What the? How the? Yikes!
I don’t even want to think about what this could mean. At least they could have said whether it was plumbing or electrical… that would take some of the “yuck” out of it.
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Nagging about religion isn’t so much like telling someone about to eat a piece of candy that it’s bad for their teeth as it is like telling someone about to drink a glass of juice that it’s bad for their shpedaddle.
But there’s no such thing as a shpedaddle!
Exactly.
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Sunrise 5:04
Sunset 22:07
I Love it!
My buddy Ben Sures sent me an email the other day:
would you vote for me at www.jlsc.com/vote? i have a one in two chance of winning a big publishing advance from EMI and thus increasing my profile and thus making me a more useful act to you!! the voting starts wednesday.
I voted like crazy yesterday and I urge you all to do the same. Visit the site, click on the ‘folk’ box and vote for Ben Sures – “Any Precious Girl”. Contest runs between March 15 and April 26.
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If you are looking for me after 6:15pm today, try the corner of Spadina and Queen.
I’ll be the guy with a street dog in one hand and a ROM guide in the other! Woohoo!
I return to snowy Edmonton late Sunday night.
Freaky advocates of “family values” suddenly have a good reason to love gay cowboys.
Among the movies up for this year’s Oscar – best picture award, “Brokeback Mountain” looks rather sissy when judged by FamilyMediaGuide.com, which gives out grades to movies, video games and TV shows based on the amounts of profanity, sex, violence and smoking they depict.
“Crash” contains 182 swear-words compared to only 92 curses in “Brokeback Mountain.” If “Crash” wins the best picture Oscar it will be the third most profane winner ever. The other two sweary-films being “Platoon” (329 expletives) and “The Deer Hunter” (208 cusses).
“Munich” is the most violent, “Good Night, and Good Luck” is the most smoky, and “Brokeback” is the most sexy (“Crash” comes a close sexy second).
It is interesting to note that FamilyMediaGuide.com also claims all five nominees contain 45% less sex and 31% less profanity but a 65% increase in violence and 313% rise in tobacco use from last year’s top 5.
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I don’t know where they are, what they are all doing together, or even who the lady in the middle is, but I do know that none of them look happy to be there. What unhappy occassion could have brought these two Georges together? Does George W actually think Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ program involved Lucas in some way? Does anyone know? Please tell me!
Riding the coat tails of the wildly successful film Brokeback Mountain, we encountered the oh so predictable Top Gun 2: Brokeback Squadron (we always knew Tom and Val "flew that way"). But now finally, a real love story for all the geeks out there, they bring you the touching tale: Broke Mac Mountain. And no, it is not a "gay geeks" movie. It is much deeper than that. Much deeper and sadder.
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For those of us too young to remember Pickett in his wicked ‘60s prime, he has been reduced to a couple of songs, doomed to the hell known as open-stage or wedding-band music. How many times have we heard Mustang Sally slaughtered at a blues jam or In the Midnight Hour performed by an “old fashioned band of married men” in cheap suits?
The original records, unlike their satanic offspring, offer awe-inspiring power. Pickett sang like Judgment Day was right around the corner, and for a black man, gettin’ down with his badself in the American South in the 1960s, it often was. Further to that cause, Pickett was a man who did nothing quietly.
He was reportedly quick-tempered and was said to wave a gun around if provoked. He drank and caroused like a rock star and, though he never fully beat his demons, the man was never anything less than authentic. He insisted when recording that everything be captured live in the studio, and that includes everyone’s mistakes. Even his final recording in 1999 (It’s Harder Now) contains a brief sleeve note from Pickett that reads: “All the music herein was performed by actual musicians, in real time, without click tricks.”
Pickett died last week at age 64.
Rest in peace, Wicked Pickett. You deserve the rest.
