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Music Monday – “Little sister brought her new boyfriend/He was a Mexican/We didn’t know what to think of him until he sang/Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad”

Still a couple days until it’s officially December but what the hey – time for some Christmas music! “Merry Christmas from the Family” – Robert Earl Keene

Posted 28 November 2016 § Humour § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Everybody knows the war is over/Everybody knows the good guys lost/Everybody knows the fight was fixed/The poor stay poor/The rich get rich.”

Leonard Cohen is dead and Donald Trump is President-elect. What a strange world we live in. “Everybody Knows” – Leonard Cohen

Posted 21 November 2016 § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “From the Monogaleh valley/To the Mesabi iron range/To the coal mines of Appalachia/The story’s always the same/Seven-hundred tons of metal a day/Now sir you tell me the world’s changed/Once I made you rich enough/Rich enough to forget my name”

Still recovering from the US Election results, I ended up listening to Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” album this morning which seemed like a good fit with what happened in the Rust Belt last week (tellingly, in the New York Times story in that last link, the man who inspired the Springsteen song I’m posting […]

Posted 14 November 2016 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “You held me down but I got up/Already brushing off the dust/You hear my voice, your hear that sound/Like thunder, gonna shake your ground”

I’m still not a huge Hillary fan for all manner of reasons but she has grown on me as the election has progressed. So, with pollsters predicting her becoming the 45th President of the United States tomorrow is somewhere between 75 – 99% inevitable, I thought I’d balance my earlier list of “10 Reasons Hillary Should […]

Posted 07 November 2016 § List § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Darkness falls across the land/The midnight hour is close at hand/Creatures crawl in search of blood/To terrorize your neighbourhood”

When this video debuted in 1983, I was ten years old.  I stayed up late on a Friday night to watch it with my Aunt Sandi on Good Rockin’ Tonight (which has a strange Regina connection.) I think I made it through about two minutes before I started crapping my pants and hiding my head […]

Posted 31 October 2016 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Let me walk/Let me go with you/I see you alone/I see you alone.”

Heard this while listening to our satellite TV’s “Tropical” station.  (No idea if the Google Translation of some lyrics in the title of this post is accurate or not.) “Déjame Acompañarte” – Omar Enrique & Elvis Crespo

Posted 24 October 2016 § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “They’re lining up the prisoners and/The guards are taking aim/I struggled with some demons/They were middle-class and tame”

“You Want It Darker” – Leonard Cohen

Posted 17 October 2016 § Canada § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “What am I gonna do?/I can’t survive on my Amerika/If the worst is true/Is it just a waste of time?”

Dedicated to last night’s US Presidential Debate…  

Posted 10 October 2016 § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “And the girls would spend a couple of bucks/Just to meet the boys working at the pumps/And they’d grow up and fall in love/And they’d all move away.”

Here’s one of the songs I taped at the Fred Eaglesmith show on Saturday night (which just happens to be one of my favourite Fred Eaglesmith songs of all-time.) “White Rose” – Fred Eaglesmith Actually, speaking of my favourite Fred songs, why not turn this post into a list? Jason’s Top 10 Fred Eaglesmith Songs 1. […]

Posted 03 October 2016 § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Tuesday – “Going to the candidate’s debate/Laugh about it, Shout about it/When you’ve got to choose/Every way you look at it, you lose.”

I didn’t a Music Monday song yesterday since I was too excited about making a snarky Donald Trump post.  But how can I not post this? “Mrs. Robinson” – Simon & Garfunkel

Posted 27 September 2016 § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,