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Friday Fun Link – Macca!!! (And Ten Songs I’m Most Excited To Hear At His #YQR Concert)

I’m already on record that The Beatles are my favourite band of all-time. At the same time, I’ve never seen any of them live (not even Ringo!) I almost got my chance last November when Paul McCartney was in Edmonton and a friend ended up with an extra pair of tickets. But he ended up [...]

Posted 26 April 2013 § FridayFunLink § List § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “And We’re Glad, Glad, Glad/You’re a Glide”

I’ve made a few passing references to my semester exchange to England in 1995 on this blog but I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story in a bit greater detail. I will do that someday for sure as that four month period remains (and *please* don’t tell Shea I said this!) ;-), the [...]

Posted 15 April 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday (April Fool’s Day Edition) – Coldplay *Shreds* An Encore

Lots of April Fool’s jokes across the Internet today as usual. One of the funniest is that /r/radiohead has temporarily changed their sub-reddit to be like /r/coldplay, playing up the “rivalry” between fans of these two well-known UK bands with Radiohead seen as groundbreaking and original while Coldplay is seen by many as mainstream, unoriginal (copying [...]

Posted 01 April 2013 § Humour § Internet § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 2012 in Four Minutes

I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video…  (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video.  And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)

Posted 04 January 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Meme § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – 40 Song Xmas Song Medley

If, like me, you’re not quite ready to let Christmas go for another year, here’s a video medley of a bunch of different Christmas songs (bonus for the number of UK-centric Christmas songs that are a bit less well known on this side of the pond): (via /r/christmasmusic.  You may also want to check out [...]

Posted 28 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

800 People on the Waiting List for “Fifty Shades of Grey” at Saskatchewan Libraries

Posted 22 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Library § Meme § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § UK § United States § Video § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Thou shall not judge a book by its cover/Thou shall not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover”

Posted 20 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Olympics Closing Ceremony

Well, here we are two short weeks later and the party’s over.  And everything that the opening ceremony was – a celebration of British history and culture, rebellion, anarchy, humour, literature, imperfection, solidarity – the closing ceremony wasn’t. As someone posted on Reddit’s /r/unitedkingdom thread about the closing ceremonies, “It’s like when you start playing crap [...]

Posted 12 August 2012 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – What’s Your Olympic Body Match?

Although we probably tend to think of world class athletes as muscular models of perfection, there are a wide range of body shapes competing in the Olympics – from gigantic basketball players to teeny gymnasts – with different body shapes suited best to different sports. wThis cool app shows which athlete your height and weight [...]

Posted 03 August 2012 § Sports § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Commodore 64 at 30: What Do Today’s Kids Think of It?

The C-64 was the first computer I interacted with on a regular basis. My elementary school had one at the back of the Grade Six classroom (along with a homeroom teacher who was a pretty big nerd when that wasn’t as cool as it is today!) and we would spend hours (or at least it [...]

Posted 01 August 2012 § Computer § Technology § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,