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Content accidentally pasted over. I think it was a lament over how upset I am about the sex that went on on my king size bed behind my back in 2009, among other depressing thoughts. Oh yeah, and about the experimental research of the entertainment business: put the frauds on TV with his work, see what happens. I remember it now.
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Ellen Degenerate

I would like to talk to you in terms as soft as possible today about something that makes me lose my temper and shout profanities. I would like to explain to you how the continued support for TV shows that stole years of content from my blogs harms my image. What is a degenerate? Is it just a cool sounding word to use on your enemies? Why do I call the stars who committed fraud with my blogs and songs degenerates? Why did they falsely accuse me of being a degenerate? Clearly it has something to do with stolen intellectual property: it is immoral to steal popular works of music and poetry and comedy. A degenerate, then, is someone who behaves in an immoral fashion. I would deem a person a degenerate strictly based upon their actions. If I see someone doing something immoral, I see him as a degenerate. Of course, this leads to further subtleties depending on your particular moral outlook. Extreme right-wing Christians, for instance, might think of homosexuals as degenerates. I think it is more immoral to involve yourself in the private affairs of others. (Dec 2016: For my German friends, a degenerate is an untermenshen, like the song stealing Seal, for instance.) Let's talk a little more about these right-wing types who got so much attention from the media when Bush was still in power. Did any of you see that guy who was so heartbroken over having to 'kill Germans' in World War Two? What network was he on? FOX? Anyway, I think it is important to point out here that Hitler had to declare war on America after Pearl Harbor to bring America into the war. America had no initial war aims in Europe - other than to help Britain with arms and supplies. America was apparently ready to recognize the new German Europe as a legitimate state, but Pearl Harbor dragged her into the war. There were far more right-wing pseudo-Nazi Americans like the aforementioned FOX News guest back in the 1930's. Communism is their sworn enemy, which would have made Hitler their hero for invading the Soviet Union. These are the kind of voters whose support is best won with some kind of hate. They are extremely negative people and often not very bright. And of course, they are actually a small minority in the overall population who look much larger when their most outspoken are allowed to go on national television. Their presence in our population proves to me that a political rise similar to that of the Nazis in Europe may have been successful here as well - if we didn't have such a resourceful president as FDR to deal squarely with the tough challenges of the Great Depression. The Jews were perfect scapegoats for a political party that used hate to unite its adherents. When it comes right down to it, Nazism is more about hate than it is about politics or racial purity. As such, it is an immoral ideology. And who did the Nazis call degenerates? Right, their murder victims. Clearly the broadcasting corporations disagree with me on this because they want you to love people who steal and commit fraud with my songs and blogs. It's supposed to be their job to tell you when a star goes to prison for fraud, but instead they stand by their crooked stars and try to jump start their careers when they get out of prison. What a greasy, filthy crime it is to take beautiful works of art and use them to lie to millions of trusting people. And this is what the broadcasting corporations want you all to think of me every time I inadvertently rewrite something one of their stars stole from me and they refuse to admit I am its author. I've been through this unpleasant experience thousands of times now over the last twenty years and I can't believe I may still have to go through it again tomorrow. I am tired of being made to look like a degenerate by an irresponsible media that won't grow up and admit that it did something wrong. They want to think that it's okay to commit ten years of fraud with my work because I live on the poor side of town, because I'm out of work, because I'm not on TV, because I smoke... What a load of superficial crap. This is how they judge people, by means as superficial as the racist Nazis' ever were. And anything I might show to prove that I lived a 'decent' life before their fucking superstars swooped down on my blog and destroyed my fucking life, such as my work history, without which I'd not have qualified for government training in 2000, is stolen and used for more fraud. Fuck, I was on employment insurance in 2007 when this fucking nightmare kicked into full gear. WHO ALL RIPPED OFF MY RESUME? FUCKING DEGENERATE CREEPS! GO TO HELL WITH YOUR FUHRER!
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Fuming Mad

You want to know a great way to combat nicotine cravings? Cheap cigars. I just tried one and it was like smoking fifteen cigarettes at once. I'm sure I won't have another craving for several hours. Yesterday as I started going into my withdrawal, someone had their TV on and left their door open for me to listen to the fucking Simpsons and I went berserk. Here's the only thing they've got to put on their stupid network and it's a show that stole its last three seasons straight out of my blogs. And now I'm supposed to listen to them making money from their greasy fucking show after they practically murdered me with their fraud. They think a convicted fraud like Matt Groening is still acceptable to use against honest citizens on the TV. I watch the Flintstones now. And I bet I could produce a new and improved cartoon for every tired old Simpson's repeat that they think they still need to broadcast. Oh, but I don't have the right image! I smoke! Hey young smokers, don't worry about your habit if you plan on being successful before you turn fifty, which is certainly reasonable. If these assholes on TV and the radio would have left my work alone, I would have been successful with it all the way to now. And if you want to write and play hit songs, it obviously doesn't matter if you smoke. Joni Mitchell smokes too and she has the voice of an angel. But she managed to achieve her success before our broadcasting system was overrun by health Nazis. Now they care more about image than they do about talent, which is how so many lying dipshits ended up committing fraud with my most popular works on TV and in the movies. I say that my smoking is less evil than their fraud. Don't worry, though. I'm buying enough food to stay out of the sandwich line. If I stand in a sandwich line, it's always because I 'just got out of jail' for something, eh? That's been the case now since at least 2012, when they told everyone I was 'kicked out' of my almost uninhabitable hotel room. What fucking nasty shitty lie do they have to help some asshole steal some more of my blogs and songs this summer? How's Richie Rich? Does he still hate Jews while he's prancing around on a stage with stolen songs and the networks are telling everyone to love him for it? This only happened last summer. How's Mister Dreadlocks from last summer? Did everyone enjoy seeing him plagiarize my blogs on YouTube last year with his stolen stand-up routine? Did the TV get him onto Saturday Night Live yet? Did he steal a new routine to try out again this year? Who's going to steal my music at the Vancouver Folk Festival this year? (Dec 2016: Wise Hall Flea?) Or are they going to steal it at the Vancouver Jazz Festival? Make sure CBC covers the event so the thieves can get all the hype they need to support their crimes.
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Soup d'Jour

I'll try to avoid the soup line this year because every time I have to stand in a soup line, it destroys my summer. Some jailbird asshole always sees me in a soup line and wants to start another fucking hate campaign made out of vicious lies to explain my presence in a soup line. They see someone who appears to be in a weak position and just like animal predators, they have learned from their evil TV's and radios to attack the weak. Last year I thought I'd save a little money by standing in the soup lines for a couple months and by September I was getting torn apart by a man eating pit bull. And did fucking AC/DC come to town? After the people in the soup line rubbed my nose in it that AC/DC was coming and they were so excited that AC/DC was coming, did that fucking band come? No? Oh, I'm sure it was because of something other than my pointing out that they stole Easy from me in 2007 and broadcast it on the fucking radio. Well, I'm avoiding the soup lines now - even if I have to starve. Maybe it can prevent another crime of fraud that these prick broadcasters are always so eager to see committed with my work. I hope everyone knows how I feel about broadcasters and the media: I don't like them. I don't know if I hate them because I'm not that kind of a person, but I know I don't like them. And one of them said that I will have to make friends with them if I want a future in show business but I disagree. I think that if people like my work, I can share it directly with them and be successful. On something else, I need to go on the record about Jesus in India. I borrowed this DVD and left it behind in a store but the clerk remembered me and returned it to me on my next visit over two weeks later. For once I was glad someone remembered my face. Anyway, I think that Life of Saint Issa might be a hoax. It fills in those missing years of Jesus's life too precisely to be authentic. I believe Christ's message was influenced by Eastern religions but I think the influence was already present in Judea. The Magi came to Bethlehem, after all. I don't think he was still alive when they took his body down either. That his legs were unbroken was in fulfillment of scripture, not to suggest he survived. When water separates from plasma in the blood, as was the case with Jesus, it is because the heart has stopped beating. (Dec 2016: Further research has informed me that the heart has a sack filled with water that was the likely target of this stab wound.) Lastly, I impaled my foot on a nail in Grade One and I couldn't put any weight on it for more than a week after. If both my feet were impaled, I doubt I could stand up at all, let alone trot all over creation, the way Jesus is described to have done following his crucifixion. (Dec 2016: Might have mentioned that my Grade One teacher, a nun, was most impressed with my 'sacred wound'.)
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Cave Art

Discrimination has really gotten out of control in our time, as far as I can tell. It is most noticeable to me in the hiring practices of major networks like NBC and FOX. Is Saturday Night Live still on TV? If it is, it's because NBC discriminates against talent. They want us all to love fraud and hate art. Their degenerate TV stars stole my life-work and lied to the world with it. They should be in a hospital for the criminally insane, not prancing around in front of TV cameras. What a vile discrimination, to hate an artist for having an original point of view that resonates with the population. NBC needs to steal his words and give them to frauds on their payroll to make them look enlightened. And then they leave the victim to die in abject rejection. And when they're caught, they're allowed to put in a good word for themselves on TV, while they ignore their victim and try to make everyone else ignore him. It's obvious to me that the NBC hiring policy discriminates in favor of soul selling social climbers. Any job applicant who shows the slightest moral integrity through their hiring process is rejected. As for fair and balanced FOX, their slogan is less of a joke than an insult now. If we have laws that prohibit discrimination, why is FOX News staffed almost exclusively by Republicans? What happens when you concentrate so many conservatives into one major network? We end up with eight years of pseudo-tyranny under the extreme right-wing Christian Republican regime of George W. Bush. From there, we end up with so much fraud on the public airwaves that it takes the victim ten years of daily posting to recover his content, fighting off false accusations of fraud and much worse along the way. If our laws concerning discrimination were effective, FOX would be banned from broadcasting on the basis of illegal discrimination. Instead, half the population will sit in their homes this Sunday and consume more 'news' to make a song stealing fraud like Taylor Swift appear legitimate. So NBC discriminates on the basis of moral integrity and FOX discriminates on the basis of politics. How about CBC? I think CBC discriminates on the basis of family connections. I think they see themselves as a family business and they want to keep it in the family. If my name were 'Frum' or 'Nash' or something more familiar to them, I bet they would have broke their backs to help me get my career off the ground. But I'm not in their family, so they needed to destroy me. I saw a pretty good documentary last night about a Jewish family that survived the Holocaust by living in a cave. Like me, they were innocent people who were targeted for slaughter. Like me, they were determined to survive. I didn't have to hide in a cave physically, but I was singled out in the crowd so that I carried my cave around with me everywhere I went. At the end of the war, the family's survival was not celebrated by their neighbors. Their neighbors wanted them dead and were disappointed that they survived. No one seems to be celebrating my survival either, eh? Would they all be more pleased if I had died from all the horror and abuse? That's the kind of person our media is creating in the twenty-first century. They must be hungry for another world war. Speaking of world war, how much did the government feel like they owed Hollywood movie stars for those billions of dollars of war bonds contributions? Did the government want to reward them with scientific plunder from the Nazi labs? Spoils of war? The Germans would have reserved such technology to protect artists. They would never give it to untalented movie stars to use against artists. Were they not as hateful towards Jews as the modern media seems to be towards artists, they would have been the better choice to administer copyright protection in our time.
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Tomorrow Never Knows

Welcome to Tomorrow Never Knows, your everyday guide to good procrastination. I'm the Chief Procrastinator. I see people going wrong with their stalling all the time. They think that all they need to do is nothing. There's more to it than that. If the task you're putting off is not correctly chosen, you could end up losing valuable leisure time. I select my neglect according to the following golden rule: The chore must be unpleasant. For instance, everyone likes to eat but who likes to wash dishes after, especially when they're all stuffed with food and lethargic? Don't bother skipping that dental appointment if your kitchen is clean. You can only not do one thing at a time. Speaking of unpleasant, is it ever a pain to try to generate material for this show. I was expected to stay on the air for half an hour, but I don't feel like racking my brain to come up with any more procrastinating tips. I think I'll just end it here - until tomorrow. I need to take a nap.
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Springing to Action

I'm recording a new song and I'm pleased with how it's turning out. In my recordings, there is a very strong chemistry between the bass player, the drummer, the guitar player, and the singer. They play and sing with such a unity of purpose that they all might be the same person: me. Anyway, I'll share it when I'm finished and you can hear for yourself. Just enjoying a beautiful Spring here in Vancouver and coming up with some new scripts and songs. That last post was inspired by a 2010 DVD - Bletchley Circle, but seeing it may have sparked an older thought from an earlier viewing experience. I haven't made any travel arrangements yet except for buying my ticket.
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The Code Breakers of Stanley Park

1953: For the code breakers of Stanley Park, the war might be over but the puzzle puzzles on. We know that each character is either a letter or a number. (Writing on blackboard) Minus X equals X minus A to Z or zero to infinity. We may further define the parameters of our search with our knowledge of their encoding apparatus. Each rotor has sixty-two starting positions and each machine has three rotors. (Writing on blackboard) Minus X equals X minus two hundred and thirty-eight thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight times A to Z or zero to infinity. With the encryption key, we may reduce this enormous range of possibilities to their one true value in each instance. (Writing on blackboard) Minus X equals X minus - bracket - bracket - two hundred and thirty-eight thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight times A to Z or zero to infinity - bracket - divided by the encryption key - bracket. By holding the negative results of this calculation up to a mirror, we may then begin to read the encoded message. Or you can just enter the key into the machine and let it spell the message for you. It's a bit of a shortcut, but I suppose so. What are they smuggling again? Exotic fish. Exotic fish? And you think they're using a German enigma machine? Germans like fish but not that much - maybe herring. Even so, Germans prefer domestic fish. No, this has got to be Japan's 'Purple'. How are we doing on the graffiti code? Stumped. Colossus found no definition for either Pez or Galooch. Stupid machine. Can't it at least tell that they are names? How are you so sure about that? Because the first letters are capitalized. Oh yeah. We found nothing in her room. What's that? This? Just a broken portable typewriter. She was probably about to throw it away. I'm going to see if I can fix it. I like the colour. Purple. Yeah. What's everyone looking at? Give it here. (Violin strokes) All right, now all we need is the six character key. There may be a way to eliminate all incompatible hexadecimal triplet strings with mathematics. How long would it take? Seventy-two years, eight days, seventeen hours, twenty-six minutes- Any educated guesses? How about shushi? Sushi is five letters. Not sushi, shushi. She's Japanese. Maybe she misspelled it. Good thinking! (Punching keys) S-H-U-S-H-I. We're in!
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The Thousand Dollar Canadian

In Canada, he was known as the Thousand Dollar Man, but the Americans had another name for him: the Thousand Dollar Canadian. (An Apple Computers Store. Enter the Thousand Dollar Canadian. He approaches the sales counter.) Clerk: How may I help you? TDC: I'd like to buy a new iMac. Clerk: (Saucer eyed) You must be the Thousand and Ninety-Eight Dollar Man! TDC: (Pulling out his wallet) That's my name. Don't wear it out. Clerk: How will you be paying? TDC: Will cash do? Clerk: Certainly! (TDC hands him a bundle of bright red banknotes.) What the hell is this? (Reading) Pearson? TDC: It's Canadian currency. Clerk: (Handing back the money) I'm sorry, we don't exchange foreign currency here, but I can show you what we have in your price range for this amount. TDC: That would be most helpful. (The clerk escorts the confused Canadian to the exit door.)
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Money Over Music

I am interested in doing much much more than what is expected of me and it seems to make my life incredibly difficult. For one thing, it has been hard to prove my achievements, at least to the neighbours, because of my official status as a person who was not expected to achieve anything, while it has been apparently easy for frauds who steal from me to spread malicious lies about me. One thing I used to like about having a full-time job was that it showed that I was honest. Now because of this crime getting so much attention, I doubt I could find any work outside of the waste management facilities or heavy construction, you know, the kind of jobs no one else wants to do. And here I am with probably more expertise in computer programming than someone else whose bullshit resume got him his web design job. Even on the job, I may find my abilities and accomplishments holding me back rather than propelling me forward. Now it's all out on the web and I couldn't play dumb for others if I even wanted to. And I really don't see any career employer wanting a presence like mine on their team because I'm just too outstanding. Thanks to this internet and the irresponsible way that my work has been handled by it, I am left with no other future to contemplate but as an artist. And boy, is it ever hard for an artist to make money! In over sixteen years of sharing, I don't think I've made a cent from creating and sharing all my volumes of music and poetry and comedy. But Jay Leno has a hundred and fifty million dollars. He has a hundred and fifty million dollars and I have no money. And what does he do? He steals my blogs and tells the world I stole from him. If he wanted to tell people he wrote my blogs and I don't even want to be a comedian, I'm sure I would have agreed to let him use my work if he had offered me a fair price for it. That price would be higher for any works which he wanted to claim as having written himself, but he could have had all the blogs he wanted for probably not much more than what a television writer normally receives for his efforts. I'm sure it's a lot less than 150 million dollars. No, he wanted to steal my work when I'm starving poor and tell everyone I'm the dirty thief for authoring and sharing it. And while I'm at it, how much money does Mick Jagger have? How much money does Mike Myers have? How much does Madonna have? How much does Matt Groining have? All these people are incredibly rich and not a single one of them wanted to offer even the price of a handout to the poor artist whose songs and blogs kept them in business for most of the last ten years. Instead, they left him alone to declare his ownership against the tide of their popularity with the hope that someone in the crowd would rise up and kill him for them. What a waste of money, giving it to people like that. No one needs to tell me why we have a music business. I know why we have a music business and the reason is not to make music but to make money. The very presence of a music business that puts a dollar value on something as priceless as a song from someone's heart shows that most of us like money more than we like music. I am an exception. I would have been happier living in a world that put music above money and offered capable musicians like myself some sort of dignified job similar to that of perhaps a state employed teacher. I'm sure our music would improve immensely if musicians like myself received this kind of support for our efforts instead of having to endure the horrors I report at length in this account year after year. But I must accept that most people like money more than they like music and try to work within that environment without starving to death. It has been a real struggle. As an artist, my primary concern has always been the quality and content of my work. This is clearly not the case for whomever now wants to boast that his illegal attachment of his face to music he does not own makes it 'look better'. He clearly believes that image is everything in music and I just wish people like this had their own songs to help them prove their point instead of always using my songs. This kind of information, which I receive almost daily, threatens to flood my veins with so much plaque that I doubt I will live much longer than my grandfather, who died of a heart attack in his fifties. As for this little trip across the border, it is nothing to get too excited about. I won't be playing any gigs or anything. I just need a vacation from CBC's psychological tyranny and I need to find a good U.S. lawyer and show him a few pieces of evidence he may be able to use. If CBC wants to party with Bill Maher or Seal or Taylor Swift or that comedy creep and his brother or the Crystalids, I'd rather be somewhere where their broadcasts and billboards can't hurt me.
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How to Face Reality

I'm sharing this in order to help my readers apply the information I've been sharing with them for the last three years to gain an accurate picture of reality. For many years, a false reality created out of thousands of plagiarized posts was handed to them by corrupt media sources, many of which I have named throughout this account. The false reality begins with those sources legitimizing fraud as some sort of economic good sense. How much money have George Strombopoulos's Crystalids made from stealing over seventy of my songs? How much money is the TV getting for all those comedy posts they stole? What happened to the last three seasons of the Simpsons and Family Guy? Are they making money from them? And whose fault is it that they can no longer profit from their crimes with my blogs - at least the blogs I haven't yet rewritten? Is it my fault for exposing their fraud? So their reality consists of a victim who is faulted for inadvertently exposing the crimes against him. That must make the culprits heroes in their reality. You certainly all treated culprits like heroes when they went on TV with my blogs and my music, so they must have been successful in making their warped reality your reality. I can see how they would want to cling to their pathetic illusions since the real picture isn't nearly as flattering to their image. And that seems to be what they are allowed to do, without so much as a word of recognition to the author whose life was utterly demolished by their crimes. The reality is that George Stombopoulos is a creep. I swear I heard him taunting me from my hallway in 2008, saying 'they're gonna scream'. What a creep! And I gather that CBC wants him to look good so his fucking foul crime can make me look bad. Did everyone from CBC notice that billboard promoting Bill Maher's show at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in November last year, just before my mom died? I already spent over two years explaining how Bill Maher must have helped George Carlin get on HBO with my erased angry blogs and then CBC wants him to honour us with a performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. They want to see Bill Maher's shit eating grin up on a giant billboard so we I can all squirm before his greatness. And before that, they supported the fraud with my music, right? The blond creep who stole those 2011 songs from me? The one who they had to arrest last year? Was his arrest connected in any way to the vicious dog attack I suffered in September? When I'm being torn apart by dogs in the street, it's always when CBC is successfully passing off their warped reality as being accurate. They do these horrible things to innocent people and then they can't face it because they need to believe they're harmless. They're not harmless, they're extremely harmful. I may yet die from some random attack spurred on by their irresponsible position in this affair. And before that, they helped that local creep and his brother get on Saturday Night Live with my blogs. They support monsters who steal my music and comedy and leave me to get attacked in the street when I'm innocent and they want everyone to think they're perfect and they're responsible. That leaves me looking irresponsible for simply surviving their brutality. Here is another warp in their reality: they think they are gods. But you see the way they need to mark their territory like a poorly trained house pet with their fucking manipulating billboards? That's not like a god, it's like a dog. No wonder they can't face reality. Their reporters are snobs. Only they think they are not snobs but we all know they are snobs. I have very little difficulty convincing others about their arrogance. I find it impossible to convince them of it. I went ahead and bought a return fare to the U.S. today. It was a small investment, but I want to see if my life might improve by eliminating CBC from it. I don't think that after they all got together to celebrate fraud and wanted the whole world to join right in that I should have to endure their promotional billboards. 'CBC News Investigate'? Don't they mean 'investigate CBC News'? Did they rip that out of my posts too? They got the picture wrong: they left out the RCMP officer putting the reporter in handcuffs. I wonder if I'll have to endure NBC billboards when I go the United States. At least it will be a change.
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Vital Organist

Just waiting for the plaque to clear from my veins after this latest assault against my HTML, the third one of its kind in the last year. I'm using Mozilla on an outside computer to post this and the script works perfectly, but I bet it doesn't work on the library computers. I didn't even bother to check when I saw that the home page was criminally redirected again. Did I mention that creep that was tossed out of the library screaming JEW! JEW!. These assholes have run out of technical dirty tricks to use against me. Same stupid hack doing the same stupid harm to the same poor victim. Holy fuck, this is fucking depressing. And did you all know that I have been diagnosed with depression since 2008? This is the kind of thing that drives people like me to fucking suicide. But to the evil corporate pricks who financed all these foul crimes with my most sublime works of music and poetry, their victim's forced suicide is better than letting their consumers know the truth. Let's start with the CBC, the self appointed guardians of our culture. CBC staff have known about me since the late 1990's. I was a regular consumer of their bullshit at that time and they regularly rubbed my nose in it. And I'm sure they spread the word about who I was to all their broadcasting buddies. When I wrote my second play in April 2000, it found its way to a CBC staff member somehow and likely did its rounds with all the broadcasters. I recall Beck being interviewed by a local broadcaster and saying 'now is April 2000'. Did he mean Now Magazine? You know, Now, the corrupt weekly that helped Matt Groening launch the Simpsons so he could steal all my words off the web and no one would believe me? Did Now Magazine try to take some sort of issue out of the fact that it published my cartoons without naming me as their author? Did I protest their cruelty and then did they lie and tell everyone I was a fraud? Why did that bitch who MC'd that spoken word event at Bukowski's in 2000 introduce me as David Nowie? Why was she on such friendly terms with that WEA music scout? Why did they all know who I was? Why did I have to be the 'closer' after I invited friends to see me sing and they couldn't wait all night for me to take the stage? This was all years before NBC started ripping off my blogs on a daily basis. Why did I have to spend a whole year posting new blogs, seeing them appear on TV after I posted them, complaining about it, and then having to suffer it all again then next day? Why did I complain to police about my cartoons being stolen and then wind up with my whole sketch pad appearing on some criminal's web page or in MAD Magazine after? Why did the lawyers I approached for help not inform me of their actions in incarcerating culpable TV stars and music stars in 2007 so that Tina Fey could go right back on Jay Leno's Tonight Show to tell the world how I 'couldn't make it all up' after she had just been released from jail? This makes our justice look like a joke. And all the responsible assholes want to cover it up at my expense instead of fixing it for the next poor bastard. You'd think that after their criminal lies almost ended up getting me wrongfully incarcerated over my inadvertent re-post of one former hit (Size), that I might get a break. Instead, I have suffered the same insult over almost every word of the million or so words I've shared or reshared in the last six miserable years. Capitalism is the evil in our society that threatens our freedom. Capitalism places a dollar value on human beings, which is strictly based on the cash return for donated bodily organs. In my case, they treated my music and poetry and comedy like a vital organ that had been illegally stolen from my body and were willing to let me die from the operation so their fucking fraud stars could party all over my grave. And my grave wasn't enough for Tom Hanks, who also wanted to shit on my father's grave by lying with my poetry. If they're never going to admit their fault in this fraud, there's no way that broadcasters can look good without making me look bad. When a broadcaster looks bad from a crime, it should not be allowed to repair its image at the expense of its victim.
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ATTENTION VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY

I'VE JUST SIGNED INTO YOUR SYSTEM HERE AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND I SEE THAT YOUR HOME PAGE IS ONCE AGAIN GOING STRAIGHT TO THE OUTSIDE URL OF '3BLOG.WHATEVER' AND SO I QUIT MOZILLA AND REENTERED THROUGH INTERNET EXPLORER TOP TELL YOU THAT YOUR SYSYTEM HAS BEEN COMPROMISED FOR A THIRD TIME. YESTERDAY I STAYED HOME AND IMPOSED A TWENTY-FOUR HOUR SMOKING BAN ON MYSELF TO TEST MY WILL, SI IT WASN'T ME. WHY DON'T I JUST LEAVE YOU AND YOUR COPMPUTERS FOR THE ALL THE FRAUDS WHO COME IN HERE EVERYDAY TO HELP TELUS AND CBC COVER UP THEIR UGLY FUCKING CRIMES WITH MORE STUPID LIES? I HAVE MORE TO SHARE TODAY BUT I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO SHARE FRMO A MORE RELIABLE COMPUTER THAN WHAT'S AVAILABLE HERE FOR ME AND FOR THE JAILBIRDS I NAME IN MY POSTS HERE.
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How about Hate?

Why did such the TV and radio and newspaper do such a horrible thing to me? It must be my fault, right? After all, I stood in a soup line. How can you not hate a person without even the sense to buy enough groceries? It's probably because I'm a terrible cocaine user, right? Or I did something else wrong. Maybe I'm retarded, eh? That seemed to be the verdict in early 2010. Because when the TV and radio and the newspaper gang up on an artist and try to get him killed with his own work, what possible motive could they have for it? Wait a minute, how about hate? Have you read my work and seen the parodies I make out of network broadcasts? You liked them so you didn't hate me. They stole it and tricked you into hating me with it because you you liked it. And why would George W. Bush hate me? Because I'm smart and he's insecure about his intelligence. Didn't he try to get his SAT scores changed? And there I was in 2007, showing my JavaScript and sharing my complex arrangements and everyone liked me more than they liked him. Please don't vote for any more intellectually insecure candidates. Whether it was the hate of the thick for the clever or the hate of the untalented for the talented or the hate of the corporate for the independent, hate was the chief driving force behind the organized assault on my work and life. Just remember that this hate belongs mostly to bad stars, corrupt broadcasters, and poor politicians and don't let them trick you into thinking it was yours. Your appreciation for my work was evident in its popularity following my vacation from the web in late 2007.
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Canadian History: Cannon Fodder (The War Years)

(World War One.) Allied Commander: Although this offensive runs a risk of costing ninety-seven percent casualties, it is only a risk. The enemy has erected pillboxes to cover every square inch of the first hundred meters of your charge with a murderous phalanx of machine gun fire. Beyond that are mines, barbed wire and more machine guns. If you break through that, there will be nothing against you but tanks and artillery. Who wants to go? (Silence.) All right, I guess I've used up all my volunteers. Let's be sporting then. Who knows who won Lord Stanley's Cup for ice hockey in 1902? Canadian: The Winnipeg Victorias? Allied Commander: Correct. Your division will lead the assault. (World War Two.) Allied Commander: Because this operation is amphibious, you will need to dodge torpedoes, Stuka dive bombers, and paddle through a ten foot high defensive ring of fire before you get to the foot of the cliff. From there, the enemy will be directly above you, heavily fortified behind a maze of concrete machine gun pillboxes separated by razor wire. Now they're likely to have V2 rockets pointed at your heads as you cast your climbing ropes, so be careful. Who wants to go? (Silence.) I see. Well then, we'll have to choose a brave volunteer by elimination. Who can tell me how many a's are in Saskatchewan? Canadian: Four? Allied Commander: Incorrect. Your division will lead the assault.
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Shooting Blanks

Having had to rewrite my little account of the October 1970 showdown against French Canadian terrorists has sparked a few additional thoughts. We live in a time when armed revolt has become impossible. The state is too well armed. This means that if we want to institute change, we must go about it peacefully, such as by sharing our ideas on the internet. This is certainly better than just letting the bullies win every fight, but it also opens up a whole new category of bullying. The state which has imposed this rule of non-violence is also the best equipped to fight their battles intellectually, since it controls the media. Any lone author like myself is up against countless opponents in the broadcast industry and stands little or no chance of prevailing in any battle for public support. The state can use its broadcast transmitters as Patton once used his tanks. And all their victim ever has is the same tiny old corner of the internet. Did you like how I worked my 1965 date of birth into my last history lecture? Since that was the year I was born and it was also the year my country adopted a new flag, I thought I could have a little fun with it. So what year was the prick who stole the paragraph born? How is his crime funnier than my thought when he has to backdate his birthday by ten years to tell the joke? In a world where a man can't even hang onto his birthday, it may be futile to look for even the smallest truth. Have you added up all the pages to my Canadian History series yet? That's a pretty bulky, comprehensive work of comedy to be stealing from the internet, isn't it? Must be almost fifty pages by now. And then my poems are another hundred or so pages. And I bet all my news reports add up to about a hundred and fifty pages. That's three hundred pages right there. That's a whole book of content plagiarized word for word. And that's only a fraction of what they stole from me. I don't think I was ever treated with as much disrespect in my life as I was at those productions in 2008. I've worked for a lot of employers and no matter how dirty the job was, they all managed show a little politeness when they asked me to do something. But on those productions, the supervisors only ever barked at me and never once said please. I wonder how many of them couldn't wait to make productions for themselves out of my blogs in 2007 and still have their jobs now. Maybe they're even setting up right outside this building as I type.
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Canadian History: Years of Peace and Terror (1953-1970)

Having been developed to mass produce weapons of war, Canada entered the 1950's with gains in factory exports, energy concerns, and defence contracts. After seeing the horrors caused by our bombs in Europe, Canada's defence policy was to stop anyone else from bombing us. Since Nikita Khrushchev managed to trick the whole world into believing he had a huge fleet of advanced jet bombers by simply ordering one squadron to fly repeat passes over a military parade in Red Square, a high speed fighter/interceptor was commissioned for use by the RCAF, while the U.S. started building B-52's. Unfortunately, the first flight of Canada's Avro Arrow, though an aeronautical apex, was strategically surpassed by the roughly concurrent launch of Sputnik, heralding the Space Age and highlighting the need to address the new threat posed by Soviet ICBM's. Further to that, U-2 spy plane photos soon revealed that Khrushchev had been bullshitting about his air fleet. Thus, the Arrow had to be scrapped. At least Imperial Oil's 1947 oil strike in Leduc, Alberta, and British Columbia's hydroelectric dams ensured that Canada's energy supply could increase to meet the growing needs of American consumers. However, by inadvertently washing away a coastal graveyard, one of the dams was damned. As a safety measure, its whole surrounding region has been reserved for nuclear weapons tests. The discovery of a large Soviet spy ring operating in Canada five years earlier had drawn the unwelcome glare of certain paranoid U.S. authorities. Lester Pearson got into trouble for saying he thought Canada's government should not echo the fear based policies favoured by Senator Joe McCarthy's notorious House on UnAmerican Activities. He didn't even say we should reject them, just that we should not echo them. For this he was labeled 'the most dangerous man in the English speaking world' and put on J. Edgar Hoover's personal hit list. Then Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his proactive solution to the Mideast crisis and was named president of the United Nations. McCarthy, Hoover, and their agents in the media all had to settle for driving his best friend to suicide and poured everything they had left into obstructing the advance of socialized medicine by vilifying Tommy Douglas and badgering the C.C.F. until the party had to change its initials to the N.D.P. By the decade's close, Canada's independence asserted itself in the words of CBC's Joyce Davidson, who said that most Canadians were indifferent to an approaching royal visit. If she would have said it on CBC, no one would have cared, but she said it on NBC and every Canadian saw it. The Governor General, CBC's former president, demanded an apology, but Davidson explained that most Canadians were only indifferent because they were not invited to the royal ball. It was too late: several hundred Canadians had already sent angry letters to the editor. NBC eventually made it up to Davidson in the 1970's by offering her son John his very own variety show. The post war baby boom made pregnant women in the workplace tolerable by the early 1960's - as long as they weren't carrying twins. When Lester Pearson was reelected prime minister in 1963, he immediately legalized breast feeding on federal transit vehicles. He did this strictly to offend his enemies and enjoy his power. He couldn't wait for them to ask for military support in Vietnam so he could refuse them. Then Jesus came to him in a dream and told him that my miraculous birth under a perfect zodiac in 1965 would demand a new flag. Given my peculiar heritage, the colours of the Polish flag received exclusive attention for this project. The colours of the Liberal party had nothing to do with it. Pearson was nice but he may have been too soft for his time. Radical Quebec separatists were building a deadly terrorist organization right under his nose, masquerading as Montreal beatniks. The party needed a leader with the will to physically crush its opponents and Pearson may have seen this quality in one of his most outspoken critics, Pierre Trudeau. Pearson invited Trudeau to meet visiting French president Charles de Gaulle at Montreal's Expo in 1967. There in front of City Hall, de Gaulle exploited separatist passions to win loud cheers from the crowd. After the explosive speech, Trudeau asked de Gaulle what he meant by saying 'vive le Quebec libre' - a separatist slogan. The French president answered that he merely proclaimed Quebec's freedom. Trudeau pointed out that many free French Canadians freely abandoned France to German occupation during World War Two and were equally spared conscription in the Canadian army. He asked de Gaulle if splitting up Canada was any way to thank war veterans among Canada's English for fighting to liberate France for things like his presidency. He declared that Winston Churchill would most certainly have disapproved of such overt political grandstanding. At that point, the confused crowd thought Trudeau was picking on their distinguished guest and started hurling eggs, one of which struck Trudeau square on the scalp and made him furious. Even after he became prime minister in the following year, he still wasn't over it. The successful assault made Quebec's terrorists cocky. First they started blowing up mail boxes, taking care to target only those holding federal unemployment insurance cheques and not the ones used to distribute local welfare cheques. As such, they declared their lethal destruction to be symbolic. Their first kidnapping was to show the world that they knew how to kidnap. Their next was to show they could kill. Trudeau's response was to surround their cafe headquarters with tanks and spray their rooftop patio with live rounds from a helicopter gunship at the peak of brunch. The separatist movement would proceed on with no further significant violence.
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