Jason MItchell

Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light; and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout...

And he'll expense it.

Seconded. Of all the music lumped into the shoegaze genre, Against Perfection is my fav by a longshot.

That's pretty much what I yelled at the TV, and the dog jumped off the couch and disappeared.

Similar experience: John Otway at the Rivoli in Toronto. There was a guy in the crowd with an oxygen tank. I doubt there was anyone there under 40, but it was a blast.

FWIW, saw Killing Joke at Larry's Hideaway, a long-gone dump in Toronto. The show was released on a 10" record. Great live band.

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Guilty. Fortunately, the one time I did this at a Toronto Records on Wheels store, the clerk managed to identify Joan Osborne's "One of Us" before I croaked out half a line.

Anybody else find themselves humming the Velvets' "I'm Waiting for the Man" after they've called a contractor or repair person? Specifically the "He's never early, he's always late / First thing you learn is that you always gotta wait" part?

Darnielle's book in the 33 1/3 series about Black Sabbath's Master of Reality is a great read.

Cut a plug out of a whole watermelon, drain it, then refill the juice with tequila. Put the plug back in and let it sit for an hour. Butcher and eat.

He thinks he's Rickey Henderson, but he's actually Frank Thomas.

Yep. "If Liberals don’t like petty score-settling, they should try behaving some other way." Right. Remember sunny ways? That got us a minor industry producing F*ck Trudeau flags and bumper stickers.

Dude, is that a Yankees hat, because...

Sign that maybe it's time to give up running: being overtaken by a guy pushing a baby stroller.

Toronto please!

The problem can be solved by never thinking about either ever again.

Congrats on a great career. We'll miss you in our house. Book?

Re-read this a couple of days ago and thought that very thing.

Would buy

Put it back in the horse.

My father got one. He died in March of last year. It's absurd. Over 100,000 people die in Ontario every year. I wonder how many got cheques.

Yesterday, my father received his $200 from Doug Ford. My father died last March. Mistake, right? Nope. It's on the Ontario gov't website: We're sending cheques to dead people. How absurd. Imagine what we could do collectively with the $3-billion they're blowing on this shameless vote-buying scheme.

Of course it's a soaker. There are snowkers too.

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My 94-year-old, God-fearing mother on Ford's rationale for calling an election: "That's bullshit."

Cover of Clara at the Door with a Revolver and a picture of child on a couch

One of the small joys of borrowing a library book is finding something stuck inside—a weird grocery list, or a bookmark from another place, for example. In this case, I hope the parents or grandparents of this child have another copy of their picture. (I put it back in the book when I returned it.)

And I was thinking of watching Eraserhead on Kanopy instead the inauguration. It would be more cheering.

Couldn't agree more.

Trust you're digging the fine Corinthian leather on that Cordoba.

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