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Category Archives: PopCulture

How Popular Are The Various Netflix Original Series?

On the recommendation of a co-worker, Shea and I are working through “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, a Netflix original series.  (That link will go to Wikiwand.com – a site I recently discovered that presents Wikipedia pages in a more visually appealing, readable format.) Watching that series led me to this article which discusses how a company that’s […]

Posted 28 April 2015 § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “My boy’s gonna play in the big league/My boy’s gonna turn some heads/My boy’s gonna play in the big league/My boy’s gonna knock ’em dead.”

Important Blog announcement: Hockey themed posts shall continue as long as the Flames are in the playoffs. One of the greatest hockey songs of all-time…  (Hmm, maybe that could be my theme for Music Mondays until the Flames win the Cup in June?) 😉 Based on a true story… “Big League” – Tom Cochrane

Posted 27 April 2015 § MusicMonday § Sad § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Yeah Baby! #Flames Eliminate The Canucks to Move To Round Two of #StanleyCup Playoffs

In 2004, I attended the Alberta Book Awards on the same evening as game six of the Canucks-Flames first round playoff series. As one of the event organizers, I kept providing updates on the score to the MC who relayed them to the partisan crowd (oh, those not-that-long-ago days before everyone had a smartphone in […]

Posted 26 April 2015 § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Heading To #yqr @reginafanexpo Earlier Today

  

Posted 25 April 2015 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Breakdown of Swearing in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”

Posted 24 April 2015 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Infographic § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “They call me a troublemaker ’cause I’m finally saying “no”/I’ve been working hard and yet my pay is still so low

A highlight of my time at the Writers Guild of Alberta was getting to book Maria Dunn to speak and perform at our annual conference at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. “Troublemaker” – Maria Dunn

Posted 13 April 2015 § MusicMonday § Politics § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

How JK Rowling Plotted Harry Potter With A Hand-drawn Spreadsheet

Interesting.

Posted 08 April 2015 § Library § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I’ve had enough of watching scenes/Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas/All I want is the truth now/Just gimme some truth”

“Gimme Some Truth” – John Lennon

Posted 06 April 2015 § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Listen To Every Single Music Genre Ever

Someone posted an article on Facebook about a cool site called Every Noise At Once. The site allows you to listen to samples and playlists of every kind of genre of music there is, grouped by similarity and searchable by artist, location and many other ways.

Posted 03 April 2015 § FridayFunLink § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

The Raw After Wrestlemania

Sunday night was Wrestlemania, the biggest PPV show on the WWE’s annual calendar. And after lots of doubts about the lead-up, it turned out to be one of the best Wrestlemanias of all-time in many observer’s opinions. Almost as good is the Raw After Wrestlemania… Imagine your favorite dramatic TV series, say, Game of Thrones […]

Posted 31 March 2015 § Meme § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,