Category Archives: Video

Music Monday – “Pretend to care/Now feel my hair/Play with kids/Turns into fight/Snowball Fight/Pussy out”

An election-themed parody of “Like A Boss” by The Lonely Island…

Friday Fun Link – MIT Scientist Captures 90 000 Hours of His Son’s Life on Tape, Analyzes for Start of Language

This clip is pretty cool for all manner of reasons – amazing technology, cutting-edge video editing – combine when an MIT scientist captures the first 90 000 hours of his son’s life on tape to try to understand how language develops.

I’m not a huge curling fan (especially compared to some librarians that I know!)  But since the World Men’s Curling Championships are in Regina this week and because someone at work hooked me up with four tickets for Sunday night’s draw so I could take Shea as well as my parents, I’ve been following it […]

Music Monday – “I’d always taught my sons/We were safe around police/But when they charged on horses/Well, I dragged us off the street/It made me so angry/They’d endanger children too/In silencing the voices of 1932”

We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta.  She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]

Harper Is Strongly Opposed to A Coalition (Except When He Isn’t)

Music Monday – “We’re living in a time/When men commit crimes/And crime don’t have a face”

How can all of YouTube not have a version of Bob Dylan doing “Political World”?  Seriously??? Okay, here’s a cover by some dude in his bedroom…

Friday Fun Link – SaskNDP Candidate Playlists

I’m at the NDP convention this weekend and one fun thing they did is release a YouTube playlist of all the candidate’s favourite songs.  Reflecting the diversity of the party, there’s classics and country and indie and metal and dance.  If you can’t be at the after parties, it’s the next best thing! One other […]

When He Goes To India For Six Months…

…his friends promise to have a six-month party in his absence.  This is the video that was waiting on his Playstation when he got home along with an instruction to “push play”. (via MetaFilter)

Music Monday – “And Sunday comes afterwords!”

Last Friday, I wrote about Chat Roulette Love Song which was the extremely successful proof of a guy’s Masters thesis on viral video. Speaking of Friday, another recent viral video that blew up even bigger than Chat Roulette Love Song is the video for “Friday” by Rebecca Black which has gained over 30 million (!) […]

Saturday Snap – Varadero Beach, Early in the Morning

Our first morning in Varadero, Shea, Pace and I woke up early (well, we woke Mr. Sleepy Head up!) and made our way down to the beach which we ended up having pretty much to ourselves.  One of many special moments from our trip…