I’ve managed to hit the first two major concerts at the new Mosaic Stadium – the “test case” one with Bryan Adams last May then the first “superstar” one with G ‘n’ R last August. The next big one happened last Thursday as The Eagles were in Regina for the Memorial Cup kick-off but I […]
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Yanny vs. Laurel: Meme of the Year?
What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I — Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) May 15, 2018 Is anybody talking about anything else today? First of all, the clip is, according to Sanker “not prototypical” of either laurel or yanny. It’s somewhere in the middle. Sanker said the l/y discrepancy might come from the fact that the sound there isn’t velarized—the speaker’s tongue […]
Is “A Horse Is Loose In A Hospital” The Best Donald Trump Analogy So Far?
Fast forward to near the end of this clip for the joke…
Music Monday – “Yeah, this is America/Guns in my area/I got the strap/I gotta carry ’em”
“This Is America” – Childish Gambino Some of the Things You May Have Missed MetaFilter weighs in Annotated lyrics This Is America: Donald Glover’s Video Is A Gripping Read
Music Monday – “Just make your friends/While you’re still young/Before you can’t see through/Anyone.”
“Trick Rider” – Gord Downie
25 Random Thoughts For @SaskBookAwards 25th Anniversary #sba25 #saskbookawards
Tonight was the 25th anniversary of the Saskatchewan Book Awards so, as someone who first attended in 1997, has been at probably 15-20 of those ceremonies and has also served SBA in a variety of capacities from board member to gala volunteer to web site designer to A/V switcher, I thought it’d be fun to […]
Tragedy Fatigue
Other than both happening in Canada, both being unexpected, and both resulting in large losses of life, there aren’t many similarities between the tragedy in Humboldt earlier this month and the one in Toronto last night. But the fact that both happened only a couple weeks apart when it feels like events of this type […]
Music Monday – “Some nights will haunt me/Until the daylight comes around/I’ll be fine, it’s all I really own/It’s always been around”
“Somewhere In The Mountains, Somewhere In New York” – Tallest Man on Earth
Friday Fun Link – Reefer Madness (1936)
Happy 4:20! What has the world come to?