Fun with Suicide Pilots

Friday, May 11th, 2007

I absolutely love stories like this, when something from current affairs headlines has some tertiary facet that Punknews can jump on. I wasn’t even paying attention to the fact that someone leaked the government’s climate change plan. The news that there was a leak at all was overshadowed by the fact that the plan’s [...]

Sleeping with the elephant

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

It’s election day in the United States. It’s also Dia De Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. I’m not sure if that’s a sign of anything…
It’s particularly frustrating being a Canadian and watching this election. Running Punknews in the recent months has increasingly been an exercise in posting political news from organizations like Rock [...]

I got my time machine got my ‘lectronic dream

Sunday, June 20th, 2004

I was the staff member saddled with the burden of reviewing The Empire Strikes First, which you’ll see from the review itself I quite like. It’s a burden due to the attention it gets and the pressure to make it worthwhile. I think the review itself has well over 7 thousand hits, that’s not counting [...]

I’m not up on the current slang but do the kids still say “get the hell out of my office!”

Monday, February 9th, 2004

The Grammys were on tonight and offered up amusing performances from The White Stripes, Foo Fighters & Chick Corea, George Clinton and Outkast among a few others. It wasn’t as interesting for me as last year’s, but one thing about it really bothered me.

“I turn around and it all looks the same…”

Monday, April 21st, 2003

Everything is slowly falling into place this week.
I just posted an email interview I did with the bassist of Blueline Medic and in my introduction I was musing on how delayed it was. I assumed I had announced it about a month ago, only to look back and see it announced on MARCH THIRD. The [...]