What... Creed is back?

i may be d3scribed as a liberal. Oh no, i'm the devil.

Quite sure of himself and stupid while doing it.

My fear is that all this nonsense rhetoric is selling well with enough people and they are successfully doing the groundwork for the full-on dictator-sh!t that they're aiming at. --- Already there, you say? Well, the full Pinochet isn't happening yet. i fear that it really is coming.

Watching a doc on Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. "Incredible pressure... sessions... tv... concerts." "mid-July the band are literally crisscrossing the entire country with each day in a different location."

You mean gigging? All across the UK... that's like a 2 hour drive between gigs.

It's only love, and that is all.

Love hurts. Love stinks. Love ain't for keeping.

The lyric in the pop song playing at the supermarket was;

"Our love is like gold."

i thought, hhhmmm, is that an idea i would work with?
Gold is rare. Gold doesn't rust. Gold is expensive. Gold is a good electrical conductor. Gold is maleable and usually mixed with other metals... i dunno...

It does. It does indeed.

i did something dumb, something really silly, something so obviously not a good idea that i can only wonder what i was thinking.

i had a Tim Hortons pizza.

All i can say is Tim Hortons pizza is the.... Tim Hortons bagel of pizzas.

The CAQ is concerned about "too much" immigration.
And about "preserving the secularity of the state" (meaning, oohh hijabs).
And all those bilingual households in Montréal.
And gender-neutral language.
And now praying & face coverings in public.
Parce que la peur des autres vend à leurs électeurs.

All this and Shinedown TOO?!

My question is always; centrist? Centrist between what and what? The Dems and the GOP? Cuz your Dems would be called a right-wing party anywhere but the US. So... centrist between a moderate right party and an extreme right party? That doesn't sound very centrist to me.

The Québec government has decided to stop using gender-affirming language in their public documents.

More CAQ moves to appeal to conservative voters?

Apparently not. French grammar is more complex, precise, less maleable than English. Things got confusing. Which who does what to which whom?

Basically the plot of the Buffy spinoff, Angel.

We should all go buy sone Tylenol.

Oh, they said the quiet part out loud; "white power." Yup, his real message got through loud and clear.

All the boring people left the party?

He's finally lost it!
Is the tide finally turning?
Leftists are losing us elections! Mainstream Dems are out of touch!

Blahblah & big headlines & finger wagging.

Fascists are running things & half your country thinks everything's fine.

But go ahead, tell me about your principled stand against....

Okay, i'm confused. Dan Jeannotte, who plays Sam Kirk on Strange New Worlds, is from Montreal, and he's got a French last name, but he's playing a Quebecois character on North Of North and.... i don't believe the Quebecois accent he's doing. He sounds like me doing an accent.

There are some great singers. i've worked with a few. i'm not one of them. i'm a musician who sings. Someone here compared The Beatles unfavourably to some "great" singer. Yeah, in a world where everything we hear is tweezed to perfection, i think we've lost any idea of what actual singing is.

In Québec, women keep their birth names. You can use a spouse's name if you like socially, but on official documents your name remains your name. Among other things, it keeps government stuff simple. Shitheads might have a harder time disenfranchising you here... doesn't mean they won't try.

YouTube video by Mikhail Bharat XTC - Towers of London

XTC's 4th album, Black Sea, turned 45 yesterday.

youtu.be/99bBSeyM9fM?...

US ambassador to Canada disappointed in Canadians anti-American attitude.

Um, we're not anti-American. We're anti an admistration that tries to bully us. We didn't start this. We didn't intentionally mess up a deal that benefited everybody.

Oh, and go fuck yourself, Mr. Ambassador.

That's one of the things i dislike about it. Louder. Things need to be louder. i do it too, of course. i can't just state a thing like a Hemmingway sentence. i have to find a qualifier to make it louder.

But every snare hit doesn't have to be a rimshot.

i don't like Impact as a verb. i know it's been common usage for 20 years now, and this is how languages change, and i'm not gonna win this, but i just don't like it. It hurts my ear. We already had a word. Affect. "How will blahblah affect my blahblah?"

Ah, the sound of my stovetop espresso pot. First the build-up, then the whoosh, and then it settles into a contended bubbling.

There will be coffee. And it will taste like coffee.

Honestly, better writing, acting, and directing have happened in recent series than ever happened in ckassic Star Trek. There was a high level if cheesy Hallmark-channel scripting-by-the-numbers, and soap opera acting on TOS and TNG. We just don't like to say it.

Well, it ain't great, but there was a ton a crap in the 90s i hated worse. How about... every single Spuce Girls song? Or CREED? Any Creed, every Creed, just fucking Creed. Yeesh.

i keep saying it; in any other country, the Dems would be called a right-wing party. The progressive end of the Dems is just slightly on the left. So... if "centist" is supposed to mean halfway between Dems and GOP... what's halfway between right-wing and bat-shit-crazy right-wing?