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woo hoo it's being filmed!
man, tim, thanks for posting this stuff...you are really on top of happennings/birthdays/general good music news...cheers!
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happy birthday to the guy that keeps this place running! it was awesome to meet you and ms hux, and i'm very glad to know that the scullies will have folks like you to spend time with once they make their big move to o-town.
cheers!!!
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deb...5 words.
empty tim hortons coffee cup.
a large cup complete with lid will hold one beer. not particularly insulated, but very few things are cold on a day like this anyway
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So, new update:
I've learned that the US DEA specifically "instructed" the Vancouver Police not to charge him in Canada. They insist that he "answer to crimes he committed in the USA in our country".
Clearly, this was a ploy by the Americans to ensure Emery was extradited and subjected to Draconian American drug laws (as well as money-laundering laws) rather than be charged in the actual jurisdiction where he and his entire operation exist.
Too bad the VPD has no spine.
jeebus!
i understand that tommy chong's cell is still vacant...
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And the first time I saw Garth was at a Band gig at the Masonic Temple in 1996.
Hey' date=' I remember that show! If I remember correctly I think that the Mahones opened. Dr. Evil, timouse, Calamity Jane, snail, and others were there if this is the show I'm thinking about.
I was also lucky enough to see Garth with The Band on two other occasions ... once at Convocation Hall (U of T) and the other time at Lulu's in Kitchener, which was a bit of a culture shock for the heads that were there, witnessing the large "bar scene pickup crowd" that frequented Lulu's on a regular basis. Still a sweet show though.
Peace, Mark
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that was the one, mark! what an awesome evening...the only thing i was sad about was only catching 30 seconds of the mahones due to a late arrival in toronto...but the band's set was smokin!
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Heh heh heh.
I still scream - Yay team Ottawa when I think of you guys coming this way.
team ottawa's gain is team So-On's loss
thanks indeed are in order for the cottage specifically and for dr evil mouse and calamity jane generally...you are two truly cool people, and will be sorely missed down this way. not to mention cassia and leona, who will now be able to both afford a really good university education solely on the proceeds of my swear jar account. the kids need to have beanies with tall flags on them so they are more visible and less likely to be subjected to invective...
and very nice to finally meet kaidy may and The Brians...thanks for a thoroughly entertaining weekend!
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...and more incentive to not put the air conditioner in
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what he said.
particularly the bit about crazy fingers.
the day jerry died i was on my way to do laundry...the same guy was behind the counter at the laundromat every time i went, and when he saw me he told me i looked terrible, like someone had just died. not knowing how to explain it all to him in the context of some famous guy dying, i told him that i had just lost my weird old uncle jerry, the guy who taught me about music and jack kerouac and all sorts of things. joe the laundry guy understood and we ended having the most pleasant sort of metaphysical conversation while waiting for the dryer.
fare the well, jerry. hope you went somewhere good.
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Happy birthday Garth. Man, I can't believe he's 68. He's always looked 68.
couldn't have put it better myself
happy 68th birthday mr hudson!
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...from the web page of the Department of State, meet John Bolton.
John R. Bolton
Under Secretary, Arms Control and International Security
Term of Appointment: 05/11/2001 to 06/01/2005
John R. Bolton was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security on May 11, 2001.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Bolton was Senior Vice President of the American Exterprise Institute (AEI). AEI is a nonprofit public policy center dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom through research education, and open debate.
Mr. Bolton has spent many years of his career in public service. Previous positions he has held are Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs at the Department of State, 1989-1993; Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 1985-1989; Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1982-1983; General Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981-1982.
Mr. Bolton is also an attorney. From 1974-1981 he was an associate at the Washington office of Covington & Burling, where he returned as a member of the firm from 1983-1985, after public service at the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 1993 through 1999, he was a partner in the law firm of Lerner, Reed, Bolton & McManus.
Under Secretary Bolton was born in Baltimore on November 20, 1948. He graduated with a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University and received his J.D. from Yale Law School.
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for what it's worth, the American Enterprise Institute seems a bit on the neo-con side. Their site (link above) features articles by David Frum, and a review of Newt Gingrich's latest book.
Bolton seems to be a life long foreign affairs guy, and obviously bright enough to hold the job (unlike his boss...) but his affiliation with the AEI tells me that there's not going to be a lot of stunning breakthroughs at the UN any time soon.
thanks for posting this, stone mtn. it's been my experience that jambands tends to scoop the media on a lot of these stories
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sounds like you had a great b-day bash! happy belated!
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in the ten years that jerry has been gone, a community of like minded folks have coalesced around the idea that music is a journey, not a destination. even though jerry's gone, he's inspired a whole crowd of us freaks to do it ourselves!
fare thee well...
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"i invented it, but Bill made it famous."
classic.
Brilliant.The look on Gates' face was priceless. You could just tell he was thinking "You're dead, your family, dead, your friends, dead, your dog dead...Nobody fucks with Gates.
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my mac was in the shop today, and i had no music for the first time in years. never realized how much i miss the ITunes Workday Shuffle!
i listened to some '77 dead yesterday, even had some co-workers enjoying it!
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there's a fine line between genius and insanity, and Jaco spent his recording career on the genius side before slipping over the edge, possibly grossed out by the sight of his own thumbs
i read a biography of him that claimed that he basically turned his back on his musician friends and became, well, a bit unhinged....
another great one bites the dust, i guess...
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the middle of a leona mouse meltdown
Ah' date=' the golden moments!
Congrats on the house, Eric! Glad we got to chat at Hillside; we'll be able to swap some good debt-grief stories before long.
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one phrase - you will never be back up to zero again. ever.
the only exceptions are:
-winning the lottery and paying the whole mess off
-becoming an indoor farmer or e-lab owner and paying the whole mess off
-working like a madman for the rest of your life and scrimping and saving to pay the whole thing off
short of any of these, owning a home means perpetual broke-ness. on paper, and conceptually, you will eventually aysymptotically approach zero, but yes, you will be in debt for a long time.
as an economics prof once told me, any monetary value that exceeds the cost of 9 cases of beer is pretty much just a number. billion dollar defecit, hundred thousand dollar mortgage, it's just numbers...
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They say (you know' date=' them) that in hunter-gatherer days, the average working day was about 4 hours long. I'm still waiting for this computer age to bring in the 3-day working week like they promised us all through public school.
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I've been reading much human evolution the last couple of years. Basically every technical breakthrough we've had from farming to computers has actually increased the workload for the average human being. When the europeans first came to North America they found these native tribes living in the deserts who were described as the worst kind of humans ever "discovered". Little better than dogs. Just lazed about all day long. But these people knew every plant in their environment and exactly when it was going to produce for them. They were able to sit around all day because they knew what to do and when to do it. Unlike our society where we have a goof like G-dubbwa who tells the American population that the best thing they can do is go shopping. In other words it doesn't matter what you produce or consume just keep it going.
Drives me crazy. Probably why we're all so uptight. Just running around in circles all day making money but not necessarily accomplishing anything in the greater scheme of things.
the worst part of it all is that there's a whole superfluous layer of people in the middle who are enjoying all of the leisure that we're supposed to be getting. rather than being hunter/gatherers and working for our survival and betterment, we spend all of our time doing some weird abstract specialized task. in exchange we get small green pieces of paper (or their digital equivalent) that we then trade for our necessities. the people that facilitate these transactions take a good piece of them, and as such they net out for very little effort.
the world needs fewer middle-men (middle-people??) why does Speedy Muffler have a giant building downtown full of people that can't install mufflers? or any other giant company for that matter has a whole sector of its' workforce that does not directly do things or make things...
i think before we ever get the promised highly-reduced work week, we will need to load up the B ark and get rid of the middle folk
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indeed! hope you have a great 30th!
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that's very cool. liverpool seems to have re-invented itself, the docks are vibrant and full of tourists, and the beatles are certainly a running theme through town. when niffermouse and i were there years ago, we took the "magical mystery tour" bus through town...the tour is run by a couple life long liverpudlians with childhood connections to the beatles and a deep love and pretty encyclopedic knowledge of the fab fours' early lives in town. highly recoomended if you ever get to liverpool.
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chuck (dark_starr) used to do the request night at Y108...i would call him up and ask for completely off the wall tunes...he told me about the corporate reality of programming tunes at a radio station, and reinforcd my less than complimentary view of marketing people. from what i gather, the tunes are picked from a list provided by the marketing company based on focus group and demographic studies. "Your main group of listeners are white males aged 18 to 29. White males aged 18 to 29 absolutely want to hear Free Bird."
Even for the reauest show, the tunes have to be on a list apprioved by the program director. if they are not, and the dj can get the programmer's permission, then there's a slim chance that they will get played. for regular programming, they have to stuick to the approved playlist. if the station log does not match the playlist, there's trouble.
They could make this easier by redefining "payola" to mean "the standard operating practice of the music industry."
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hey eric!
congratulations on the house and upcoming marriage! i saw you from a distance at hillside and wanted to come say hey but was babysitting for dr and mrs evil mouse and was in the middle of a leona mouse meltdown
don't worry about clearing things out, i think george mouse and mark tonin are on their way over with a shopping list
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cheers to the loudest, solidest bass player in rock & roll...the guy truly lived and stopped living fully in the rock and roll way. he leaves a whole generation of damaged ears as a legacy
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big middle finger of appeciation to lazlo for some of the most hilarious and disturbing posts on here!
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oryx and crake by margaret atwood
skinny legs and all by tom robbins
and anything else by tom robbins
anything by douglas adams
have a good swim...
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