MUSIC PREVIEW: Ghost brings Swedish spookypop to Edmonton on Death tour
For a band few people have ever heard of to suddenly appear in Edmonton’s biggest indoor concert venue is worth noting. The band Ghost plays Monday, Sept. 23 at Rogers Place. It’s a smaller-sized concert bowl, but still. Several thousand fans who already know this theatrical Swedish hard rock band are expected to turn up […]
Bob the Angry Flower
How about robots? NEXT COMIC: Creeps who harass women in End of the Earth: THIRD COMIC: Bill Benson is talking to himself again:
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Can’t one be both? NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower contemplates OMNICIDE! THIRD COMIC: Sexual harassment satire in new End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
Based on actual online exchanges! NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson is of at least two minds today: THIRD COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower realizes that killing everything is not a good idea after all:
LISTEN HERE: The Royal Foundry wants to WAKEUP from bad dream
EXCLUSIVE! Hear Edmonton band’s new single several hours before release! The counterintuitive trick about empathy and validation is that you do NOT want to comfort someone with the old tropes: “Don’t worry about it! Everything’s going to be fine! You can do this! Believe in yourself!” – because then you’re dismissing the feeling. Sometimes everything […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Indie star Lissie stars at the Starlite Room
From her home base on her farm in Iowa, Lissie has become an indie sensation. The Indiana-born country-folk artist seen every one of her first four studio albums grab a spot in the top 15 of the US Folk chart, and the last two have accomplished the same feat on the US Indie chart. Many […]
Bob the Angry Flower
The pen is mightier than the sword. NEXT COMIC: Men talk sports, trucks, beer and more in End of the Earth: THIRD COMIC: Don’t mess with Bill Benson or he’ll EMAIL you!
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Clear your browser history right now! NEXT COMIC: Small hand holding big pen in Bob the Angry Flower: THIRD COMIC: What do real men talk about in End of the Earth?
End of the Earth
Not all at the same time NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson is a DOXER for hire! THIRD COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower jumps on Trump:
OLD MAN MIKULA’S CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS: Guide to E-Scooters in E-Town
In mid-August, publicly available E-Scooters were dropped off by rival companies Bird and Lime in the dead of night. Scooters have finally been wrenched from the hands of feckless early 2000s pop punks, automated, monetized, and thrust into the clammy grip of the average consumer. They came with no instruction, save a lengthy user agreement […]
REVIEW: Million Dollar Quartet a superb show from the supergroup that never was
On December 4, 1956, four great rockabilly artists met in Sam Phillips’ primitive Sun Recording Studios in Memphis. Two of the four, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, were there laying down a recording under Phillips’ direction. Johnny Cash dropped in, as did Elvis, who by that time was becoming one of the top acts […]
LISTEN HERE: Juliet Ruin serves up a fresh bitter cup of Spite
Rock singer Jess Fleming would rather not hang out with narcissists. “They’re kind of like energy vampires,” she says. “They suck all the life out of the room. They make everything about themselves, they’re faultless, they don’t take ownership about anything, and when there’s a problem, it’s you, not them.” Jess is not alone in […]