I was looking for a clip from a M*A*S*H episode set to “I'll Be Home For Christmas” because it has that perfect touch of melancholy that makes for perfect holiday music (see the Pogues clip I linked to earlier this month for the ultimate example.) I couldn't find the clip I wanted (what? Every single piece […]
We Made It!Well, we made it. Our last couple days in London were pretty hectic with packing and last minute stuff but, like anything, it got done. Dumpster Diving ReduxAt the start of the year, I couldn't believe how many people threw out perfectly good stuff but by the time we left, I understood why. […]
This year was the first year since 1997 that I had to miss the Saskatchewan Book Awards which was a bit sad for me. I attended my first Gala when I started working at the Saskatchewan Publishers Group that same year. That led to me serving on the SBA board from 1998-2001. After we moved […]
Corner Gas tonight is an episode with blogs as a theme. Great show at the best of times but I find this one particularly funny. Hank starts a blog and thinks everybody's reading it but of course no one is. (Sound familiar? ) Oscar: “Yeah, I love your blob.”
Tonight, one of my favourite Britpop bands, The Beautiful South is playing in Toronto. They're a piano-based group who write melodies like Burt Bacharach but lyrics like Elvis Costello (or somebody even more sarcastic and bitter.) I'd thought about going but between all the work I'm trying to get done (even though it's research week) […]
Shea and I whipped into Toronto today to attend the Baby and Toddler Show this afternoon. A bit disappointing in terms of the number of exhibitors but this is probably a case of us being really early in the pregnancy mixed with the fact that they weren't giving out free books like the last time […]
The Health Policy Initiative at Western is bringing Roy Romanow to campus for a public lecture. Romanow will speak on What Kind of Society Do We Want?: Social Values and the Health and Well-Being of Canadians. The talk takes place on Friday, October 27 at 3 p.m. in the Arthur & Sonia Labatt Health Sciences […]
My hometown was featured in a special advertising supplement in the Regina Leader Post newspaper recently. Check it out for a taste of life in a small prairie town.
Vote Jim Holmes, executive member of the Friends of the RPL, for mayor of Regina. A friend of mine in Regina has been doing a great job of tracking some of the improprieties of current mayor, Pat Fiasco Fiacco on the “Politics 'n' Poetry” blog (and yes, those two things do go together and should […]
Does this handsome devil look familiar? Spent a few hours working on the family history project I have to do for my genealogy class last night. Luckily, not one but two of my family members have done some research so that's a big help. I'm still waiting for one to send me her stuff but […]
