I like Stompin' Tom. I have listened to "My Old Atlantic Home" most every time I drive back into New Brunswick - which has been a number of years now that I think of it. I think about my back when I hear mention of Tilsonburg and figured out the map of the Upper Ottawa valley where I used to live by the following the lyrics of "Big Joe Mufferaw." Heck, portland and I made the jukebox at the Laff' play it three times at the end of the night and even the bounces sang along on the last one. So I know where I stand on this shameful incident:
As far as I'm concerned, if the CBC, our own public network, will not reconsider their refusal to air a Stompin' Tom special, they can take their wonderful offer of letting me sing a song as a guest on some other program and shove it," Connors writes, signing the letter "still a proud Canadian."Seeing how many tedious episodes of Life and Times on CBC created and authenticated VIPs have been foisted upon us (wow - the Bare Naked Ladies are Canadian!) surely to God we can watch an hour of Stompin' Tom. This is one I want my new rural overlords to move on, something on which I think we have common ground. And bring back Tommy Hunter while your at it.
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portland - May 24, 2006 10:10 am
give him his own network. make him president of the cbc for a month.
Alan - May 24, 2006 10:11 am
It'll be all tractor pulls and ox pulls and no more damn Sheilagh Rogers.
portland - May 24, 2006 10:12 am
and i can fix the cbc: one word - nudity. but not peter mansbridge.
Alan - May 24, 2006 10:13 am
He already displays headidity.
portland - May 24, 2006 10:15 am
it's not a bad idea you know; rotating presidents of the cbc. somebody from outside just comes in every month and says this is what i want to do and they give him camera crews and production teams right across the country. hard on the employees but fuck em - what do cbc employees do now?
portland - May 24, 2006 10:37 am
and you know the real trouble with the cbc (television that is)? it wants to be all 1999 or even (shudder) 2006. it wants to be all shiny and new. it wants to compete. hey, everybody liked the clunky 1976 version. it was our odd cousin larry who we hated dragging around with us but who we all would miss if he wasn't there. there's a version of the cbc that is is equal parts hockey, news (local and otherwise), cfl, curling, gardening shows, movies we've all seen before (there's at least two generations out there right now who have never even seen going down the road or paperback hero even once let alone a dozen times), and guys in toronto who think they're funny (but really aren't), and guys in edmonton (who nobody has ever heard of) who really are funny (it's a defence mechanism in edmonton is my guess)that works for everybody. screw the kids, let them watch home box office. will they grow up to become americans? the great myth is that what you do when you're twenty has anything to do with what you do when you're 40. you go all funny when you hit forty. you change. suddenly, you want to watch curling. you may not have ever planted a flower in your life but that guy on the victory garden is eccentric to the point where you find it interesting/entertaining to watch him talk to his plants. and the kids watching HBO are going to tune in to. we won;t lose them. remember that there will be nudity. lots of nudity like in the old days. ahhhh nudity, it brings us all together.
so it's settled. i'm the new president of the cbc.
portland - May 24, 2006 10:38 am
after stompin tom gets a turn.
cm - May 24, 2006 1:45 pm
<i>you go all funny when you hit forty</i>
Does it happen all at once or is it a more gradual process?
Arthur - May 24, 2006 6:25 pm
Does it happen all at once or is it a more gradual process?
It's a gradual process, however, Gen-X-ers experience it as a sudden change. There's a couple of words for that: 'Midlife crisis'.
Luckily, I'm prepared for this. You should too.
mister anchovy - May 27, 2006 1:54 am
They should air the special - there are lots of folks out there who love Stompin Tom. I think they would be surpised at how successful it might be.
great ugly eagle - May 27, 2006 4:22 pm
if the man in the moon is a newfie, then why couldn't stompin tom connors be the chairman of the CBC?
at least there would be a lot less bullshit and a lot more honesty coming from our "public broadcaster" (what a joke). sounds like the CBC is calling Tom a liar with respect to the circumstances surrounding the interest of the CBC regarding the program in question.
ataboy Tom, take em around the bay an back again eh!!!