Astronaut Love Triangle performing at a public venue on Friday

Those notorious space punk artists, Astronaut Love Triangle, will be performing at the opening party for Milan Ilnyckyj's photo opening at Raw Sugar, 7:00pm on Friday, September 4th (692 Somerset).

In addition to their paradigm-shifting and assumption-shattering performance, there will also be live music from Andrea Simms-Karp.

Want to win a Milan pic? Enter his photography for comments contest.

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Keir is selling his art

From 11am to 6pm, Wednesday to Sunday until the end of the summer, Keir will be selling objets d'art in the pedestrian underpass next to the Rideau Centre [map]. [Underpass 2009]

He's got perfect gifts for the raver who has everything.

A Few Unrelated Thoughts on Punch Buggies

1. My friend Kathy can be one of the most oblivious people I know. You can wear a beard for two years, shave it off, and she won't notice. But if she is next to you and a fender of a VW Beetle is just visible a block away, you will get punched.
2. I often wonder when this punch buggy thing got big. I don't remember it from when I was a kid. Late '80s, early '90s was the first I heard of it.
3. When I'm on the bus and I see a Beetle, I have an urge to punchbuggy the people around me. Not a serious punch, just a tap of my fist on their shoulders. Last week, I saw two Beetles side by side on Kirkwood at Carling, a blue one and a yellow one. Would I have been arrested if I had run around the bus punch buggying people? Technically, it's battery. There are no citations for "punchbuggy defence" on CanLii, but CanLii is weak on caselaw from the '80s and '90s.
4. Also, what is the protocol when you see two Beetles at the same time? Is it: punch "punch buggy blue no returns" punch "punchbuggy yellow no returns"? Or can you go: punch punch "punchbuggy blue punchbuggy yellow no returns"?
5. On Sunday, Embrun will be hosting The Largest Non-Judged VW-Only Event In Canada. I assume there will be a lot of Beetles there. What are they thinking? It starts out all fun and games, but then one person hits a little harder than they meant, the victim retaliates with a harder punch and it escalates. On a normal trip through town or down the highway there are long Beetle-free gaps where apologies can be made and tempers can cool. But not at the Embrun Volksfest. I hope they've hired extra security.

[Zoom plays an advanced version of Punch Buggy with GC. She also links to an excellent set of fair-minded rules for basic Punchbuggy that demonstrate that I am not the first person to wonder about playing while on public transit.]

The 2009 Unofficial Blue Skies Music Festival Page

The Blue Skies Music Festival has no web page.

I assume this is for some combination of the following reasons:

1. The Hats don't want more people to know about the festival because there are already too many people begging to buy tickets every year.
2. The internet runs on electricity that could be generated by nuclear reactors fueled by uranium that might be mined near Clarendon.
3. A majority of the Hats would like to have a website, but simply cannot agree on whether it should be a blog or wiki, never mind whether to go with Wordpress or Blogspot.

With this void, I have decided to step in and provide some handy reference material.

2009 Main Stage Performers

Friday

7:30 pm Goat Note

8:30 pm O'Darling

9:30 pm James Hill [MySpace Last.fm]

10:30 pm Delhi To Dublin [MySpace]

Saturday

3:00 pm The Abrams Brothers [MySpace]

7:00 pm Splash N'Boots [Last.fm]

8:00 pm evalyn parry [MySpace CBC3 Last.fm]

9:00 pm Notre Dame de Grass [MySpace]

10:00 pm De Temps Antan [MySpace Last.fm]

11:00 pm Jack De Keyzer

Sunday

7:45 pm Bill Staines [MySpace Last.fm]

8:45 pm Matt Andersen

9:45 pm Rant Maggie Rant [MySpace]

10:45 pm James Cohen

11:45 pm C.R. Avery [Myspace]

Tweeners

• Len Wallace
• Alise Marlane [MySpace]
• Joe Grass [MySpace]
• Gareth Pearson [MySpace]
• The Human Statues [MySpace]
• David Celia [MySpace]

Links:

• The Unofficial Blue Skies Music Festival Lineup 2011
• My 2009 Blue Skies Photos
• Guide to the Blue Skies Music Festival: Getting There
• Guide to the Blue Skies Music Festival: Jamming
• Guide to the Blue Skies Music Festival: Dancing
• Guide to the Blue Skies Music Festival: Things to Acquire and Bring