This is a bit of an old story by now but Time magazine recently named “You” as their “Person of the Year”. Many people reacted to the decision negatively saying it was a cop-out and the ultimate gimmick to sell magazines from a magazine that arguably hadn't chosen the proper newsmaker of the year since […]
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All I Want For Christmas Is You – Olivia Olson
Love Actually is right up there as one of my favourite Christmas movies of all-time and this song at the end of the movie is a big part of the reason why. We're heading back to Regina tomorrow after a few days split between Shea's and my parents place so hopefully I'll get back to […]
I'll Be Home For Christmas
I was looking for a clip from a M*A*S*H episode set to “I'll Be Home For Christmas” because it has that perfect touch of melancholy that makes for perfect holiday music (see the Pogues clip I linked to earlier this month for the ultimate example.) I couldn't find the clip I wanted (what? Every single piece […]
Last Christmas – Wham!
If you thought the last two Christmas videos I linked to were guilty pleasures, how about today's selection?
Merry Christmas Everybody – Slade
My mother-in-law won't let me post pictures of her doing shots of coffee liqueur tonight so instead, another semi-obscure British Christmas tune…
Friday Fun Link – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (Dec 22, 2006)
I posted a fitting John Lennon Christmas song over at LibrarianActivist for this week's Friday Fun Link but I think for the first time ever, I'm not going to post the exact same link on this blog. This is the video for a song that I think isn't very well known in North America (correct […]
The Tyranny of Marks
A former classmate sent me the following: “I know that education issues are sort of behind you now, but I came across an interesting article on “What`s wrong with the standard undergraduate computer science curriculum”. On the one hand, it appears that FIMS is doing quite a few things right (lots of presentations and group-work, […]
I'M DONE!!!
A final circle closes – my last chat for Advocacy class tonight was with former Saskatchewan Provincial Librarian (and current Director of the Coquitlam Public Library), Maureen Woods. Great teleconference which finished with a very revealing “round table” as everybody talked about what they'd taken from the class. And that's it. No more assignments. No […]
"The OPAC Sucks" (C'mon MuchMusic, Play It Once!)
(Thanks to Denise H. for the tip!)
The Beautiful South, Calgary at Detroit, and Death of A President
Tonight, one of my favourite Britpop bands, The Beautiful South is playing in Toronto. They're a piano-based group who write melodies like Burt Bacharach but lyrics like Elvis Costello (or somebody even more sarcastic and bitter.) I'd thought about going but between all the work I'm trying to get done (even though it's research week) […]