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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sorry this photo is a bit blurry but it’s a shot of the prize table before the Sask Book Awards Gala last night. I attended as a volunteer and had a blast as always. My main duty was sitting at the nominee registration table so it felt like “old home week” as I got to […]
Vulture magazine ranks the best Stephen King works from 62 to 1. I’ve read a lot of Stephen King but not much of the recent stuff. But King will always have a soft spot in my heart because of how many of my non-reader friends would still devour everything he wrote. My only quibble […]
I’ve had a few worried e-mails from people who saw that the page with my collection of Fred Eaglesmith tabs has disappeared. The reason is that I have begun the process of transferring my old blog to a new host. As part of that process, the sub-content of my old site which was hosted on […]
By my count, Pace has only done 15 of the 50 things on this list. Of course, he’s not even 5 yet (next month!) so he’s got lots of time to finish off this list! And if the rocks hadn’t been so slippery when I was carrying him and/or if he was a slightly stronger swimmer, […]
I knew of Tim Hus before but discovered this song due to the magic of Rdio. Not too often I hear my hometown name-checked in a song! (“Moose Jaw and Indian Head/It ain’t as flat as everyone says”
These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years) then splices them together into a short time lapse video. I wish I had the dedication to do something like this with Pace – but once every […]
Like last week, another photo of Pace having fun with a friend – this time his cousin Dennon.
