Gadzooks! episode thirty-two

This is a person in your neighbourhood...

THIS IS Gareth Lee

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains, or To Hell with Poverty

It's May Day on Monday. That's a pretty important Day for people all over the world. Terry Dawes puts his spin on what May Day means to him.

Poster Poster on the wall...

Gadzooks! Attempts to see both sides of an issue, and instead sums up that they're completely for and against postering.

VANDERSLICE!

Jason went to the El Mocambo and listened to tunes.

Careful with that ideology, Che!

Rod Weatherbie has a meltdown on uninformed hipsters unknowingly wearing politics on their bellies.

Friday April 28 the Toronto Women's Bookstore hosts Circle of Stories: Indigenous Women on Love and Land, an evening of storytelling with Chrystos, Lee Maracle, Leanne Simpson, Alice Williams, Cecilia Paiva and Nancy Cooper. Toronto Women's Bookstore, 73 Harbord Street , 7pm , free and all welcome, events-at-womensbookstore.com or 416-922-8744.

Saturday April 29 git down with some blue country with Catfish Blues and Handsome Dewy & the Swag at the Cadillac lounge, 296 Queen Street West , Toronto (Look for the Robert Gordon and Chris Spedding Reunion show coming up in August!).

May 5 & 6 laugh at some Pressed Wieners. Live sketch comedy starring Boiled Wieners and Press Release at the Alley Theatre Workshop at 12 Ossington avenue at Lennox Contempory. May 5 at 8pm and May 6 8pm and 10:30pm . $10.

The full title of the painting which inspired our magazine title is Homo sapiens, Lepidium sativum and Calliphora vomitoria - a wise man, some cress, and a bluebottle. It is the work of British artist Stuart Pearson Wright.

"At the end of the first sitJating, the Prince inspected the work and exclaimed 'godzooks' or 'godzounds', the artist was too alarmed to remember which."