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Saul Bellow (June 10): “People can lose their lives in libraries.”
10 Jun
“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
~ Saul Bellow, b. 10 June 1915
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Justin Bieber: Everybody’s Got Something to Spank Except Me and My Monkey
9 Jun
BREAKING NEWS:
A guy who knows a gal who sleeps with a guy in Justin Bieber’s band has leaked the news that on his next album release, Justin will include a cover of the Beatles song from the White Album: Everybody’s Got Something to Spank Except Me and My Monkey.
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News flash courtesy of Sextile News Network: It might not be true, but you heard it here first.
Johnny Depp (June 9): “I don’t pretend to be Captain Weird.”
9 Jun
“I don’t pretend to be Captain Weird. I just do what I do.”
~ Johnny Depp, b. 9 June 1963
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Kanada über alles!
8 Jun
So Canada’s gone and done it again. This closet nation of only 34 million moderately-socialist quietly-unassuming people has stolen the world stage once more.
Not like they haven’t done it before, with TV actors William Shatner and Pamela Sue Anderson. Boldly going where no man has gone before, with a rack of Olympian proportions…
Music awards across the category spectrum – Neil Young, Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain, Leonard Cohen, Céline Dion, Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne and Michael Bublé. Hitting the high notes in hard rock, alternative, country, pop and jazz …
Comedians, actors and directors: Jim Carrey, Donald Sutherland and James Cameron. Thinkers and writers: Marshall McLuhan and Margaret Atwood.
Let’s not even talk hockey players. Wayne Gretzky and his Canuck cousins have always owned the ice. They shoot, they score… endlessly…
So what is it with this bedroom community of America, this frozen backyard of moose people? They’ve already taken top awards for everything worth doing on earth. Couldn’t they have left space alone?
This past season, it was like some cheap B-grade series smoked up to fill a slot on the Space channel. Oddities in Orbit. Next thing you know there’s Chris Hadfield, whom nobody knew from a quasar, suddenly all over the internet, playing guitar in space, twittering and hosting videos, getting kids excited about astrophysics, for god’s sake!
Chris Hadfield, Canadian über-astronaut
Why did he have to be Canadian? Are they so good they can have anything they want, so long as it doesn’t require the world’s biggest military-industrial complex and a debt so deep you could drop a trillion into it and wait all day without hearing the thud at the bottom?
Where does he get off being so damned clever, singing David Bowie’s Space Oddity as his swan song before coming back down to Earth? With the nerve to change the lyrics from depressing to uplifting… Does he have a real Indian guru for a life coach or what?
Anyway, it’s just really sad that Canada keeps churning out interesting and intelligent people who seem to have a real heart under that winter coat they wear most of the year. If they’re so smart, why don’t they rule the world?
Alan Annand is an astrologer, a writer of mystery thrillers and a quietly-proud Canadian.
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Joan Rivers (June 8): “I don’t bend over.”
8 Jun
“I don’t exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.”
~ Joan Rivers, b. 8 June 1933
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Franz Kafka: “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
7 Jun
“We need the books that affect us like disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
~ FRANZ KAFKA
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Blues Tutorial #14: Muddy water is a blues beverage.
6 Jun
Blues Tutorial #14:
If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it’s the blues. Other acceptable blues beverages are: (a) wine, (b) whiskey or bourbon, (c) muddy water, (d) black coffee.
The following are NOT blues beverages: (a) mixed drinks, (b) kosher wine, (c) Snapple, (d) sparkling water.
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Robert Harris: “A novel is like a car.”
6 Jun
“It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you’re forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.”
~ ROBERT HARRIS
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