Last week after SFH practice, we got together with the legendary Cam Carpenter at the Shanghai on Queen West, and he told us he had just come from seeing the most amazing thing: tweenish Toronto girls in a band named Done With Dolls.  A bunch of record execs were there, dragged by their similarly youngish daughters, and Done With Dolls just blew the roof off the place.  “The execs were just standing their with their mouths hanging open, not believeing what they were seeing,” said Cam.

It took me a while to track down this vid (and here’s another one!).  If you’re not down with Done With Dolls after hearing their lyrics (about their lives) and seeing them (with braces, no less!) you have no heart.

I predict these girls are going to be huge, huge, huge.  Just wait.

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We saw the Menzingers just before Christmas, supporting the Flatliners.  This is the bit of godlike genius they were playing as we tumbled into Sneaky Dee’s. Perfect.

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Holy Christ. I didn’t take that Abacus thing very seriously until I saw this.

Theories? Fixes? Opinions? Comments are open.

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They’re back (they never went away, in fact), and their web site is here. Watch their space, starting tomorrow.

Tim Hudak’s Landowner Party certainly will be.  Enjoy it, Rocco!

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He’s in town, and I’m interviewing him tonight. Here he is ’79, with Link Wray, not long before their parting of ways. ‘The Way I Walk,’ was written by the legendary Jack Scott, of course – pride of Windsor, Ontario.

(BTW: YouTube forced me to link to a Google account before letting me access videos. That’ll cause a shitstorm, I reckon.)

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I’ll be at the game tonight, comme toujours, so I found Feschuk’s wonderfully-written column a great read.

Apart from the fact that Feschuk masterfully provides some insight into a great NBA enigma, it’s also evidence of my belief that sports writing is the funnest to do and read.

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We’ve been calling Timmy Hudak The No Plan Man. Turns out it wasn’t entirely rhetorical. Check out the URL, circled at the top.

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Word is Timmy Hudak has lost yet another senior staffer – his Director of Communications!

But they’ve been doing such a great comms job, too!

Anyway, I think they should hire Rocco. He can do another “Bocce Balls” ad campaign for Timmy! Everyone loved that!

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…that’s what Tim Hudak’s PCs want. What does it mean for you?

• Higher drug prices, in perpetuity, as Big Pharma will win eternal patent protections
• The loss of anti-pollution rules
• The end of new parks and the potential elimination of existing parks
• Elimination of zoning rules designed to prevent neighbourhoods from being ruined – noise bylaws, giant homes, etc.
• Friction with aboriginal peoples, with land claims being overturned and challenged
• Discrimination against women in divorce settlements
• The challenge of labour laws, and potential end to collective bargaining
• The loss of shorelines, and commercialization of public lands

It’s crazy. And it raises the key question: where does Tim Hudak stand?  Is the No Plan Man© now, fully, a hostage of a cabal of lawless rural extremists?

More here and here.

Hillier, the real PC leader, in handcuffs at an OLA protest.

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Oh, snap! Heh.

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