larry jr.

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I was pissed off when I got back from my trip and turned to channel 25 here in Ottawa and lo and behold, YTV (channel 25) had turned into some religious station spewing forth stuff about Jesus and what have you. But that's what the remote control is for. No offence to Jesus or anything. I'm sure we would have gotten along fine.

With Al Jazeera, you've got people who don't know a damn thing about it who just figure it's an Al Qaeda mouthpiece, or various closet fascists who only believe in free speech when they agree with it.

However, there are also legitimate concerns about anti semitism, aside from the idiots who equate any criticism of Israel with Jew hating. As a Jew myself, I can't stand that sort of thing. Still, there have been some reported cases of Al Jazeera talk shows inviting guests on who say things that do offend me, like peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories about how the Jews were behind it, and according to a CBC documentary I saw, one of their talkshow hosts is an unreserved Holocaust denier. One of their hosts also read an e-mail from a viewer that described Jews as monkeys and some other animal. I don't know how frequent crap like this gets broadcast on their network, but I understand why people are sensitive to this kind of thing. Here's one example of sh!t that CNN or the CBC would never be allowed to air:

http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=antisemitism&ID=SP22501

I have a pretty thick skin and all, but that sort of crap shouldn't be in my cable package. If a CNN host denied that slavery ever existed, or read an e-mail describing Latinos in some horribly deragatory way, there would be an uproar about it.

In the end, I agree with the CRTC decision but I'm glad they're putting the station and the cable providers on a leash. Free speech yes, but CRTC doesn't need to give a license to anyone who broadcasts hate speech.

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I'm going, and Dancing Bear is nice enough to let me store all my goodies in his, er, trunk.

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I'm gonna try to make it to this one, but will have to drag some people with me...can you get tickets for this one at the door? Anyone know?

For those interested, Trey is scheduled to be on Charlie Rose's show on Monday, May 31 (that's on PBS fool). Check your local listings or whatever if you don't know what time Charlie comes on. I don't think I'll get it here in Lithuania though.

[color:"black"] Man, you think you had moved on and the wave of nostalgia gushes over you...trying to score drugs at Hershey Park in 96, my first show, Plattsburg madness, Boston New Years's 96 super euphoria hackey sack balloon, following the sun going in circles, ny city rollercoaster ride, the mindfucks from trey, looking oh so forward to the next album so I could smoke a j and put on the headphones, fleeting enlightenments, raucous road trips a plenty, on and on...

A part of me grew up with Phish. I just feel grateful for all the good times.

"Your hands and feet are mangoes, you're going to be a genius anyway."

Another big thank you to the Jiva Ju dudes for the party. My pipe got a solid workout, as did my lungs. I'm sorry I missed the evening festivities, but the day was sweet. Your neighbours rock.

How did you finally get the keys out of the car Huxy? That's the kind of thing you'd expect to happen to Larry David on his way to a meeting with those HBO big wigs.