SFH is number two on CBC Music’s chart!
…well, okay, their ‘Gallery of Songs Inspired by Rob Ford’ chart, that is. But we’re SFH, and we’ll take whatever we can get. Click on the image to see what…
Musings
Teenage Lament: long-lost Hot Nasties track
Also located in last night’s rummaging through a closet. From a gig we played at Calgary’s Union Hall, opening for DOA. Here it is. Download, fold, spindle or mutilate, as…
SFH and Rob Ford-related news
Above: the teenaged lead singer of the Hot Nasties, circa 1977-78. Photo located last night under a pile of old records. Note the rasta handle. SFH’s fate seems inextricably linked,…
Dear Chief Blair
Dear Chief Blair: Other folks want to canonize you as a saint. I’ve never felt that way, for various reasons. Another reason: your guys had the goods on Rob Ford…
Toronto needs a mayor who doesn’t do heroin
ROB FORD DOES HEROIN. That would’ve been my headline. Call me crazy, and many do, but it seems to me that that is news. Wow.
Irene David Cleary
My Aunt Irene passed away on the weekend, another family member felled by cancer. Her funeral is today in Knowlton, in the Eastern Townships, and I couldn’t get there on…
14,000+
Hey! Somewhere in the past few days, I acquired more than 14,000 Twitter enthusiasts. At the moment, 14,234, to be precise. I have some small distance to go before catching…
Lame, lame, lame
Jim Watson calls Gord Brown “Gordie.” Good God! The horror! Oh, wait. I call Gordie “Gordie,” too, because he’s one of my oldest friends. I’m friends with Michael McSweeney, as…
Chong, preach
I’m no PMO shill, obviously, but I think this Chong bill is a trap. It is dangerous. Among other things, it would render this sort of nightmare – which I…
Junior Murvin, rest inna peace
Junior Murvin, a giant of my teenage punk years, died yesterday in Port Antonio. He was in his sixties. No one knows yet what was the cause, apparently. The Clash…
You can come if you haven’t smoked crack, bought illegal drugs, drove drunk, or hung with organized crime
Dear Rob Ford: We decided to have a meeting, and limit attendance to people who haven’t committed a number of major crimes. Sorry. Sincerely, Kathleen Wynne and Norm Kelly
In Tuesday’s Sun: Paris Ford
Rob Ford went to see a football game on Sunday night. The rest of us got to see what people really, truly feel about him. They flocked to him. They…
The greatest early Canadian punk rock singles
I own all but a couple. You?
Conservatives: deleting emails is “the usual protocol”
Remember how Kooky Kavoukian and the Ontario PCs shrieked and brayed about how the routine deletion of emails was a “crime”? How democracy itself was at risk? Remember all that?…
In Sunday’s Sun: lies, statistics and polls
Can public opinion polls suppress voter turnout? Of course they can. Do they? Yes, a lot, a lot. If a poll shows the electorate evenly split, turnout typically surges —…
Globe story on Brandon-Souris
Quote: “…For all the potential missteps, Mr. Dinsdale says he’s not looking back. He plans to run in 2015. “In an election, many, many things go your way. Many, many…
Because some of you were asking
…and because I haven’t commented on Ontario politics in a long time (get used to it).
When is negative not negative?
Raj, who I think is one of the best political reporters around, caught the contradiction (along with a colleague): here. That is, Justin Trudeau has said he will not go…
Art Bergmann: I’m going to f**kin’ Airdrie
Great story by Mike Bell about Art Bergmann in the Calgary Herald, here. I didn’t know Bergmann. He was a big wheel from Vancouver’s punk scene, all dark clothes and…