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RIP John Mann (1964-2019)

It was a long, inevitable farewell. After announcing his Early Onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2014, John Mann, lead singer and frontman of the seminal 90’s Canadiana band, Spirit of the West, embarked on a farewell tour with the band in 2014. Shea and I got to see this show and it reminded me of why, […]

¶ Posted 20 November 2019 § Canada § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, music

Music Monday – “And she told me that she loved me/And I grinned and grabbed her hand and said, “I know”/Let’s get from here/Now darling if we’re going/Let’s go on and go.”

“Good Lord, Lorrie” – Turnpike Troubadours

¶ Posted 18 November 2019 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Seinfeld Had A Humourous Take That Applies To The “Don Poppy” Controversy

A show ahead of its time in many ways…

¶ Posted 13 November 2019 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, television

What Are the Similarities and Differences Between Toronto Public Library and Don Cherry?

There have been a couple major media storms recently – Toronto Public Library faced a huge outcry for allowing a controversial speaker to proceed with a presentation in one of their branch meeting rooms and Sportsnet faced a huge outcry after longtime hockey icon, Don Cherry, made controversial remarks where he accused recent immigrants of […]

¶ Posted 12 November 2019 § Canada § Censorship § Internet § Library § List § News § Politics § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: freedomtoreadweek, language, ontario

Music Monday – “Let us stray till break of day in love’s valley of dreams/Just you and I, a summer sky, a heavenly breeze kissin’ the trees

I honestly never knew this song had lyrics until I started putting together this post… “Moonlight Serenade” – Glenn Miller Orchestra

¶ Posted 11 November 2019 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music

Saturday Snap – @officialRPL Movember Display

Staff at my branch had a lot of fun creating this display…

¶ Posted 09 November 2019 § Humour § Library § News § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health

Friday Fun Link – Is It Okay to Say “OK Boomer”?

Continuing my theme of the week…

¶ Posted 08 November 2019 § Humour § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Did Dusty Rhodes’ Son Just Equal His Dad’s Best Promo?

In wrestling, Ric Flair had a character as a rich, arrogant, entitled asshole and one of his main rivals was Dusty Rhodes, a schlubby working man who was the “son of a plumber.” During one of their many feuds, Dusty delivered what is widely regarded as one of, if not the greatest, wrestling promos of […]

¶ Posted 06 November 2019 § MemoryLane § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, wrestling

“OK Boomer” Meets Public Enemy

“Ok boomer” has become Generation Z’s endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don’t get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people — […]

¶ Posted 05 November 2019 § Humour § Meme § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, parents

“You ar a good liberein”

Shea and I did a pretty major weeding of our kids’ book collections recently and I ended up giving a bunch to one of the teachers who regularly comes into my library (who also happens to teach at the school my kids go to so I have a soft spot for that school to begin […]