Category Archives: PopCulture

Secular Sunday – Who Has An Agenda?

Projection at its finest?

Friday Fun Link – Marie Kondo Gives Up On Cleaning After Third Child

Just after my older daughter was born, I felt unable to forgive myself for not being able to manage my life as I had before,” she wrote. “But, with time, I eased up on myself; then, after I gave birth to my second daughter, I let go of my need for perfection altogether. I am […]

Music Monday – “It’s knowing that this can’t go on forever/Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone/Maybe we’ll get forty years together/But one day I’ll be gone/Or one day you’ll be gone”

I’ve told the story on this blog a few times before how Shea and I technically got married three times (with the related joke that most men can’t keep track of one anniversary and I have to remember three.  Or, flipping that, I have three chances to remember it!) To recap… Our Three Weddings * Feb […]

Secular Sunday – 10 Things This Atheist Worships

If not a deity, what else do I have incredible reverence for? My Family All Aspects of Science All Aspects of Technology The Human Brain Books of All Kinds Incredible Athletes/Athletic Performances Amazing Musicianship Humanity In All Its Crazy Glory Nature In All Its Infinite Variety But more specially, The Beach And more specifically than […]

Friday Fun Link – All The Beatles’ Songs From Least to Most Played on Spotify

Music Monday – “Cause if summer is here/I’m still waiting there/Winter is here/And I’m still waiting there”

I have many fond memories of regularly going to the Ness Creek Music Festival, a hippie festival in Northern Saskatchewan, when I was in my twenties. I can’t remember their name but one moment of perfection was a band I’d never heard of but that ended up being a reggae band who brought a little […]

Music Monday – “Well did you hear?/There’s a natural order/Those most deserving will end up with the most/That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top/Well I say, “Shit floats”

“Running The World” – Jarvis Cocker

“Life Moves Pretty Fast”: Why Gen X “Got It” Before The Rest of You

As a Gen-Xer, I don’t even know if this article is being sarcastic or not?

Music Monday – “And it’s just like the ocean under the moon/Oh, it’s the same as the emotion that I get from you/You got the kind of lovin’ that can be so smooth, yeah/Give me your heart, make it real, or else forget about “

“Smooth” – Santana (featuring Rob Thomas)

Secular Sunday – Pope Benedict XVI, a former member of Hitler Youth, an extreme homophobe who called gay marriage a “threat to world peace”, opposed condoms to prevent HIV and shielded pedophile priests despite knowing they abused kids, dies at 95

Probably still goes to Heaven? (To be fair, he was forced into the Nazi Youth but yeah, the rest of it is all true.) – via Reddit