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Category Archives: PopCulture

“Breaking Bad” on Wikia & Reddit

“Breaking Bad” has made Sunday one of my favourite nights of the week, doubly so thanks to sites like Wikia and the spoiler-heavy BrBa sub-reddit.

Posted 02 September 2012 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Sappy Sunday – The 100 Saddest Songs

A whole bunch of sadness in convenient list form. Coincidentally, I’ve just made a playlist on Rdio called “Guaranteed Tears” where I tried to collect all of the songs that have made me cry in the past. (Sad songs list via MetaFilter)  

Posted 26 August 2012 § MemoryLane § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

800 People on the Waiting List for “Fifty Shades of Grey” at Saskatchewan Libraries

Posted 22 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Library § Meme § Saskatchewan § UK § United States § Video § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Thou shall not judge a book by its cover/Thou shall not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover”

Posted 20 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § Randomness § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Rape? Rape Who? Rape Jokes – Are They Funny?

About a month ago, there was a minor uproar online after a female patron at a comedy show posted of an extremely unsettling experience her and her friend had on a Tumblr blog. The two women decided to go to a show featuring well-known comic Dane Cook (who they’d heard of) with Daniel Tosh (who […]

Posted 19 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Internet § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Olympics Closing Ceremony

Well, here we are two short weeks later and the party’s over.  And everything that the opening ceremony was – a celebration of British history and culture, rebellion, anarchy, humour, literature, imperfection, solidarity – the closing ceremony wasn’t. As someone posted on Reddit’s /r/unitedkingdom thread about the closing ceremonies, “It’s like when you start playing crap […]

Posted 12 August 2012 § MemoryLane § Politics § Sports § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Roger Marin Played Regina Tonight, The Crowd Was Small But Mighty!

Tuesday night after a long weekend in a sleepy government town isn’t the easiest sell so it was a small crowd.  (“How small was it, Jason?”  Well, there was a bigger crowd when I saw Roger play in a friend’s garage in Calgary ten years ago.) But I still enjoyed the show – after a […]

Posted 07 August 2012 § Canada § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Trying to keep up with you/And I don’t know if I can do it/Oh no I’ve said too much/I haven’t said enough”

I’ll send this one out to my cousin…

Posted 06 August 2012 § Family § Internet § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Social Media Olympics

The Universal: Television, The Internet and the End of Space & Time (PDF w/ Speaking Notes) from headtale When I did my favourite presentation ever in library school where I looked at the future of broadcasting in a Media Studies course on the History of Communication, I may have made one mistake. At the time, […]

Posted 31 July 2012 § Internet § Sports § Technology § UK § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Here Comes The Sons?” A Missed Opportunity For The World’s Most Appropriate Beatles Tribute Band

Normally I post a song each week on Monday but this week I’m going to do something a bit different (mostly because every single video of Paul McCartney closing out the Olympics Opening ceremony that I might’ve posted is being taken down by YouTube as fast as it’s uploaded.) But watching that performance (and who […]

Posted 30 July 2012 § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,