I am told by Team Propellerhead that wk.com has passed the six million visitor mark! Thank you all!  I hope it gives John Daly et al. a coronary!

That’s me. I have the same square jaw, too.

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A virus has somehow infected my Hotmail account. Apologies for the inconvenience to all I’ve infected!

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He was a huge deal to me in my early teens (I was a weird kid, what can I say).  Even started a fanzine whose name was inspired by him.

Very sad to hear of his passing.  Such a genius of an artist. Here’s Dick Cavett (with George Harrison!) introducing him.

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…right here, for your reading pleasure. There’s another one in the works, I think. details soon.

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I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

“In 2012, more than 300 residents lined up in the City Hall rotunda for between one and four hours to shake hands with Ford and the councillors who stood beside him. Most of the attendees were staunch supporters, but he bantered cheerfully and posed for photos even with the people who told him they didn’t like him.

The levee landed him in a brief and odd bit of trouble seven months later, when Liberal strategist and pundit Warren Kinsella posted a photo Ford had taken with Jon Latvis, a former member of a prominent neo-Nazi band.”

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To wit:

The indie acts [Clifton’s] assembled for this ambitious fundraiser aren’t — with the exception of S— From Hell, which features Canadian punk pioneer Warren Kinsella — strictly punk, but they all share the do-your-own-thing spirit that defined The Clash.

“The best punks will always be teenagers,” notes the father of two teenagers, who attended punk concerts in Toronto during his youth and saw the Clash perform there in ’82.

“Maybe adolescence is by nature punkish. You’re defying authority, because authority is by nature bound with tradition. There’s an emerging consciousness. You’re defining all that’s gone wrong and what should being going right. The basic moral principle is you should care about people.”

Strummerfest 20112

Friday (Dec. 14). 7 p.m.

23 acts, seven venues in downtown Kitchener, including Kitchener’s Civic Square, Queen Street Commons, Imbibe, L-Lounge, Café Pyrus and Silver Spoon.

Pay what you can. All profits go to Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council and Your Life Counts!

After party: 10:30 p.m. featuring Time Giant at Bobby O’Brien’s.

The festival will also present Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, an ’07 musical doc, at Waterloo’s Princess Cinema (6:45 p.m. Thursday) and are staging an online art and collectibles charity auction.

For more information, and list of venues and performers, see strummerfest2012.com

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Here.

I note, without comment, that Bob Nixon endorsed Gerard Kennedy last time.

Not this time, seems.

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Paikin – the younger one, who I like – has offered up a very thoughtful and very timely piece on the widening chasm within the Canadian Jewish community.  It is a must-read.

And not merely because it aligns with what I’ve said myself many times in the past.  Paikin’s column is important because too many are afraid to say it out loud – namely, their Canadian “leaders” are mostly reactionaries, closer in outlook to Likud than they are to the people they profess to serve. They’re a propaganda arm of the Conservative Party of Canada, in fact.  And, as I’ve also said before, Stephen Harper’s support isn’t for Israel, per se – it’s for Likud.

Do they care?  Obviously not.  But when a change in government happens – as it always does – they will, they will.  They will profoundly regret abandoning the Jewish community’s multi-partisan approach of the past. Like I told UJA a few years back:

Look at me, folks. I am a latté-sipping, Kyoto-loving, One-World Government Secular Humanist. I probably got here today in a black helicopter, piloted by Hilary Clinton.

But to echo that great line in ‘Jerry Maguire’ – you all had me at “hello.” I will always support you, always. After hearing my little rant, today, some of you may not want me, but too bad. You’ve got me.

There are others like me – many, many others, and they’re all a lot smarter, too. There are others like me, who admire Israel for being a beacon of democracy in a sea full of tyranny. For its generosity, for its wisdom. There are others like me, who see Israel’s continued existence as a precondition to a safer, saner world.

There are others like me! So, by all means, vote for conservatives, sometimes. But vote liberal sometimes, too. Our enemies – and I say that as a Zionist, and as someone who loves Israel, and as a proud member of the team – always want to isolate us, to identify us with only one cause or one choice. Let’s not give them that.

Let’s be smart and let’s be strategic. Israel, and Israel’s people, is owed no less.

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The inclusion of Rush was big news on this side of the border, as it should be.  But for me, recognition of PE is bigger news.  They weren’t just an amazing rock and roll band, I told a doubting Son One this morning – they were an amazing punk band.  Their occasional lapses notwithstanding, they will forever remain God-like Geniuses.

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Team Hair and Teeth© were on all of the party’s debate-rules conference calls and agreed to everything that’s happened since.

This is, as I say, bollocks.

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