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Music Monday – “Now the only thing a gamblin’ man ever needs/Is a suitcase, Lord, and a trunk/And the only time a fool like him is satisfied/Is when he’s all stone cold drunk”

Joni Mitchell won a Grammy last night for her “Archives Volume 1” album which features some long-lost masters from her first-ever recording session when she was 19 and a local DJ offered to help her make a demo tape at a local radio studio in Saskatoon. Pretty cool story! “House of the Rising Sun” – […]

Posted 04 April 2022 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Heardle’s April Fool’s Song Is A Brilliant Choice

I’m up to playing three Wordle variants daily – the original Wordle, Heardle which is where you try to guess a song as they progressively play longer clips and Worldle where you see the outline of a country and after you guess, it tells you roughly how far away you are from the actual country […]

Posted 01 April 2022 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “When a couple of guys who were up to no good/Started making trouble in my neighborhood/I got in one little fight and my mom got scared/She said, ‘You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air'”

So, anybody watch the Oscars last night? 😉 “Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme Song” – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

Posted 28 March 2022 § MusicMonday § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – “I’m sorry, I don’t want to be an emperor.”

 

Posted 25 March 2022 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Best Cover of Every Beatles Song

Is there another band that’s had every song across their entire discography covered completely by other artists? Impossible to post a single favourite… A classic Beatles tune… This song has been covered 2200 times and they picked one of the best covers… An East Indian band via the UK reclaims the sitar (and the language!)… […]

Posted 18 March 2022 § FridayFunLink § List § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Heardle

There are literally hundreds of Wordle variations but Heardle, which plays increasingly longer snippets of a song as you try to get the track name and artist, is one of the most unique I’ve found.

Posted 09 March 2022 § Internet § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Spinning on that dizzy edge/I kissed her face and kissed her head/And dreamed of all the different ways I had”

“Just Like Heaven” – Chvrches w/ Robert Smith

Posted 07 March 2022 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – 3-Day Novel Contest Locked in A Chapters Bookstore

A writer I know recently posted about a contest he participated in where he spent three days in a Chapters bookstore trying to write a novel. The contest was put on by Book Television, a Canadian specialty channel that closed last year. When I worked in the cultural non-profit sector, I remember writing a letter […]

Posted 04 March 2022 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Perhaps The Worst Legacy of Trump?

The WWFication of American politics such as this display at last night’s State of the Union address… The Boebert outburst. "You put them in, 13 of them" pic.twitter.com/N3yEsrMDQt — Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) March 2, 2022  

Posted 02 March 2022 § Meme § News § Politics § Sports § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright/It’s your birthday, dear (Alright)”

“Birthday” – Lumineers 

Posted 28 February 2022 § Family § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: