Back from a couple days at Book Expo Canada in Toronto and here are some random thoughts… – if you've never been, how the Book Expo trade show works is basically you walk around a huge trade show (200+ exhibitors?) and all the publishers and other writing organizations have booths promoting their books, authors and […]
I heard the audio version of this a few months ago but someone went and made a video to accompany it. Brilliant!
This Friday, our Children's Literature class is going on a field trip to Toronto. First, we're going to visit The Osborne Collection which is a public collection of rare children's books and which includes two other collections – the Lillian H. Smith Collection and the Canadiana Collection. The site features info about their current exhibit […]
This catalogue of books that have been nominated or won Saskatchewan Book Awards was one of the last projects I worked on before I came to library school. It was a Centennial project with a committee comprised of reps from the Sask Book Awards, Sask Writers Guild, Sask Library Association, Sask Publishers Group and Sask […]
Went to the Hawksley Workman show tonight (early show – I think London is the only place on the current tour that got two shows because of high demand. ) I might do a full review later but I'll just say that Hawksley Workman is awesome in concert and if you've never seen him before, […]
…is that she lets her fans decide how much and when they want to pay for downloading her music. How cool and progressive (and Canadian) is that? This is in contrast to the Red Hot Chili Peppers who issued some lower case poetry to expression their concern that fans may download an inferior sounding digital […]
Despite the ribbing I took from my much hipper, cooler acquaintances (who only listen to Franz Ferdinand and Sufjan Stevens), the Willie Nelson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concert was excellent last night. What can I say? Both are part of growing up in rural Saskatchewan and ironically, the opening act are probably more […]
I've been using Last FM to track the songs I listen to since sometime before Christmas and was very glad to see that they also provide an RSS feed of “Songs That You've Recently Listened To” among other options. After a bit of messing around, I was able to add the feed to the right […]
Until I figure out an automated way, let's do it like this… N(ow) P(laying): “You and the Candles” – Hawksley Workman …from his new CD “Treeful of Starling” which I picked up today at Masonville Mall. It's been a fairly commerce-enabled day – I also finally broke down and ordered a digital camera, a Canon […]
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Posted 01 March 2006
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Another reason I'm suspect about the majority of blogs out there, is that many of them tend to be little more than exercises in ego. Don't get me wrong – I've got as healthy of an ego as anyone (maybe healthier ). But again, is it big enough to think that my random ramblings are […]
