Category Archives: PopCulture

Music Monday – “And if anyone can aid me ‘t is my brother in the army/If I can find his station in Cork or in Killarney/And if he’ll go with me, we’ll go rovin’ through Kilkenney/And I’m sure he’ll treat me better than my own a-sporting Jenny”

  “Whiskey in the Jar” – Irish Rovers

R.E.M.’s “Out of Time” Turns 30

“Out of Time” is probably one of the most significant albums of my youth which always seemed to be playing in the background of some of the memorable parties and events of my life when I was in Grade 11/12. Hard to believe it’s been out for 30 years which means I’m 47 going on […]

Most Shocking Moments in the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Interview with Oprah

But of course the experts knew all along that it would be shocking! 😉  

Saturday Snap – Reading Science Books = Future Astronaut?

Sasha’s pretty obsessed with this True/False book about the planets.  Future astronaut confirmed! 😉

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Twitter Account From The First Month of Covid (March 2020)

We’re into the same month as when Covid became real and the world shut-down mid-month so I’ll likely be posting a few different retrospective posts, whether it’s “Throwback Thursday” or not over the next few weeks. For example, here’s all my tweets from March 2020. I loved this tweet (but not that I managed a […]

The Beginnings of Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso is an unexpected hit AppleTV+ show which began as a series of promos to promote NBC Sports showing Premier League soccer. Those vignettes led to the character being developed and expanded into a 10-episode series of half-hour comedies which initially seems like a typical “fish out of water” story of an American football […]

Music Monday – “Mark my words/This love will make you levitate/Like a bird/Like a bird without a cage”

Guest DJ is Sasha today:   “Dark Horse” – Katy Perry

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – #FTRW – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – My 2021 Library #FTRW Display

  I always enjoy trying to come up with something creative for a FTRW display at my library and this year was no different. Going back to what I said earlier in the week (in a post that had a display we did just as Covid was starting to turn towards pandemic status in early […]

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day Six – Friday Fun Link – How Different Would E.T. Be In The 21st Century? #ftrw

  Shea and I have been showing the kids a lot of our favourite movies from when we were growing up – “Dirty Dancing” to “Adventures in Babysitting” to “Airplane!” – movies that both of us remember being allowed to watch by our parents at relatively young ages with no censorship or restrictions (*maybe* I’d […]

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day One – Welcome Back! (And A Child Reads One of the Year’s Most Controversial Books, “Call Me Max”) #ftrw

I’m a huge Freedom of Expression guy and think Freedom to Read Week should be a highlight of every librarian’s calendar. I don’t think I managed to do it every year but ever since I was in library school in 2006 (also the year I started this blog), I’ve tried to do an annual series […]