Every once in awhile, when I get one of those Free Preview Months the cable companies offer up , I'll end up watching the Game Show Network for hours on end.

My favourite is always Match Game...Gene Rayburn with the freakishly long microphone, asking borderline filthy questions to a panel of Hollywood B-listers, quite possibly all of whom are half-in-the-bag. The guy I always got the most kick out of was Charles Nelson Reilly, who just passed away at the age of 76.

Quite possibly Alec Baldwin's finest acting role, as CNR...from SNL a few years back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcMbaS3lvyo

The Stones concert on Halifax Common sticks out in everybody's mind as concert of the year for 2006, and rightly so, but a lot of folks (including me, after a few pops) say that the real winner might have been Wilco at Alderney Landing.

Just an incredible summer night on the Dartmouth Waterfront...sea air, the ferries coming and going in the background, and Wilco at the top of their game. My friend Terry sent me a great clip of Wilco front guy Jeff Tweedy politely (mostly) telling people to shut the frig up during a show.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ew3AOlbJXos&mode=related&search

Can't say as I disagree with him.

Compare that to how Keith Richards reacts to a little too much crowd participation...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=J-QC0t63ndA

So long, Jerry Falwell.

Certainly a divisive figure over the last few decades, with his comments about gays being reponsible for 9/11, his support of segregation in the US, support of Apartheid in South Africa, giving Fundamentalists more power, eventually bringing us Bush, Cheney, etc.

Let's not forget another celebrity whose reputation was tarnished by ol' Jer a few years back...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/16/falwell_tinky/index.html?source=rss

I remember seeing a bumper sticker while driving in the States a few years ago..." The Moral Majority is Neither".

I couldn't believe the news that The White Stripes are coming to the Maritimes. July 13th at the Cunard Center in Halifax, which holds about 4,000 people. No telling how long the tickets will last, so you better pick 'em up fast from www.ticketatlantic.com

Their new CD is called 'Icky Thump', and if you're a bit fuzzy, as I was, about the origin of the title...wonder no more!

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ecky-Thump

Sounds like it would have made a fine addition to the ill-fated Commonwealth Games in Halifax!