i can't bring myself to smear: ashley macissac

ashely macissac poses in front of his artwork in toronto

okay, i was fully prepared to smear the fuck out of poor ol' ashley macissac but realized that i couldn't bring myself to do it. evil! you ask. why not? indulge me. blessed by some kick-ass fiddle skills, his parents shopped this poor kid out to the folk-obsessed atlantic canadian news media, who threw him on the five o-clock news when he was ten years old. from that point he launched into this ridiculous music career as a teenager touring through the atlantic provinces and eventually across canada and around the world. he tried for a short time to make fiddle music cool and actually pulled it off for an album or so. i hated him, but whatever. too bad for him he was actually a big homo, and had to undergo what could only have been a extremely rough coming out process in the public eye, resulting in a crack addiction and some ill-advised public declarations of using his 16 year old concubine's mouth as a urinal. all this could only have been his way of telling the media to fuck off and leave him be. the rest of us get to fuck up in private. i have great empathy to those who cannot.

i'm pleased to see that his latest musical offering is titled 'pride'. a bit cheesy, but probably an healthy move in the right direction for ol' ashley.