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  • Nanaimo, beautiful exploit

    Check out this article, published in the Nanaimo Daily News: Lots of Weak Arguments

    Did Bellaart really just say that identifying a business as American is name calling? Talk about REACHING for a counter argument!

    McCaw “The American” once spent 35 million dollars on HIS CAR, and Nanaimo is expected to hand over their basin for a mere 9 million?  This is the one and only offer we’ve even gotten for our beautiful harbour! Is it an offer? Or are we getting bullied into complying?  Who’s getting paid off? The statement “to accommodate today’s larger class of yachts” has been disproved by the very makers of the (one and only) report these detrimental decisions have been based on.

    What other reports do we get to consider?

    New bill C-10 eliminates any requirement for an environmental assessment. Like I said, the only other report that has been referenced has been since revoked by its creators. So what other reports do we have to go on here?

    None whatsoever?

    Nonsensical. Darrell refers to this development saying it “will have an impact” as if it’s already underway! It’s not! We must demand review. Handing over Nanaimo’s harbour for the next 30 years is not a light matter!

    Fact: luxury yachts are NOT a growing class of boats.

    The people of Nanaimo surely don’t want their basin to be turned into a discount vacation destination for the rich to dump their septic and practice unsustainable useless consumer-based tourism.  When deals like this happen in underhanded bureaucratic QUIET ways (with local reporters spouting nonsense like this article that does little to incite critical thinking and everything to reinforce agendas at work), beautiful little progressive towns like Nanaimo get poisoned by needless consumerism, environmental decay, instability, dependency, and complacency. Shouldn’t we have a City Council that cares about this? A member of council (when asked about this massive issue) responded lightly by saying they were glad they have nothing to do with it.   !!!???

    “Life is too short to get caught up debating issues that don’t matter.” says the “news reporter”.

  • SSVH: Rifflandia 2012 Edition

    SSVH: Rifflandia 2012 Edition

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, presented on CHLY 101.7fm and chly.ca/listen every Wednesday morning from 8-9am. This morning’s episode featured some delicious delicious music and interviews for your enjoyment.

     

     

     

    Thanks, Spike. I quite appreciate your use of “fuck”. For the remainder of this post, we’re going to honour the F word in thanks to my vulgar fan.

    Our first segment starts and ends with some flavourful music items, with some weather and event updates in between. If you’re reading this, and the date is September 26th, 2012 the following clip is relevant as fuck.

     

    Next segment features an interview from two of four parts The Jezabels! Beautiful ladies, beautiful talent, polite conversation, a good fucking time.

     

    “Ashta here” again with another interview in this clip. This time from Vancouver local Dan Magnana man um. The man with a tounge twister of a name. MANGAN!!  Maingin? MAN gun. I botched it. Fuck.

     

    This last segment features some chunes ripped off The Oracle of Reggie Watts fucking killing it. Then me and him cuddled up to an air conditoner in his trailer and talked about stuff. The whole shit ends with a couple yummy instro tracks

     

    TUNE IN NEXT WEEK!  Who knows that kind of mish mash will happen! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

     

     

     

  • Adversity breeds lost ideas

    Adversity breeds lost ideas

  • Sweet and Sour End of Summer Episodes

    (Okay.)

    Dear Sweet and Sour Listeners who I apparently have:

    I hereby promise to post every damn episode on the DAY OF.

    (There. That should do it.)

    To make up for my tardiness, here are the MP3’s of the last 4 weeks of SSVH. Share it with your buds, bud. If they like music that doesn’t suck, they’ll thank you. Right click and “Save As’ to own a shiny new MP3 of your very own

    September 19th, 2012 Interview with Davin Morin, we hear Annie Becker, Kytami, and a couple sessions at Sully’s Rhythm on the Rock after party (I may or may not be on the tambourine) with Animal Nation!

    2012-09-19
    2012-09-12
    2012-09-05
    2012-08-29
    2012-08-22

  • Unreleased Animal Nation

    Tune in tomorrow morning to the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour to hear the one-time wonder release of a jam session recorded “that night at Sully’s”

    I got a great interview with Animal Nation that night, and it was aptly titled “Let’s Get Weird”.  I sure hope I can find that audio file…

    Oh, what the hell. I’ll just let you hear it now!

    Let’s Get Weird

    Tune in for the exciting concluuuuuuuuuuusion!

    BONUS: Beer Battered Buttered Fried Caramel Garlic Cheddar Chicken

  • Shovels & Rope- Birmingham

    Every time they say “Birmingham” I like to imagine they’re saying “Burning Man”

    Shovels & Rope – Birmingham by Dine Alone Records

Lookit! An Instagram!

This is it!