Sugar Man Found

Way back in 1970, before MTV and iTunes, Sixto Rodriguez recorded Cold Fact. It was a cool, trippy, hipster kind of folk-rock album with promises of a new and refreshing pop artist. But it was summarily ignored. He recorded his second studio album, Coming From Reality, in 1971 and his record company (A&M) waited in […]

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Not the face of hunger

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence is in the news due to her recent ‘hunger strike’ in which she purportedly subsisted on a diet of fish broth, vitamins and tea. It amazes me that she’s managed to maintain her round, blob-like features even though she has restricted her caloric intake to practically nil while living in a […]

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What I’d like to do

People on cell phones are annoying. Especially when they stand right beside you, well within your personal space, chatting blithely about all that is important in their lives. And you have to listen to it. All of it. Until now. So how to shut them up without backhanding the offender and screaming something like “Back […]

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