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Music Monday – “Every night, I say a prayer/In the hopes that’s there’s a Heaven.”

I don’t think Pace has a theme song for his grade eight grad today. In my hometown, I went to elementary school until grade six then to high school in grade seven and I didn’t have a grade six grad theme song either (that I remember.). But it’s got me thinking back to my own […]

Posted 28 June 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “There’s a great hot desert/Down in Mexicali/And if you don’t have water/Boy, you’d better not go/Tequila won’t get you/Across that desert/To Evangelina/In old Mexico”

“Evangelina” – Colter Wall (Hoyt Axton Cover)

Posted 21 June 2021 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Whereas some of us weren’t always fair/To the Native kid on borrowed skates/Chippy Goolies and Ukrainians/In the corners with our elbows up”

Goolie was originally a derogatory term referring to people of Icelandic descent who settled in Manitoba. The derivation of the word remains a mystery. The most plausible origin I encountered while researching When Falcons Fly was that the first Icelandic settlers had thick Norse accents and pronounced the word “goalie” as “goolie.” Interestingly, the word […]

Posted 14 June 2021 § Internet § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Let’s get friendship right/Get life day to day/In the forget yer skates dream/Full of countervailing woes”

“It’s A Good Life (If You Don’t Weaken)” – The Tragically Hip with Feist

Posted 07 June 2021 § Canada § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I’m a white man living on a white man’s street/I’ve got the bones of the red man under my feet/The highway runs through their burial grounds…We’re all carrying one big burden, sharing one fate”

“White Man’s World” – Jason Isbell

Posted 31 May 2021 § Canada § News § Politics § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “This is how you play/This is how you play/This is how you play/The lick”

A co-worker’s son is the bassist in this band… “The Lick” – People of the Sun 

Posted 17 May 2021 § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “It was easier to have fun back when we had nothing/Nothing much to manage/Back when we were damaged”

“Once” – Liam Gallagher

Posted 10 May 2021 § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “So while you sit back and wonder why/I got this fucking thorn in my side/Oh my God, it’s a mirage/I’m tellin’ y’all, it’s a sabotage”

Shea and I recently watched the Beastie Boys documentary on AppleTV+ and really enjoyed it. “Sabotage” – Beastie Boys

Posted 03 May 2021 § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Wishing I was kissing/A girl with lips smooth as pearl/Wishing I was pretty/Wish that I could twist the world round my finger/Wishing I had money/Wishing for the time to spend it all”

“Wish I Were Skinny” – Boo Radleys

Posted 26 April 2021 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I want a new drug, one that won’t make me sick/One that won’t make me crash my car/Or make me feel three-feet thick/I want a new drug, one that won’t hurt my head/One that won’t make my mouth too dry/Or make my eyes too red”

Every single thing I felt in the days after being vaccinated are things I might feel on a typical day – slight headache, minor fatigue, achy muscles, etc. – so overall, think I faired quite well! 😉 “I Want A New Drug” – Huey Lewis

Posted 19 April 2021 § Humour § News § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,