Isolated vocal track of Kurt Cotain singing Leadbelly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” at MTV Unplugged featuring possibly the most pained scream ever captured on tape. (Apparently Nirvana was hoping to do an album like REM’s “Automatic For The People” but after Cobain killed himself, the MTV Unplugged album is the closest we’d get.) […]
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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Jeff Barber Announces Retirement After 21 Years as RPL CEO (And Some Ruminations on Diverging Career Paths)
[I’ve been thinking about this post since Jeff announced his retirement, plugging away at this post for a few weeks since his replacement was named and his final day set. But with Jeff’s last day being tomorrow, I figured I better finish it off tonight!] Long-time RPL Library Director & CEO, Jeff Barber, announced his […]
An Amazing Eulogy
It’s a challenge to do an eulogy for imperfect people but I’ve always thought it strange how most eulogies serve to lionize the deceased in the best light possible and rarely to never acknowledge people’s quirks, warts and foibles that that also made them who they are. I just read the most amazing obituary of […]
Music Monday – “Starting is easy I have found/In planting a seed, you touch the ground/But planting the seed doesn’t make it grow.”
Sad news about the passing of Canadian rocker, Sass Jordan. Back when I was a teen working in a gas station, the radio station the station’s radio was tuned to played set playlists that repeated on weekend evenings (likely to save on staff costs – fear of automation isn’t new!) I started to notice that […]
Friday Fun Link – ChannelSurfer TV
This is pretty cool – somebody created an old-fashioned on-screen TV guide featuring channels pulled from YouTube… SOMEONE TURNED YOUTUBE INTO OLD-SCHOOL CABLE TV. YOU FLIP CHANNELS AND WATCH WHAT’S ON. it's called Channel Surfer ? https://t.co/RzXaWra5EL you open the tab and YouTube stops feeling infinite. no algorithm spiral.no thumbnail shouting at you.no sitting there […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – That Old Black Gold
My mom’s sister comes to visit once a year for a month (and twice a year since my mom’s dementia has become worse). This trip she brought a thumb drive with a whole bunch of scanned photos including pics of her trips over the years, pics of my parents, sister & I over the years […]
Music Monday – “Do you remember/The 21st night of September?/Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders/While chasin’ the clouds away”
A much younger, hipper coworker saw me in the hall before the library opened and said “Happy September 21st to all who celebrate!” I was like “Huh?” and she started singing this song which made me realise this young whipper snapper was referring to one of the 70’s (and really, all-time) greatest uplifting positive songs […]
Friday Fun Link – Humour = Tragedy Plus Time?
“He called the terrorists nincompoops?” It sounded much worse in French.
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Mom Was A Badass (July 2007)
I’m not sure I appreciated when I was growing up or even as an adult, how much of a badass and how much of a force my mom was!