Andrew’s Rantings

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John Weatherby

This is a bit messed up.

Concertgoer Andrea Irwin, attending a performance by musician Kid Rock, flashed the video camera that was broadcasting across the large screen TV’s by the stage. It was at this time that the staff at the Ottawa based venue, Scotiabank Place, decided that Ms. Irwin stepped over the line by her actions and booted her out of the concert.

Ejected from a rock show for showing your tits? Really? In Ontario, where it is legal to go topless, you are going to kick a woman out for flashing her titties at a rock show? That is sad.

Scotiabank Place representatives have stated that it was a “family oriented” atmosphere and that her actions were unacceptable. This, despite many other women showing their breasts and pay no consequences for doing so.

EVERYONE knows that Kid Rock’s shows are not for children. Period. He uses sexual imagery, strippers onstage, as well a healthy dose of profanity during and between his songs. It’s an R rated show, nowhere’s near the “family oriented” atmosphere that the venue is implying that it was. That is like saying the famous whorehouses in Nevada are merely “massage parlous” .

Scotiabank Place owes Andrea Irwin an apology at the very least. They could also do her the courtesy of giving her her money back for that show, and maybe some free concerts in the upcoming future.

They overreacted, plain and simple. Now they should come good for it.

There is something trippy about owls. Lets face it …. with their big ass piercing eyes, neck that can move and pivot to just about any degree necessary and those talons that can tear you to shreds if the bird was so inclined to ….. an owl is one kick ass bird of prey.

This owl, borrowed from imgur.com, is curious indeed as to what it is you are doing at this moment. And the more his hand covers the owls face, the more the owl looks pissed off. Good for a quick laugh.

Heh ... wut ya doin' overtha?

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...but honey ..... the games still on ....

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The city of New York has become the third city in America to ban smoking on beaches, sidewalks, promenades and other such public places. Los Angeles and Chicago are the first two cities to try such a ban in order of cleaning the air for it’s non smoking population.

People caught breaking the newly imposed ban will be fined in the range of $50 to $100 dollars. The range varies drastically for a simple fine, so how do they decide the severity? Maybe caught at 3 am in the park might net you the $50 fine as opposed to chain smoking, say, on the street in front of an asthma clinic, which will earn you the $250 stupidity ticket. Out of a city that has nearly a million smokers, only 200 or so staff will be chasing people down and enforcing the law for smoking in public.

It’s safe to say that the people of New York will say screw it and take their chances lighting up where they damn well please. I’m sure that the bulk of the enforcement officers will be working the beat around the city’s plethora of tourist traps, wall street and public transportation depot’s.

The city wants to run it as a voluntary ban, with enforceable measures for those whom get caught.

Good luck with that.