I have been feeling so-so. Not better, not well, just so-so. I was feeling well enough to see the Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in Major League Baseball recently (can't figure out which day it was.) I was sad to hear that the San Jose Sharks lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Playoffs. In Formula 1, I am still rooting for McLaren, Force India's Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon as well as Toro Rosso's new lads Brandon Hartley and Pierre Gasly.
As for The Famous, like everyone else, I am happy to hear about Steven Gerrard. My happiness does not blind my senses enough to expect any kind of miracle, or even difference. Like "Captain Collins" says on the radio to "Lieutenant Ethan Bishop" in the original Assault on Precinct 13, "There aren't any heroes anymore. Just men who follow orders. But, The Famous will become material to one of the main points of this entry. So, let's begin.
You see, when the whole Harvey Weinstein indaba began last fall, his brother Bob ratted him out...only to turn out to have been doing the same things. Then New York Attorney-General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Weinsteins...only to be revealed to have been doing the exact same thingthis week. Continuing along this trend, Canadian socialist MP Christine Moore had accused a fellow party comrade of being inappropriate to her, only to turn out to have done the same thing to a wounded soldier. This proves the "Captain Collins" character's point above about there not being any heroes any more. As the legendary warrior-philosopher Dick Marcinko would say,"Dhieu-ma-nhieu, Bob Weinstein, Eric Scheiderman and Christine Moore!" Karma REALLYis a BITCH, motherfuckers!
This brings me to the latest round of Québec nonsense du jour, and I hit the fucking Daily Double on this one too!
First, there is this local rag called La Presse. As local rags go, it is so-so. Not exactly Page Three, but as a "French" (or, more accurately wannabeFrench, pretendFrench, Tribeca street vendor cheap-ass knockoff French) publication it sure as fuck AIN'T a high-end, REAL-French, publication like, say, RAIDSor RAIDS Aviation. Anyways, so La Presse, a private shit rag is about to go tits-up. No surprise there. If even an esteemed, world class periodical like Soldier of Fortune is now Intar-Webs only, it is axiomatic that the bargain-basement end of the spectrum will also be having problems. The difference is, when Soldier of Fortune went Intar-Webs-only after decades of beautiful print, you didn't see Colonel Brown and company go whining to the government for a handout. La Presse, by contrast, is a side bitch with no pride in this regard. Québec white nationalist leaders Jean-François Lisée and François Legault are whinging for the government to supportLa Presse. (On a side note, I am no fan of Jean-François Gariépy, but, at least, unlike Lisée and Legault, he is intellectually honest enough to openly proclaim his links to Richard Spencer, Mark Collett and Mike Enoch.) Even the Canadian federal government is looking to intervene to prop up La Presse.
Now, I am much closer to Alexander Hamilton and Otto Graf von Bismarck than I am to Ayn Rand when it comes to economics. But, when it comes to the fucking abortion that is Québec white nationalists and the federal government coming to the aid of the self-admitted fucking abortion that is La Presse, I agree 100% with Rand. Ozzy expressed it so well some years ago in a concert when he commented on some fundamentalist preacher who conned some suckers by saying that, if he did not get x amount of money before x date, he would die; "Well, FUCKING DIE, then!"
The next turd on the Québec nonsense du jour shit parade is Québec AG Stephanie Vallée--who entered the Provincial Bar Association full-time upon graduation, which means that even the public defender, never mind the DA or Cromwell & Sullivan, thought she was such a bad student that they would not hire her--making some indaba this week about religious accommodation and then pretending this has nothing to do with Islam in particular and will be applied across the board for all religions. She even made some comment about a woman being refused a ride on a public bus because she wore a hijab. THATwas when I knew her remarks about "this applies to all religions equally" was of the same quality as what comes out of my ass the evening of taco day.
As I said, I support The Famous and Linfield. I wear support gear to that effect whenever I go out. In other words, short of wearing a giant, flashing neon sign that reads "I'm a fucking Proddy Bastard, and I'm fucking proud of it, motherfuckers!", what I am is pretty obvious to anyone into whose visual range I enter. Yet, despite these UNAMBIGUOUSindicators, with EXTREMELY STRONG religious connotations to them, I, unlike that woman in a hijab, have NEVERbeen denied a bus ride, or hospital service. This can mean a couple of things. One, Gaspesians are fucking illiterate. I measure a person's intelligence and literacy as being functions that are inversely proportional to how much they run their pieholes, so it is very well within the range of possibility that Gaspesians are, as a whole, fucking illiterate.
Another possibility is that Vallée's newest indaba is indeed targeted at Muslims, the only difference between her and the current tenant of 1600 Pennsylvania in this regard being that Vallée lacks the stones to openly say what she thinks of Muslims.
And, now, I want to end with a couple of plugs.
I first heard of this group on TSN 690. They are called Hockey Helps The Homeless, and they raise money for homeless people by hosting hockey tournaments featuring National Hockey League players and ordinary civilians.
McLaren alumni Sergio "Checo" Perez is collecting money for the victims of the recent earthquakes in Mexico through his foundation.
Puerto Rico has been devastated by Hurricane Maria. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has set up The Empire State Relief And Recovery Effort For Puerto Rico.
On the subject of Puerto Rico, Los Angeles Chef José Andrés has set up an organisation, called World Central Kitchen, to help feed the hungry, not only in Puerto Rico, but in other bad-off places in the world. Please donate or help if you can.
I also want to plug the Patreons of a couple of superb folks. First, there is Jordan Owen, superb musician and content creator. Then, there is Sunny Megatron, Sex Educator and Podcaster. And there is also director extraordinaire and podcaster Holly Randall. They are, all three, highly entertaining to watch. They have the charm and magnetic charisma of The Kylie Ireland Show podcast of a decade ago, starring the legendary, one and only Kylie Ireland and Eli Cross.