I want to see Steven Tyler before he dies

So says young Petunia to her Mom in the Late Kate’s most recent column – She don’t wanna miss a thing

Petunia, age-19, and her friends adore 1980s rock music. … That 1980s, the worst decade last century. Songs only worth chuckling over when GLEE covers them: AC/DC, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Joe Cocker, …

Steven Tyler and Joe Perry

… If Thursday night’s Vancouver concert was Aerosmith’s last, the band went out with a bang: an over-the-top, gyrating display of rock and roll excess. In a good way.

But whether the Vancouver show – the last on their current tour – will enter into the rock and roll history books remains unclear; rumours of the legendary band’s impending death may have been greatly exaggerated.

The squabbling between lead singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry took on new life in August …

read more – Globe and Mail – If it was Aerosmith’s last, it was a blast

Petunia did attend the show. And loved it.

Tyler is 62, Perry, 60. … Old enough to be her grandfathers.

Stewart, Colbert rallies in Washington

Awesome.

Comedy Central funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have announced dueling rallies in Washington D.C. in an apparent attempt to poke fun at the sometimes self-important and serious tone of political discourse in America.

On Thursday’s “The Daily Show,” Stewart said he’d host the “Rally to Restore Sanity” on Oct. 30 on the National Mall. He said the goal was to “take it down a notch for America.”

The call to rally is apparently a play on Fox talk show host Glenn Beck, who hosted a highly-publicized “Restoring Honor” rally in D.C. less than three weeks ago. …

NY Daily News

Colbert responded as a right wing fear monger with his own: ‘March to Keep Fear Alive

Throwing down the gauntlet at Stewart, Colbert says, “They want to replace our Fear with reason. But never forget — “Reason” is just one letter away from “Treason.”

Coincidence?

Reasonable people would say it is, but America can’t afford to take that chance.”

USA Today

CBC audiocast – Wiretap

I love this comedy radio show and podcast. Very smart funny.

This week on the season premiere of WireTap, Jonathan speaks with a professional Rainbow Chaser about extreme weather tracking. …

cbc.ca/wiretap

RainbowChasers.net

top songs Summer 2010

Here’s how I know I’m old. The biggest hit of the past summer is Katy Perry – “California Gurls” featuring Snoop Dogg, offensive to me in every possible way.

I guess that’s the point.

One of the few tweenybopper hits I can say anything positive about is Justin Bieber’s “Baby” featuring Ludacris.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

This is so BAD, … I kind of like it. Real teen embarassment. Meeting in a bowling alley. Girls taller that the boys. … And video faking a Moon Walk.

Michael Jackson Justin Bieber ain’t.

On the other hand … there have been worse recordings:

The Most Ridiculous Record Covers Of All Time (PHOTOS)

Thanks Kate.

why does Twitter persist?

It’s terrible.

Like Facebook with 5% of the feature set.

Yet every company, celebrity and website feels obliged to tweet. (Even me with my 3 blogs.)

Have you heard about the upcoming Facebook movie, The Social Network, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires?

If Hollywood can make an overly dramatic film about the early years of Facebook, why can’t we make an overly dramatic movie about Twitter? Or at least the trailer to that movie! …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The movie rights for Googled: The End of the World As We Know it (2009) have been acquired.

where in the world is John Long?

The truth must out.

It’s time to reveal what’s happened to Calgary’s most wanted man.

John and fellow rogue Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers leaders are believed to be hiding near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Though never officially married, John has fathered roughly 25 or 26 children. To his credit, he financially supported some of them through investment earnings and profits from his many electronic engineering patents.

John believes that the restoration of standards in the IEEE will set things right in the world, and that all other religions/philosophies/engineering societies—”pan-Arabism, socialism, communism, democracy, engineers for electrons”—must be opposed.

To that end, John plans to stay in hiding until elected President of the IEEE.