rambling at random - part deux

Lavale, Maryland

There is a "Lavale" in Maryland...!

That's still better than LAVALETTE, West Virginia
MUCH better than LAVALETTE, New Jersey
AND MUCH, MUCH BETTER than Laval, Québec, CANADA!!!

You can sense already, by the tone and brusqueness,
that another salvo of anti-quebec rhetoric is coming right up here...!!!

And it sure is!

Denis Lévesque on LCN is nothing but a cheap imitation of Larry King on CNN

Most nights he can only envy the guests King has -
like, say, the time when he had MICHEL LOUVAIN on
same night, on Larry King Live, good ol' Larry had
the voluptuous Jessica Lan on...
Granted, Jessica Lan used to be a MAN
(she is the most stunning result of ALL transgendered specimens ever seen -
and I can only hope that she remains nothing but a MAN
who prefers to look like a WOMAN on the outside -
because she is then THE PERFECT LESBIAN to behold -
from afar, of course! But I digress...)
- even so, Lan is still a better guest to have than Louvain -
who is nothing more than a closeted queer who sings sappy songs since 1957!

And speaking of him; his brief association with Donald Lautrec
and Pierre Lalonde, as "Les 3 L", was nothing but another cheap imitation
made in Quebec - of the Rat Pack this time! Only problems are (and they are many!) as follows: no matter how vain as he tries to be, Lalonde is no Deano - Lautrec was neither as talented as Sammy Davis Jr. nor as funny -
and Sinatra wasn't a fag like Louvain undoubtedly is!
But I am digressing unceremoniously here...

Back to LCN now for a sec...
The big boss at both TVA and LCN is Pierre-Karl Péladeau...
Heck, he owns the whole multimedia empire named Québécor!
Québecor Publishing is the cornerstone of his mediatic empire...
One that he inherited (along with sis) from Daddy-o,
but that is a mere detail at this point in time...
(I could mention that the Péladeau sis is a junkie -
but why bother delve into that mess, eh? Hmm - ok, LET'S!)
It is heartwarming to see how much INTEGRITY is taken to heart by PKP;
he will not prohibit his LCN news machine from showing his sister,
Anne-Marie Péladeau (she who looks more like a dime-storey druggie indeed
than a rich heiress) throughout her many debacles with the LAW -
as she has been arraigned on drug possession charges, drug trafficking even,
and she has been penalized multiple times for RELAPSES...
And the whole sordid saga is faithfully related on LCN news,
continuously, 24/7, repeated every 15 minutes - ad nauseam...
Aye - it is great to have dependable news that we can TRUST -
but it is also great to have a dependable family
that sticks by you and covers your back when you mess up!
I guess money can't buy happiness, love or someone you can really lean on!
Heck - when cash is at stake, they'll choose IT over any blood ties...
Blood is ticker than water - but not than paper, apparently!

But I digress...

I just thought it so ironic that, the other day,
after hearing a caller on LARRY KING LIVE,
who hailed from Lavale, Maryland indeed,
I hear a colleague of Denis Lévesque,
the aforementioned cheap Larry King wannabe of Montreal,
the venerable Claude Poirier
(who would be a Joe Friday wannabe... maybe?!?)
lament about the sad situation in parts of Laval, QC.
while he is a resident of Montreal
and a fan of the Boston Bruins!
(One who likely eats often at Boston Pizza!
Boston Pizza which, for some reasons all their own,
just HAD TO put together a commercial that states
and makes VERY CLEAR to all the dimwits out there,
that their pizza, pasta, buns, beer
and other crap they overpriced on their menu
does NOT come from BOSTON!
Of course, Montreal is always soooooooo jealous of Boston!
Boston has a baseball team of LEGENDARY status
Montreal lost its pathetic team, YEARS AGO!
Boston has the Super Bowl-caliber Patriots
Montreal has meek Alouettes!
Boston had their BIG DIG -
Montreal has decaying highways and overpasses
that threaten to collapse at any given time!
They just injected 30 million bucks
to try and prevent that - but
they really need three times as much cash!
But I digress again...
Boston also has the CELTICS - back in contention
and a LEGEND in their own right!
A franchise with the BEST winning percentage of ALL
multi-championship teams in the WORLD
- better than the Yankees, better than the Canadiens!
Montreal? It has NO basketball team at all!
I need not go on, I think...
Mere market value
attached to the name
gives "BOSTON" the edge
over "Montreal" - every time!
You will NEVER see a "Montreal Pizza"
or a "Montreal Delicacies"
because such a name would be an OXYMORON!
You may see, though, one day,
"Montreal Mushrooms" - maybe!
But that is another story again...)


Back to Louvain now...

Do you know that his mother died of a stroke, in his arms basically?
Only the hospital kept her around for EIGHT YEARS.
YEARS - NOT DAYS...

She had had the stroke during a performance by her son -
and it was her all-time most favorite song EVER too -
sonny was standing by her side, with one arm over her shoulders...
He could feel something wasn't right with mother dearest...
When he finished the song, and the show ended
(it was a TV broadcast of Jacques Boulanger's "Allo BouBou")
he could feel her weakening... and she simply collapsed.
FOR EIGHT LONG YEARS
they kept her around until her heart just stopped beating -
she wasn't in a coma but she was TOTALLY BRAIN DEAD...

And me - I could only get SIX DAYS for MY DAD...?!?

Add to that the tale of that OTHER OLD LADY -
she was 20 years older than Dad
got into a stupid car crash and was left comatose
(what was she doing driving around in the first place?!?)
-she was just as damaged, brain-wise, as Dad was,
but he had been rendered so due to a stroke-
Still, they kept her hooked on a respirator AD INFINITUM...
SHE COULD STILL BE THERE -
FOR ALL I KNOW...!!!
And Dad - only six HARD-FOUGHT DAYS...
Six days I had to argument to GET!


I can't forget this and
I can't forgive this.


Especially not after having heard about
"the man who died"
or rather "the man who was pronounced dead"
and we do mean "brain-dead" again...
And then - MIRACLE...!
He rose back to life!
He wasn't brain-dead after all...
And to unhook HIS respirator
would have thus been... MURDER.

We got neither M-word in the latter case
I say it was really a case of another M-word...
MISDIAGNOSIS!
Misdiagnosis in Montreal!
Where miracles are few
and murders - many...


And I wonder if it wasn't what happened
with my dear, dear,
saintly of a man
Dad.


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