Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA! Now you just need to get rid of the death penalty and implement the metric system!”The American Dream is a big deal south of the 49th but I think they've got a good start on the Canadian […]
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Saturday Snap – Pace Sings The Alphabet Song (Some of It Anyhow)
I think the secret is to avoid watching YouTube videos of other two year olds who are reciting Shakespeare and playing piano…
Friday Fun Link – "Happy New Year Luie!" (March 19, 2010)
I was going to save this for Music Monday but it's too good to not share right away. As one YouTube commenter observes, is this like looking at the roots of the delta slide blues guitar style?(via MetaFilter)
The Future of Publishing
Make sure you watch to the end…
Music Monday (Okay, Tuesday) – "I like to chug it so it feels really danceable"
Q TV from CBC Radio has a new (?) series where they get their guests to explain how to play one of their hits. Here's Hawksley Workman being entertaining as always in explaining how to play “Safe & Sound”:
Music Monday – "I got a letter from the government the other day/Opened it and read it/It said they were suckers/They wanted me for their army or whatever"
When I was in England in 1995, this song (and the album it appeared on) were consistently rated at or near the top of the “best of” lists for that year by the NME, Melody Maker and Q.
Music Monday – "We are the 'what' in 'what's new'."
The Olympics are over and the reactions are all over the place from claims from a perhaps unexpected source (Dave Bidini, not the National Post) that Canada has been changed for the better forever to claims that the debt will weigh down on our citizens for decades. Anyhow, for today's Music Monday, I thought I'd […]
Saturday Snap – Archival Footage of "Sask Sampler Book Archive Launch"
I recently bought a gizmo to convert old VHS tapes and other analog signals to a digital format. As I was getting it set-up for the first time, I picked a couple clips I had from around ten years ago – one where I'm featured fairly prominently and one where you get to see my […]
FTRW 2010 – ChatRoulette
It's not book related but nothing says Freedom of Expression like the newest buzz site of the Internet, ChatRoulette. The site is exactly what it says – you hit the site and you see a chat window for yourself and one for a random person somewhere in the world. As soon as you get bored […]