Hamilton Saint

How could you be bored? The future course of your country is at stake. The campaign should be front-and-centre of media coverage until election day.

No. They are still overwhelmingly WASP.

Obviously I do know more about the GTA than you. Burlington, Oakville, Halton? With probably the highest population of British immigrants in Canada?

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Good to hear she is OK. CBC News reports: "A friend of the singer-songwriter told CBC News producer Leslie Stojsic on Wednesday that the 71-year-old suffered a "minor medical emergency" Tuesday. The unnamed source also contradicted earlier reports that the singer, known for such hit songs as Both Sides Now and A Case of You, was found unconscious when she was taken from her home." Joni suffers from the rare skin disease Morgellons Disease, which has stopped her from doing public performances in recent years.

Source? Telegraph again?

Netanyahu to stage hunger strike for world peace. http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/netanyahu-strike-against

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CCR did an extended version (about 11 minutes) of the song on one of their early albums.

The Onion. You Know about The Onion?

And here he is playing with Bert Jansch in 1967 - before they founded Pentangle.

Here's Renbourn playing with Stefan Grossman. Doing Charles Mingus's "Goodbye Porkpie Hat".

John Renbourn is known primarily as a founding member of the traditional folk/jazz group Pentangle. He was a great guitarist. Nice fellow, too - I interviewed him for a local radio station back in the late 80s. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/26/guitarist-and-songwriter-john-renbourn-founder-of-pentangle-dies

I've had a cat before; now I have a dog. And this is my favourite Gary Larson cartoon.

Pathetic. But this has not been accurately reported. Prospect Magazine asked their readers to select their "favourite" thinkers. The Daily Mail identifies Naomi Klein as a "US author", by the way; she is, of course, Canadian!

We just got back from a week at the Iberostar Resort (all-inclusive plan) on the south-west coast of Cozumel Island (off the north-east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula). Excellent place. Very good food. Excellent diving location. It was about 30 degrees C all week. (Got back home yesterday; it was -10 C!) An interesting mix of people: mostly Americans, Canadians, French and Germans. Primarily older couples (40s-60s), but also some young children and a fair amount of teenagers. I would recommend the place to anybody.

Our Lady of Providence School in Alton (when we lived in Longmoor Army camp in late '50s) Our Lady of Mercy and St. Joseph Catholic Primary in Lymington (when we lived in Norleywood in the Forest in late '50s) Hythe Primary School (1960-1964) St. Mary's College in Southampton (1964-1969) Nelson High School in Burlington, Ontario (1969-1970)

The irony is that you are calling somebody a "no-nothing", but you don't know how to spell the word.

Ironic error there. That should be know-nothing.

Ha, Ha, Ha!

I have just noticed harvey's posting of Allen Toussaint's "Last Train" above (post #5322). Here is what Hamilton's King Biscuit Boy (Richard Newell) sounds like when filtered through the production work of Allen Toussaint. The song is called "Mean Old Lady", recorded in 1974.

Here is one of Hamilton, Ontario's great blues musicians - Richard Newell (aka King Biscuit Boy), doing a song called "Hoy Hoy Hoy". This is from a German TV program broadcast in December, 1971. The backing group is the Birmingham band Idle Race (Jeff Lynne was in that band in the 60s).

Nice choice!

I'm not a theist, so we can skip the poem, the prayer, and the hymn. Time for more of my music!