe other day we had some discussion around here about the consortium of British Columbia businesses, all of whom directly benefit financially from the HST (as opposed to you and I who do not, regardless w…