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Nine Hilarious SNL Auditions You Have To See

Saturday Night Live is having their 40th Anniversary Special tonight. For some people, it’s Python or SCTV or Richard Pryor. But for me (and most of my friends), SNL probably played more of a role in developing our sense of humour than any other single source. Some great treasures in the audition tapes including perhaps SNL’s […]

¶ Posted 15 February 2015 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: television

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our Tropical Vacation History

Some people go every year, some people go whenever they can afford it, and some people will never go to one, thinking they’re fake, inauthentic holidays. Shea and I are in that middle category – though we don’t go every year [edit: I lied – as of January 2020, we’ve been five years in a […]

¶ Posted 12 February 2015 § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – A Child Rolled Over By A Giant Beer Bottle

¶ Posted 05 February 2015 § Humour § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – A Life In Books

Feeling nostalgic today… Myself with the board of the Saskatchewan Publishers Group in 1999… Me with the board of the Saskatchewan Book Awards circa 1999-2000 Various co-workers from the offices shared by the Sask Writers Guild, Sask Publishers Group and Sask Library Association… Me with the board of the Writers Guild of Alberta… […]

¶ Posted 29 January 2015 § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Regina’s Status As Fly-Over Country Confirmed #yqrcc #yqr

When I was in England on exchange in 1995, I would sometimes go to the college library and read the UK’s national papers. I still remember looking at the Travel section of The Weekend Times and seeing an ad for a “Cross-Canada Adventure”. After landing in the maritimes, you would take a coach through Quebec and […]

¶ Posted 27 January 2015 § Censorship § Humour § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, economics, health, saskatchewan

The Story of a Bedtime

So tonight was fairly routine at the start… Pace has his snack while watching videos on the iPad. Shea reads Sasha a story and then nurses her before putting her to bed. Sasha immediately starts crying in her crib as she’s been doing lately. I go check on Sasha and she’s got a wet diaper […]

¶ Posted 20 January 2015 § Baby § Family § Humour § Pace § Politics § Sasha § Shea § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, unitedstates

“100 Weirdest Animals on Earth” Video Becomes a Fun Game With Pace

Pace likes to watch non-stop YouTube clips about video games – Minecraft, Halo, etc. etc. and it’s not really my thing. So the other night, looking for some common ground when we decided to watch some YouTube together, he suggested “Science Videos” (cool that he thinks of that as a place where we connect!) Anyhow, […]

¶ Posted 18 January 2015 § Humour § Pace § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sometimes We Think Toddler Sasha Is A Handful Compared To Her Brother…

Isn’t it funny how memory works?

¶ Posted 15 January 2015 § Humour § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Music Monday – “Da roof/Da roof/Da roof is on fire”

When Shea and I went on our first all-inclusive vacation to Mazatlan in February 2000, this was one of the songs we heard blaring from the poolside speakers constantly and which will forever be associated with hot holidays in my mind for that reason… “Follow The Leader” – Soca Boys

¶ Posted 12 January 2015 § MusicMonday § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, music, travel

Friday Fun Link – Explain The Events of Star Wars IV-VI Like You Are A Heavily-Biased Imperial History Textbook

This is pretty funny stuff… The Emperor’s most trusted lieutenant and advisor, Darth Vader, was seen as an imposing and frightening figure to those who did not know him. This was because Vader, a veteran of the Clone Wars, had been injured in battle, and required a full-body suit to sustain him. The suit was […]