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Category Archives: PopCulture

Pokemania!

So you have to be living under a rock to have not heard about the new augmented reality map-based game, Pokemon Go!. I first heard about it when it was all over Reddit, soon after its release in early July. I have to be honest – my first reaction was to ignore it as I thought of […]

Music Monday – “Yes, we’re going to a party-party/Yes, we’re going to a party-party”

I’ve had this blog for ten years and my actual birthday has fallen on a “Music Monday” only once in 2009 when I naturally posted…“Paranoid Android” by Radiohead? Maybe I did this because only a couple years earlier in 2009, I fudged things and posted “Birthday” by the Beatles on the Monday before my birthday […]

¶ Posted 18 July 2016 § Blog § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

“When you’re born in this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in the US, you get a front row seat.”

God, I love George Carlin…

¶ Posted 13 July 2016 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, philosophy

Music Monday – “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why?/I made that bitch famous/Goddamn, I made that bitch famous.”

Kanye West recently released a provocative, controversial video featuring wax versions of numerous famous people who are connected to him in one way or another, all lying in a bed together naked. The slow pans of the various naked wax figures plus the viewer’s knowledge of the various interactions West has had with each of […]

¶ Posted 11 July 2016 § Censorship § MusicMonday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: freedomtoreadweek, music, philosophy

Music Monday – “Time to say goodbye to countries I never saw and shared with you, now, yes, I shall experience them.”

Happy Fourth of July! Fireworks filmed from a drone – very cool… “Con te partirò (Time To Say Goodbye)” – Andrea Bocelli

¶ Posted 04 July 2016 § Meme § MusicMonday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, holiday, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – How To Be Canadian

Happy Canada Day, eh?

¶ Posted 01 July 2016 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § List § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey, holiday, language, youtube

Music Monday – “I can’t sleep tonight/Everybody saying everything’s alright/Still I can’t close my eyes/I’m seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lights”

This is a very fitting song for the United Kingdom in a week that saw the population unexpectedly vote to leave the European Union via a very narrow margin in the “Brexit” referendum and then another upset as England is knocked out of the Euro Football Championships by Iceland of all places (cue jokes about England not being […]