Hey everyone! Here is the link to our Paws For A Cause page. We've already reached $5,660 dollars in donations (75% of our goal!), thanks to everyone that has donated! If you would like to donate, please visit the page linked above! We are pushing forward to meet our goal of ...More »

Bronchitis and the flu. No heat related illness, just the heat making it feel worse. So sayeth my doctor (whose office sink I unfortunately threw up in). So it’s the antibiotic train and sleep, or attempting to. I’ve got shows the week next so I’ve no choice but bed rest. This is the reality of having a disease that screws your immune system over – you just get sick all the time. And I fucking ...More »

There are those that believe that US military might acts as a shield against wanton global chaos. Without the US military’s global presence - the United States has in excess of 700 military bases around the world - many believe that democracy, global economic stability, and even civilization itself would be seriously threatened. Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has been viewed as the world’s foremost power for ‘good’, though ...More »

French forces in Afghanistan have suffered one of the biggest single day losses in the conflict’s history, losing ten soldiers and suffering 21 additional casualties in a single engagement. The soldiers were ambushed by insurgents a mere 50 kilometers from Kabul, solidifying concerns that insurgents are closing in on the capital. France’s President, Nicolas Sarkozy, plans to travel to Afghanistan to reassure French forces, insisting that French participation in the mission will continue. Meanwhile, in France, ...More »

In an attempt to place my mind elsewhere and focus on something other than how I’m feeling, I thought that I would write an update about the song that never ends. Over the last few weeks I have been working on the demo for the final track of the next record. In that time I have erased and re-recorded it four times, each time unhappy with how the song progressed. After spending an evening thinking ...More »

I feel like I have been dropped off of a building into molten lava and then stretched out over a cookie sheet. Can’t sleep, have a hard time keeping food down, dizzy, very little energy, constant headache. To be honest, I’m thinking of going to hospital. This was not the week to have four dogs at home. One of the reasons I haven’t gone to hospital is because I’m worried about Bella. Given the thickness of ...More »

I watched Anton Corbijn’s Control last night and was mesmerized by it. Truth be told, I had forgotten the impact that Joy Division had on me in me in my youth - the simplicity of their music and yet its mesmerizing power. The only downside to the film was the fact that during the closing credits a cover of Shadowplay by The Killers was included. I mention that only because, to me, The Killers are ...More »

Musharaff’s resignation is being hailed as victory for Pakistani democracy, with many relieved that there will not be a protracted impeachment battle. Despite Musharaff’s attempts at appearing to support democratic reform of late, the reality is that he is a man that seized power in 1999 when Pakistan’s military establishment deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a coup. That being the case, and given the power of that military establishment, I am not at all surprised ...More »

As most Vancouverites are aware, central air is something that doesn’t really exist on the West Coast. Sure, there are a few newer high-end resident high-rises that have it, but most don’t. My place is a large, single 1,200 sq foot room with concrete floors and 18 foot ceilings – but the two windows only open 4 inches. The hallways in the building are air conditioned, but not the apartments, which means that in weather like ...More »

Thank God we’ve won some medals – a gold even. I was worried that when our Olympic team arrived home, thanks to the tireless admonishment provided by the press, that they might be lined up against the wall of the nearest Tim Horton’s and summarily executed. More »

Ivan Eland makes some good points this morning, though they have been echoed by numerous others over the last two days… “Despite significant U.S. and Georgian culpability in the crisis in Georgia, most U.S. politicians and media painted Russia as the diabolical "evildoer." As if the Russian military incursions into Georgia, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia – the latter two are autonomous regions of the former that do not want to be part of that country – ...More »