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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Kris Demeanor's 'Get a Real Job' wins Best New Writer award
Just when I thought I was 100% folk/rock institution, the article I wrote chronicling all the shit jobs I've had for Unlimited Magazine gets a National Magazine Award!
Well, what was a delightful surprise. Now I'll be able to put a down payment on that quad. I must thank former Unlimited editor Dan Rubenstein for asking me to do the piece, and for nominating it for the award, and thanks to all the current staff at Unlimited Magazine.
Please check out the article, Unlimited online, and see the rest of nominees for the National Magazine Awards.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Canada's Beacon of Culture
City of Angels and Assholes
Here are my friend Heather John and I at the SUPPORT THE CBC rally on Friday. I am doing my Galapagos tortoise imitation. There were 150 or so people there, many of them pensioners who had just come from the SAVE MEDICARE rally.
The CBC has been a stalwart supporter of my music and that of dozens of other songwriter and musician friends for years. They have recorded and interviewed us, played our songs across the country, helped us connect to audiences, sell CDs, and share stories.
They do more than any media outlet or cultural body in making sense of this country.
And forget my personal reasons for supporting them- they are simply the best news/arts/sports reporters in Canada, and in shows like The National and The Fifth Estate, they even engage in a practice long forgotten by mainstream media called 'investigative journalism'.
The CBC is where I first heard a radio documentary about Neil Stonechild's death, and was compelled to write 'One Shoe'.
There are a lot of knee jerk CBC haters in Calgary- A G.I. Joe look alike stopped traffic on Memorial Drive during the rally, and he was livid; "Get a fucking job!" he cried, because I guess he'd seen too many of his loved ones descend into joblessness after watching Hockey Night in Canada.
We are used to flagrantly right wing biased media in Calgary, so any objective news such as the CBC is considered a left wing, tax sucking arm of Big Government.
But let me piss off our enemies even more and say it is especially in times of economic crisis that we need a national voice that feeds our intellects and souls.
Because at that rally Friday, for every hateful doofus who hurled vitriol at the pensioners holding the Council of Canadians banner, there were a hundred cars that honked and hooted in support.
It made me feel…well…hopeful.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Clean shaven and celebrating (in moderation)
The moustache is gone, the website is sleeker and more organized than my personal affairs have ever been. And it feels good. Thank you, Ellen.
Previous visitors and newbies alike, hope you enjoy exploring the oranges and blues of the revamped site. I'm a bit frantic at the moment looking for our cat, but I will be back soon with particulars about the May tour in B.C. with Dave Lang and Tolan Mcneil, and more info about future remounts of Buzz Job.
And Calgary fans, I will playing at the Marquee Room this Thursday April 16 at 9:00 p.m. as part of their songwriter night with Chantal Vitalis. Hope to see you. Kris.
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