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Cool For Cats Friday
I went to Roger Waters The Wall tour last night. Showed up with a Pentax DSLR camera and 300mm lens, to take some shots from my seat, in the 300 level and at the opposite end of the rink from the stage. So instead of shooting decent quality pictures from 300 feet away, I took shitty [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 17th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
At Home in Hespeler: Right on Carbon Taxes
Who said what again? Back in 2007 I asked, would you stop driving for 12c a litre? Elizabeth May thinks you would. I wonder. Hasn’t the price of gas gone up more than 12c a litre this year? What has it stopped you from doing? I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Sixty cents a litre is [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 16th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Quelle Surprise: Smart Meters Aren’t Saving Money
Did anyone believe him? Anyone…? Beuller…?  Dalton McGuinty told you a) Smart Meters will save you money on electricity & b) They would be revenue neutral. Always revenue neutral with these guys, always that means there is the same amount of revenue as before, but they’ll have more of it. Here’s what I said about Smart Meters, as [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 15th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Black Country Communion Review
All the work of blogging occasionally pays off, and in most unexpected coin. Through another blog I keep up, Ramble On, I was advanced a copy of the new “supergroup” Black Country Communion’s debut CD. I’ve been listening for four days now, and absolutely love this CD. My review is in. Be sure to read it [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 14th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
The Freedom of Music: Review: Bachman & Turner
One likes to believe in the freedom of music. Rush - Spirit of Radio. When Randy Bachman decided to record a solo album with guest singers, one of his first calls was to his old Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) partner C.F. (call me Fred) Turner. The two got together and recorded Rock and Roll is the Only Way [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 12th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Saturday Fluffernutter: The You Had to Ask Edition
All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities Was it really just two week s ago when I asked what I would write about if Lindsay Lohan got her act cleaned up? That day, the night before the post went up in fact, Paris Hilton got busted with someone else’s purse that contained gum that looked, [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 11th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Remembering The Victims of 9/11: Susan Huie
On Sept 11, 2001, Dr. Gordon Huie was stitching up victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack on a conference room table. Anxiously he wondered to himself, “Where are you?” When the phone call came, he collapsed in grief. His sister, Susan Huie, 43, was on the 106th floor of World Trade Center Tower 1. Susan [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 10th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Dress Like Mohammed Day?
I don’t believe in book burning, never have. Otherwise, I would have spent last weekend in the bookshops buying cheap copies of Handmaids Tale and The Edible Woman for our Saturday Night Bonfire. So Pastor Terry Jones and his Church of the Dove’s Qur’an burning don’t appeal to me. I think they are wrong, just [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 10th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Cool For Cats Friday’s
I am really liking what I have been hearing of the new “Supergroup” Black Country Communion, with Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian, Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa. Their first single, One Last Soul, is available for free download on their website (use the promo code OLS2010). It is excellent. Then last week a video of them “recording,” [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 10th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Stephen Harper’s a Big Mean Bully…
This brave new policy is sordidly familiar, akin to collaborating with the Nazis to stop the flight of Jews Ron McKinnon, president of the Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam Federal Liberal Association
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 9th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Toronto the Not in a Death Spiral
“Back when my job was to sell Toronto, we used to have visitors just about every week from other cities in the world desperate to learn how to do the things we did best.” …a big shot from Paris Metro wanted to see how we ran such a successful transit system, others who wanted to learn how [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 8th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
The Pimply Minions Rebellion of 2010…
en Francais
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 7th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
The Freedom of Music: The Front Men (and Women) of Rock
One likes to believe in the freedom of music. Rush - Spirit of Radio. Gibson Guitars had a list of the top 50 front men (and women) of all time on their webpage. Actually, they had two lists: one put together by Josh Todd of Buckcherry, Chad Kroeger of Nickelback and Ric Olsen of Berlin, plus [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 5th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Saturday Fluffernutter: The Paris and Roses Edition
All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities Last week at this time I mused on the subject of Lindsay Lohan, and what would I fill this space with if she stays out of trouble? I put the post to bed Friday night, put myself to bed, and by the time I woke up, Paris [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 4th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Cool For Cats Friday’s
I fancy this, I fancy that, I wanna be so flash… And ev’rybody tells me that it’s cool to be a cat The new feature, Cool For Cats Friday’s is going to offer whatever I have stumbled upon through the week, a song, a video a pinup or whatever. This week, the features title song, Squeeze’s Cool For [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 3rd, 2010 | @iambriandammit
In Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario…
“I don’t know how it happened mother,” says Premier Dad to Elizabeth McGuinty, his Czar in charge of all policy decisions. “I was trying so hard not to turn into Mike Harris, that I never noticed I had turned into Bob Rae.”
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted September 1st, 2010 | @iambriandammit
I served Jean Cretien, I knew Jean Cretien, Jean Cretien Was A Friend of Mine…
Remember when Liberals bragged about “the toughest and most ruthless machine in Canadian politics,” not whined about it. Frankly, I’m still trying to get my head around Jean Cretien publicly using the words NDP and leadership together, thus giving them credibility they really don’t have. The more I watch of The Count, the more I believe that, [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 31st, 2010 | @iambriandammit
In Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario…
Joe Warmington Gets it (emphasis mine): Like a giant boa constrictor, they are slowly sucking the breath out of the lives of Ontarians and the lifestyles they’ve come to know… The public is too busy paying taxes to keep track of how this land is becoming is [sic] a giant tax, fee and regulation society that builds [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 31st, 2010 | @iambriandammit
The Freedom of Music: It Was Twenty Years Ago Last Friday…
One likes to believe in the freedom of music. Rush - Spirit of Radio. In the minutes following midnight of August 27, 1990 music fans were leaving the Alpine Valley Music Theatre near East Troy Wisconsin. Moments earlier they had seen guitarists Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Jimmy Vaughan join Vaughan’s brother Stevie onstage to [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 29th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Saturday Fluffernutter: The Stunted Growth Edition
All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities Brad Pitt is a good leftie. He doesn’t believe in the death penalty for, say, someone who kidnaps a child and spends three days molesting them before killing them. Paul Bernardo, as an example, should be spared the death penalty. But run a company that has an environmental accident? I [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 28th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Toronto the Not in a Death Spiral
One day, someone will write a book about Toronto’s demise and there will be a chapter entitled: August 26, 2010. On one hand, this council often talks about finding new sources of revenue. On the other hand: “This is not an airy-fairy, done on the back of an envelope (plan),” she said. “There is a dearth of housing [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 27th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Friday’s
It was 20 years ago today… Stephie Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990)
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 27th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Toronto the Not in a Death Spiral
Rob Ford has a ten point lead in the polls for Mayor of Toronto. His basic platform of reigning in spending is resonating with voters who appear fed up with the sanctimonious politicians that are ruining a very broken city. How sanctimonious? In my opinion, if Mayor Ford is elected, city council will have a caucus meeting [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 26th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
The Pimply Minion Rebellion of 2010…
Is now armed: It has come to the attention of the National Firearms Association that the political police chief heads of law enforcement associations are planning a nation wide blitz against licensed firearm owners, as retribution for the political action of the Canadian firearms community… Meanwhile in Toronto, there is open talk of not respecting the electorates [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 26th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Happy 80th Birthday…
He was the first Bond, the guy who defined the role. Tackling Dr. No, bedding Ursula Andress. That itself is enough to warrant birthday wishes. There’s his “Chicago Way” speech, in The Untouchables: They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 25th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Blog Tax
The Pimply Minion’s Rebellion of 2010 continues apace. It really seems this summer that governments in North America have started a war on the citizenry. And it’s not big government, Stephen Harper and Barak Obama coming down from on high. It’s not even Premier Dad, Premier Uncle Jean and Premier Auntie Eva: Political middle managers bullying the [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 25th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Local Starbucks’ Sends Care Packages to Troops
This from my local Starbucks at Franklin Blvd. and Elgin Rd in Cambridge. Please Support Our Troops Brian’s brother is currently serving in Afghanistan and we are sending VIA to him and his fellow troops. We would love your help! Buy a package of VIA and write a notice on it for them to read. Brian is one of the [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 24th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Minions, Bully’s and By-Law Officers
I like to use the phrase “the pimply minions of bureaucracy,” on this blog. It comes from a 1799 quote from an unknown naval officer, regarding the introduction of an income tax: It is a vile, Jacobian, jumped up Jack-in-Office piece of impertinence - is a true Briton to have no privacy? Are the fruits of [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 24th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Saturday Fluffernutter: Michael Douglas; Joaquin Phoenix; Stephen Tyler; Ben Shepherd
All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities Mr. Zeta Jones, Actor Michael Douglas, announced this week he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Mr. Jones will undergo chemotherapy and is “very optimistic,” of a full recovery. Back in June his son Cameron, from a previous marriage, was sentenced to five years in prison for dealing methamphetamine and [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 21st, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Happy 62nd Birthday…
Bob Plant I have alternatively praised and buried Robert Plant in this site. As the front man for Led Zeppelin, Plant headed the greatest rock band ever (don’t bother, no dissension from this view will be tolerated). As a solo artist, he has had a varied career. After his second solo album he changed gears dramatically, [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 20th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Fridays
Cause Fridays should be fun… The faces reunion, August 11 at the 02 arena. They’re in good form and Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall does a good Rod Stewart. Sure hope that rumoured tour is true… this time.
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 20th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Ladies and Gentlemen, My MLA…
Cambridge MPP Gerry Martiniuk will not introduce the private member’s bill that would have seen Victoria Day renamed Victory in Europe Day. Gerry Martiniuk is the Progressive Conservative critic for labour and seniors. It’s entirely appropriate because, like the union stewards at work, you only ever see him, or hear from him at election time. The MPP [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 19th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Freedom’s Just Another Word…
for you can’t do that here. Surprisingly, shockingly even, a local government fails an irony test. Sadly for Canadians, it’s one more thing you can’t do in this country: Orono, ON: Due to an anonymous zoning complaint filed with the local municipality, husband and wife bed-and- breakfast proprietors Marta & Lech Jaworski may be forced to pay as [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 17th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
In In Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario…
If you don’t like the policy, wait around 6 months, it’ll change: March 2010: “If I was to knock on 1,000 Ontario families‘ doors and ask them for their top three concerns, I’d be surprised if anybody said, `Well … one of those is we’ve got to start this new kind of mixed martial arts in Ontario. [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 15th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
The Freedom of Music: Robert Flirts With Cabaret
One likes to believe in the freedom of music. Rush - Spirit of Radio. “Now there’s a man who’s never let you down.” So remarks a friend of Nick Hornby when he tells him he is a Rod Stewart fan. Yes, admits Hornby. “…it‘s true Rod‘s record is not without its blemishes.” Us old Robert Plant fans [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 15th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Saturday Fluffernutter: The American Idol Edition; Ritchie Hayward (1946 - 2010)
All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities So you’re a dad. You’re daughter is mid-to-late 20’s. She is dating, and has become pregnant by a rich celebrity 26 years her senior, who has four kids by three other women, and recently left his wife and two of those young children due to irreconcilable differences (i.e. [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 14th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Contraband Lemonade in Vancouver Park
I’m trying to decide what bothers me more about this story: the monkey’s ass who reported the kids, the bylaw officers who didn’t tell him/her to go get stuffed, bylaw services manager Dan Scoones, who said: the next thing we would know, we would have two hot dog carts at the dog park and we would [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 10th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
When Government Get So Big…
that they’re shutting down little girls lemonade stands: City Commissioner Amanda Fritz said she and Mayor Sam Adams will present a plan for Last Thursday in the next two weeks. She declined to discuss details, though she noted that vendors at Last Thursday don’t pay vendor fees, which she said is “different from [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 7th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
Saturday Fluffernutter: Lindsay Lohan’s Freedom; Mitch Miller (1911-2010)
All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities When last we checked in, Lindsay Lohan was off to the Women’s Prison. “Ninety days,” said Judge Revel to the weeping Lohan back in early July. “Thirteen days,” replied the California Penal Department, “for good behaviour.” It’s all very surprising: You lock Lindsay Lohan in a building full of bull [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 7th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
When blowing up people, places and things becomes part of your list of acceptable activities,…
for whatever reason, I don’t tend to feel sorry for you. Ever. One question for Margaret Atwood, The Barenaked Morons (or any coked up ex-morons), Quebec and everyone else who protested that Conservative cuts to arts funding was the end of culture in Canada: Do you, or do you not believe that Erica Basniki’s tax dollars should [...]
At Home in Hespeler | more | posted August 6th, 2010 | @iambriandammit
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in 'crack cocaine' video scandal

Tom Mulcair contacted by police over suspected bribe

Harper chief of staff resigns amid Senate expense scandal...

Duffy Another Pig At the Trough

Ontario NDP will Support 2013 Liberal Budget

7 Things You Cant Say in Canada

Freedom of Information

Dalton McGuinty admits moving gas plants was his decision

Harper: Wants Senate Spending Reform

About Nigel Wright.





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