Ryan Dahle Readies New Solo Release

As some of you might be aware, the latest single from Hospital Music is The Devil's In Your Details, which I co-wrote with Ryan Dahle. Ryan has, over the last year, been working on a solo album that's due to be released soon, so I thought I would feature a few tracks …

The Media Is Just As Culpable

Jeff Cohen's piece published on The Huffington Post yesterday is of import...

"In the fall of 2002, week after week, I argued vigorously against invading Iraq in debates televised on MSNBC. I used every possible argument that might sway mainstream viewers -- no real …

New BraveNewCode And WP Touch Debut *Updated

Today Dale launched the new BraveNewCode site, which is masterfully designed, as is common with pretty much everything Dale touches.

Besides the new design, today also marks the release of Dale and Duane's WP Touch for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch, which is already …

Web 3.0

I have decided to stop posting demos. It seems that there are those that don't view it as something special, rather as a right with regards to their ownership of them - such as complaints that they weren't left up long enough and therefore couldn't be ripped in time to …

A Little Rebellion, Every Now And Then

One minute you're eating your oatmeal, the next minute you're not. One minute you're walking down the street, the next minute you're just another statistic that the world doesn't want to hear about because there are already far too many statistics.

In a letter to James …

At A Loss For Words

I don't know what to say about this. It's quite beyond me...

"A 73-year-old Austrian is under arrest on suspicion of hiding his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, police say.

The existence of the woman, believed missing since 1984 …

CBC News Adverts And Subliminal Imagery

Watching Hockey Night In Canada during the playoffs means viewing the same commercials over and over again. While those by advertisers are obviously annoying, I have noticed something very disturbing about the images used in adverts promoting CBC news.

If you've been …

Right To Play And Hillier For PM?

The rain is holding off in the great city of Toronto and we are officially in the short strokes until Matthew Good returns to Ontario and Massey Hall.

This time he's doing the full band thing, you've got to be looking forward to that.

Keep your eyes peeled for another …

What Would We Do?

One has to ask the question - what would be the reaction of the Canadian people were they to discover that the United States was fed classified Canadian military information by a mole within our military establishment?

Would Canadians be outraged? Would it consume …

Unsubscribe Yourself

Unsubscribe yourself from torture and the War On Terror.

I Just Laid The Ground, It Was You That Built The Towers

First, a video by the always-impeccable Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip...

Second, from North Carolina's The News & Observer...

"Some conservative groups are urging parents to keep children home from school today if their fellow students will be taking part in the annual …

The Trojan Horse

Recently it was discovered that the Pentagon worked to place various retired military commanders at the disposal of various news networks as 'analysts'. Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to such individuals as "message force multipliers" or "surrogates", …

Troubadour

Be my holy love

Touch the unspoken places

Plant among my concrete

Seedlings to crack and kill

Your virulent curtsey

Strangles fire and pain

A noose for sorrow, lament

Wiggle into hidden chasms

Where a son to be resides

Restore by silence and knowing

The dead flesh of my …

The Democratic Race, American Oligarchy

Senator Obama lost Pennsylvania by 9.2 points. Of course, he still leads Clinton by 135 Delegate votes and has significantly more financial resources at his disposal. Clinton, on the other hand, has 33 more Super Delegate votes than Obama but is financially …

Mueller's Congressional Testimony - Of Vast Importance To The American Public

Yesterday's Congressional testimony by FBI Director Robert Mueller was one of the most blatant examples of doubletalk that you will ever come across. During his testimony, Mueller verified that numerous FBI agents had complained about the conduct of CIA interrogators …

From Cradles To Graves

The Israeli fuel blockade of Gaza is forcing the United Nations to suspend humanitarian relief efforts. That said; why should we care that 80% of those living in Gaza rely on humanitarian assistance? They are, after all, terrorists, or at the very least terrorists in …

Game Time, Oops

It's game time. It's 1976.

I was just updating a post from earlier today and accidentally deleted it. The new interface has the update and delete buttons pretty close together, and when you're watching playoff hockey at the same time, hitting the wrong one can certainly …

More Dates Announced (Ottawa Included)

June 7, Oshawa, ON

Le Skratch

19+

On-Sale: April 23

Tickets: $27.50

Tickets available at http://ww2.ticketpro.ca/event.php?event_id=88

July 7, Ottawa, ON

Bluesfest

On-sale: April 26 @ 10am

http://www.ottawabluesfest.ca

Tickets: $40 day ticket/ $200 (non transferable) …

The Day After Yesterday

In the documentary 11th Hour, former CIA Director James Woolsey, of all people, makes a very important point with regards to the correlation between consumerism and industrial opportunism and the ability to affect change in a very short period of time given what are …

What's A Few Spies Between Friends?

Given my last entry, and an email I received from an Israeli in which I was attacked for being purposely hateful, I thought that this development might be of interest...

"A former U.S. Army mechanical engineer was arrested Tuesday on charges he slipped classified …