Category Archives: PopCulture

Barack Obama Reads "Where The Wild Things Are" at the White House Easter Egg Hunt

Pretty good technique…is there anything this man can't do?(Thanks to Pam J. for the link via Facebook)

Music Monday – "I was sitting there watching TV/Wendy came and sat on my knee."

In honour of the last episode of “Corner Gas” tonight, here's one of my favourite songs by the Odds, the former band of Craig Northey who wrote the “Corner Gas” theme song, “Not A Lot Going On”. (Unfortunately, the clip is from MuchMoreMusic who have more crap around the edge of the screen than the […]

Friday Fun Link – Free Music Archive (April 10, 2009)

The Free Music Archive is a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio…we're working towards an open source model and your feedback will help us get there. We'll also be honing our Help/FAQ pages based on your input, so please let us know what you think!

Friday Fun Link – Video to MP3 Convertor

Sometimes you come across a really cool song on YouTube that you know you'll never get via iTunes or even the P2P filesharing services.  That's where Video2MP3.net comes in.  Copy the YouTube URL into this site, hit enter and a few minutes later, there's a downloadable link to a 128kbps version of the song you […]

Friday Fun Link – "You Always Double Down on 11" (March 14, 2009)

Apparently they had cameras following me around in Vegas.  Here's a clip from the upcoming documentary…

I'm Published…Sort of

I've mentioned one of the all-time most popular Ask Metafilter threads on this blog before – “What childhood experience most shaped who you are today?”  It's a a great one that I go back to with some regularity, and especially now that I have a child of my own.  A few months back, I was […]

FTRW 2009 – "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" (Feb 26, 2009)

A great documentary I'd highly recommend…

FTRW 2009 – Burn Before Reading: A Hot List of Banned Books

Here's an article about FTRW that appeared in Xtra.ca (“Where Queers Conspire”).  They asked various Canadian literary types and free speech proponents to give their thoughts on some common and/or recently challenged books.  From the article's introduction:Canada is a censorious country. Our nanny state bans most hate speech (not the religious-based homophobic kind), stops erotica […]

FTRW 2009 – Margaret Atwood Debates Ducking Dubai While Being Challenged in Canada

What's FTRW without a couple stories about Peggy Atwood…  Her books are currently being challenged in a Toronto school by a parent who says: “…if students repeated some of the words from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale in the school halls, they'd be suspended, so he questions why it is okay in the classroom.”  But […]

Happy Birthday Shea!

You don't look a day over 29 (okay, maybe one day over 29! )