I sent a half-joking tweet last night that after the Tragically Hip concert, the one thing left for CBC to do was to create a web site to permanently archive the show so fans could re-watch it anytime they wanted. This torrent is the next best thing.
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Tragically Hip Articles: Fully Completely
So much Hip coverage today… A Wild Winding Beginning (The Whig) One Nation Under Gord (Globe & Mail) How We Will Miss Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip (MacLean’s) Watch Canada’s Biggest Rock Band Say A Dramatic Good-bye (New Yorker) What Tomorrow Brings: The Incredible Story of How “Wheat Kings” Came To Be (CBC Music) The Politically Hip (Council of Canadians) […]
Friday Fun Link – The Tragically Hip: A Chronology
Tomorrow’s the big night for the last Tragically Hip concert during their final cross-Canada tour so here’s a few full-length concerts from throughout their career to whet your appetite: One from their earliest days, recorded live for MuchMusic… A concert from perhaps the height of their fame during one of their Another Roadside Attraction concerts… One from the […]
Flipping Out at Get Air Trampoline Park in #yqr
My son not only did all the stunts in this video but stitched them together in iMovie. He’s going to be the world’s first combination stuntman/film editor! 😉
Did Donald Trump Start His Presidential Campaign To Gain Negotiating Leverage With NBC?
In this election cycle, sure, why not?
Music Monday – “She’s so young/She’s got the answer/She doesn’t need to question herself like I do”
The Trans-Canada Highwaymen is another Canadian supergroup made up of members of Sloan, Barenaked Ladies, The Odds, and Pursuit of Happiness with a conceit that they’ll play hits from their own bands but only songs that each member wrote for their other groups (which is why it’s ironic that they stick a bit of “Poets” […]
Read Books, Live Longer?
Even after controlling for other factors that may mean some people are more likely to read than others (education, gender, age, etc.), a recent study shows that people who read more are more likely to live longer… Compared with those who did not read books, those who read for up to three and a half […]
Music Monday – “Where have all my friends gone?/They’ve all disappeared/Turned around maybe one day/You’re all that was there.”
I’ve heard this song before but after hearing it on a random Americana playlist last Friday and suddenly I can’t get it out of my head… “Blue” – The Jayhawks
Friday Fun Link – The World Wide Web is 25 Years Old, Here Are The 25 Funniest Things To Ever Happen Online
I can’t decide if I should feel special or like a giant nerd that I remember seeing most of these when they went viral.