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Music Monday – “Tell me baby/Do you recognize me?/Well it’s been a year/It doesn’t surprise me”

As it comes to close, lots of talk about 2016 being a jinxed year – Prince & David Bowie die, Gord Downie has cancer, Brexit, Trump wins and more. There’s still a week left so who knows what else will happen but now you’ve got one of the bestselling artists of all-time (both as a […]

¶ Posted 26 December 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § UK § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music

Five Star @SparkleTour #yqr @ctvregina

Thanks to the good folks at SparkleTour.ca, it’s super-easy for anyone in Regina to plot out a tour of some of the best light displays our city has to offer – you can find the ones nearest you or, as we did tonight, plot a route to all of the ones that have achieved a […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2016 § Family § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: cool, holiday, music, saskatchewan, travel

Silent Night by Chewbacca

You’re welcome.

¶ Posted 21 December 2016 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Music Monday – “You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white/But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas”

This is a fitting song for my last Melancholy Christmas Music Monday post this month – both for the sad lyrics but also how its being performed in front of and indirectly evoking Barack Obama (and heck, if you squint, even the “Christmas of white” could be a reference to Trump’s support among white working […]

¶ Posted 19 December 2016 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, holiday, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Ryan Meili Is Running (April 2009)

Got a pretty exciting early Christmas present today with Ryan Meili’s announcement that he’ll be seeking the nomination in a by-election in Saskatoon-Meewasin. Here’s a photo from Ryan’s announcement of his Sask NDP leadership campaign in Regina in April 2009…

¶ Posted 15 December 2016 § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: economics, history, saskatchewan

Our Christmas Timeline

November 11 – Remembrance Day in Canada is Singles Day (aka 11/11) in China so we usually buy a few things direct from sites like AliExpress on what is China’s equivalent of Black Friday to get our Christmas shopping started. November 12 – Remembrance Day is over so I can officially start getting into the Christmas […]

¶ Posted 13 December 2016 § Family § Humour § Library § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Work § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cute, parents, xmas

Music Monday – “An old man said to me, won’t see another one/And then he sang a song, The rare old mountain dew/I turned my face away/And dreamed about you”

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about getting older, life, and mortality the past year in a variety of ways – from unexpected illness (Gord Downie) and death (Prince, David Bowie) of relatively young celebrities to the death of my Aunt Verna who is my first aunt or uncle to die out of my […]

¶ Posted 12 December 2016 § MusicMonday § Photo § PopCulture § UK § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, language, music, xmas

10 Crucial Decisions in the 2016 Election That Reshaped America

No matter who wins elections, it’s often the behind-the-scenes articles and books that come out afterwards that are the most interesting in revealing the strategies, infighting and plain lucky breaks that make things go well or go, well, just about as bad as they went for Hillary Clinton a month ago. This is a very […]

¶ Posted 11 December 2016 § List § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Map of the World’s Rudest Place Names Is A Thing of Beauty

Inordinately proud I’ve been to some of these places.

¶ Posted 09 December 2016 § Canada § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § Infographic § Randomness § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, history, language, ontario, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bailey’s (December 2006)

This is a (very popular) classmate pouring shots of Bailey’s for everyone before our final Genealogy class in library school back in 2006. I think it was a morning class so I don’t know if that makes it better or worse that we were drinking at 8am before class started – it is Bailey’s after […]