Pace and I have spent the evening watching YouTube videos of the video games I loved as a kid – here are YouTube videos of three of my all-time favourites:
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The Genius of John Lennon’s Guitar Playing
Man, I love the Beatles!
Music Monday – “I’m a professional cynic/But my heart’s not in it/I’m paying the price of living life at the limit/Caught in the century’s anxiety”
“Country House” – Blur
Friday Fun Link – Blue Man Group on NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Usually Tiny Desk gets Americana-style artists but this is a pretty fun…
The Changing Nature of Freedom of Expression: Banning Books Is Anachronistic But Challenges Remain
Good article from The National Post about the changing nature of the debate around Freedom of Expression. What remains is that challenges still come from all sides of the political spectrum. …the bulk of work on freedom of expression is shifting from people who fruitlessly complain about books to attacks on journalists and bloggers. Also […]
12 Most Offensive South Park Episodes
Shea and I went to see “Book of Mormon” today, one of the most successful, long-running Broadway shows of all-time, written and produced by the same guys who made South Park. I’ve been a fan of South Park since someone told me about “Rainbows? I hate rainbows!” but I don’t watch it as religiously (pun […]
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Trailer
Shea and I are binging “Handmaid’s Tale” right now and both loving it (while also regularly cringing!) but if pressed, I’d still say “Breaking Bad” is my favourite TV show of all-time. (It’s up there for Shea too but I think she picks “The Wire” as her all-time favourite.) Anyhow, can’t wait for this…
Music Monday – “I guess it could be worse, it ain’t that bad/At least I ain’t sittin’ in old Baghdad/In the middle of the hot damn desert sittin’ in a tank”
“You Can Have The Crown” – Sturgill Simpson
Saturday Snap – The (Nightmare) When You’re Back in High School #cndpoli #elxn43
It’s referring to the high school he attended, not the private school he taught at. But the title of the prologue in a recent biography published about Justin Trudeau with his participation is pretty ironic given the recent brownface scandal that broke when a picture of Trudeau wearing makeup to look like Aladdin during an […]