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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, it is back! It comes, it goes, and it’s now available again at YouTube, the very best (in my opinion, of course) version of Mr. Tom Waits performing Step Right Up ¤, at the Theatre le Palace, in Paris, in 1979 (8:22). That, by the way, was part IV of the gig, here are Part I ¤, II ¤, and III  ¤.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

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  2. Vit
    Adler started this and I just couldn’t resist. Boney-M Redid
    There lived a certain man in Harvard long ago
    He was kind of thick and the seniors knew it so
    The freshmen looked at him with terror and with fear
    But to Ottawa hacks he had the right veneer
    He could preach theory, like a liar full of ecstasy and fire
    But he was the kind of preacher Liberals most desired
    Ra Ra Iggy dean
    Answer to the lib machine
    There was an expat that really was gone
    Ra Ra Iggy dean
    Smartest man that they could glean
    It’s a shame that he’s a bomb
    He ruled the Liberal land and never mind Stefane
    At the knives out dance he really was a fan
    At the Vancouver confab it really was a breeze
    he just locked hands with a political sleeze
    For the queen he was her savior, though I think she’s done
    She believed he was a savior who would save her mom
    Ra Ra Iggy dean
    Ass kisser to the libby queen
    There’s a man that really is done
    Ra Ra Iggy dean
    it was a shame how he carried on
    But when his flopping and flipping and his hunger for power became known to more and more
    people, the demands to do something about this outrageous man became louder and louder…
    Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
    Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
    “This man’s just gotta go,” declared his enemies.
    But Kieth Davey begged, give Iggy a chance please
    No doubt about this Ignatief has a lot of charms
    If we can just fool the sheeple they’ll fall into our arms
    Then one day some man of higher standing
    Set a trap, they’re not to blame
    “Come to visit us,” they kept demanding, and he really came.
    Ra-Ra-Igy dean
    Kind of like a Russian queen
    He put some poison into his wine.
    Ra-Ra-Iggy Dean
    You’ll never get what I mean
    That’s ok because it’s sublime
    Ra-Ra-Igy dean
    That’s it you foolish preem
    Politically you are near dead
    Ra-Ra Iggy Dean
    Back to Harvard sight unseen
    Kinda like the Quebec scheme
    And so they were gone.
    With all apologies to Boney-M
    Syncro

  7. Well Vit Tom ain’t my cup o’ tea. But if Paris is your bag I went to a performance of La Boheme last night. Does that appease the cranky?

  8. According to Karl Weierstrass’s limit theorem, Batb,
    it’s always 12:01 somewhere, we just divide it into
    24 distinct timezones for administrative purposes.

  9. Mr. Waits isn’t particularly my cup of tea either, Speedy.
    Rather, it’s that particular Step Right Up that I highlighted
    that I think is particularly notable. That’s why I listed the
    parts of the gig in an unusual order.

  10. Yep. That would be a literal example. Though Boney M would put just about anyone in a bad mood.

  14. When I first moved to Toronto in about 1980 I worked security for the Garys. They used to book the people that couldn’t get booked by anybody else. The Police, The Stranglers, the Cramps, StrayCats, PIL, etc. etc. So I have heard this story from several people who were there at the time and I’m pretty sure it’s true. When they booked Tom Waits at Massey Hall they had him booked to stay at the Chelsea Hotel. Tom didn’t like that and they drove around in a limo with Russ (my roomate) and found “Empire Rooms”. Big neon signed rooming house about a block from my apartment. They moved the boys from the rooming house to the Chelsea so Tom could stay there.

  18. Speedy, my wife and I greatly enjoyed La Boheme in Saskatoon when they had the dress rehearsal. We are biased however, as our daughter was one of the singers. The tickets were also a little cheaper.
    We saw Count Iggy’s grampa’s modest digs in St. Pete May 2008. Nice coat-of-arms on the gate.

  19. fire up the bulldozers !!!
    3w.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html

  20. In the Ontario PC leadership campaign the three “mainstream” candidates have been variably slagging Mr. Hillier’s direct statement that he wishes to abolish the HRCs as politically unsellable. Christine Elliott has been particularly weak kneed on this.
    But is it so? I know it’s just an online poll, but even in the Red Star today the reader poll is in favour of abolishing the HRCs to be replaced by a court based system.
    http://www.thestar.com
    We keep hearing that an attack on the Human Right Commission system is a political loser for conservatives. But is it really? Or are our Conservative leaders either cowards or hypocrites?
    Tomorrow is the first of two voting days for the PCO leadership. Mr. Hillier has had my vote from day one, and continues to have it. The rest of the candidates in this process are more of what we have had for the past decade since Mr. Harris left. We don’t need that.

  21. I loved everything about that version, which was new to me: The cool visuals, the instrumental cleverness and whatnot, Tom being all weird, the surreal groovey jazziness of the whole thing… but you can never have everything and this version sidelined the sheer manic momentum and inventivness of the lyrics, which are
    brilliant.
    Hopefully Vitruvius will ignore rather than disembowel me. Seems like something that might p$ss him off. Maybe he’s gone to bed.
    batb @9:55 – I’ve wondered about that too. Parallel dimension, I think.

  22. Or a boat, floating off somewhere in the north-Atlantic, cruising a time-zone undefined by any Law of God or Man. But probably just south of Greenland, or perhaps north of French Guyana.
    Because I know SDA would never mislead us, even about a thing like that. (How do I make this thing wink? This: 😉 doesn’t seem right.)

  23. Wow – the Vit using the “F” word and living to tell about it. Must have some pull with management.

  24. BOMBSHELL! Inquiry delayed
    e-mail surfaces showing RCMP Squad discussed and planned to use a Taser weapon on the Polish immigrant before they even arrived at Vancouver International Airport in October 2007.
    The information, commission counsel Art Vertlieb said, potentially suggests the officers may have not been following RCMP policy. And it appears to contradict evidence given by the officers earlier that they did not formulate a plan to use force on Dziekanski before responding to reports of a man throwing furniture in the arrivals area of the airport.
    “On its face, the e-mail appears to tell a significantly different story,” Vertlieb said.
    And it raises an alarm that the RCMP may not have released all the relevant documents.
    “I have concern as to whether or not the commission has received full disclosure of documents from the RCMP,” Vertlieb said.
    FROM
    http://www.calgarysun.com/news/canada/2009/06/19/9857676.html

  25. Mark Steyn: Iran neutrality no option for Obama
    President can make nice with the ayatollah, but it won’t be reciprocated.
    Mark Steyn
    Syndicated columnist
    The polite explanation for Barack Obama’s diffidence on Iran is that he doesn’t want to give the mullahs the excuse to say the Great Satan is meddling in Tehran’s affairs. So the president’s official position is that he’s modestly encouraged by the regime’s:
    More at: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-president-leader-2469275-world-supreme

  26. France studies Banning Burqas in Public
    Ms Amara, Minister for Urban Renewal, said she was “in favour of the total prohibition in France of the burqa … this coffin which kills the fundamental rights of women.”
    She added: “You only have to go to certain markets, such as in the suburbs of Lyons, to see that there are more and more women wearing the burqa … These are women who are the prey of oppression, from masculine domination to fundamentalistic Islamic indoctrination.”
    FROM
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-split-over-plan-to-outlaw-burqa-1710747.html

  27. a different bob: “Wow – the Vit using the “F” word and living to tell about it. Must have some pull with management.”
    Management’s on the road … 😉
    Re Oz’s post, “France studies Banning Burqas in Public”: I’d like to see that. There’s something in me that boils with rage when I see a woman — who would know? — in a full burqa walking towards me. I want to yell at her: TAKE THAT DAMNED THING OFF! LET ME SEE YOUR FACE! YOU CAN SEE ME;,I WANT TO SEE YOU!”
    Why should our society/culture be hijacked by new immigrants intent on bending us to their ways? Toxic multiculturalism has turned our hospitality into laydown-surrender-monkeyism, where new immigrants impose their unhealthy dysfunctions and pathologies onto us while we’re supposed to just sit quietly by and not only accept them but PAY for them, too: welfare (for multiple wives, as well), ESL, “heritage languages” in our elementary schools, lawyers and jail time for terrorists-in-training and other miscreants, and the list goes on and on.
    Enough is really enough. It’s time for us to begin pushing back. Thank G*d for the increasing number of individuals willing to speak truth to lies, like Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant, Kate MacMillan, Kathy Shaidle, & co.
    The rest of us have to, too, in normal, everyday conversation, simply put before people what’s going on, pointing out that what you’re saying isn’t “racist,” but factual observation. I’m finding that when I do this, a lot of people are agreeing with me. If this Sleeping Giant ever wakes up, we may be able to return to some semblance of sanity in this Deranged Dominion.
    But, I’m not holding my breath.

  28. “Can he feel what he never experienced: Michael Ignatieff missed three decades of political life in Canada” by Rex Murphy:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/can-he-feel-what-he-never-experienced/article1190135/
    Murphy says this about the Conservative ads which ask the very same question, albeit in shorthand: “The Conservatives … have been pounding Mr. Ignatieff over his three-decade long absence from Canada in a series of harsh and tacky ads, which by their very crudity – and this is ironic – have almost taken this most serious question about him out of polite discussion. You know the stuff. He’s an interloping snob cosmopolitan just ‘visiting’ Canada, back after 30 years merely to crown his résumé.”
    Only in Canada, you say? The CPC tell the truth about Ignatieff and catch Hell from the MSM and the LPC because their ads are “harsh and tacky”?
    Well, the truth is the truth told either sweetly and elegantly or harshly and tackily. Only in Canada: harsh and tacky trump truth.
    Murphy articulates tastefully and if not sweetly then certainly not harshly what the CPC have been saying all along. I guess if you say it in the Globe and Mail and not from Conservative lips it’s OK.

  29. But, hey, I have to say I’m grateful for Mr. Murphy’s questioning of Mr. Ignatieff’s credibility as a Canadian leadership hopeful, given that Iggy’s been absent from the day-to-day minutiae of political thrust and parry for over 360 months.

  30. Heads up for those who are pissed with Google and are getting enthusiastic about Bing: they are even worse anti-gun bigots.
    Quote from an email received from their ad-center:

    Reasons for disapproved keywords:
* rifle
* Display URL issue
* revolver
* Display URL issue

    And another one:

    Reasons for disapproved keywords:
* muzzleloader shotgun rifle revolver
* Weapons content

  31. Esra shows what a coward Jennifer Lynch is.
    “On the one hand, Lynch has publicly called for a debate about censorship in her rage-filled speech to her fellow HRC profiteers at their trade convention last week. On the other hand, she didn’t mean “debate” when she said debate. She meant “she gives a speech, and we listen obediently”.
    http://ezralevant.com/2009/06/me-vs-jennifer-lynch-sort-of-t.html

  32. Al Gore’s Democrats are at it again. When loosing the battle – name change.
    First, Global Warming
    Then, Climate Change.
    Now, Get America Running On Clean Energy.
    Wow !
    [But the strategists, in their memo, said the term “cap-and-trade” is “worse than meaningless” and is unfavorable to voters. Instead, Third Way and Mr. Greenberg’s firm argue for terms like “clean energy” and for branding the push against global warming under a new slogan of “Get America running on clean energy.”…]
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275263/posts

  33. BTW, Vitruvius, Tom Waitts is my cup of tea — or should I say my Electric Kool-Aid Acid!!
    My then 16-year-old daughter turned me onto him, on a CD she burned for me, including Tom Petty, Lynyard Skynyard, Red Hot Chili Peppers (when I was mostly listening to Folk and Jazz stuff).
    Tom Waitts is an adventure. You never know where his crazy lyrics and that whacked-out, boozy, growly voice of his is going to take you. He makes me laugh.

  34. ” Bomb explodes in Tehran as protest grow violent”
    ctv.ca june 20/2009
    A bomb has exploded at the shrine of the Ayatollah Khomeini

  35. things getting excited over at ezralevant.com
    promoting various broadcasts past and future.
    sumbudy from sda best mosey over there and remind them MSM is a bunch of left leaning teat suckers toeing the party line.

  36. Uncommon common sense by reporter Marcus Gee.
    …-
    “John Baird’s profane truth
    With so much stimulus money sloshing around, the danger is that politicians will use it for pet projects. That is precisely what Mayor Miller is doing and Ottawa is right to call him on it.”
    “As Mr. Baird points out, he is not quite the meanie Toronto sometimes seems to think he is. Ottawa has come up with big money for the Spadina subway extension, the Sheppard Light Rapid Transit line and improvements to GO Transit. In light of that record, Toronto will have a hard time portraying the federal Conservatives as uncaring beasts who scorn the city because they can’t win seats there.
    Everyone agrees that, in a worldwide crisis such as this, governments have to spend to get the economy moving again. But, with so much government money sloshing around, the danger is that politicians will be tempted to use it for pet projects instead of kick-starting the economy. That is precisely what Mr. Miller is doing, and Mr. Baird is right to call him on it.”
    urlm.in/cpyu (G-M)

  37. Via maz2’s quoting Marcus Gee: ““As Mr. Baird points out, he is not quite the meanie Toronto sometimes seems to think he is. Ottawa has come up with big money for the Spadina subway extension, the Sheppard Light Rapid Transit line and improvements to GO Transit. …”
    So, imagine my surprise and more than a little rage when I saw the TTC posters a few weeks ago thanking DALTON McGUINTY and his government for all of their financial assistance AND NOT A WORD OF GRATITUDE OR EVEN A NOD TO THE FEDERAL CONSERVATIVES AND THEIR LARGESSE.
    In addition to the partisan, selective thank yous, so the public would have no idea that the federal government has ponied up lots of do-re-mi for Toronto’s public transport system, what was the TTC doing USING MY TAX DOLLARS to tell me, the financial underwriter of this ad campaign, that Dalton McGuinty is a good ol’ boy?
    What a crock. Toronto’s a lefty partisan jungle, where no one’s in charge — except the unions, who are doing a lousy job of running this city. Moro … er, Mayor Miller is a socialist clown, a poseur, AWOL most of the time — and when he’s here, just a pretty face, while Toronto the Good becomes, at lightning speed, Toronto the Bad and Ugly.

  39. I didn’t get a chance to hear it, but did anyone hear Ezra Levant on the Roy Green show today? How did it go? Did Ms. Lynch make an ass of herself (again)?

  40. Islam: a cult of Death killing its own members.
    Stand back.
    …-
    “Witnesses: fierce clashes on Tehran streets
    Witnesses said police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands who rallied in Tehran Saturday in open defiance of Iran’s clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic Revolution”
    “Truck explodes near Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, killing more than 60 people
    BAGHDAD – A truck bomb exploded as worshippers left a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 63 people and wounding nearly 200 in the deadliest bombing in nearly two months.”
    (canoenews)

  41. Hey batb:
    The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
    Makes for a great spaghetti western, cue whistling music.
    Get yer six shooters ready for the repeal of the the long gun registry! Yee hah!
    And how is the gang member registry coming along now?
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  42. Yeah, Hans, ‘nothing new under the sun, I guess.
    … I can hear the whistling … doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo … doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo … doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo … doo doo-doo doo doo doo … with drum rolls.
    Hey, there’s David Miller!
    Annie, git yer gun!

  44. Johann Deny, deny, deny sweetness and light. He said he would rebroadcast most to-morrow. She said they never posted hatemail, stole anyone’s wireless internet and we have free speech but not freedom of speech cuz that is American. Wonder why she won’t debate Ezra although she says we need debate.

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