More than an uniquely annoying voice, Gilbert Gottfried was a comedian’s comedian and a comedy legend. RIP. Around two weeks after the attacks, one of the first big comedy events held in New York City was the Friar’s Club Roast of Hugh Hefner. Throughout the night, as funny as it was, there was also an […]
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Music Monday – “Now the only thing a gamblin’ man ever needs/Is a suitcase, Lord, and a trunk/And the only time a fool like him is satisfied/Is when he’s all stone cold drunk”
Joni Mitchell won a Grammy last night for her “Archives Volume 1” album which features some long-lost masters from her first-ever recording session when she was 19 and a local DJ offered to help her make a demo tape at a local radio studio in Saskatoon. Pretty cool story! “House of the Rising Sun” – […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Puddle Jumping (April 2013)
Our old house used to get a huge lake in front of it once all the snow melted. At least it gave us a good spot to go puddle jumping…
Video of Multi-Vehicle Pileup in Pennsylvania (and My Most Scary Winter Drives)
This happened on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania today pic.twitter.com/ONUUGOdtrH — ?_ Imposter_? (@Imposter_Edits) March 28, 2022 This video clip is insane (and sad – apparently five people died as a result of this multi-car pile-up in Pennsylvania when a snow squall blew in suddenly.) Growing up in Saskatchewan, I’ve had my share of scary winter […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Welcome Jason! (October 2009)
My former colleagues from Southeast Regional Library welcomed me as an observer to their SILS training sessions that they were doing at the Regina Public Library training room prior to the move to a province-wide library consortium over ten (!) years ago. (Look at the size of those monitors!)
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – St. Patrick’s Day (March 2015)
That’s a pretty tiny Guinness? Also not sure why but this is one of my favourite photos of myself of all-time…
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “The Main Event” – 2009 Canadian Library Association Conference @adr @jessamyn
I have so many fond memories of different experiences during my fifteen (!) years as a public librarian. One of the most memorable was being invited to represent public libraries in a pre-conference session put on by the Emerging Technologies group of CLA. As if being the representative for basically all public libraries in the […]
Saturday Snap – Happy 19th Anniversary, Shea (and Happy 2nd Anniversary of the Calendar Year!) ;-)
Shea and I have been together for 24 years (“more than half my life!” she regularly reminds me), married for 19 years and today, are celebrating our “preferred” anniversary date…as we joke that we have three each year: * the February legal one when we got married in jeans in our living room in Calgary […]
Friday Fun Link – 3-Day Novel Contest Locked in A Chapters Bookstore
A writer I know recently posted about a contest he participated in where he spent three days in a Chapters bookstore trying to write a novel. The contest was put on by Book Television, a Canadian specialty channel that closed last year. When I worked in the cultural non-profit sector, I remember writing a letter […]