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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – The NDP Surprised People By Taking Quebec, Alberta and…

…soon! (Photo from June 2006 when Shea and I took a caravan of library school students to Ottawa for the CLA conference!)

¶ Posted 07 May 2015 § Politics § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, travel

Music Monday – “When the night has come/And the land is dark/And the moon is the only light we’ll see” (RIP Ben E. King)

Is there a better coming-of-age movie than “Stand By Me”? And the title song of that movie is part of the reason it had such an impact on me. I remember seeing “Stand By Me” in the theatre in Indian Head when I was about 13 years old then walking out into the street and […]

¶ Posted 04 May 2015 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: movies

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Calgary Fire Department

The Calgary Flames have been using a Calgary Fire Department helmet for players to pick the “unsung hero of the game” after each victory for the past couple seasons. I don’t have a picture of Pace wearing a CFD helmet but I do have a pic of him checking out a fire truck courtesy of my […]

¶ Posted 30 April 2015 § Pace § Photo § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, cute, holiday

Yeah Baby! #Flames Eliminate The Canucks to Move To Round Two of #StanleyCup Playoffs

In 2004, I attended the Alberta Book Awards on the same evening as game six of the Canucks-Flames first round playoff series. As one of the event organizers, I kept providing updates on the score to the MC who relayed them to the partisan crowd (oh, those not-that-long-ago days before everyone had a smartphone in […]

¶ Posted 26 April 2015 § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, book, hockey, sports

Friday Fun Link – Breakdown of Swearing in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”

¶ Posted 24 April 2015 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Infographic § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: freedomtoreadweek, language, movies

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sasha’s Second Birthday

Hard to believe our little girl is two years old today! Here’s a video I made of the (roughly) daily photos I took of her during her first year, something I’ve continued to do although a lot more sporadically in her second year. Mobile friendly version…

¶ Posted 16 April 2015 § Family § Sad § Sasha § ThrowbackThursday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Friday Fun Link – Johnny Gaudreau Ultimate Highlights

Flames clinched!

¶ Posted 10 April 2015 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, cool, hockey

#Flames Could Clinch A Playoff Spot Tonight

With two games left in the season, the Calgary Flames can clinch a playoff spot for the first time since 2009 and also eliminate the Stanley Cup defending LA Kings if they beat the Kings tonight. (Since so many Canadian teams – Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg – all have playoff implications tied to the Kings, fans […]

¶ Posted 09 April 2015 § Canada § Sports ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, hockey

Secular Sunday – Chocolate Crosses

Saw a supply of these in the Minot Wal-Mart a couple years ago and couldn’t decide whether to laugh, be offended (even as a non-Christian) or marvel at how crass capitalism can be sometimes! “Hey kids, enjoy this chocolate cross that represents where a man died for your sins!” “Oh, yummy!”