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Music Monday – “He walks down to the ocean/Bends to touch the water/Kneels to pray/He writes her name/In the sand/Waves wash it away”

“Waves” – Sam Baker

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Music Monday – “The old man at the Quickstop/Lying to the county cops/And laughing like his soul was without sin.”

“Cast Iron Skillet” – Jason Isbell

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Music Monday – “Well I come home from work/You know I’m tired of the beat/I try to make some supper/Get myself something to eat”

“Night Time” – George Thorogood

Posted 05 June 2023 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “What would you say/If I took those words away?/Then you couldn’t make things new/Just by saying ‘I love you'”

It’s always ironic than when my life is the busiest – work, home, family – both immediate and extended, camping, volunteer stuff, medical appointments, helping my parents, etc. etc. etc. – is when I’m most likely to end up not doing daily blog posts (I frequently miss a day but then do it the following […]

Posted 29 May 2023 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “But I found me a guitar/One lonely night in a border town/My pain, I started to write it down/But it wouldn’t stay away from me”

“Nobody Knows My Trouble” – Ryan Bingham

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Music Monday – “I’d get it one piece at a time and it wouldn’t cost me a dime/You’ll know it’s me when I come through your town/I’m gonna ride around in style, I’m gonna drive everybody wild/’Cause I’ll have the only one there is around”

“One Piece at a Time” – Johnny Cash

Posted 15 May 2023 § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “We’ve come so far and we’ve reached so high/And we’ve looked each day and night in the eye/And we’re still so young and we hope for more/But remember this…”

Howard Donald (55) is the oldest member of Take That who performed as a trio at the Coronation Concert yet with his shaggy haircut and grey beard, he is the one I resemble the most. Hell, even their slow-mo dance steps are a far cry from their energetic boy band routines in the mid-1990s in […]

Posted 08 May 2023 § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “You can’t jump a jet plane like you can a freight train/So, I’d best be on my way in the early morning rain”

“Early Morning Rain” – Gordon Lightfoot (RIP 1938 – 2023

Posted 01 May 2023 § Canada § News ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “I get eaten by the worms/And weird fishes/Picked over by the worms/And weird fishes/Weird fishes/Weird fishes”

“Weird Fishes/Arperggi” – Radiohead

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Music Monday – “Clicking sticks three times/Drawing ‘er back to your own line/Top shelf and we’re up by one/Ringing ‘em off the crossbars/Moving our nets for the cars/And all together we’d yell ‘Game on!’/And then our folks would call us in/And we all agreed ‘Next goal wins'”

“More Than A Game” – Mike Plume Band I didn’t put a lot of thought into this (well, except picking whoever was against the Oilers and Leafs!) but here’s my picks for this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs…

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