Down the memory hole
Several posts have gone down the memory hole, seems. There’s a big glitch when I use WordPress on the iPhone – stuff disappears, and I get error messages. The WiFi…
Musings
Dear John: ten questions
So I’m at the cabin for The Festival of Joy© weekend – weather is beautiful, it’s quiet, and there’s lots of writing to do down on the dock. But it’s…
This just flew out of the woods and over my head
Scared the living shit out of me, too: the only things with a motor around here are of the four-stroke variety. Wow. .
A comment on a Summertime poll
Right here. .
Backstage with Pennywise and Bad Religion!
Jim Lindberg, Lala, and some old guy. My God, I love punk rock. .
In Friday’s Sun: Conservative war room steps on own bomb
Sometimes political war rooms get way, way too cute. Sometimes, even, they do something that ends up hurting them a lot more than it hurts their opponent. Sometimes, they’re idiots.…
Notable Bishop Carroll alumni
There are so many things you can (and you guys likely will) say about this page on their web site. Personally, I’m not sure how that creepy-looking guy got into…
Bloodbuzz, Ohio, CBC Radio, Indie 88 and me
In the mornings, I listen to CBC Radio. Always have. But when they start playing “music,” I turn them off. Calling the “music” on CBC Radio is inaccurate. It is…
Toronto Star: John Tory’s legacy
His greatest mistakes, the paper says: Attacking Jean Chretien’s facial disfigurement. Trying to introduce negative-option billing. Pushing for funding of private religious schools. That’s his legacy, says the Star. I…
John Tory, the Elitist Conservative Candidate for Mayor
His continual bleating and braying about his fear of an “NDP mayor” is somewhat irritating – there is no “NDP mayor” in the race, and partisan affiliations aren’t even permitted…
Now we know what John Tory was doing
In response to my post below, one of my favourite-est Twitter people, the satirical John Tory account guy/gal, has come up with an answer as to where they could easily…
Somehow, I can’t picture John Tory doing this
It’d be like asking Thurston Howell II to hang with Skrillex or Daft Punk. It can’t be done. Here’s Olivia at Electric Island on the weekend. Pic by StreetsTO.
Hot Nasties, death, Fucked Up and the NME
“If you guys had stayed together, you would’ve been really big,” daughter said to me this afternoon, as we headed back from the cabin. “But you wouldn’t have had me,…
In Tuesday’s Sun: Prince Pothead
Is Marc Emery a secret agent for the Conservative Party of Canada? It sure looks that way. It’s impossible that you have not heard of the World’s Most Famous Pothead.…
John Tory calls Rob and Doug Ford “flim-flam” artists
Here. A flim-flam artist is someone who engages in a “trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game.” Yep. .
In Friday’s Sun: a thousand points of light. Stay the course. Persian Gulf.
Capricious, unstructured and even dangerous: That’s what American political thinker Walter Lippmann once wrote about the public’s views on foreign policy. “The unhappy truth,” he wrote in 1955, “is that…