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As we close in on the end of one of the shortest (due to lockout) and longest (in terms of how far it’s gone into June) NHL seasons in history, Reddit has a fun thread celebrating many of hockey’s lighter moments.
…like when I see a video like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDIoq1abDCY
I’ve written about Sam Baker before – a Texas singer-songwriter whose ultra-streamlined literary style and unique vocals have drawn comparisons to Leonard Cohen: Baker captivated me. His songs are closely observed narratives of eccentric and marginalized people finding meaning in seemingly defeated lives–almost like Leonard Cohen’s, if Cohen had been a Baptist raised in West […]
I did this for Sasha’s one-month anniversary but that was cobbled together quickly and didn’t have dates or even every daily photo that I had in those first 30 days (I was working with limitations of the iPad software I used to make the video.) Anyhow, I’ve done something similar for her two month anniversary and like […]
Had a couple different events to attend tonight – a pot luck put on by the Coronation Park NDP and then a 40th birthday party for one of the people I met via working on the Ryan Meili campaign. The food at the “Diversity Pot Luck” was amazing – although the amount of people […]
A female author, tired of being asked to “put a guy cover on her books so the guys can read it” asks her Twitter followers to “flip” the gender of the authors of a variety of popular works with the resulting changes to the covers of their books providing all kinds of hilarious results (The […]
…is to say nothing at all. Let me explain what I mean… For the past couple weeks, I’ve walked Pace to a park near our house every evening. One of his classmates lives across from the park and is usually there playing already and, depending on the night, they could be the only two kids […]
Regina’s main summer fair is the Queen City Ex in August but there’s a smaller fair that sets up earlier in the summer each year in the parking lot of a random local mall. The wristbands for unlimited rides costs the same as the “big” fair but there’s no gate admission charge and instead of […]
Found this clip buried in a folder on my hard drive… One thing I’ll always remember about this trip to a writing event I helped organize in Medicine Hat in 2002 – why do event organizers (even other writers who should know better!) often provide a huge meal right before an event when the energy […]
