Category Archives: PopCulture

Will Kids Be Playing Kronum in the Schoolyard in 50 Years Instead of Soccer or Basketball?

Kronum is a new sport that combines elements of football, rugby, basketball, handball and even Quidditch to create what players are hoping grows to become the first big league sport created in over a century. Personally, I think organizers may have hurt themselves right off-the-bat by creating a sport with a circular field, very unique […]

In Defense of @justintrudeau and #askjustin (sorta kinda)

This won’t be the first time I tried to defend the seemingly indefensible on this blog. So let’s take a deep breath, swallow the bit of throw-up that’s rising in my throat and dive right in… 😉 Social media sites (especially Twitter) exploded over the past 24 hours after an e-vite for a $250/person fundraiser […]

Is This Pace’s First Freedom to Read Experience?

 So this is an interesting one… Pace’s Grade One class has started a daily reading log where they’re assigned some easy readers.  They have to record the titles of the books as they read them. In addition to the assigned reading, they can also record any other books (or chapters of books) they read or […]

“Remember, Remember the Fifth of November” (This Isn’t A Movie Anymore; It’s A Warning)

Do you know the connection between Guy Fawkes, the movie “V for Vendetta” and the Anonymous movement?  Or that today, was the Million Mask March at locations around the world? If you do, you probably also understand why a variety of worldwide movements and groups – from Anonymous to Occupy to WikiLeaks among others – are […]

YouTube Music Awards

Another big step in the convergence of traditional and new media broadcasting as the YouTube Music Awards – their version of the Grammys/American Music Awards/etc. – happened tonight  with a focus on songs that have been heavily viewed and/or gone viral on YouTube.

Friday Fun Link – 50 (or is that 100?) Scariest Books of All-Time

I meant to post this list of the 50 Scariest Books yesterday on Halloween but ended up putting a cute picture of the kids instead. So maybe, as punishment, I’ll post a list of the 100 Scariest Books of All-Time instead? 😉

Myers-Briggs Results as Cultural Touchstones

Which of the 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Type are you?  (I usually test as ENFP as I did when I just re-did the test right now.) Below are some graphics to help map your personality type to well-known pop culture figures… Marvel Universe…   Star Wars… Harry Potter… Animal Kingdom… Other male pop culture figures: …and […]

RIP Lou Reed (And A List of My Top Five Concerts – Which Doesn’t Include The Lou Reed Show I Saw in Toronto Unfortunately)

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band. – Brian Eno Growing up and living most of my life on the bald Saskatchewan prairie, my opportunities to see certified rock legends have been extremely limited. Luckily, in June 2000, I was in Toronto for a publishing […]

Music Monday – “Joan went east/Then she went west/I stayed right here in the middle/That’s where I liked it the best”

This song will always remind me of high school but even after listening to this song hundreds of times in my life, it took this slowed down acoustic version to make me realise I’ve misheard the lyric I quoted in the title of this post as “Joe went east/she went west” as if the narrator […]

Friday Fun Link – A Great Convocation Speech by Tim Minchin

God, I love Tim Minchin!  (Er, never mind that I said that given the topic of this post!) 😉 This convocation speech is especially great…   Â