Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) SDA Late Nite Radio.
Anyone who has ever stumbled across MTV – in a restaurant, for example – has heard the sort of music discharged by poodle-haircut-sporting wannabe-Satan types who clearly spend too much time in front of a mirror. Puffing out their lips and sneering like tattooed, cross-dressing derelicts, they wear their uber-coolness like a self-inflicted injury as they blast twenty-thousand watts of dehumanizing noise to drugged-up kids with STDs and nose rings. Oddly, they never seem to take any pleasure in performing their music.
Tonight we take a happy joyride in the opposite direction, and hand the stage over to the enduring one-man phenomenon known as Walter Ostanek, aka Canada’s Polka King. Flying blissfully under, over and around popular music’s radar, this legendary performer has been known throughout his more than fifty-year career for his ability to lift the spirits of his fans, many of whom are of European immigrant stock, with his live performances and his over eighty high-quality records and CDs . His Slovenian-style (sometimes called Cleveland-style) polkas evoke good food and good times with family, friends, and neighbours, and are always delivered with a smile. We’re talking about a man who knows what side his bread is buttered on:
To Walter Ostanek, the title, “Canada’s Polka King” is much more than just a name. It is a special honour that carries with it an obligation to a special dedication and a promise to his fans and followers that wherever and whenever the Walter Ostanek Band appears in public, the band will do their utmost to please the audience and keep them happy.
That they surely do. Here then, performing with his crack band, is three time Grammy Award winner, International Polka Hall of Fame inductee, member of the Order of Canada, and proud owner of Ostanek’s Music Centre in St. Catherines Ontario – which carries a wide range of musical instruments including a selection of quality button and piano accordions, and whose friendly staff will walk you through the process of finding the right accordion for your price range and skill level – Walter Ostanek – he’s the fellow in the white shirt on the left – as he makes three or four generations of folks forget their troubles on the dance floor with the merry musical announcement that yes, indeed, it’s Polka Time!
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Al&Moh: The Fear, the fear, aka “bloked”.
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“‘Muhammad’ South Park episode bloked(sic) from web
201st edition of animated show pulled from internet after creators warned by radical Islamic group they would be killed”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/
At Pileusblog, Sven Wilson suggests that the internet has created some polarization, but, he argues, this isn’t a bad thing in light of the fact that the alternative entails collusion among politicians, and a compromised electorate:
“Many commentators these days bemoan the loss of bi-partisanship. They mourn the days when Republicans and Democrats, particularly in the Senate, were more collegial and made bargains across the aisle. While I’m all for collegiality, I would describe this ‘working together’ differently. Sometimes it’s compromising on something small to get something more important. But sometimes it is just collusion of the moderates in each party. Legislators could collude and compromise more often because it was so much harder for ordinary people to observe their elected representatives’ actions.
“Now, Republicans are supposed to act like Republicans and Democrats like Democrats. When they don’t, the whole force of the blogosphere and the 24-hour news media comes down upon them with a vengeance. Consequently, far fewer of them are able to act in Washington in a way that differs from what they are telling their base….”
Oh, those Toronto City Councils:
“If you sell a condo, you have to buy a year’s worth of Metro passes, and leave them in the condo. Which raises the price of the condo by approximately….the cost of a year’s passes for the Metro. Which, since that is not the thing most people would buy with that amount of cash, means that buyers will substitute away to other forms of housing.
“This is how central cities become ghost towns. They try to use location rents to extract all sorts of social rents, and then when people move out to the suburbs, planners blame greed and racism…”
I don’t think of myself as a prude, but I did find this quite disturbing.
Founded in 2002, and since then an increasingly successful biennial celebration, Sex Week at Yale this year featured 34 events, including presentations on kinks and fetishisms, an instructional seminar on masturbation and two presentations defending non-monogamous sexual relationships. The program was written up in the April 5 edition of National Review by former Yalie Nathan Harden (Buckley fans will love the title: “Bawd and Man at Yale”)
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Attendance at “Babeland’s Lip Tricks,” in which a New York stripper demonstrated oral sex techniques with rubber props for 90 minutes: 2,000 (more than a third of the undergraduate body). Attendance at the lecture advocating sexual restraint: 14. Yale’s motto: Lux et veritas (light and truth). Privilege of attending Yale in 2010: not quite as priceless as it used to be.
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Revolting stuff. The CBC is not providing a news service on behalf of Canadian taxpayers, they’re working for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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You Know, the Toronto Sun had a front page photo of Guergis and a Rotwieler like dog with words to the affect ..Dogs let go!, or something like that.
It came to me that it does not matter if Guergis is guilty of something or not. She still has the right to sue the Sun and also the Globe & Mail for running with the same photo and story line.
How rare is it that the Globe reprints from the Teranna Sun?
I bet she wins for defamation and damages when she sues. No paper should EVER do what these two did.
More coffin nails for the MSM?
Any bets? Lawsuit?…win or lose?
All these words about polka, and nothing about Stan and Josh Schmenge, the Happy Wanderers? Meanwhile, my gelkis sit in the corner gathering dust.
And thank you Mrs. Vilviaczki for the cabbage rolls and coffee..