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Music Monday – “I am a poor boy too/I have no gift to bring/That’s fit to give a King/Shall I play for you/On my drum?”

Continuing our December Music Monday theme of re-imagining well-known Christmas songs, let’s go to the ultimate fitting cover – Ringo Starr doing “Little Drummer Boy” (Hmm, I also unintentionally ended up featuring Christmas songs/covers by two of the four Beatles.  Perhaps that should’ve been the theme as well?) “The Little Drummer Boy” – Ringo Starr

Posted 18 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Karma police/I’ve given all I can/It’s not enough/I’ve given all I can/But we’re still on the payroll”

“Karma Police” – Radiohead

Posted 06 November 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

“In a word, pleasure. It’s like my pleasure in other people’s leisure.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKhhne8mCs  

Posted 27 September 2017 § Humour § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Dates of When Various Countries Adopted Universal Healthcare and When They Gave It Up As A Total Disaster

Posted 01 August 2017 § Canada § Infographic § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Europe’s Top Things To Do According to Trip Advisor

(via Reddit)

Posted 19 July 2017 § Infographic § MemoryLane § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Take me to the place where you go/Where nobody knows if it’s night or day/But please don’t put your life in the hands/Of a Rock ‘n’ Roll band/Who’ll throw it all away”

Yesterday’s “One Love for Manchester” concerts, pulled together only a couple weeks after a terrorist bombing at an Ariana Grande concert are being compared to the 1970’s “Concert for Bangladesh“, the 1980’s “Live Aid“, the 1990’s “Tibetan Freedom Concert” and the 2000’s “Live 8” as another in a long line of notable benefit concerts – this being […]

Posted 05 June 2017 § Internet § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

No @ChickfilA For You Thanks To @TD_Canada Text Alerts!

About a year and a half ago, my credit card got compromised.  I don’t think I blogged about it but I posted this on Facebook at the time in response to a post by someone else who said their card got compromised: I just had my first encounter with credit card fraud too.  Early the […]

Posted 17 May 2017 § MemoryLane § Randomness § Technology § ThrowbackThursday § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Libraries gave us power” #skpoli #SaveSKLibraries #SAVEDSKLibraries

So, almost unbelievably, after a month of incredible pushback from all levels – grassroots activists and elected MLAs, rural and urban citizens, library staff and supporters, and numerous others across the province and beyond – the Sask Party announced that they were restoring *all* funding to Saskatchewan public libraries that was cut in the March […]

Posted 24 April 2017 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Libraries gave us power/Then work came and made us free/What price now for a shallow piece of dignity” #SaveSKLibraries

From a comment in SongMeanings.com… the song is about working class perception and how everyone thinks ‘we dont talk about love, we only wanna get drunk’ whereas in reality the working class can be intelligent and useful, a lot of writers musicians actors sports people etc come from a working class background. ‘libraries gave us […]

Posted 27 March 2017 § Library § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Tell me baby/Do you recognize me?/Well it’s been a year/It doesn’t surprise me”

As it comes to close, lots of talk about 2016 being a jinxed year – Prince & David Bowie die, Gord Downie has cancer, Brexit, Trump wins and more. There’s still a week left so who knows what else will happen but now you’ve got one of the bestselling artists of all-time (both as a […]

Posted 26 December 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,