I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about getting older, life, and mortality the past year in a variety of ways – from unexpected illness (Gord Downie) and death (Prince, David Bowie) of relatively young celebrities to the death of my Aunt Verna who is my first aunt or uncle to die out of my […]
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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bailey’s (December 2006)
This is a (very popular) classmate pouring shots of Bailey’s for everyone before our final Genealogy class in library school back in 2006. I think it was a morning class so I don’t know if that makes it better or worse that we were drinking at 8am before class started – it is Bailey’s after […]
Top 15 Mannequin Challenges
This is the latest trend for all the kids. That’s cool and all but as a big Beatles fan, I’m especially excited that the song in the background is apparently called “Black Beatles“! 😉
“Snow’s so merciless, poor old Montreal/In spite of everything that’s happened/In spite of it all”
Montreal / Montreal.
Music Monday – “I felt like a king on the 25th day/Most precious of gifts returned my gaze/Not seventeen years, in fact less a day/Who dreamed of red flowers surrounding a grave?/Another trip ’round the sun rewinds misery/The whiskey, the tree and me”
I love that the local independent radio station wakes me up every morning and I doubly love when a song penetrates my brain as I switch from sleeping to being awake. Today, this was the song I heard as I dozed between sleep and wake… “The Whiskey, The Tree and Me” – JJ Voss
Friday Fun Link – LetterKenny Season Two Trailer
Though I never watched the show, I saw a trailer for Season One and thought it was hilarious. The trailer for Season Two is equally good…
The Need to Read: Books Remain One of the Best Ways of Engaging With the World, Becoming A Better Person and Understanding Life’s Questions
This is a great article from the Wall Street Journal which is extra relevant in the post-factual world of Donald Trump (who, just today, is now claiming he not only won the electoral college but also won the popular vote and Hillary only won due to millions of people voting illegally. This is insanely incorrect and therefore, […]
Friday Fun Link – Google’s Infinite Drum Machine
Google has a site where you can create beats using artificial intelligence and everyday sounds. It works for me on mobile but gives an error message on my laptop advising me to use Chrome – which is the browser that I use. But anyhow, even with the weird glitch, wanted to share as it’s a […]
Music Monday – “Everybody knows the war is over/Everybody knows the good guys lost/Everybody knows the fight was fixed/The poor stay poor/The rich get rich.”
Leonard Cohen is dead and Donald Trump is President-elect. What a strange world we live in. “Everybody Knows” – Leonard Cohen
Friday Fun Link – Analyzing the Best and Worst Movie Accents
A Hollywood accent coach made a video then followed it up with a Reddit AMA…