With apologies to Daniel Dafoe, some scenes from the past few days… Busy disinfecting everything in the house… I *love* my library’s “In the News” display. It’s been a huge hit with how timely and responsive it is and our COVID-themed display was no exception (yes, I know some of those “boost your immunity” books […]
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Friday Fun Link – Pandemic Grocery List
I’ve heard stories about the chaos but I freaked myself out a bit when I hit a grocery store on the way home as it truly looked like the zombie apocalypse had already begun… The obligatory shot of the depleted toilet paper aisle… Luckily, I’d forgotten that my neighbourhood store had been planning a renovation […]
Best Pandemic Books
Some stock up on toilet paper, some stock up on booze – why not stock up on reading material?
Some Quick Thoughts On The End of The World
Coronavirus I was in a meeting tonight and in the course of about an hour, my phone buzzed to tell me that: 1) Trump was going to start heavily restricting travel from Europe to US; 2) the NBA was cancelling their season; and 3) Tom Hanks and his wife have the disease. It’s a wild, […]
Republican Presidents: Venn Diagram Version
(via Reddit)
Why Does The “Bernie Bro” Myth Persist?
Because the media isn’t doing their job?
Bell Let’s Talk – Counterpoint
Wednesday was Bell Media’s “Let’s Talk” Day which promotes removing the stigma around mental health by talking about it. While the idea behind it is a good and admirable one, there are also some things that make it quite problematic, especially when its a private corporation rather than government or non-profits working in that area […]
Music Monday – “I was takin’ everything they had to give/It wasn’t all that bad a way to live/Well I’m in this desert town and it’s hot as hell/But no one’s buyin’ what I got to sell”
“Jerusalem Tomorrow” – David Olney
Music Monday – “My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas/We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico/Every one of them except for me survived/And I am still alive”
There are very few songs that can make the hair on my arms stand on end. This song, a reworking of an older song I loved growing up. But instead of focusing on men dying doing manly things as in the original, the update is about women dying in service of larger social issues. Incredibly […]
An Extra Emotional Day in “Hammond Housing”-Related News
Friday turned into an even more emotional housing-news related day then we expected. In addition to being the possession day of our old house for the new owners, we heard that the condo complex where we lived for a couple years during our time in Calgary was engulfed in flames displacing numerous residents only a […]