Category: PopCulture

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

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

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…    

Music Monday – Andino Suns – “Cantando el Pajaro”

One of the many highlights of the 2012 version of the Ryan Meili NDP Leadership campaign was an amazingly fun event that featured a great local Moose Jaw

Muffled Voices: Five Famous Authors of Banned Books

  This week is Banned Books Week in the US (as opposed to last week of February in Canada for some reason.) Oh well – I’ll happily celebrate

Oh My God! Holy Shit!! Jesus Christ!!! (aka My Reaction To Tonight’s Episode of “Breaking Bad”)

Someone on Reddit posted their girlfriend’s reaction at various points during tonight’s episode of “Breaking Bad” and I’d concur… Fans are already calling it “the greatest episode of

Friday Funk Link – Amazing Book Shelves #book #library #cool #reddit

Just discovered that Reddit has a sub-Reddit dedicated solely to photos of amazing and cool bookshelves. If you sort it by “Top” vote getting submissions, you might never

September 11, 2001 as it happened on CNN – 8:40am to 10:11am

I’m pretty sure I have most of this on a VHS tape somewhere but nice to have it online for easy access and archival purposes…

Too Many Tabs Tuesday – E-Books Edition

Bev Slopen is a Canadian Literary Agent who is experimenting with e-books to “learn what authors and publishers already know about the area”. Oyster, a “NetFlix for books”

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