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Calgary Reconsidered

Another great piece in The Walrus by Chris Turner looking at Calgary’s history, mythology and current culture. It touches on many of the things Shea and I experienced when we lived in Calgary – from the youthful energy that pervades the city to the embracing of the redneck stereotype (both ironically and otherwise) by Cowtown’s […]

¶ Posted 29 May 2012 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta

Music Monday – “I still look for you in crowds/In train stations and bus stops, on sidewalks/In the middle of the night”

As the person who uploaded this video observes, it’s amazing how Fred Eaglesmith can go from hilarious to heart-ripping in a second. This is one of my favourite songs of his…

¶ Posted 28 May 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, ontario

Family Hockey Pool Update

For the past few years, a cousin in BC has run a just-for-fun hockey pool for family members across the country, both regular season and playoffs. I usually enter a few teams each time the pool comes up – a team or two for myself, a team for Shea using the strategy of picking either […]

¶ Posted 22 May 2012 § Family ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey, parents

Saturday Snap – Pace’s Fifth Birthday

Pace and friends enjoying “Dino Bouncers”… Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it takes three men to raise a loft bed… …a project which unintentionally echoes the day’s Lego theme! 😉

¶ Posted 19 May 2012 § Family § Humour § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Saskatchewan 1973

A promo from local CTV affiliate, CKCK in the year of my birth…

¶ Posted 18 May 2012 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cute, music, saskatchewan, television

TedxRegina

After an extremely long day, I’m pretty tired. Hopefully I’ll revisit my TedxRegina experience in the next day or two. But for now…

¶ Posted 16 May 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Good-bye Old Friend

Our car got smushed in a hit and run while parked on the street in front our house late Friday night/early Saturday morning (actually our neighbour’s van got hit with enough impact that it ended up on our car’s trunk!). Our car’s a total write-off which is sad as we’ve had it for a decade […]

¶ Posted 12 May 2012 § Family § Randomness § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]

¶ Posted 07 May 2012 § MusicMonday § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cool, language, music

UWO MLIS Program “Spirit of Librarianship” Award Winners

One of the pages I lost when my old blog disappeared was a page I created back in 2006 which had some of the background and criteria as well as winners, nominees, bios and even some photos for UWO’s “Spirit of Librarianship” Award in the MLIS program. I still have the page where all this […]

¶ Posted 06 May 2012 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ontario

The MetaFilter InfoDump

You can tell which sites I’ve had the longest history on by looking at my user name on the site. If it’s not “Headtale” then you know it’s a site I’ve been on for a LONG time – probably around 10-15 years. There only a handful of sites that fit this criteria – CalgaryPuck, a […]