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Music Monday – “We are old/And our son took the dog away/And fair enough/Because we are tired all the time.”

I awoke to this song on community radio this morning. The fact that it infiltrated a dream I was having where a librarian colleague of mine (who is actually married to someone else in real life) was walking down the aisle to this song to meet Jack Layton at the altar (he was still alive […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2012 § Humour § MusicMonday § Politics § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves

(via MetaFilter)

¶ Posted 23 March 2012 § Humour § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, television, twitter

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Well, based on how slow it’s been lately, either my computer’s dying or I have too many tabs open. Let’s hope it’s the latter as that’s easily solved! Super excited to see Ryan Meili’s name pop up as a strong “definitely maybe” in a recent list of potential NDP leadership candidates, especially since, as the […]

¶ Posted 20 March 2012 § Library § Politics § Randomness § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, economics, language, music, saskatchewan, science, wikipedia

On Tipping in Cuba

Chris Turner, author of the Hammy winning book, “The Leap”, has an outstanding article in the latest issue of The Walrus about the unique relationship between Canada and Cuba which captures, way better than I ever could, much of the mixed emotions you feel as a wealthy Canadian tourist in Cuba – are you helping […]

¶ Posted 14 March 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, book, economics, holiday, language, travel, unitedstates

Music Monday – “What it take to make you people dance?”

The “walking down the street, dancing” theme is a popular one for music videos, from REM to Hawksley Workman to the classic of the genre from The Verve. Here’s another one from Blur’s guitarist, Graham Coxon…

¶ Posted 12 March 2012 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music

Kony 2012 (and some thoughts on Inactive Activism)

If you’re like me, you probably woke up yesterday to find your Facebook, Twitter and other social feeds flooded with links to a video called “Kony 2012“. Most people posting it didn’t have much more info than that so I didn’t watch it right away – partly because its length (half an hour) and partly […]

¶ Posted 07 March 2012 § Politics § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, facebook, google, history, travel, unitedstates

I Love George Carlin

¶ Posted 06 March 2012 § Humour § Randomness § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, language, television

If The Beatles Were Less Subtle

If you’re a big Beatles fan and know the stories behind what inspired many of their songs, you’ll get lots of laughs out of these re-imagined titles. Some examples: Cheer the Fuck Up, Julian (Hey Jude) Please Please Just Give Me A Blowjob (Please Please Me) A bunch of weird shit because we want people […]

¶ Posted 04 March 2012 § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: beatles, music

FTRW 2012 – Saturday Snap – Pace’s First Book

Last year, I capped my week-long Freedom to Read Week series with a post where I mentioned that Pace had written his name for the first time ever. That led me to ruminate on what a major milestone this is and how illiteracy is another “big picture” form of censorship beyond the “banned books”-type issues […]