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Mick Burrs: Real Live Poet

Had a surprise visitor at work the other day – poet Steven Michael Berzensky (aka Mick Burrs). I first came across Mick’s books when, as a young English major, I would go to Yorkton as part of my job as a door-to-door salesman with Image Cable Systems. I would spend the night at a co-worker’s […]

¶ Posted 20 June 2012 § MemoryLane § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: book, language, saskatchewan

Re-live TEDxRegina Through the Magic of Online Streaming Video!

Here’s my personal favourite presentation from TEDxRegina last month. (All the TEDxRegina videos are up but as of right now, and just for me (?), not all eight are showing up when you search for that tag. But that’s okay because I can hold a few back for later posting!)

¶ Posted 19 June 2012 § Humour § MemoryLane § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, cute, music, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Maybe a lonely man/Who’s in the middle of something/That he doesn’t really understand.”

Happy 70th Birthday to Sir Paul McCartney (or is it?) Some of my personal faves of Sir Macca’s songs through the years with the Beatles, Wings and solo…

¶ Posted 18 June 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cool, music

Music Monday – “I need to be myself/I can’t be someone else/I’m feeling supersonic/Give me gin and tonic/You could have it all/But how much do you want it?”

Yet another example of the “slow an up-tempo song down to make it new” music trick – this time, by Noel Gallagher on his current tour with his new band, The High Flying Birds:

¶ Posted 11 June 2012 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Friday Fun Link – Watch Books Being Bought Live and Worldwide

Pretty cool site that shows books as they’re bought around the world – hard to look away!

¶ Posted 08 June 2012 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, economics, travel

Star Wars Characters Re-imagined as Old West Characters

It’s pretty common knowledge that George Lucas at least partly based the Star Wars movies on some of the serialized westerns he saw as a child. Now, you can see how his characters may have looked had he actually done the films set in the Old West.

¶ Posted 07 June 2012 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, movies

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“It’s the Old Generation That’s Entitled, Not Students” – The National Post with a spot-on observation about the current Quebec protests How Reddit’s Co-Founded Became the Mayor of the Internet Speaking of Reddit, a novelty account called ShittyWatercolors did an illustration of my own user name, “HeadTale” (well, mis-read as “HeadTales” but you get what […]

¶ Posted 05 June 2012 § Family § Politics § Technology § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, health, history, parents, reddit, science

Saturday Snap – Superman & Spider-man Team Up!

If you think “The Avengers” made a lot of money, can you imagine what a cross-company, joint DC-Marvel film with Superman and Spider-man teaming up to battle Dr. Doom and The Parasite with guest appearances from The Hulk and Wonder Woman would be like? Well, it’s already happened in comic book form as this gem […]

¶ Posted 02 June 2012 § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: cool, history, movies

Music Monday – “I still look for you in crowds/In train stations and bus stops, on sidewalks/In the middle of the night”

As the person who uploaded this video observes, it’s amazing how Fred Eaglesmith can go from hilarious to heart-ripping in a second. This is one of my favourite songs of his…