I was very, very sad to learn of her death yesterday. The news was broken by the man who is, in fact, her step-father, John Lydon.

Ari was a huge help to me on Fury’s Hour, and I can’t emphasize enough the importance she had – as an artist, as a woman – on the punk movement.

Here’s Ari and the Slits doing ‘Typical Girls.’  She was anything but.

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Davey.

And David Shiller – a.k.a., Davey Snot, the Thriller Shiller – wins.

Check it out:

Toronto lawyer David Shiller, who defends the bubble-blower in the original video, has offered to represent those facing legal action free of charge.

“His case in a very, very real sense threatens peoples’ right to comment on the police conduct at the G20, and that is undeniably a very important and controversial public issue,” Shiller said.

Shiller stumbled upon the bubbles incident while on a stroll through his Parkdale neighbourhood, and said what was captured in the video is only a small part of a greater display of force he describes as “frightening.”

“For a billion dollars, I could’ve got someone with a better attitude,” he tells Const. Josephs in the video, referencing the highly-criticized price tag of the G8 and G20 summits.

Our punk rock brother is all grown up!  He’s using big words and everything!

The confrontation between Davey and Officer Bubbles, wherein he does us proud, is here.   That’s him at about the 1:20 mark.

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The 100 Club is the oldest live music venue in London.  It is also a crucial part of the history of the Stones, Oasis, the Clash, the White Stripes and countless others.

Due to sky-high rents and exorbitant taxes, the 100 Club is facing closure in a matter of weeks. If you want to help prevent that, click here.

In the meantime, here’s a ditty by four of the loveable moptops who also played there.

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[…and, um, I’m Canadian, Peter.]

Mr. Peter Kormos: Of course, the Liberals have just finished their weekend confab during which the keynote speech was on the art of mudslinging.

Well, I read the book just Friday night, after I read that in the paper. But I do notice that there was some material distributed during that weekend confab. I have copies here.

(Blah blah blah.)

This is material that was handed out, I’m told, at the weekend confab by the Liberals where they were being spoken to by the American [sic] king of mudslinging, Warren Kinsella, for whom I have a great deal of admiration and who is, of course, an expert at mudslinging. I only wish he was one of ours, rather than the Liberals.

I like Warren Kinsella.

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Why did the former win, why is the latter (seemingly) about to do so? I’m interested in your views. Comments are open.

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I’ve never been a huge MCR fan, and neither is my Bad Religion-adoring daughter, but we like this. The NME raved about it being a “pretty thrilling blast of gonzo pop-punk.”  True enough.

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This sentence in a number of stories caught my eye:

“During the attack, [the victim] pleaded with him not to post the photos on the Internet.”

So what do pretty much all of the media do?  They do what she begged the killer not to do: they post photographs that have the effect of further victimizing the victims.

Some days, I just don’t get it.

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I don’t think I have ever met the man.  But I so wish my Dad, who lived in – and loved – Calgary for thirty years, had lived to see this day. It is wonderful.

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…and he uses his own name, too.

I can’t believe I just wrote that.  Anyway, here’s what he wrote.

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