This is incredibly sad: Jam Master Jay, one of the…

This is incredibly sad: Jam Master Jay, one of the pioneers of rap music with Run DMC was shot dead Wednesday night. He was 37.
Before anyone points to the East-West rap violence: this group well predates gangsta rap. They had no violence in their music, the group that brought Aerosmith back with their remake of [...]

Correction from yesterday: the Quebec Minister who…

Correction from yesterday: the Quebec Minister who resigned was the Minister of Justice, not security.

The Parti Quebecois (PQ), Quebec’s ruling seperati…

The Parti Quebecois (PQ), Quebec’s ruling seperatist party, is really on their last legs, in my opinion.
First they decided to bring back Jacques Parizeau – the former PQ leader and premiere who managed to ruin himself in the media every time he opened his mouth.
Now the party Minister of Security made a very public resignation [...]

The Two Towers Protest seems to be gone, based on …

The Two Towers Protest seems to be gone, based on the fact that the URL doesn’t work.
I guess enough people showed the folks in charge the ignorance of their belief so that they pulled it.

Two Towers Protest. Some people go too far in thei…

Two Towers Protest. Some people go too far in their PC views… these folks are accusing The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers of being so named to cash in on the September 11 tragedy.
Can’t be the name of the book, written over 60 years ago or anything…

The news today was flooded about the arrest of two…

The news today was flooded about the arrest of two suspects who might be responsible for the sniper attacks in the US. They had the same caliber rifle, had a hole drilled in the back of their car…
Are these the people responsible? Maybe it’s the paranoia freak inside of me, but I’m not so sure. [...]

Far too often, I’m reminded again how life is unfa…

Far too often, I’m reminded again how life is unfair:
In Burlington, VT one of the closest friends to my family is Rose Greenblatt. I showed her Montreal’s Chinatown many years ago, she came to my cousin Ellen’s college graduation in Boston a few years ago too. She isn’t a spring chicken at 87, but she’s [...]

Sorry for the messed-up look on this blog the past…

Sorry for the messed-up look on this blog the past two days. I’ve been playing around with the idea of CSS layouts. It’s been a lot more challenging than the “easy change” the codes promised. I should have everything fixed up soon though.

I’ll be trying a new template for this blog soon…..

I’ll be trying a new template for this blog soon… one using CSS absolute positioning instead of [TABLE]s for design.
Hopefully, that will end my problems with journal shrinking text.

Tonight I cleared the final boxes from my living r…

Tonight I cleared the final boxes from my living room heater. Just in time for the colder weather and the heat to kick in.
As a result I found my 2-CD edition of Miles Davis Bitches Brew. I’m not a fan of electronic jazz (I think you have to be into major psychadelic drugs to really [...]