dave collins piece

Sirs, Madames,

My friend met the Steve Weston guy from the Trouble with Tracy. Said he's a nice guy. Lives up in Leaside. Yeah, my buddy was up there pricing a roofing job for him. Over-quoted him I guess. It fell through.

Paul, the hippie character, is Maynard C Krebs writ large.

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Brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant.

 

Sirs, Madames,

Say, speaking of The Trouble with Tracy and Our Jays, did anyone see the episode the other day where Paul was pitching at a softball game? Damn, the way they shot it you couldn't see the other players on the field, not even the batter and catcher. You'd swear he was lobbing the ball at a stagehand in the studio and not actually on a diamond. Oh well.

Does anyone no where you can get tickets to be in the studio audience? That would be some doubleheader. Hey why don't we get a group together, try to see them tape a show and maybe catch the Pearson Cup game afterwards? Who's with me?

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I'd love to but I'm going to the Metros-Croatia game that night.

 

Sirs, Madames,

Actually I'm working at the Shamrock after my part-time job at the Parliament Steet LCBO ran out. Two of the regulars from at, yup, Ontario's last conventional liquor store are in this bit here, the Captain and erstwhile Count (on the couch beside the dish).

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Captain Jack was the man!

 

Christ, this thread should have a Honeymoon Suite soundtrack.

 

I don't know, it's way more old school than that. Maybe something Toronto-based like Goddo.

 

Sirs, Madames,

What about Martha and the Muffins? Saw them at the Ontario Place the other day. Huge crowd.

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Anybody else at the Teenage Head riot at the Forum? I tell ya, everybody shit when they did "Picture My Face". What a night. Frankie Venom is the man.

 

Dig up a Coco Laboy article and I'll really be impressed.