In 1990, just before they got massive, The Tragically Hip played a small club in Regina called “The Venue”. Someone put a video camera on one of the balconies in the club and has now posted some of this historically valuable footage. Here’s a clip of an unreleased early song called “Night Comes Down” (or “Night […]
My post about #elbowgate got shared out by a few well-connected people on a couple different social media sites and ended up getting, oh, about a zillion times more traffic to that one post than my blog posts usually get.
Following up on yesterday’s post about death and dying in Tragically Hip songs, here is perhaps the saddest song in the Tragically Hip’s catalogue… “Fiddler’s Green” – The Tragically Hip
So I woke up today to the very sad news that Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip, has terminal brain cancer. Obviously, as you age, it’s natural that your own heroes and icons will age ahead of you. But 2016 has been a rough year where we lost some top-shelf music icons – […]
I’ll start with a “disclaimer fact” before I get to my real list of facts about #elbowgate. I’m on record as saying I don’t like *any* of the childish shit that happens in Parliament from any party and wish it wasn’t that way. I also think the NDP reaction to this situation was very poor from […]
So it’s been a pretty bad week for William and Kate, I mean Justin & Sophie Trudeau. Ms. Gregoire-Trudeau sparked outrage on the left and the right with her comments about how tough her (unofficial) role as First Lady (but not really) of Canada is and how much she could use an extra assistant to […]
So I’ve been thinking about the “Long Game” quite a bit lately. Essentially, “Playing the Long Game” refers to the idea of not just focusing on an immediate goal but also laying the groundwork for something important further in the future, even if it seems like something unattainable initially. (A similar idea is often expressed […]
I usually post this at the start of the playoffs but forgot to do so this year. But I did honestly make these picks before the playoff began – I’ve got a patron who I often chat about hockey with. He asked who I was picking so this is what I told him… Bold is […]
One of the things I pride myself on is being skeptical. Although people sometimes confuse terms, skepticism does not mean “cynical” and it doesn’t mean “being an asshole”. A true cynic distrusts everything new they see or hear, they’re intolerant to new ideas, and they’re pessimistic about everything. They’re not skeptics. That’s a positive trait. […]
