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Friday Fun Link – The First Ever Performance of “Purple Rain”

Prince was against his music being available on most streaming services (except artist-friendly Tidal) and even YouTube so it’s hard to find clips to help celebrate the man and his music after his untimely passing yesterday. Still, there are spots where some clips exist online – none more historic than his first-ever live performance of […]

Posted 22 April 2016 § FridayFunLink § Library § MemoryLane § United States § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “The riots started slowly/With the homeless and the lowly/It spread into the heartland/Towns that never got a wristband.”

Paul Simon has a new album coming out and it sounds like it could be a good one… “Wristband” – Paul Simon

Posted 18 April 2016 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Fred Eaglesmith & Spirit of the West Documentaries Coming

Two of my favourite music acts of all-time have upcoming documentaries… Trailer – The Fred Eaglesmith Traveling Steam Show from Lagoonside Pictures on Vimeo.

Posted 15 April 2016 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “The raven is a wicked bird/His wings are black as sin.” #skpoli #skvotes #skelxn

This musician seems very appropriate for my Music Monday post today – Colter Wall who is still my favourite Wall from Swift Current! 😉 But in all seriousness, though I am not a fan of Colter’s dad’s politics, I respect that he is a masterful politician. So congrats to Premier Brad Wall for his third majority victory […]

Posted 04 April 2016 § Family § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Book Review

 Found inside a recently returned book at my library…  

Posted 02 April 2016 § Humour § Library § Photo § Randomness § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Obi-Wan Has Risen (Happy Easter!)

And here’s an interview with a United Church Minister who’s also a vocal atheist.

Posted 27 March 2016 § Humour § Meme § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Man, I can’t, I shan’t, formulate an anthem, where the words comprise mnemonics”

Happy (extra special) Pi Day (3/14)! It probably shouldn’t surprise me how many nerdy “Pi” songs there are on YouTube. Here’s one of the most clever I found…

Posted 14 March 2016 § Humour § Meme § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Fun With Library Displays (US Election Edition)

Sometimes I really enjoy working in a library… 😉

Posted 12 March 2016 § Library § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Books Everyone Should Read

Word cloud created from the “most read books” lists from a variety of libraries, booksellers, book web sites and other sources… (via Reddit)

Posted 11 March 2016 § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Library § List § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “No more lyin’/No more empty talk/Feel the bern/The bern/Feel the heat in our lives”

Pretty self-explanatory… “Feel The Bern” – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Posted 07 March 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,