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Music Monday – “It’s like rain/On your wedding day/In a place you chose/That’s not known for rain.”

Two New York sisters (who are obviously future copy editors) re-work one of Alanis Morrisette’s most famous songs so that it’s finally accurate. Or to put it another way, “The only ironic thing about the [original Alanis Morrisette] song is that it’s written by someone who doesn’t know what irony is.” “It’s Finally Ironic” – […]

¶ Posted 22 July 2013 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Music Monday – “I like a pop song sober in the afternoon/I like a chord hanging down when I’m in the nude”

What better songs to post for Canada Day than a couple tracks from a new Canadian super group called “The Mounties”? The group features Hawksley Workman, one of my favourite Canadian musicians of all-time and the video for their first single contains a few prominent shots of the Canadian flag: “Headphones” – The Mounties …while their […]

¶ Posted 01 July 2013 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

What’s Different In Canada?

Happy Canada Day!

¶ Posted 30 June 2013 § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, hockey, language, science, television, weather

Saturday Snap – Sasha’s First Visit To The Family Cottage

Went out to Katepwa Lake to put the pier in with my dad, uncle and cousin today as well as do a few other chores to get the cottage ready for the season. I think the caption for the following photo is: “Working Hard or Hardly Working?” 😉 My cousin drew the short straw […]

¶ Posted 25 May 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: parents

Friday Fun Link – Our English As She Is Spoke (A Column Only Canadians Will Understand)

A fun column by Dave Bidini as we head into the May Long Weekend aka “The Official Start of Summer in Canada” (at least in theory, if not practice.)

¶ Posted 17 May 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, language, travel

A Partial and Incomplete List of Reasons the NDP Lost The BC Election #skpoli #bcpoli #ndp

I went to a noon hour presentation at the Johnson-Shoyama School of Public Policy on “The BC Election and What It Means For Saskatchewan“. One presenter got a good laugh off the bat joking about how he had to tear up his speaking notes in light of the stunning come-from-behind victory of the Liberals […]

¶ Posted 15 May 2013 § Humour § List § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: economics, history, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “For here am I sitting in a tin can/Far above the world/Planet Earth is blue/And there’s nothing I can do”

Canadian astronaut, Col. Chris Hadfield’s final message from the International Space Station before returning to earth after five months in space is quite fitting (and has already gone viral like so much of the other content he’s provided. One great example – a geography teacher at a Nova Scotia Community College created a cool Google Maps mash-up which […]

¶ Posted 13 May 2013 § Internet § Meme § MusicMonday § Photo § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, travel

Two Tales of Crime & Punishment: Guess Who Comes Out Looking Better – The Cops or the Librarians? (Okay, It’s the Feds Who Look Bad…As Usual)

The police often get the short end of the stick in terms of public perception but stories like this one show there are definitely good cops out there. In my line of work, it’s not often that you can arrest somebody on multiple occasions and end up being friends with them. On the flip side […]

¶ Posted 02 May 2013 § Censorship § Jobs § Library § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics

Two Conventions; One Solution #canpoli #cndpoli #cdnpoli

The Federal Liberals and NDP had conventions this weekend and the respective leaders of each party were in the spotlight – Thomas Mulcair as Leader of the government-in-waiting and Justin Trudeau for being elected the Liberal’s new leader in a landslide. And for all the attention on those two leaders, one of the main things […]

¶ Posted 14 April 2013 § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: economics, history

Friday Fun Link – History of NHL Video Games (1991-2012)

Lots of nostalgia in the video below… NHL 94 is the obvious classic of the bunch but I probably spent more time playing EA NHL 2000 than any other video game in my life. Nothing spectacular about that particular game – just came at a time when I had lots of free time (no kids!), […]