This is what one of two guys said tongue in cheek, getting off the GO bus just before the Brampton station, where I make the transfer to get to Union. That’s after I ask if he and the friend sitting next to him are going to The Misfits. A simple “no” would have sufficed, but he was taking the piss.

These are people I went to high school with—friends of friends.

The guy who was sitting next to tongue in cheek guy tilted his head back and laughed. They were on the same wavelength, and it was the last jab they could get in before they were off and on to other things.

I have no illusions about today’s Misfits—now one part original member Jerry Only on bass and lead vocals, and two parts Black Flag with Dez Cadena on guitar and Roberto “Robo” Valverde on drums—they’re far from their original lineup. That said, I know well that the “Misfits are Black Flag” people aren’t right either.

I felt like stopping them in their tracks and mentioning how Robo played with the Misfits from 1982-1983 (a whole year in which Danzig was still a member), or how it’s not even like he was an original Black Flag member—he was their third drummer. But it came down to a matter of time management since they’d already pressed the button to get off the bus and I just let them walk up the aisle, in my head thinking of things George Orwell said.

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