On the Magnificent Mile in the Windy City for Riot Fest. Note my headgear, which no government here has yet made illegal.

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Chicago-bound for Riot Fest to see Against Me, Pennywise, Bad Religion, Joan Jett, Public Enemy, Violent Femmes, Flatliners, Blondie, Pixies and – of course – the Replacements.

That’s if Porter figures out how to be an airline again, that is. Which is a big if.

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Everyone is talking about Lakeridge Hospital’s brilliant response to the hateful Parti Quebecois “Charter.” The news stories – one of them is here – don’t tell you who came up with the concept, however.

Well, I can tell you that a certain former Dalton McGuinty  guy (who is rather brilliant, but don’t tell him I said that) works there.  And I can also tell you that, if you hover your mouse in the right way, the answer will become clear.

P.S. In a related-but-not development, today is the tenth anniversary of “Reptilian Kitten Eater.” Robert Loney told me. He knows, because it’s his birthday! Happy birthday!

P.P.S. I am not GritChik. Or GritGirl.

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Karen Stintz provides Canada’s largest city with real, honest-to-goodness dead air when asked if she’s blown the transit file (because, um, she has).

“Who’s in charge?” she is asked by one of the fairest journalists in Canada. “How much of [the transit file chaos] is your fault?”

Dead air, around the 15 minute mark. Crickets.

Listen here. It’s painful.

Bottom line: Stintz isn’t fit to be the city’s transit boss, let alone the city’s mayor.

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At the 50-minute mark: “one of the best gems of the era” – Sam calls it a “world-wide anthem of another life”!

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None of us will ever forget today, not in our lifetimes. But I am struck, today, by how it is increasingly discussed less in the media – and perhaps by all of us, too.

Is that good? Is that normal? Is it a mistake? I don’t know the answer. But I am thinking about it – and the victims and the consequences – today.

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In Calgary in January. Nasty Bob, we need you! Anyone want to help make this happen?

These guys, by the way, deserve all the credit for making the Hot Nasties relevant, 30 years after the fact. Buy their EP here!

And come to the show in Calgary!

Palma Violets strike a Hot Nasties pose!
Out now on Rough Trade!

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This is one of those days, for me.

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