i met chantal hebert. she wouldnt sign an autograph for my ma cos she says she doesnt do that cos shes not a rock star. now i wonder if andrew coyne would turn my mother down if she was autograph-seeking for me. pardon me while i die laughing picturing my mother indulging my penchant for andrew coynes biting right wing commentary.
speaking of andrew coyne, it seems he likes the cbc these days - so do i! it was nice to see a straight up town hall as opposed to some silly thing cobbled together by a bus-ridden journo experiencing severe boredom and cabin fever. theres something to be said for a solid performance in a format where a kodak jack grin gets you nowhere.
in a strange twist of fate, global is making me want to defend the liberals.
by the looks of things, 12 conservatives attended that rally. kudos to the photographer for finding the only angle that didnt show any of the 150-200 fanatic, sign-waving, young liberals. im so standing somewhere around the guy with the red shirt and the shrubbery, trying to keep a "you never saw me here" profile.
heres a bit of sensationalism from global:
The day started on a nasty note at a rally in the riding of New Westminister-Coquitlam candidate David Haggard ... Before Martin arrived at the campaign office, a gang of about two dozen sign-waving Tory supporters, including Forseth himself, gathered across the street to heckle the Liberal crowd ... two young Liberals crossed the busy road to stand directly behind him and get their red party signs in the TV shot. The situation almost turn ugly when a uniformed RCMP officer, who was directing traffic, had to leave his post and physically remove the Liberals from the path of traffic.
ah, finally a mention of the raucous liberal youth and their ubiquitous signage - all that time at the arts and crafts table didnt go to waste! right. what *really* happened was that a bunch of tory dudes were waving signs and yelling things across the road, forseth got interviewed, two people stood behind him with martin signs, and a cop told them they couldnt stand on the road. they had a choice between standing on the sidewalk or going back to haggardland, and they chose the latter. there was no "ugly" - it was just another boring day in coquitlam.
the conservatives were a bunch of old people, aside from a fat metal teenager and a skinny computer geek teenager. someone should tell them nerds and old people are bad optics, yo.
a lot of the liberal girls were dressed impeccably. i think someone forgot to mention that this was a 'stand around dave haggards campaign office and listen to a stump speech while being hollered at by a bunch of white guys who hang around paul forseth' event...
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in other news, i reckon im not voting green this time around. maybe im totally bloodthirsty and evil, but i dont want 50 ants crawling through a crack in my window onto my sink. so i kinda put a little raid on the window sill. ew. im not a fan of that sort of thing, but fiddy ants is a lot of ants, know what im sayin. its not the kind of raid that squirts all over the place, its like the hardcore 'lasts up to 2 weeks' spot treatment. i left some all along the window sill. then i got paranoid and anthropocentric and i was afraid i would poison my family if it dripped down into the sink full of dishes... so i ran the dishwasher.
the little bastards should just know better. i mean, what is this, a centre for ants?
"...in other news, i reckon im not voting green this time around. maybe im totally bloodthirsty and evil..."
well, if you're not voting green you certainly are!
Posted by: sasha | 26.06.2004 at 11:28
this is not a comment
Posted by: sasha! | 01.07.2004 at 22:46
ok magritte.
Posted by: ainge | 01.07.2004 at 22:51