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Music Monday – “Who muzzles the poor scientist?/Calls troubled people “terrorists”?/Who wants the courts to just say yes?/Suppresses freedom of the press?”

The “Harperman” protest song is interesting for a number of reasons: the person who wrote and sang it is a federal civil servant and is now suspended from his job for an investigation about whether he violated the Federal Government’s employee ethics agreement At issue is whether Turner violated the code of ethics that all public servants […]

Posted 31 August 2015 § Canada § Censorship § Humour § News § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I know this isn’t what you planned for me/Mothers have hopes for their sons/Along with the shame/I have brought to the family/All I feel is the weight of the gun”

“Weight of a Gun” – Corb Lund Band

Posted 24 August 2015 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – Oasis Full Concert

So cool how you can find full concerts on YouTube.  Oasis will always remind me of my semester abroad in 1995 although this one’s actually from 2005…

Posted 17 August 2015 § MemoryLane § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “And it don’t matter if you don’t believe/Come Sunday morning/You best be there in the front row/Like you’re supposed to”

My most played song during our recent camping trip… “Merry Go Round” – Kacey Musgraves

Posted 10 August 2015 § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday (on a Wednesday) – “Older” – They Might Be Giants

We got home Monday which would’ve made it perfect to post this as my weekly Music Monday video. But instead, I somehow thought it was Tuesday so I didn’t bother even bother.  I’m posting it now with belated thanks to the person who posted it on my Facebook wall…

Posted 22 July 2015 § Humour § PopCulture § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “And I know that I gotta be above it now”

“Be Above It” – Tame Impala

Posted 13 July 2015 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Should I stay or should I go?”

Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur & Gorillaz, was led off stage by security after refusing to stop performing after a five-hour set with the Africa Express Project at a music festival in Europe!  

Posted 06 July 2015 § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Uri Gagarin/Flew into the sun/The angels in heaven/Look down where he lay”

I think I posted this in a long ago Music Monday but heard it recently and felt the need to post it again. Such great memories of my undergrad exchange to England during the height of the Britpop/Cool Britannia years with a song that pretty much defines the “Britpop” sounds for me… “Angel Interceptor” – […]

Posted 22 June 2015 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Why do you build me up (build me up) buttercup baby/Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around?”

Highway sing-a-long YouTube channel. Greatest idea ever or car crash waiting to happen? 😉 “Build Me Up Buttercup” – The Foundations

Posted 08 June 2015 § Humour § Meme § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Cottonwood fallin’/Like snow in July/Fireflies poppin’/Like the fourth of July.”

Country music always makes me think of summer and camping and all that good stuff wrapped up all in one. Literally…

Posted 01 June 2015 § Humour § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,