#The Edmonton Journal

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All Out for Gaza - Feb. 25, 2024 by Paula Kirman

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All Out for Gaza - Feb. 25, 2024 by Paula Kirman

[theskytraveler]

They don't say explicitly but my commentators are so clearly biased towards Florida. As a journalist, this vexes me severely. As an Oilers fan, I want to hunt them for sport.

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Mural for Journalists Killed Covering Gaza by Paula Kirman

[thislovintime]

Peter Tork, 1970.

“Peter is growing squash on his mother’s farm in Connecticut.” - Davy Jones, The Journal News, September 12, 1970

“It’s taken Peter a while to get his head straight again. He was never mentally suited to all the pressure, to the studio demands, the girls always tugging and pushing and mauling us.” - Davy Jones, Edmonton Journal, October 24, 1972

Q: “Being that your tastes were similar, and you both were the first to leave the group, why didn’t you form a group with Peter Tork?” Michael Nesmith: “I don’t like Peter Tork — never have liked him, I don’t like him as a man. I have to qualify that now: Me not liking somebody doesn’t mean that they’re bad people — he could do a lot of wonderful things for and to me. Not liking someone to me is a very gut reaction — a very visceral attitude. The first reaction to Peter was one of dislike. I don’t like him, I have never liked him, and I probably will never like him. I didn’t enjoy playing in a band with Peter, and I still don’t. Our tastes were much the same, our political beliefs were similar, our ideas of fun, pleasure, our intellectual capacity, our ability to talk to each other — we were very much alike. I have a great respect for Peter — his technical abilities on an instrument and the positions he took were well conceived ideas, always a posture with a motive, never emotional. I don’t like my mother. She happens to be a very nice lady — never done anything that would make me not like her — but I don’t. I like my wife.” - Hit Parader, February 1972 (x)

"Peter is a very mellow, erudite man, and he had to play the dummy on the show — if you remember. Maybe you don’t. Anyway, he was the Huntz Hall of the Monkees, and, in private life, he’s by no means that way.” - Micky Dolenz, News-Pilot, August 11, 1976 (x)

“[Micky] did a great job [drumming] on Headquarters. [But] he wasn’t going to do it again, and there was nothing you could do [to change his mind]. We had to go back in the studio. He said, ‘Peter, you can’t go back.’” - Peter Tork, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd. 2007 liner notes

Q: “Was it hard on you when it was over, Peter?” Peter: “Um, no, it wasn’t particularly hard on me — at the time, I didn’t think it was hard on me. I… but I did not know very well what I was doing. I wanted to go back to the street; I was happy in my Greenwich Village hippie days, let me go back to passing the basket. But, you can’t go back, as some sage once said. And so I spent those in between years trying to make the difference up.” - Nightwatch, 1986

“When The Monkees were big, I couldn’t handle the pressure. I missed the easy, street-level camaraderie of my Greenwich Village days.” - Peter Tork, 2006; quoted in Uncut, 2019

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[battle-of-alberta]

This question is for the artist; if the albertans could meet you do you think they’d like you?

yeah, no <3

re: ed's name, back in ye olde IAMP days circa 2009-2010 when I first posted their designs to the forum, there was a big interest in city rp's etc and i wasn't really prepared at all since, yknow, i like to mull things over for years and I was also being very obstinate about shipping since it's not a lens i usually approach things with. For a while they were just known simply as "Ed and Cal" while I pondered surnames for them.

Calvin was easy, I was able to both pay tribute to a historical figure and create a nice sounding alliterative name with McCall.

Ed was a lot harder, I thought about paying tribute to one of the famous five since I wanted to acknowledge women in history... and since I was spending a lot of time around Emily Murphy Park during undergrad at U of A, his name ended up coming from there. Something that I later regretted, of course, but it's been a dozen years and it feels too late to change it. As I've mentioned before, I did think about giving him a Ukrainian surname but the issue with living in Edmonton is any Ukrainian surname is going to either be someone you knew from school or a hockey player or something, lol.

I didn't think about Sinclair until like, the last few years as I was reading a bunch of early Fort Edmonton history; it's something that refers to one of the founding families as well as the strong Scottish/French influence from those days. Buuuuut it seems like a lot of work to change when he's lived in my head so long with this name. I guess we'll see what happens.

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DELEGATE OF THE DAY - Chung-Wha Lee (Korea 1952)

Edmonton Journal, February 26, 1952

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Lancing the boil

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For familia.

[yegactivist]

All Out for Gaza - Feb. 25, 2024 by Paula Kirman

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Mural for Journalists Killed Covering Gaza by Paula Kirman

[allthecanadianpolitics]

In solidarity with Calgary’s LGBTQ+ community, a local Unitarian church will celebrate Easter with a drag show in their Sunday service. The “Drag Me to Church” service will coincide with Easter Sunday and the International Trans Day of Visibility, a day recognizing the contributions of trans people as the challenges they still face. The church service will also protest the introduction of legislation threatening the rights of transgender youth in the conservative governmental province of Alberta, Canada. “No matter what tradition you’re from, I guarantee you that you will have people in your community who identify on the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum — whether they are free to say it or not,” the Rev. Samaya Oakley, the minister of the Calgary Unitarians, told the Edmonton Journal. “If we are truly people who believe in the goodness and the inherent love that exists in this world, then we would extend that to people on that spectrum.”

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[oldshowbiz]

September 1970.

Monty Python's Flying Circus was reviewed by the Edmonton Journal after its first airing on CBC Television.

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Protest to Support Ukraine by Paula Kirman