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Music Monday – “And We’re Glad, Glad, Glad/You’re a Glide”

I’ve made a few passing references to my semester exchange to England in 1995 on this blog but I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story in a bit greater detail. I will do that someday for sure as that four month period remains (and *please* don’t tell Shea I said this!) ;-), the […]

Posted 15 April 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday (April Fool’s Day Edition) – Coldplay *Shreds* An Encore

Lots of April Fool’s jokes across the Internet today as usual. One of the funniest is that /r/radiohead has temporarily changed their sub-reddit to be like /r/coldplay, playing up the “rivalry” between fans of these two well-known UK bands with Radiohead seen as groundbreaking and original while Coldplay is seen by many as mainstream, unoriginal (copying […]

Posted 01 April 2013 § Humour § Internet § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

FTRW 2013 – Day 3 – #ftrweek – “If this mother-fucking stupid fucking song/Offended you/With its filthy fucking language/And fucking disrespect”

Every year during FTRW, I usually like to post one (potentially) offensive song (eg. a song with lots of swearing or controversial lyrics or whatever) because it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. 😉 Sometimes these songs use swearing to make a point about censorship, sometimes they use swearing for humourous effect and sometimes the […]

Posted 26 February 2013 § Censorship § Humour § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 40 Song Xmas Song Medley

If, like me, you’re not quite ready to let Christmas go for another year, here’s a video medley of a bunch of different Christmas songs (bonus for the number of UK-centric Christmas songs that are a bit less well known on this side of the pond): (via /r/christmasmusic.  You may also want to check out […]

Posted 28 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Wikipedia’s Doing Their Annual Year-End Fundraising Drive – Do They Need To?

According to this article, not really.

Posted 20 December 2012 § Internet ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

800 People on the Waiting List for “Fifty Shades of Grey” at Saskatchewan Libraries

Posted 22 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Library § Meme § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § United States § Video § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Thou shall not judge a book by its cover/Thou shall not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover”

Posted 20 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Olympics Closing Ceremony

Well, here we are two short weeks later and the party’s over.  And everything that the opening ceremony was – a celebration of British history and culture, rebellion, anarchy, humour, literature, imperfection, solidarity – the closing ceremony wasn’t. As someone posted on Reddit’s /r/unitedkingdom thread about the closing ceremonies, “It’s like when you start playing crap […]

Posted 12 August 2012 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

One Race, Every 100m Medalist Ever

The NYT with a very cool graphic demonstrating some of the changes that have happened in 100m sprinting over the past century as well as a few thoughts on what the future may bring to this sport.

Posted 08 August 2012 § Sports § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – What’s Your Olympic Body Match?

Although we probably tend to think of world class athletes as muscular models of perfection, there are a wide range of body shapes competing in the Olympics – from gigantic basketball players to teeny gymnasts – with different body shapes suited best to different sports. wThis cool app shows which athlete your height and weight […]

Posted 03 August 2012 § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: