Rob Ford’s debt to a drug dealer
The court transcript, here. Oh, and he was on something last night on the Danforth, here. I’m sure it’s all a great big coincidence.
Warren
The week in pictures
On the dock with Son Two, hours after his return from camp. Get Daughter on Sunday. Been quite a week. So here it is in pictures. Monday: me and Lala…
Sun set or Sun rise?
Look, I know lots of folks will be positively giddy that Sun News Network, along with some other applicants, didn’t get “mandatory carriage.” Some will be celebrating its imminent demise.…
Why writers/journalists make lousy politicians
One take is found here. It’s well done, but I think it misses the key point. And I say this as (a) someone who ran and (b) someone whose writings…
Justice for Rehtaeh Parsons: two arrests, finally
From just now: Two people have been arrested in connection with the Rehtaeh Parsons case. Police arrested the two at 8 a.m. at their respective homes following an investigation by…
Invasion of the Tribbles! Palma Violets and Hot Nasties onstage in L.A.!
It’s the Invasion of the Tribbles! Eeeeeaaaargh! Ein zwei drei vier! Britain’s best band, and an old fart from Calgary’s first punk combo, onstage at the Echoplex in Los Angeles…
TO-bound
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…
Palma Violets at Echoplex in LA
Our view of Palma Violets, right now. This one is already epic.
Burn in Hell, One Direction
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…
Target loves me
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…
The secret can now be revealed
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…
At Santa Monica Pier
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…
Me and James Dean at the Griffiths Observatory in LA
…where he filmed Rebel Without Cause. My God, we’re practically twins.
LA bound with Palma Violets
Here’s a shot of PV’s Sam Fryer and me at Grove Fest yesterday. Interesting shirt he’s wearing, there.
Me (and a ton of Canadian Maccabi kids) heading to LA
…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…
In Sunday’s Sun: by-elections don’t matter, except when they do
“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…
Palma Violets play epic version of the Hot Nasties’ ‘Invasion of the Tribbles’ in Toronto!
…accompanied by some old punk from Calgary!
Me and Palma Violets after a rousing rendition of ‘Invasion of the Tribbles’!
Pix by @lisakirbie! Vid proof to follow!
Integrity Commissioner hands Hudak PCS another defeat
…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…