Last night: Bjorn von Flapjack IIII with his new Pearl Baby Kit at SFH’s Punque Haus, where I live alone. Snipe thought it kinda sucks.

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I loved going on Canada AM, back when JC was PM.  I’d face off against David Miller (for the NDP), or Line Maheu (for the Alliance/Reform/whatever they were called that week), or Dan Tisch or whoever (for the PCs).

Canada AM was where I did this good-natured little jab, too.  Became a Trivial Pursuit question, that one.

Anyway, goodbye Canada AM.  And here’s a clip from way back when that a reader found (don’t know how).  O that we were all young again, etc.

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…instead of just publicists for that bilious asshole. 

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This is very positive and very big. I’m a sucker for non-partisanship, these days. Well done.

Also, wow. 

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Me and the Hot Nasties saw Costello and The Attractions [emphasis added – ed.] for the first time on November 15, 1978 at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary. There was a minor riot at the foor of the stage involving the bouncers, us, and Costello. We refused to sit down and jumped into the orchestra pit to dance; the big hippie bouncers didn’t like that, and started to toss us around like matchsticks; Costello didn’t like that, and threw his mic stand at the nastiest, meanest bouncer. It was glorious.

Anyway. In those days, Costello was backed by Steve Nieve (ivories), Pete Thomas (skins) and Bruce Thomas (four strings).  They were gods.  Evidence, here:

Now, here’s Costello in his later years, without The Attractions [emphasis added – ed.]:

With The Brodsky Quartet? A classical ensemble? Seriously?

Like I say: I’ve been keeping this inside for too long. Elvis Costello TOTALLY SUCKS without The Attractions. He’s a boring old fart – the gravest crime for which you can be convicted, in my books.

Discuss.

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Seriously, guys: fish or cut bait.  If you have an allegation to make, make it. But it’s not particularly fair to condemn a guy for the fact that you don’t have evidence he did something wrong.

“Hey! We think there might be some damaging shit about you, and we demand you offer it up, because we’re convinced it exists.”

— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 2, 2016

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Here it is:

His voters don’t read or watch mainstream media.  So condemning/investigating/bashing him with traditional media works to his advantage – his supporters like it.  They feel mainstream media disrespects them as much mainstream media disrespects Trump.  Reach those voters, instead, with the media his vote trusts.

Also, this.  This should be a big hit, and played on Down South every talk radio show, 24/7.  This is how you win, in one minute and 44 seconds, Hillary.

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I wish him and his family luck.  Ottawa doesn’t make this kind of problem easy.

On the Hill, the hours are crazy.  So are the demands on you and your family.  There’s a lot of pressure, there’s a lot of isolation, and there’s a lot of scrutiny – so people dealt with all that in different ways.  Back in my day, there weren’t as many bars and whatnot around.  But there was certainly a lot of people who would go for a drink after work.  They’d do that every single day.  That’s how they’d deal with how it is in Ottawa.

I was (and am) weird: I’d come from a punk Straight Edge scene, so I just never did that sort of thing.  And – I confess – I didn’t often hang out with, or ever hire, those who did.  Loose lips sink governments, etc.  If you were a regular on a bar stool at D’Arcy McGee’s, I kept away.

Anyway, for those of you who are in Ottawa, peering at this on your government-issue device, wondering if what happened to this formerly powerful cabinet minister could happen to you, this is a useful rule of thumb.  Fifteen or more a week? That’s a problem.

If you’re doing that, day in and day out, you need to do what Hunter Tootoo did.  Get help.

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In the U.S. and everywhere else, too. (H/T Richard Madan.)

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