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Peter Tork, 1970.
“Peter is growing squash on his mother’s farm in Connecticut.” - Davy Jones, The Journal News, September 12, 1970
“It’s taken Peter a while to get his head straight again. He was never mentally suited to all the pressure, to the studio demands, the girls always tugging and pushing and mauling us.” - Davy Jones, Edmonton Journal, October 24, 1972
Q: “Being that your tastes were similar, and you both were the first to leave the group, why didn’t you form a group with Peter Tork?”
Michael Nesmith: “I don’t like Peter Tork — never have liked him, I don’t like him as a man. I have to qualify that now: Me not liking somebody doesn’t mean that they’re bad people — he could do a lot of wonderful things for and to me. Not liking someone to me is a very gut reaction — a very visceral attitude. The first reaction to Peter was one of dislike. I don’t like him, I have never liked him, and I probably will never like him. I didn’t enjoy playing in a band with Peter, and I still don’t.
Our tastes were much the same, our political beliefs were similar, our ideas of fun, pleasure, our intellectual capacity, our ability to talk to each other — we were very much alike. I have a great respect for Peter — his technical abilities on an instrument and the positions he took were well conceived ideas, always a posture with a motive, never emotional.
I don’t like my mother. She happens to be a very nice lady — never done anything that would make me not like her — but I don’t. I like my wife.” - Hit Parader, February 1972 (x)
"Peter is a very mellow, erudite man, and he had to play the dummy on the show — if you remember. Maybe you don’t.
Anyway, he was the Huntz Hall of the Monkees, and, in private life, he’s by no means that way.” - Micky Dolenz, News-Pilot, August 11, 1976 (x)
“[Micky] did a great job [drumming] on Headquarters. [But] he wasn’t going to do it again, and there was nothing you could do [to change his mind]. We had to go back in the studio. He said, ‘Peter, you can’t go back.’” - Peter Tork, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd. 2007 liner notes
Q: “Was it hard on you when it was over, Peter?”
Peter: “Um, no, it wasn’t particularly hard on me — at the time, I didn’t think it was hard on me. I… but I did not know very well what I was doing. I wanted to go back to the street; I was happy in my Greenwich Village hippie days, let me go back to passing the basket. But, you can’t go back, as some sage once said. And so I spent those in between years trying to make the difference up.” - Nightwatch, 1986
“When The Monkees were big, I couldn’t handle the pressure. I missed the easy, street-level camaraderie of my Greenwich Village days.” - Peter Tork, 2006; quoted in Uncut, 2019
#Peter Tork#Tork quotes#70s Tork#1970#1972#Monkees fans#The Monkees#Monkees#Davy Jones#Micky Dolenz#Michael Nesmith#peter and davy#Peter and Micky#Peter and Michael#long read#<3#(also that full Hit Parader quote...)#The Journal News#Edmonton Journal#Hit Parader#News-Pilot#Nightwatch#Uncut Magazine#can you queue it
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This question is for the artist; if the albertans could meet you do you think they’d like you?
yeah, no <3
re: ed's name, back in ye olde IAMP days circa 2009-2010 when I first posted their designs to the forum, there was a big interest in city rp's etc and i wasn't really prepared at all since, yknow, i like to mull things over for years and I was also being very obstinate about shipping since it's not a lens i usually approach things with. For a while they were just known simply as "Ed and Cal" while I pondered surnames for them.
Calvin was easy, I was able to both pay tribute to a historical figure and create a nice sounding alliterative name with McCall.
Ed was a lot harder, I thought about paying tribute to one of the famous five since I wanted to acknowledge women in history... and since I was spending a lot of time around Emily Murphy Park during undergrad at U of A, his name ended up coming from there. Something that I later regretted, of course, but it's been a dozen years and it feels too late to change it. As I've mentioned before, I did think about giving him a Ukrainian surname but the issue with living in Edmonton is any Ukrainian surname is going to either be someone you knew from school or a hockey player or something, lol.
I didn't think about Sinclair until like, the last few years as I was reading a bunch of early Fort Edmonton history; it's something that refers to one of the founding families as well as the strong Scottish/French influence from those days. Buuuuut it seems like a lot of work to change when he's lived in my head so long with this name. I guess we'll see what happens.
#Anonymous#projectcanada cities#pc: edmonton#pc: calgary#hapo doodles#boab ask#boab meta#traditional art#ink#one thing about doing newspaper research from the 1980s#is you find a serialized story in the edmonton journal about the fictional family the Sawchuks#and you go AHA a ukrainian surname that pays tribute to something relevant and also isnt anyone you know#but then you go but WHAT IF I MEET SOMEONE WITH THAT NAME#or it turns out to be the name of a real politician as in the case with caro's name#just looked it up of course theres a hockey player what did i tell you#idk what it is about us ukrainians and hockey man lol
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For familia.
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In solidarity with Calgary’s LGBTQ+ community, a local Unitarian church will celebrate Easter with a drag show in their Sunday service.
The “Drag Me to Church” service will coincide with Easter Sunday and the International Trans Day of Visibility, a day recognizing the contributions of trans people as the challenges they still face. The church service will also protest the introduction of legislation threatening the rights of transgender youth in the conservative governmental province of Alberta, Canada.
“No matter what tradition you’re from, I guarantee you that you will have people in your community who identify on the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum — whether they are free to say it or not,” the Rev. Samaya Oakley, the minister of the Calgary Unitarians, told the Edmonton Journal. “If we are truly people who believe in the goodness and the inherent love that exists in this world, then we would extend that to people on that spectrum.”
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FRANKFORT – Potential mothers could claim child support during pregnancy under a new proposal before the Kentucky legislature.
House Bill 243, filed by Republican Reps. Amy Neighbors of Edmonton and Stephanie Dietz of Edgewood, would change Kentucky law to claim child support "at any time following conception."
The bill is designed to support pregnant mothers, Neighbors said.
"There are a lot of costs associated with a pregnancy and basically getting ready for baby," Neighbors said, pointing to car seats, other needed supplies and lost work time when a pregnant mother has to attend doctor appointments.
But abortion-rights advocates see the bill as part of an attempt to advance an anti-abortion agenda by laying the groundwork for fetal personhood under Kentucky law.
Bills based on the idea that a fetus is a person have been filed across the country after the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Neighbors said her decision to introduce the bill was not directly influenced by Kentucky's ban on most abortions but rather by a desire to support women during pregnancy.
The measure also would allow paternity testing prior to birth, as long as it's safe to do so, Neighbors said.
The bill was sent to the Committee on Committees on Jan. 11. Neighbors said she believes HB 243 will have widespread support from House Republicans.
Critics see bill as attempt at fetal personhood
Abortion-rights advocates told The Courier Journal the measure is an attempt to cement into law the belief that life begins at conception.
Rep. Lisa Willner, D-Louisville, said the measure would create a "slippery slope" for pregnant people.
"What the bill would do would be to grant full personhood to an embryo from the moment of conception," Willner said. "These so-called personhood laws could result in a pregnant woman facing child abuse charges and even incarceration if she seeks treatment for drug or alcohol abuse.”
“The legislature should instead focus on bolstering actual support for pregnancy, such as ensuring insurance access, covering doula and midwifery services, and expanding mental health supports," Willner said.
"This bill is an underhanded attempt to advance an anti-abortion agenda and lay the groundwork for fetal personhood in state law by allowing people to seek child support for a fetus," said Tamarra Wieder, Kentucky state director for the Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates.
Wieder is also concerned the bill would open the door for surveillance of pregnant people because it would require the state to verify their eligibility for child support. She agreed with Willner that the legislature should focus on health care during pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood will ask its supporters to call legislators and express their opposition, Wieder said.
"We may actually be able to stop this because Kentuckians don't want more restrictions to abortion, and this is another abortion restriction that would be codified in law," Wieder said.
But when asked when asked about the comments from abortions-rights supporters, Neighbors said, "I can’t stress enough that my goal is to simply be supportive of mothers, children, and families."
National trend
The bill is the first Kentucky measure Willner has seen that creates a potential personhood definition for a fetus, she said.
But other states and Congress have considered, and in some cases adopted, similar bills around child support.
In 2021, Utah adopted a measure that requires fathers to pay 50% of the mother's pregnancy expenses. Indiana's legislature last year expanded the list of childbirth-related expenses fathers could be held responsible for paying, though the legislature stopped short of categorizing those payments as child support.
Georgia's abortion law applies the state's child support rules to any fetus "with a detectable heartbeat."
Washington Republicans have introduced bills similar to the current proposal in Kentucky. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, in December introduced in their respective chambers the "Supporting Healthy Pregnancy Act," which would require biological fathers to pay child support for medical expenses during pregnancy.
"These bills are often introduced by folks who are pro-life or anti-abortion who believe that a fetus or unborn child is a rights-holding person," said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California-Davis. She is writing a book about the fetal personhood movement.
"The strategy behind them is to set a precedent that, you know, that life in the womb has rights essentially, which would obviously have extensions to abortion too," Ziegler said. "Essentially it would mean liberal abortion laws would be unconstitutional."
A separate Kentucky bill introduced by Sen. David Yates, D-Louisville, would add exceptions for rape, incest, maternal health, and lethal fetal anomalies to Kentucky's near-total ban on abortions.
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I thought this was what they wanted, people keep going after pro life people for fetal child support and now that it's on the docket they're mad for some reason.
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On this day... - May 9th
On this day Led Zeppelin performed:
+ 1969 : Edmonton Garden in Edmonton, Canada
“The hottest new rock band from Britain stalked on stage at the Gardens Friday night and let loose an earthquake of sound and frenzy. Their music’s loud, almost to the point of pain, but they don’t use volume to cover up deficiencies. The volume is part of their attack. They don’t titillate or tease audiences to share their inspiration. Instead, they blast out with raw, jagged power, enough to bust a new door into your brain. They use their instruments like a brush and palette, creating frenzied visions that tumble through space and time. […] Led Zeppelin is probably the most aggressive, masculine rock group anywhere. They batter at the mind and ear, insisting that they will penetrate. […] Their whole approach depends on being able to rouse themselves to a high pitch of excitement, and mounting all out war in an attempt to bring audiences along with them. […] Led Zeppelin compels excitement and involvement. If an audience retains detachment or any kind of objectivity their performance becomes meaningless.” – ‘Hot rock band loud, frenzied’ by Bob Havey (The Journal)
#on this day#led zeppelin#robert plant#jimmy page#john paul jones#john bonham#classic rock#ourshadowstallerthanoursoul
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More Misadventures in Green Transportation
More Misadventures in Green Transportation
The electric vehicles that leftists subsidize to the hilt with our money and that they intend to force us to drive continue to make no sense.
Exhibit A:
Automaker Stellantis on Wednesday announced a recall of more than 32,000 of its hybrid Jeep Wrangler SUVs because they pose a potential fire risk.
As part of what the company described as a routine review of customer information, Stellantis determined that eight of the hybrid Wranglers had caught fire while they were turned off and parked.
Those foolish enough to have purchased these vehicles rather than real cars are advised by Stellantis not to park them near buildings, because they might burst into flames at any time.
For Exhibit B, David Blackmon guffaws over an Edmonton Journal article entitled, “More than half of Edmonton’s $60-million electric bus fleet not roadworthy.”
The Canadian city purchased 60 electric buses for $1 million each (double the cost of reliable diesel buses) from the green boondoggle Proterra, which has gone Chapter 11, making it difficult to keep the buses running in Edmonton as in Jackson, Wyoming, where the entire fleet does not work.
From the story:
It takes a diesel-powered on-board heater to keep the body of the bus warm. And despite $200,000 in special blankets to keep all those batteries toasty, the Proterra buses are still feeling that northern Alberta chill in their skimpy range.
That’s $3,333 per bus to keep the batteries warm. But still the buses don’t work.
That’s okay; soon electric moonbatmobiles will be mandatory. They will work because bureaucrats will command that they have to work.
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confessions, kanae minato (trans. stephen snyder)
(credits: bleacher report / john russell / sportsnet / bruce bennett / espn / christian petersen / edmonton journal / andy devlin / nhl / derek leung / tsn / derek leung)
#kinda incomplete and i truly hate the formatting on this but it’s been sitting in my drafts for too long so go and be free ig#also after scrolling through so many getty images pages i fear i understand the mcdavo-is-hot crowd now#connor mcdavid#edmonton oilers#mere.png#poetry post
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