Like so many Saskatchewan kids, I grew up watching the Riders. And much like the people of Saskatchewan, with the land embedded in our souls, the fortunes of the Riders over the past three decades I’ve followed the team have come to symbolize a population long accustomed to accepting whatever fates beyond our control may […]
When I was born, my parents were running a bulk fuel business in my hometown. I was basically raised in the office of that ESSO fuel station for the first few years of my life (which explains a lot of my current brain damage and any future cancers I may acquire!) With the number of […]
A classic from my undergrad days (originally released in 1983 and re-recorded in 1993. I did not know that!)
I’m nervous for the Western Final today as the Riders (who squeaked past BC last week) face off against their arch-rivals, the Calgary Stampeders. There’s lots of commentary and analysis around the web – I like RiderFans.com, the Leader Post and have enjoyed The Jurist’s take on the Riders all season long as well. Oh, […]
Stories like this are only hastening my arrival at a “kids these days!” state of old man intolerance and disgust. Okay, I’m sure part of this isn’t just a generation of insensitive, YouTube zomboids not reacting to an emergency but also a terrible example of the bystander effect, except, like so many other things, the […]
I first saw Spike Lee’s documentary, “Do It Acapella” back around 1990 or 1991. In those days, if you saw something on TV, it was gone unless you were watching a channel like MuchMusic that repeated it’s programming on a set (six hour?) rotation throughout the day. In that case, you could set your VCR […]
Funny enough, it was a thread on the off-topic forum of a site dedicated to the Calgary Flames where I first heard about the current mayoralty race in Calgary. The current mayor wasn’t running again so a wide field had come forward (something like 15 in total? Why can’t Regina have that?) with the main […]
One of the great advantages of being in a province-wide system now is that there is a much greater chance that a patron can find a book they’re looking for, even if it’s a bit more obscure or was published a long time ago. I recently had this experience myself when I was looking through […]
Stealing an idea from yesterday’s list, I want to talk a bit more about the book “One Day” by David Nicholls since I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it all day. Instead of doing a traditional book review though, I thought I’d do a list (big surprise there!) of some of the reasons […]
Two fairly diverse things converged this weekend to inspire this post. Out of the blue, I got a Facebook message from a high school classmate saying a couple people are starting to talk about our twenty year high school reunion next year. She asked if I’d mind setting up a Facebook group where people could […]
