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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 […]

¶ Posted 27 June 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Sports § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history

Game of Thrones’ Best Fight Scenes (Set to Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs”)

The final episode of season 6 airs tonight and after last week’s episode (which is the highest rated single episode of a TV show in history), I can’t wait! This clip is a good warm-up for the series finale. Warning: contains so much awesome…

¶ Posted 26 June 2016 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, television

Friday Fun Link – Mark Hamill Goes Undercover As A Stormtrooper

¶ Posted 24 June 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: movies

Dollars Spent Per Hour of Entertainment

Too bad this site didn’t have a line for “library book/movie/CD”. 😉 (via)

¶ Posted 22 June 2016 § Infographic § Library § List § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Some Thoughts On Maintaining Perspective

So I’m having a bit of a rough June… I won’t get into the gory details (or post the photos!) but it involves a minor medical procedure, a longer-than-expected recovery, an unexpected infection which may or may not be a result of that first procedure and which swelled one of my arms up to double the size of […]

¶ Posted 21 June 2016 § Canada § MemoryLane § News § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: facebook, music, ontario

Music Monday – “When I’m drunk/I dance like me dad/Started to dress a bit like him/Early morning when I wake up/I look like KISS but without the make-up”

Love the lyrics in this song (which are especially fun around Father’s Day!) For those who don’t know, Robbie Williams started in a boy band in the UK in the 1990’s, went solo and became even bigger pretty much everywhere on earth except North America. I also didn’t realise until I read the Wikipedia entry […]

¶ Posted 20 June 2016 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

One Legged Former Wrestler, Zach Gowen, Kicks Ass on American Ninja Warrior

I remember watching Zach Gowen during his run in the WWE and being as impressed with his mental approach to life as his physical approach. He’s no longer in the WWE but he’s still showing how he can overcome obstacles using a combination of physical and mental toughness. Pretty amazing!

¶ Posted 15 June 2016 § MemoryLane § Randomness § Sports § United States § Video § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, health, sports, television, wrestling

Music Monday – “Just wait ’til I finish this glass/Then sweet little lady/I’ll head back to the bar/And you can kiss my ass!”

He’s got a lot of hits and he played many of them this past weekend in Saskatoon. But what other song could I post today than the Garth Brooks song that made me a huge fan for life? “Friends in Low Places” – Garth Brooks

¶ Posted 13 June 2016 § Humour § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

~ Swirl ~ (A Poem About How The Orlando Shootings Gave Double Meanings To Everything This Weekend)

(I started writing this Sunday night but didn’t finish until Monday. I’m backdating it to be a Sunday post though as that seems most appropriate given Sunday’s incredibly tragic events.) ~ Swirl ~ Thursday My library staff do a tour of the local Muslim school. We observe prayers. We learn to say “library” in Arabic. […]