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/r/Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day

It’s a perfect day to check out what’s being posted on /r/ireland.

¶ Posted 17 March 2015 § Humour § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, reddit, travel

Friday Fun Link- A Hard Day’s Night First Chord Solved?

¶ Posted 13 February 2015 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: beatles, cool, music

100 Years of Style

Here’s another of those popular “Take yourself through time” videos – this one focused on fashion as much as music or dance or whatever…

¶ Posted 23 November 2014 § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

Music Monday – Strawberry Fields Forever (Slowed 800%)

Brian Eno would be proud… “Strawberry Fields Forever” – The Beatles (slowed by 800%)

¶ Posted 27 October 2014 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Line one/Is the time/That you/You first stayed over at mine”

Here’s a set from a reunited Beautiful South at Glastonbury 2014’s “Introducing” stage (I guess being re-united qualified them?) featuring Shea’s and my first dance song at 4:30…

¶ Posted 13 October 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

“I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”

Here’s a great scene from the highly underrated British movie, “Brassed Off” which I re-watched this afternoon. (Bonus points for this speech also providing a sample for the song “Tubthumping” by anarcho-punk collective, Chumbawamba) This band behind me’ll tell you that that trophy means more to me than owt else in the whole world. But […]

¶ Posted 28 September 2014 § Jobs § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, movies, music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – This One Time, In Scotland…

I know I just posted some old pictures in a post about the Scottish referendum but since the actual referendum is today AND it’s Throwback Thursday, I realise I should’ve held off on that post until today. So , even though you just saw them, here they are again along with a bit more of the […]

¶ Posted 18 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: holiday, travel

A White Paper for Scotland (Guest Blog Post)

So I haven’t paid too much attention to the Scottish Independence referendum (I think my first real glimmer of awareness is when Ryan Meili picked “Better Together” as a campaign slogan a couple years ago and a team member pointed out we’d be working with the “No” side in the Scottish referendum in the world […]

¶ Posted 16 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, travel

Good Morning Vietnam: An “Un-War” War Movie

In my RIP Robin Williams post yesterday, I mentioned that I wrote an essay while a student in England about Williams’ role in “Good Morning Vietnam”. I don’t think I’ve posted any of my undergrad work on this blog ever but given yesterday’s events, now’s as good of time as any. Oh, and feel free to […]