thrusday

[davemerrill]

After an exciting day yesterday of tornadoes and earthquakes, what else could happen? Well, besides world leaders coming to town and sporadic road closures, I mean. Time to check out my comic strip ZERO FIGHTER and the latest installment of FOUND SOUND which is all college radio PSAs and airchecks from famous rock stars like Johnny Rotten and Mike Mills from R.E.M.

Probably going to be a wacky weekend of protests, barricades, sound-based crowd dispersal devices, and just a stimulating whiff of CS gas drifting in on the wind. For all your G20 news, please visit http://www.g8-g20isu.ca/g20/index-eng.htm where you can keep up to date on road closures, arrests, and new maritime and aviation restrictions. Find out what people are protesting about here http://g20.torontomobilize.org/ I'm thinking a billion dollars is probably too much to spend on a meeting that could easily be held quietly on an aircraft carrier, in a far-north radome like in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, or in Bermuda. Especially in a city that STILL doesn't have commuter rail to the airport. Still, if there's anything Toronto loves, it's attention, and now the city gets to show itself off to the world in advance of the release of the fine documentary film SCOTT PILGRIM.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"The world KNOWS we are a peace-loving people!"

Even though YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE is one of my absolute favorite films--I can't believe I've never stayed at the Hotel New Otani--when you think about it, it has a profoundly anti-American subtext that is not uncommon to the Bond films (which, after all, have as their premise that it is the British, not the Americans, who should be going around saving the world).

So SPECTRE's plot is to provoke a nuclear war, right? In THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, made ten years later, the villain had the same idea; but he was going to do so by capturing ballistic submarines and arranging actual false-flag nuclear attacks on the U.S. and U.S.S.R. But in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, it is suggested that all it will take to get the U.S. to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviets is the theft of another one of their space capsules. So, because four American astronauts have been captured or killed, the retaliation will be a nuclear strike killing millions, likely to escalate to an all-out exchange? Effectively, it's the insane Americans Bond is trying to stop, not the insane SPECTRE.

--Carl

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

Being reminded how I tried to get in "in" at a college radio station myself, never cut it, but oh well, I guess I tried too hard to act all cocky and all.