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Donald Trump Sings R.E.M.

This is too funny to wait for Music Monday…

¶ Posted 13 May 2020 § Humour § News § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, music, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Which Prime Minister Are You?

A fun little quiz where you answer a few questions and it’ll tell you which Canadian Prime Minister’s personality you align with the most. I’m apparently Wilfred Laurier…

¶ Posted 08 May 2020 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Meme § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history

When Can Canadian Public Libraries Reopen? @librarianshipCA

I’ll likely do a longer post with some thoughts on how libraries across North America have reacted to the COVID crisis at some point and also some personal thoughts on how/when they should reopen. But now that a few provinces have begun to include public libraries in their reopening plans (I’m looking at you, Saskatchewan!), […]

¶ Posted 06 May 2020 § Jobs § Library § News § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health

Five Lists of Five Things I’m Thinking About As Scott Moe Prepares To Release His Five Phase Plan for Reopening Saskatchewan

Premier Scott Moe had a press conference tonight to announce that…he will be having a press conference tomorrow night to talk about how his government has a five point plan for reopening the province now that we’ve flattened the curve…maybe. There’s no doubt that Saskatchewan has done very well during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to […]

¶ Posted 22 April 2020 § Humour § Jobs § Library § List § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, Covid, economics, education, health, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “That’s great it starts with an outbreak/From birds and bats to airplanes/Donald Trump is not afraid”

Great rewrite! “It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) – COVID-19 Remix” – R.E.M.

¶ Posted 16 March 2020 § Humour § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, language, music, science

Saturday Snap – Scenes From Plague Week

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 […]

¶ Posted 14 March 2020 § Meme § News § Photo § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, food, health, science

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, […]