Author: Warren

Heading back to Tee Dot shortly. Can’t load the Palma Violets/Hot Nasties video. Until I figure out how to do so, this snapshot will have to suffice. Who’s the old guy onstage with the Palma Violets for their encore?

Our view of Palma Violets, right now. This one is already epic.

See this? This is the scene outside our hotel, the Andaz, a.k.a. The Riot Hyatt. Where Keith Richards threw a TV set out of his room window. Where Jim Morrison was evicted for hanging off a balcony. Where Led Zeppelin stayed, and conducted…experiments. This is the scene now, at this

So we go to the Target at Santa Monica and La Brea. While there, my daughter calls me. I always stop what I’m doing when my kids call. So the small thing of sunblock gets dropped, too: into my cargo pants side pocket. I get back to the Riot Hyatt

The above gig was to have featured a Hot Nasties reunion. First together in more than thirty years. Onstage with the Palma Violets. It was not to be. Ras Pierre couldn’t get away from work stuff in Calgary. So the reunion will just feature me, in front of a sold-out

I bet I am the only guy here in his fifties wearing a Minor Threat T-shirt. Actually, I may be the only guy in his fifties wearing a Minor Threat T-shirt.

…where he filmed Rebel Without Cause. My God, we’re practically twins.

Here’s a shot of PV’s Sam Fryer and me at Grove Fest yesterday. Interesting shirt he’s wearing, there.

…which is kind of cool, because my Brother of Another Mother Bernie Farber and I raised some money for Maccabi a few weeks ago in Ottawa, to help with travel to Israel. Kind of wish I was going on to Israel with them. They all look so happy and excited.

“Hell,” W.C. Fields once said, “I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.” Fields, the legendary comedian and misanthropist, wasn’t talking about Canadian byelections, but he may as well have been. His line neatly summarizes how most folks approach byelections in Canada — or “special elections,” as they call

…accompanied by some old punk from Calgary!

Pix by @lisakirbie! Vid proof to follow!

…about their gas plant “scandal.” do these guys ever get tired of getting kicked in the head? In a setback to Progressive Conservative attempts to turn up the heat in the gas plant scandal, Ontario’s integrity watchdog has refused to probe alleged Liberal attempts to intimidate the speaker of the

In the Sun, folks. The Sun. Quote: TORONTO – Toronto Police were asking Mayor Rob Ford’s ex-staff questions about the mayor in the wake of the Project Traveller raids, the Toronto Sun has learned. At least one former member of the mayor’s office staff was interviewed by police after the

Quote: At a Friday news conference, Ms. Wynne blamed her party’s poor showing on Mr. McGuinty…”Some of the political management of that issue was not what I would have wanted it to be, and in fact was the opposite of what my approach would be.” I cannot believe what I

It’s superficial, of course, to always declare political “winners” and “losers” the morning after.  But people (me included) like to do it.  It’s fun. And, in electoral terms, the fact is that there always are winners and losers. Except last night in Ontario was more like the Olympics, to me.  Everyone

Quote: “A Crown attorney on the Project Traveller case, Paul Renwick, would not answer questions. Daniel Brown, Siad’s lawyer, said in an email that ethical and professional obligations prevent him from speaking about anything he may have learned during his time as counsel. “Likewise, my conversations with prosecutors about any

Horwath’s looking like tonight’s big (surprise) winner. Wow.