Coronavirus is FAKE NEWS pic.twitter.com/YPzxrbaOZf — Brent Terhune Bloomington IN May 3&4 (@BrentTerhune) March 6, 2020 Released on March 6, I think this was the first video that I came across by this guy, maybe a week or two later. And like many people, I initially thought it was a real guy sharing his […]
“Blackbird” – Paul McCartney
The situation in the US with the blatant police brutality and absence of any restraint or empathy in the actions of many police officers. But there are moments of levity including this “dance remix” of a protester who informed a police officer that he was about to lose his job because he was illegally detaining […]
“Fuck The Police” – NWA Here’s a few other random thoughts about what’s happening in the US the past few days after the murder of unarmed black man, George Floyd, by a group of Minneapolis Police Officers. * I honestly thought that the US was on the verge of something ugly (uglier?) because of COVID-19 […]
It’s obviously *very* different for myself as a middle-class white kid who grew up in a small town on the Canadian prairies compared to what’s happening to black people of all ages over and over again in cities across the US. But I had one particular experience in high school that showed me how easy […]
In a time of unprecedented challenges, the big debate in libraryland is how/when libraries should reopen. There are good reasons on both sides of the ledger but as Saskatchewan libraries inch closer to reopening, here’s a few of the main ones… LIBRARIES *SHOULD* BEGIN RE-OPENING 1. The single biggest reason libraries should be reopening is […]
There are still a lot of details to be worked out but the NHL has announced a very rough plan for what reopening would look like… season is officially over 24 teams eligible for playoffs one “play-in” round before going to the normal 16-team format games to be held in two “hub” cities with players […]
A day or a week or a month ago, there was a COVID benefit concert featuring Canadian artists. It was a great show except I took exception to the use of “Lean On Me” as the final group song. Great song, classic for a reason – sure. But it just felt misplaced to have a […]
This is too funny to wait for Music Monday…
This had been a shitty year for me, even before the COVID pandemic hit. Coteau Books, which was a long-standing literary press in Canada for nearly half a century, and which I’d served on the board of directors of for nearly a decade, entered bankruptcy protection in late February. I’ll likely do a longer post […]
