Category Archives: PopCulture

FTRW 2012 – Oscar Censorship

No, not the seven-second delay when the documentary picture winner said “fuck” – that’s nothing. Yesterday, I wrote about censorship from a more broad perspective than the usual FTRW topics of censorship of books (and DVD’s and graphic novels and so on.)  Today, I’d like to continue talking about bigger picture (er, no pun intended) […]

FTRW 2012 – Music Monday – “Shut your fucking face, uncle fucker/You’re a cock-sucking, ass-biting uncle fucker!”

I’m a bit slow off the draw this year since it started yesterday but Happy Freedom to Read Week 2012!  And I’ll also never top my FTRW Music Monday post from 2010.  But I can try…

Saturday Snap – Our Li’l Metalhead

Ahhh, how sweet… But in all seriousness, “Cum On Feel the Noize” plays a very big role in my early “education”. A classmate was making a poster for a school dance in elementary school and I, being Mr. Brainiac Smart-pants, mentioned his obvious mis-spelling of the word “Come” on the poster. So, with the patience […]

Music Monday – “And then we’ll be married/Then we’ll be man and wife/No dress rehearsal/This is our life.”

Have I posted this before?  I feel like I have but I spent some time this weekend importing old Tragically Hip bootlegs into iTunes and it reminded me of how fully and completely (get it?) I used to be into the Hip – trading bootlegs, traveling around to attend different concerts, studying Gord’s lyrics like […]

Saturday Snap – Freedom to Read Week Display (And Other Memorable RPL Moments)

Freedom to Read Week is coming up from February 26 to March 3 and I volunteered to create the relevant display at Central for the next few weeks leading up to FTRW.  (One co-worker was impressed and said “Don’t do too good of a job or they’ll make you do all the displays!”) Anyhow, that […]

Unwritten Rules for Reading and Photography

A couple semi-related Reddit threads… What are some unwritten rules of photography? My rules for reading

10 Musicians Who Support People Downloading Music (Without Necessarily Paying First)

Not sure how this blog turned into “Piracy Week” but here’s another related article – this time listing 10 musicians (including some pretty famous names) who all support downloading of music to one degree or another.

You Will Never Kill Piracy and Piracy Will Never Kill You

Following yesterday’s post about “No Copyright Intended”, here’s another relevant article from Forbes.com (via MetaFilter where, come to think of it, I may have originally got the “No Copyright Intended” link as well.)

No Copyright Intended

A good article on the changing understanding of copyright in a non-commercial, remix-focused culture. I mean, when I made my Hawaii montage video, I thought nothing of using a couple songs (a surf tune by the Ventures and a Beach Boys medley) to backdrop my video. I don’t expect to make any money from my […]

Music Monday – “I have felt some hard times/In my life/But I don’t want/To feel it anymore.”

I don’t watch David Letterman too often but happened to catch Paul McCartney’s son making his US network TV debut the other night and was impressed by this catchy tune. (And yes, he totally looks like his old man!)