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Friday Fun Link – COVID Spread (January 1 – April 26)

Not sure if this is a “fun” link per se but interesting to see how the virus moved from China then quickly spread across the whole world creating our current unusual reality…

¶ Posted 01 May 2020 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Infographic § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, history, travel

Friday Fun Link – British vs. Canadian English

I still tell the story of the woman I traveled to England with for a University exchange in 1995 meeting a group of people in a pub and saying she hadn’t changed her pants in days. Turns out trousers are pants in England and pants are underwear! 🙂

¶ Posted 06 March 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, travel

Why Is OK Computer So Good?

My generation’s “Sgt. Pepper’s”?

¶ Posted 12 February 2020 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Music Monday – “It’s over/You don’t need to tell me/I hope you’re with someone who makes you feel/Safe in your sleep, being tonight/I won’t kill myself trying to stay in your life/I’ve got no distance left to run.”

“No Distance Left To Run” – Blur

¶ Posted 10 February 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Sorry, @officialRPL, I have a new favourite “RPL”

Radiohead has launched the Radiohead Public Library – a massive online archive of streaming albums, music & concert videos, rarities, merchandise and much more. Here’s a list of ten things that are getting fans very excited about this new site. And just for the heck of it, something not on the RPL site but instead, […]

¶ Posted 21 January 2020 § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, music

Friday Fun Link – KISS Does The Beatles

Found this flitting around YouTube – is there any band that doesn’t love The Beatles? (Okay, Michael Stipe famously dissed The Beatles as “elevator music” but I think he later admitted he only meant they weren’t the music he listened to but often heard in the background.)