A presidential news conference
Four minutes. Questions asked, answers given. That’s a real president.
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— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 28, 2016
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— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 28, 2016
Adler-Kinsella Show: dumb truckers, Adam Carpay and a phoney “youth forum”
Cultural misappropriation and misplaced indignation
So, this:
Look, we have three big totems – three – in our house, and another big one in Daisy’s boardroom. We have more masks and carvings than I can count. Anybody who knows me will tell you I revere Northwest native art like it is from God (because it is). More broadly, we work with First Nations and indigenous people more than we work with anybody else. Our families include First Nations peoples.
So you will perhaps forgive me for saying that this Maclean’s story made me go meh.
Trudeau has a Raven-and-light tattoo on his shoulder. When I heard about that, I was pretty surprised, too. That creation story is really important – we have a huge print depicting the Raven releasing the sun from the giant’s box on our living room wall – and I was impressed, at the time, that (a) Trudeau apparently knew about it and (b) thought it was important enough to put it on his arm.
My next ink will be a Raven, too, The Hands of Creation. It’s by Beau Dick, and my B.C. buddy David Plewes gave me a limited print of it about thirty years ago, which still hangs in a prominent spot near our door. The Raven is the trickster, and I love all of the many stories about how he is part of us but also sometimes against us.
These Haida artists quoted in the Maclean’s story would have a legitimate beef, I think, were it not for stuff like this: Raven toys. Raven scarves. Raven candles. Raven rings (I’ve been wearing one of those for years). And so on.
I guess my point is this: you either sell your culture to people who don’t understand it and/or don’t deserve it – or you don’t. Share it or don’t. Let a well-intentioned guy like Trudeau put it on his arm, forever, or don’t.
You don’t get to be “bemused” by it when you like someone, and then call them a knife-wielding traitor when they have an opinion you don’t like.
Either you sell bits of your culture, or you don’t.
They sold it.
SFH do Ramones tribute song
These guys got together last night and didn’t play this song they wrote for Da Brudders.
However, you may be able to see them play it if you go to this:
My pal Tim Powers coins a line for the ages
“If the Conservative party was a musical genre, it would be country music.”
Genius.
Oh, and Mad Max likes guns a lot. Surprise, surprise.
Idiocy on the 401
This just happened. This idiot did an illegal U-turn right in front of us and is now blocking the Westbound 401 near exit 730 at Cardinal, Ont. this is going to affect lots of people.
Velshi, Critch, Frum and some other guy on the presidential race
In the new Post City. I had to convert it from a PDF on the way to Cornwall, so let me know if it’s hard to read.
Stan Sakamoto and Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner
Here’s the results from Elections Canada:
A few things:
- I had the honour to work with Stan’s son Mark back in the Ignatieff era. A finer man, and a more decent family, you could not find. Stan and the Sakamotos should be very, very pleased with the result they got in an Alberta riding that has not gone Grit in many decades.
- Congrats to the Tories. They are down but not out, as I regularly warn my Liberal friends. Trudeaumania is not found everywhere.
- The final New Democrat vote was a shocker – only a hundred or so more votes than the Rhinoceros Party. Incredible. They have big, big problems. In the Hat, as elsewhere, Trudeau has seemingly stolen – and kept – the Dipper vote. Under the NDP figures out a way (and selected a leader) to get it back, they and the CPC are pooched.
- Turnout was a disgrace. Blame lies, in varying degrees, with Elections Canada, the political parties, and all of us.