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   Wednesday, January 15, 2003

LET MY LOVE OPEN THE DOOR

A quick note from work this morning -- lovin' the Blogger 'post-from-anywhere' concept. I'm finally starting to function after getting my hands on the Tim Hortons English Toffee Cappuccino -- it's pure caffeine, pure sugar, pure heaven. In fact, I'd like to take this moment to salute the fine people at Tim Hortons, a company that's done more for Canadians than BCE and Nortel put together. I also just found out that we share the same hometown.

I have to find something to be cheery about this morning, as I've been depressed all yesterday over the arrest of Pete Townshend on child pornography charges. Either a songwriter I admire is a pedophile or his good name has been ruined worldwide -- distressing whichever way the truth lies. Townshend has been arrested on three counts of possessing, distributing and making kiddie porn. It's the making part I don't get -- I just can't see the former guitarist for The Who leading children back to his place for photos (nor do I want to) -- and I'm troubled by the BBC's report that this sting operation has so far led to 1500 arrests in England. Surely, even the land of boarding school prefects can't have 1500 pedophiles in it. Or am I being naive? At any rate, it saddens me to see the lyrics to "Rough Boys" printed in the paper, as if the clues were there all along and we should have been watching him closely. It's a song, people -- a work of fiction and a good one at that. I'm putting that Who 'best-of' disc right back in the player where it belongs.