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FTRW 2010 – Music Monday – "I guess there's gotta be a break in the monotony/But jesus when it rains, how it pours."

It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month.  Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week to celebrate and draw attention to this important subject.  For the past year, I've been bookmarking various stories I've come across that I thought had potential for […]

Posted 02 February 2010 § Censorship § Internet § Library § Main Page § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – "I'd have given anything/To have my own Pac-man game at home/I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade/Now I've got it on my phone."

I don't listen to as much country music as I did in my smalltown youth but this song caught my ear when I heard it.  I love how the first couple verses are just typical “I remember this, I remember that” cuteness but then the tone changes slightly leading to that whopper of a last […]

Posted 26 January 2010 § Main Page § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – "Why Don't You Read?" (January 22, 2010)

The Globe & Mail recently featured this catchy a capella cover of the song “Crazy” rewritten to discuss the woes of the print media world in the Internet age.  (H/T to Heather M.)

Posted 22 January 2010 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

People in Order by Age

People In Order: 1. Age from James Price on Vimeo. (via Reddit) [Edit: this video is apparently part of a series commissioned by the BBC with the intention of arranging people by various criteria – income, length of partnership, stage of pregnancy – to humanize things we often think of only in statistical terms.] 

Posted 20 January 2010 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "You were the first girl at school to get breasts/And Martin said you were the best/Oh, the boys all loved ya but I was a mess/I had to work to try to get you undressed."

Pulp's “Different Class” album is a classic, topping many UK “Best of” polls for 1995 in a year when Oasis and Blur were stealing all the headlines.  (Linked clip is in French but the description sums up that rivalry.) “Common People” was the defining song on the album (and the Shatner cover is all kinds […]

Posted 19 January 2010 § Main Page § MusicMonday § UK ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – "You must explain why this must be/Did you lie when you spoke to me?"

I'm going to reposition this song as our official SILS training theme!  

Posted 12 January 2010 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – "I Tuck"

Pretty funny to see this come around the corner.  Even funnier to hear the explanation…

Posted 10 January 2010 § Main Page § Pace § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Born Again Evangelical Stephen Baldwin vs. Richard Dawkins

I would argue with Dawkins – I think Stephen “Balding One” is descended directly from apes.

Posted 08 January 2010 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – "can you see the old and lonely/walking through the park/pushing grocery carts/till the sun turns black"

(via The Bing Dynasty's List of the Top Ten Songs of 2009)

Posted 05 January 2010 § Main Page § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – United States of Pop 2009

A mash-up of Billboard's top hits of the year that's probably more catchy than some of the individual songs being sampled…

Posted 28 December 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) °