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i've heard that the National Guard troops that were sent to California have no food or water or quarters. i don't know if this exaggerated, but don't they have someone in charge of this stuff? A quartermaster? The politicians don't handle this stuff. Did they fire all the competent officers?

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Abduction. Kidnapping. Forcible confinement. Human trafficking. We can call it what it is.

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i had a chat on Bluesky with someone who didn't agree with me that the Dems are on the right, the GOP is further right, & the point between them is not "centrist." People on the right think Dems lost cuz they're too left. Progressives think they lost cuz they're too right.

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As a teen i was into New Wave. i bought secondhand clothes and did my own alterations. When i started playing bars i kept my style. Later i started playing in different scenes & chose black shirts & jeans instead of trying to copy the current thing. i should have stuck with the Punk Dandy thing.

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i love this whole album. Sly Stone, he burned brightly. i think the world needed more of this good stuff. youtu.be/g6xhSqz_4m8?...

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Oooohhh. i love this.

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45/47 has been losing some of his supporters because of his economic nonsense starting to affect people's lives. Now there's a crisis, a big dramatic showdown that his tame media can misrepresent. i wonder if some of that flagging support will come back. Nothing like a war to rally the flagwavers.

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June 9 in Québec and i got my first whiff of that specific scent of summer rain. What would i call it? Sweaty dusty summer rain smell?

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English spelling is such a mixed up mess of leftover borrowings from French, and older pronunciations, and academic corrections.... and then we start to pronounce what we see... and now people pronounce the "L" in "folk" or the "south" in "southern" and i feel like a jerk for being bugged by it.

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So, have we actually elected a conservative in electing Mark Carney?

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Some Gen Z music nerd who grew up on American Idol histrionics and pitch-corrected perfection was arguing that The Beatles were mediocre singers. Well, i'm listening to Let It Be in a bar, not my favourite Beatles song. But Paul sounds like a f@cking angel. Texture, tone, pitch, phrasing, vibe.

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i don't expect to really like Mark Carney's Liberal government. Canadians chose a business Liberal. Pretty clear that they weren't going to vote for a progressive Liberal again, so succesful tactics for sure, but i don't have to cheer about it. He's a grownup and he isn't Poilievre. Fine.

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i need to make this clear; i'm team Spike all the way, not team Angel. Boreanaz is fine, but James Marsters is hot. And i have a thing for bad boys.

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i saw two different "follow bill maher" badges on Substack. i don't care which ine is the real bill maher, they can both go f@ck themselves.

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It's not breakup. It's theatre.

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Back when i was a pretentious teenage punk trying to be interesting i dyed a skunk stripe of white in my hair. i thought it looked cool. Probably didn't but who cares. A girl told me that it was unnatural. She had painted nails & stuff but me dyeing my hair was unnatural.

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i was at the vet asking for a "traitement de pouce". The receptionist had to consider this for a second. "Puce".... "traitement de puce". Not "pouce". Yes. i know. i know these sounds. It did sound weird as i said it. "Marché au pouce"? No, that's not quite...

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i keep relearning the same lesson. i get sent a song to put a bass on. i do a simple track copying the demo. No, please add stuff. i do a track where i add some fills & passing notes. No, too much stuff. i go back to the original line and add 1 fill and 1 passing note. Yes, that's it.

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But i don't want music that sounds like a typewriter and a moron on speed and helium. Why does every café i step into force this stuff on me?

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i can't see Billy Bob Thornton without thinking about that time he went on tour with hus vanity music project, came to Canada, was a real asshole with a CBC interviewer, and then talked crap about Canada. i mean, whatever, who cares... but also, f@ck that guy.

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i do not like Star Trek Voyager's theme music.

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The soundtech started by telling the guitarist to turn down. Then the drummer. Then it took him 3 tries to put my vocal in my monitor, and 3 more turn it up. Now i see he's mixing the other band with headphones. Tonight is going to suck.

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Dod you hear about the Fascist comedy routine? 4 guys walk up to a smaller person & 1 of them punches them in the face. And the 4 guys laugh. Then 1 of them pushes them over. And the 4 guys laugh. And then the 4 guys start kicking the smaller person. And they all laugh.

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Quebec's CAQ government passes bill requiring immigrants to adopt "shared values". Cuz of course they did, that's their brand; manafacturing issues to fix to appeal to their voter's fears that their culture is being lost. Question. What are these shared values? Determined by who? Am mine included?

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R is a weird consonant. The French roll it in the back of the throat, The Scots & Spanish roll it in the front. For many English speakers it isn't a consonant at all. Some Brits say bahhh for bar, some say weady for ready, and Canadians make pirate noises; "Arrr, matey, lets go to the barrr".

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i'm on the progressive side of things. i want those Fascists stopped. But Youtube is full of clickbait headlines; "HE loses it at..." "HE is humiliated by..." "HIS agenda crumbles when..."! Over & over the same loud headlines. And it's not happening. We don't need this stuff. Just the facts, folks.

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i was talking to myself while driving and i found myself saying "well, that's just something that.... arrives.... sometimes". i took an expression i use in French and directly translated it into my mother tongue. i am not fully bilingual, but this is a proud moment for me.

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As a bass player, looking back on how i started, i kinda wish i had listened to & tried to learn a wider variety of bass lines. No Stevie Wonder, no James Brown, no Zeppelin. i got to this stuff later & it changed me. But thank goodness for Graham Maby, Bruce Thomas & Sting. They had stuff.

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Oh no, Planet 9 probably doesn't exist!

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i love the idea that the leader of the opposition (well he will be when he wins a seat) is criticising the throne speech for being short on specifics. He knows what a throne speech is. He's playing to his crowd, the people who blamed JT for gas prices & inflation. So, someone's buying this stuff.

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