Saturday Post
Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 12:50 It has been a long time since I have written here so I really do not know where to begin. I have been stuck in a writer`s block I guess and I have also been experiencing a bad case of the fall blues. The fall is definitely not one of my favorite seasons.
I am more of a spring and summer type of guy. I can even handle winter at times, if it is not too cold and we do not get too much snow. Sometimes winter can be real nice, and we can have some great sunny days.
Fall can be really grey at times, with rain and more rain. That is not always the case though as the pictures that I took last weekend can show. We had what they call Indian summer, it was really warm for about four days and very sunny.
So what has been going on since the last time I wrote. Let me think here.
Politico
The political front has been real quiet on the federal and provincial scene, everything there is the status quo.
On the municipal scene we had the city elections on November 1st and the same corruption ridden mayor and government got re-elected. How unbelievable is that ?
It is really quite unbelievable if you ask me, he was the least worse of the choices maybe, I really do not get it. One of the main reasons that he got re-elected I think is because people did not go vote.
The turnout was barely thirty-five percent, which is really low. I find it hard to believe that in a democratic system people do not take the time to go vote.
As I stated in a previous post about the election, the municipal elections are the ones that affect us most at a local level and that alone should encourage people to go vote. What really irks me about non-voters is that often they are the loudest complainers.
Current Events
Prince Charles and I am not sure what we call Camilla came to visit Canada last week. I am not much of a monarchist so I do not really get this royalty stuff. We are almost in 2010, does this royalty still have a place. I really do not think so.
We should in my opinion abolish the monarchy, as it serves no real purpose any more. We as Canadians pay these people a salary I think, how ridiculous is that. I am almost certain that we footed most of the bill for the trip. Once again I repeat this is the twenty first century, not the fifteenth, bye bye King and Queen I say.
Musica
In keeping with the spirit of this blog, I will leave you with a musical suggestion. In the past week I have been re-listening to a group from the eighties that is still around and they have just released a new CD.
The group in question is MTL band The Box, that had quite a bit of success in the eighties with hits such as Closer Together and Ordinary People. In the eighties The Box had a style that was very pop rock one could say, but this new CD and the re-incarnation of The Box is much more progressive rock.
The driving force behind The Box was and is always the singer-songwriter Jean Marc Pisapia. This new album has been a project of his for many years now, and may not be a huge radio success, but he is alright with that he says.
The new album is a concept album based on the story, Le Horla written by French author Guy de Maupassant. It may definitely not appeal to all but is has good tracks that can be sampled on The Box`s website here. For some older tracks by The Box, I will refer you to Youtube. I am sure that you will enjoy and that it will bring back some memories.
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Well that is all for this rather long post, hope that you all enjoyed it. Ciao, till next time.
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