Longboard Hockey for Four Twenty – Choogle on #37

Longboard Hockey for Four Twenty – Choogle on #37

On assignment for Heads Magazine, Uncle Weed heads to a undisclosed location in the wee hours to witness Longboard Hockey League action. Check in with the Guy who longboarded across Canada for breasts, LHL scoring champ King Brian, some 9-0 Meathheads, a guy with a banana board, Natasha the goalie, Coastlongboarding ringleader Striker, and tokers from Chilliwack to North Van plus hears the legend of the Chanley Cup and a preview of the action packed Danger Bay race and fest in May.

Download:
Longboard Hockey for Four Twenty – Choogle on #37 (.mp3, 35:11, 40MB)

Entourage:
KK+ rocking the killer snaps, Kdon on the mic, CousinHerb rolling the big ones

Edited and Produced:
Bread the Producer

Tunes:
Dayglo Abortions – Just can’t Say No To Drugs
J.F.A. – Walk Don’t Run
J.F.A. – Skateboard

Pondering Flanders at the Cenotaph – Postcard#43

Pondering Flanders at the Cenotaph - Postcard#43

Finding Victory Park cenotaph in post-ceremony calm, Dave settles onto a bench for lost sailors with some bagpipers to chat about John Macrae’s Flander’s Field poem and mull the tension between remembering noble effort and embracing jingoistic behavior. This conundrum is evident in snippets of an essay by Stephen Osborne – The Poem and the Poppy – which relates the amazing grace of drinking gin with Gramps who was there – ‘in the void.’

Download Pondering Flanders at the Cenotaph – Postcard#43 (.mp3, 16:14, 19MB)

Postcard on Flickr

Props to these peeps:

John McCrae surgeon/poet “In Flander’s Field“
Bonus: Flanders Field (Belgium) museum – Audio book from Librivox – McCrae works at Project Gutenburg

Stephen Osborne “The Poem and the Poppy” in The Tyee.ca
Stephen is also editor-in-chief of Geist magazine

Flanders Fields, First World War (tyee)

Ani DiFranco “Amazing Grace” (trad.) – from Dilante on Righteous Babe Records

Bagpipes and drummers recorded by Dave O in Vancouver, BC 2007 at Saint Patrick’s Day Parade

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Buddhas in the Trenches – Postcard #42

Buddhas in the Trenches – Postcard #42

Part Three of the White Poppies for Remembrance series (recorded Nov. 2006) features reading from the Dhammapada by Siddhartha Gautama while waiting for the Seabus heading towards Victory Park. Along the way, Dave talks about conscientious objection and military service evaders in Canada, mercy and the state of the downtown eastside.

Wander along for Buddhas in the Trenches – Postcard #42 (.mp3, 23MB, 20:21)

Page France sings Chariot, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club sings about Mercy, (both found on KEXP S.o.t.D. podcast) and Bill Janovitz from Here Comes a Regular score lays down some background groove – plus some Andean flute, soulful saxriffs and American Pie wisdom from Clayton the seabus busker along the way.

Dedicated to Lt. Talbot Mercer Papineau

Source: Canada’s Digital Collections

Talbot Mercer Papineau – Wikipedia

Talbot Mercer Papineau, MC (25 March 1883–30 October 1917) was a lawyer and soldier from Quebec, Canada. …

He was notable for his letters from the front. He was hit by a shell during the Battle of Passchendale in Ypres on October 30, 1917.

Open Letter from Talbot M. Papineau to Henri Bourassa

White Poppies on a Rainyday Coat – Postcard #41

White Poppies on a Rainyday Coat – Postcard #41

Part Two of the White Poppies for Remembrance series finds Dave O eating oatmeal in North Van before heading downtown Vancouver to check in on Remembrance Day remembering activities. While having a bite to eat, he explains the mission of the White Poppies for Peace (a Peace Pledge Union project) folks based in the UK – to abolish war and violence of all kinds and spread peaceful vibes while Rocky Votolato “White Daisy Passing” and Black Tories provide tunes.

Come along for White Poppies on a Rainyday Coat – Postcard #41 (9:29, 9MB, .mp3)

‘War is a crime against humanity. I renounce war, and am therefore determined not to support any kind of war. I am also determined to work for the removal of all causes of war.’ PPU pledge
White Poppies for Peace

Geological Storytime with Sheep – Postcard from Gravelly Beach #40

Geological Storytime with Sheep – Postcard #40

Down on Lenker’s farm, Dave O checks in on the animal inventory and riffs his own freeverse poetry on canyon exploration, a groaning generation and tense search for authenticity and truth re-mixed with Bill’s Pennsylvanian poetics about frost heaves and nurturing life accompanied with his salty guitar jamble.

Then, in the woodshed, Dave tells a story about a blissful moment of time in Peliliu, Palau – where under the southern cross, everything stopped – while lambs, dogs, rams and a dead chicken go about their lives, seemingly unaware of the literature spieling or the-soon-to-blossom magnolia tree.

Dig into Geological Storytime with Sheep – Postcard #40 (11.6MB, .mp3, 20:06)

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