Thursday, June 02, 2005
Jane Hebert sent me an email yesterday concerning a petition for Carline Vandenelson.
There is mounting public pressure for a public inquiry into the events that took place on Shirley St on May 19, 2004.
To find out more concerning those events and Carline Vandenelson, visit this site.
To advocate for a public inquiry, contact:
Carla Grant
Department of Justice
902-424-6282
Cell: 902-478-1683
E-mail: grantc@gov.ns.ca
There is mounting public pressure for a public inquiry into the events that took place on Shirley St on May 19, 2004.
To find out more concerning those events and Carline Vandenelson, visit this site.
To advocate for a public inquiry, contact:
Carla Grant
Department of Justice
902-424-6282
Cell: 902-478-1683
E-mail: grantc@gov.ns.ca
Kathy and I headed off to Allan St for the yard sale advertised in the Coast. The ad said comic books and Ikea furniture, two things I suppose I do not need more of (or in the case of Ikea furniture, any of).
The yard sale was more of a living room sale due to the inclement weather. There was a table full of loose cds for fifty cents each, most of it looked like crap ie the cds you get in cases of beer. In the middle of the table was a box full of Buck 65's 'Square' and 'Talkin' Honky Blues', which for some reason were fifty cents each. I picked up a copy of each and found the box of comic books which was chock full of back issues of Batman, World's Finest, Mystery in Space, and Detective from the late 60's. I picked up an early copy of Tales to Astonish and the Batman titles with the weirdest covers. I paid roughly about 2 dollars for each issue. When I got home and googled them, I found out that they're worth close to 3,000 dollars for the lot of them. This would make my day if they were all in mint condition, which they were not.
After the yard sale I headed over to my favourite bookstore and bought Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes and Phil Marchildon's Auto Biography (which is surprisingly compelling). I loved the 'Last Word' because I always end up having a conversation with the owner about baseball. The conversation usually finds its way somehow to Bill Lee, just as any conversation about baseball should.
Went over to the bookstore by the old bus station and bought a compilation with a Peter Bagge cover and ACDC's Back in Black. The latter was a gift to make up for being late to help Gerry fix his car. Met up with Gerry a little later on. We drove out to Valu Village in search of original tapes (original covers, no dubs). I picked up Sixtoo's Psyche Continuum for 2 bucks. Why? How? I don't know why anyone would get rid of this cd.
One of the comic books I bought earlier that day was a World's Finest 100 Page Giant. The best story was the lead story which features Batman, Superman, Batman Jr., and Superman Jr. Batman Jr. looks exactly like Batman, but he's shorter and whines a lot more. Superman Jr. has sideburns. The respective families are experiencing some tension that only Dr. Phil could adequately resolve. Batman thinks Batman Jr. is a bit of a reckless douche, and Superman thinks Superman Jr. is a nintey pound pussy and therefore a huge liability when he's saving firefighters. The two juniors get together and complain about their fathers to each other before deciding that they all need to go to an encounters camp called 'ENOYREVE'. The camp is run by a long haired bearded hippie dressed in flowing robes who has a bunch of crazy ideas, one of them being that they should have a son swap.
Eventually Superman and Batman are contacted by the government and are told that a 'super agent' traitor is set to hijack a train full of experimental nerve gas. I'm not sure why Superman and Batman agree to work alongside a secret government agency that has no problem with transporting and producing nerve gas in close proximity to populated areas, but they agree to guard the train and bring their kids along.
Both Batman Jr and Superman Jr screw up and the nerve gas winds up in the hands of the renegade 'super agent' who has the mind of a good man, but the body of an evil robot. The agent, controlled by his robot body, unleashes the gas on the town, but he has a change of heart. His human mind exerts control and he inhales all of the nerve gas, saves the town and dies.
Everyone realizes that their pops ain't so bad so they agree to work harder on their relationships. As they're leaving the camp, Superman Jr cracks some jokes and says that the weekend was a "real gas". What are you, an asshole? Do you make holocaust jokes as well?
The yard sale was more of a living room sale due to the inclement weather. There was a table full of loose cds for fifty cents each, most of it looked like crap ie the cds you get in cases of beer. In the middle of the table was a box full of Buck 65's 'Square' and 'Talkin' Honky Blues', which for some reason were fifty cents each. I picked up a copy of each and found the box of comic books which was chock full of back issues of Batman, World's Finest, Mystery in Space, and Detective from the late 60's. I picked up an early copy of Tales to Astonish and the Batman titles with the weirdest covers. I paid roughly about 2 dollars for each issue. When I got home and googled them, I found out that they're worth close to 3,000 dollars for the lot of them. This would make my day if they were all in mint condition, which they were not.
After the yard sale I headed over to my favourite bookstore and bought Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes and Phil Marchildon's Auto Biography (which is surprisingly compelling). I loved the 'Last Word' because I always end up having a conversation with the owner about baseball. The conversation usually finds its way somehow to Bill Lee, just as any conversation about baseball should.
Went over to the bookstore by the old bus station and bought a compilation with a Peter Bagge cover and ACDC's Back in Black. The latter was a gift to make up for being late to help Gerry fix his car. Met up with Gerry a little later on. We drove out to Valu Village in search of original tapes (original covers, no dubs). I picked up Sixtoo's Psyche Continuum for 2 bucks. Why? How? I don't know why anyone would get rid of this cd.
One of the comic books I bought earlier that day was a World's Finest 100 Page Giant. The best story was the lead story which features Batman, Superman, Batman Jr., and Superman Jr. Batman Jr. looks exactly like Batman, but he's shorter and whines a lot more. Superman Jr. has sideburns. The respective families are experiencing some tension that only Dr. Phil could adequately resolve. Batman thinks Batman Jr. is a bit of a reckless douche, and Superman thinks Superman Jr. is a nintey pound pussy and therefore a huge liability when he's saving firefighters. The two juniors get together and complain about their fathers to each other before deciding that they all need to go to an encounters camp called 'ENOYREVE'. The camp is run by a long haired bearded hippie dressed in flowing robes who has a bunch of crazy ideas, one of them being that they should have a son swap.
Eventually Superman and Batman are contacted by the government and are told that a 'super agent' traitor is set to hijack a train full of experimental nerve gas. I'm not sure why Superman and Batman agree to work alongside a secret government agency that has no problem with transporting and producing nerve gas in close proximity to populated areas, but they agree to guard the train and bring their kids along.
Both Batman Jr and Superman Jr screw up and the nerve gas winds up in the hands of the renegade 'super agent' who has the mind of a good man, but the body of an evil robot. The agent, controlled by his robot body, unleashes the gas on the town, but he has a change of heart. His human mind exerts control and he inhales all of the nerve gas, saves the town and dies.
Everyone realizes that their pops ain't so bad so they agree to work harder on their relationships. As they're leaving the camp, Superman Jr cracks some jokes and says that the weekend was a "real gas". What are you, an asshole? Do you make holocaust jokes as well?
