Comments on The Burd Report: The pic that soared around the world

Have you depleted your creative juices so much tha...

2010-02-28T11:29:29.116-05:00

Have you depleted your creative juices so much that you have to resort to secondhand retorts?

"Methinks thou doth protest too much."

2010-02-27T21:59:07.169-05:00

"Methinks thou doth protest too much."

I know nothing about the nest. That info was withh...

2010-02-27T11:08:14.865-05:00

I know nothing about the nest. That info was withheld, perhaps for insecurity reasons.

I'm a corner fixture @DO where I get free net & power. The seating location affords me privacy for my laptop screen.

I know the unit of verse of the unitverse who did the paint job: POETENCY IS POETENCY! I've read and heard the scuttlebutt conjecturing that I did it.

For Allah's sake I am 63 years old, suffered a stroke, stiff jointed, a physically degraded man, and you really think that such a mess of man would wobble out to the lighthouse @ 2am without a moon, on a broken surface, carrying paint, tray, roller, prepare the job, do the job, then stealth back inland. I'm flattered that you think I could mark turf so adroitly at my sage.

As far as you know, it could have been Ted Amsden. He is stricken with a similar madness ya know, and there is evidence of him being at the scene of the rhyme shortly after its occurrence. The propagandada slogan has had a presence at that location for decades.

It's not a local phenomenon. Stories about the storied Queen Street West creative class invariably contained reference to POETRY IS POETENCY. The Toronto Star reported "Even the graffiti is unusual. The phrase poetry is poetency is sprayed across several walls throughout this tightly knit artistic community." In the weeks leading up to Toronto's first G8 summit, another Toronto Star featured photos, including NEWSPEAK IS NOSPEAK and LITTLE BROTHER WATCHES BACK, and the ubiquitous POETRY IS POETENCY. It has appeared as backdrop in tv programs Night Heat and Street Legal. I have not exhausted the list.

I have hundreds of pics from my trips into the outpost countries of the Soviet bloc that I have not exposed to the public domain, nor seen myself since the 80s. I should dig some up. Perhaps I can make Cold War graffiti interesting, especially from the "other" side. . . . Another day.

Gee, Wally, we all look to you as our touchstone o...

2010-02-26T15:08:02.633-05:00

Gee, Wally, we all look to you as our touchstone of civil disobedience. Really. Who else among us would dare speak truth to power by painting "POETRY IS POETENCY" in 3-foot high letters on the Cobourg pier -even though whatever truth was in the statement was even more opaque than the power it spoke to. Whatever. To paraphrase Elvis, your aim is true, and here at the ol' Burd's Nest, well, what else counts, eh? It was only last Wednesday when we all got together as we usually do that somebody, Deb I think, wondered aloud why you never attend our little gatherings. I figured, as did Ben, that you were trying to lay low in case the Statsi had your number and you didn't want the rest of us caught up in your -ahem- activities. Anyway, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to infitrate the pseudo-fascist fifth columnists headquartered at The Dutch Oven in Cobourg and report back to anybody who'll listen. Use a disguise -a poet maybe. No one will ever suspect.

(PS: How much do we owe you for the paint? You never submitted your expenses. Or maybe you did but they were....uh....intercepted or something.)

Oh such bravery and bluster by our local leftists,...

2010-02-26T11:31:44.838-05:00

Oh such bravery and bluster by our local leftists, self-described subversives, largely because no one would otherwise regard them this way.

"thought I'd better quit before they realized they had a subversive in the building and came after me."

or

"...get the tar and feathers boiling!"

Wow! How important they think they are.

As one who experienced the interception and withholding of my mail by agents of the Security Service of the RCMP, experienced wiretapped phones, loss of employment, eviction from a flat, all thanks to the SS of the RCMP. If you doubt this, get a hold of the report of the Royal [MacDonald] Commission into Certain Activities of the RCMP. And the arson attack on my flat in Toronto.

Wow, you lefties lead such dangerous lives, and topped with undue paranoia that the farces of authority are out to get ya. What crap. I always find it hilarious when I read this persecution complex.

In yer fantasies, lefties, in yer fantasies.

Why, the affrontery of this unpatriotic bastard! C...

2010-02-25T20:53:43.498-05:00

Why, the affrontery of this unpatriotic bastard! Check out this link and get the tar and feathers boiling! I think I know where we can find this guy and believe me, he doesn't want to come face to face with ME! Not after writing that kind of crap anyway....:

http://northumberlandnews.com/opinion/article/149161

Merklin, I have a button you would love. Picked it...

2010-02-25T19:58:06.856-05:00

Merklin, I have a button you would love. Picked it up in Winnipeg.

It has a fifties styled drawing of a cop, with the statement

QUESTION AUTHORITY BEFORE THEY QUESTION YOU.

My handsome spouse enlarged it and put it on a poster for me. I hung that up in front of the door to the College's police services program, which was filled with ruddy cheeked farm boys who presumably wanted to serve and protect us all.

The poster didn't last long so I had to put up another one. It was removed as well, and I thought I'd better quit before they realized they had a subversive in the building and came after me.

By the way, their course seemed to consist entirely of watching COPS episodes on tv, which I am sure helped the young men to adopt the appropriate mind set for the work.

Thankfully Sir Sandford Fleming dropped that course so we Fleming building office slaves didn't have to put up with their loud hi-jinks too long.

I could not agree with you more.

Question authority. The more medals it wears, the ...

2010-02-24T21:37:53.011-05:00

Question authority. The more medals it wears, the more uniform-oriented it is, the more Mexican-gemeral festoonery in which it bedecks itself the more we should question it.

Paul Sweet. Rick Norlock. Every so-called 'hero' that saved us from ourselves and glorified itself beyond all reason -question it. Drop the automatic, automatonic salute. Question it. Question everything that dresses up to impress you and me. Authority is the greatest danger we face today. Authority and a fawning, ass-kissing press that wouldn't say "shit" if it had a mouthfull, a press that stands on bridges saluting 19-year-olds in boxes paraded for our benefit by Mexican chicken-shits like straight-shooting Rick 'Fuck-The-Troops-In-The-Field-I-Got-A-Book-To-Write Hillier.

Stop saluting. Stop waving a corrupt flag. Stop obeying well-dressed authority.

Question everything.

I was so thankful when that picture of the militar...

2010-02-23T17:51:17.376-05:00

I was so thankful when that picture of the military monster dropped off to the Burd Report "older posts" second page, now, to my horror, it is back.

I shudder every time I see it, a reaction I'll bet many women have.

Don't mean to deny the photographer who took it his day in the sun, but I'll be very relieved when the picture disappears again.