Category Archives: PopCulture

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Still A Favourite Halloween Memory

This is still one of my favourite Halloween memories of all time. When Pace was around five years old, he was really into Bat-man.  He had his costume all picked out so the night before Halloween, I figured out a great way to surprise him. I did a quick late night trip to the nearest pop-up […]

Music Monday – “It’s a 24 foot long vessel/Measures 8 feet wide/It’s a 53 year-old camper/It’s made to pull behind.” (also “I can guarantee you, we were the quietest people in the Circleville Public Library” if you click through to the live version!) :-)

I’ve got a new musical obsession after really getting into Kentucky’s own Tyler Childers this past weekend… He’s got a lot of amazing songs but the one I’m featuring for “Music Monday” today, while still unreleased, caught my ear when I found it on YouTube.  See if you can guess why? (He’s also got a live […]

EA Sports NHL ’94 Is Twenty-Five Years Old!

The greatest hockey video game of all-time is 25 years old with a still active fan base. Here’s the 2017/2018 Stanley Cup final as seen through the lens of NHL ’94:

The Five Year Old’s Guide to the Galaxy

Reddit has a sub-Reddit called /r/ExplainLikeImFive where the goal is to convey complex ideas in a way that even a child (or a typical Redditor?) can understand. Someone compiled some of the best explanations the site has provided in a single post.

“The reality is…my real name is Joe and I’ve been living with leukemia for eleven years. And unfortunately, it’s back.”

Pretty shocking development in the fake/real world of WWE, not only that top star Roman Reigns dropped his persona during the opening promo of RAW to announce he had leukemia, but also the revelation that he first battled leukemia *eleven years ago* and this wasn’t public knowledge and/or exploited by the WWE who have exploited pretty much everything […]

Music Monday – “We’d roll amongst the sweet grass lickin’ on each other/As the night replaced the day we’d bay and howl at the moon”

This song is probably my current favourite on Colter Wall’s new album and I also like that the clip I’m posting features Brad Wall’s son joking about smoking a big joint. 😉 I wont’t be blazing any icky…sticky, dank or otherwise. But thanks for thinking of me…..bud. https://t.co/lDkWL2rMeT — Brad Wall (@BradWall306) October 16, 2018 […]

How To Make A Librarian Freak Out! @last.fm @deezer

I’ve been tracking my music listening habits online via last.fm since 2005. It’s not like I look at my last.fm account daily but tonight, I realised that last.fm had stopped scrobbling (that’s the term for when any site that I listen to music on – Deezer, YouTube, etc. – sending the name of the song […]

Saturday Snap – A Versatile Sign @officialRPL Regent Place Branch #yqr #ReadAboutWeed #GuideToGanja #MaryJaneMonographs #GetBuzzedonBooks

Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines. But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂

10 Random Thoughts as Pot Becomes Legal Across Canada

I briefly thought of doing a list of “10 of My Fondest Memories of Pot” for this post. But since it feels weird to talk about something I did that was very common within my circle of friends but illegal (even if it’s now legal), I’ve decided to hold off on that list for now.  […]

Brazilian Inmates Can Read Books To Shorten Their Sentences (Not So Much in The US)

This is a pretty cool, innovative program with a lot of potential to pay ongoing dividends. And of course, the US is doing the opposite with prisons in Pennsylvania where inmates are no longer being allowed any form of print book sent by family members or charities but they can buy overpriced, overly restricted ebooks, […]