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To think, all the zillions spent, and the war on drugs is still a losing battle...

Take a look at the winners! Here we are, groovin at shows, hitting the bong, reading the boards, and WE'RE WINNING A WAR!

FACEBOOK IS EVIL!

"Welcome to Mordor...can I take your order?"

Based on someone's post here a while ago I've registered to attempt the CN Tower climb for WWF this Saturday.

See you at the top Todd. (assuming we make it) Nice fundraising by the way!

out of pure kindness, and why not

The show ended after 3 AM.

If sharing the drums would have meant a drum tech tuning the kit in between sets, it would have taken time away from the NRPS sets.

More than pleasantly suprised!

Amazing show, ended after 3 AM!

N.R.P.S. played many favorites, yet left out a few notables, which I expect tonight's crowd will get to enjoy the heck out of. Some great covers last night, all can look forward to an interesting set at The Silver Dollar.

Buddy Cage's tasty, searing pedal steel licks and backup chops had me mesmerized. Something like Mike Auldridge meets Robert Randolph with a hint of panama red = Shredder!

I wasn't the only one in the crowd boogie'n hard and grinning ear to ear. The whole band was super tight, with eyes closed at times; it took on a true JGB or Grateful Dead vibe. Took me back many years.

You'd be crazy to miss tonight's show if you missed last night!!!

Last nights New Riders show at PJC was AMAZING!

Pre rolled and ready... A minute to go! Countdown...!

The Canadian Charter.

Read it, know it, defend it.

From Section 24 of the Charter:

(1) Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this Charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.

2) Where, in proceedings under subsection (1), a court concludes that evidence was obtained in a manner that infringed or denied any rights or freedoms guaranteed by this Charter, the evidence shall be excluded if it is established that, having regard to all the circumstances, the admission of it in the proceedings would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.

Hard to believe, apparently Blue Mountain is opening one more time this season:

Get ready for one last weekend of skiing and riding!

Weather and conditions permitting, we will open the Silver Bullet Lift on Saturday

April 21 and Sunday April 22nd, 2007.  Day hours will be in effect (9:00 am to 4:30 pm).

Our total lift and trail count will be posted on the conditions page at

http://www.bluemountain.ca/conditions_snow_report.htm on Saturday morning.  Please note, we

will have no beginner terrain available for this weekend.

All Blue Mountain pass holders, including those with 5x7 and Night Value Passes can

ski for FREE this weekend.  Non pass holders are invited to ski or ride for only $10 each day.

Conditions and weather are very changeable this time of year, so please check the snow

phone  at 705 445 0231 or website at http://www.bluemountain.ca/conditions_snow_report.htm

prior to arrival.  We are expecting warm sunny daytime temperatures and heavy corn snow

conditions.

$10 bucks, sunshine, spring conditions... Doesn't get much better than that!

Killer show, boogied harder than I have in awhile. Seems all that positive vibration cracked a hole in the clouds too! Yee hah!

If its Corning Pyrex, then you are home free. Examples of the official mark:

Anyone else considering camping at Mara Provincial Park for the occasion?

(5 minute drive south of the Casino, on Lake Simcoe)

http://www.mikadorestaurant.ca/

Location- thats the catch- Mikado is on Laird, South of Eglington. More or less in the middle of nowhere. They do not deliver. Everything there is amazing, including veg choices. Personal veg faves- Horenso Goma, Agedashi Dofu, Nasumiso. The snow pea, shitake, and asparagus nigri are sooo goood! Damn I'm making myself hungry!

At "Dos Amigos" on Bathurst, you can enjoy a variety of 100% Blue Agave Tequilas:

Jose Cuervo Anejo Reserva de la Familia $17.00

Cabo Wabo Reposado $12.50

Mr. Hussong’s Reposado $11.00

Margaritaville Premium Gold $6.50

Sauza Triada Anejo $10.50

Cesar Monterrey Tequila Reposado Reserva $12.00

Tenoch Reposado $12.00

El Jimador Anejo Limited Addition $14.00

Herradura Anejo $12.00

Sauza Tres Generaciones Anejo $9.50

Herradura Reposado $9.25

De Los Dorados Blanco $6.50

Herradura Silver $6.75

De Los Dorados Gold $7.95

Casa Grande Reposado $9.50

Jose Cuervo Tradicional Reposado $7.50

El Jimador Reposado $7.95

Porfidio Plata Tequila $10.00

El Jimador Blanco $6.95

Mezcal Monte Alban with the worm $7.00

Olmeca Gold $8.50

Sauza Conmemorativo Anejo $8.50

El Charro Silver $6.50

Viuda de Romero Oro $7.50

Cueva Vieja Oro $7.95

Viuda de Romero Blanco $6.50

Cueva Vieja Silver $6.50

4 Copas Reposado Tequila $7.50

Cuervo 1800 Anejo $8.50

Patron Anejo Tequila $11.00

Jose Cuervo Clasico White $6.00

Cuervo Special Premium Gold $7.50

Sauza Hornitos Reposado $8.50

100% Sotol Anejo Chihuahua $6.50

Tequila Milagro Reposado $8.50

The food is damn good too!

I think I've found the best sushi in Toronto, at Sushi on Bloor.

Mikado is hard to beat for sushi.

Mikado cannot be beat for sushi in Toronto.

Mikado is the best.

Mikado.

MMMmm

(drool)

Calamity Jane,

If you put your cups in the recycle bin, they will likely be reprocessed into a park bench or a road pylon or something. Drop 'em at Sally Ann and they will get recycled too.

Broken glass:

Cheaper glass tends to break easily and shatter into a bigger mess when it breaks.

Pyrex (borosilicate) glass on the other hand is tough, if and when it breaks, is generally easy to clean up.

Real Pyrex glass is also temperature and stress resistant. (which is why it is the same kind of glass used to blow most heady glass pipes)

Corning, who invented the Pyrex recepie, stopped making Pyrex glass in 1988, and began licensing the name to other makers. These other makers use a cheaper form of glass but sell product under the Pyrex name. Total scam. It is NOT temperature and stress resistant. Don't bother buying the new, save your cash, and go for older used Corning Pyrex stuff when you can find it. (or get your heady glassblowing buddy to make you some custom kitchenware using Borosilicate glass)

You can get coffe mugs, glasses, plates, mixing bowls, measuring cups, roasting pans, coffe percolators, pots, all made from Corning Pyrex, often find them at garaj sales, second hand stores, and of course, online.

Pre-show consideration:

The Creaking Tree String Quartet plays the Cadillac Lounge next Tuesday. No cover. First set starts at 8:30 sharp. The Caddy Lounge is a quick streetcar ride along Queen to The Opera House.

Tight schedule, AAA+ sound.

The building has been shut down by the fire marshall for improvements- and the bar has announced the shows will be cancelled.

Ouch. The Jedi are going to feel this one.

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Amen to that!

Boku-maru under Pabu!

Let's hope he took the ice-9 with him wherever he went. Fat chance!

Because you get to write them, and a puppet GWB says them back!

Give it a whirl

Post your best creation back here so we can all try it out!

"Property rights" have bloated to the point where they can dictate the content of freshman art projects. But that is not all. Altogether more and more of what we do in our lives passes through the Web. People invite friends to parties, view art, listen to music, play games, have political discussions, date and fall in love, post their family photo albums, share their dreams, and play out sexual fantasies -- all on line. Since corporate legal departments claim their copyright privileges extend to anything on the Web, the result is a huge extension of corporate power into private lives and social networks.

But that is just the beginning of the story, for the accelerating rate of technological change continues to push digital technology further and further into our lives in just about any direction you might look. To pick just one example, boundaries between our bodies and minds and our technology are blurring. Cochlear implants, for example, now allow deaf people to hear via computer chips loaded with copyrighted software which are implanted in their skulls and in response to which their brains reconfigure, growing new synapses while unused synapses fade. Cochlear implants are wirelessly networked to hardware worn outside the body which usually connects to a mic, thus allowing the deaf to hear the sound environment around them. But the external hardware can just as easily be plugged into a laptop's audio output for a direct audio tap into the Web.

When the Web extends into chips in our skulls, where is the boundary between language that is carved up into words that are corporately owned and language that is free for the thinking?

I don't wish to be sensationalist. We are not all about to turn into corporately-owned cyborgs. But I do wish to point out that the issues around turning culture into property are urgent, and far-reaching. Society is not well-served if we treat specific matters like downloading music on the Web as isolated problems instead of one manifestation of a vastly bigger struggle in which much more is at stake.

Good article indeed.

Tony Rice Tab

This clip features Tony and Wyatt Rice playing Manzanita.
The tune is followed by a chord progression play by play breakdown with closeups featuring Wyatt Rice.
Take a moment to witness the legendary Tony Rice in action!

I would say that having heard this I will definitley check him out next time I hear of a show. Something I otherwise might not have done.

He plays just about every Monday Night at the Orbit Room on College St. in Toronto, cover is 7 bucks. One of my personal 'best weekly gig in town' picks.