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Music Monday – “Walking through town is quite scary/It’s not very sensible either/A friend of a friend he got beaten/He looked the wrong way at a policeman”

This song has been going through my head all day for some reason.  (In completely unrelated news, Go Habs Go!)   “I Predict A Riot” – Kaiser Chiefs

Posted 05 July 2021 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sports § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Cristiano Ronaldo Is Not Human

Posted 02 July 2021 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sask Book Awards/Alberta Book Awards (multiple years from 1997 to present)

Tonight was the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards and I also recently found the 2021 Alberta Book Awards on social media. I spent nearly a decade in the literary non-profit sector and both served on the board of the SBA for a few years (as well as a frequent volunteer doing everything from taking tickets to […]

Posted 24 June 2021 § Library § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Covid-19 Vaccine Explained

 

Posted 18 June 2021 § News § Politics § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Why Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Is So Good

Maybe because, like “Nanette” by Hannah Gadsby, it totally deconstructs what a “comedy” special is? Or maybe because it’s one of only a handful of truly reflective, unique artworks created during Covid that capture what this past year has been like? Or maybe because I’m pretty sure he does this by not mentioning Covid once […]

Posted 16 June 2021 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Meme § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Wouldn’t It Be Funny If Anti-Vaxxers Were Just People Who Are *Really* Scared of Needles?

 

Posted 15 June 2021 § Internet § Meme § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Legends of Hockey: The New York Islanders

When I started following hockey as a young kid around the age seven or eight, the Islanders were the best team in the league. (Interestingly, I clearly remember friends who cheered for Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Philadephia but no one else seemed to have latched on to the Islanders which is another reason […]

Posted 09 June 2021 § MemoryLane § News § Saskatchewan § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

107 Year Old Irish Farmer Reflects on Changes He’s Seen (1967 Interview)

The single best presentation I did in library school was on the evolution of streaming video online and how it’s biggest benefit was how online video eliminates constraints of both time and distance that all previous dominant mass communications mediums – radio, television – suffered from. Like most 70s kids, I was pretty obsessed with […]

Posted 08 June 2021 § Internet § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § Technology § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Let’s get friendship right/Get life day to day/In the forget yer skates dream/Full of countervailing woes”

“It’s A Good Life (If You Don’t Weaken)” – The Tragically Hip with Feist

Posted 07 June 2021 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Echo Lake Summer (Summer 2017)

A video I cut of the many highlights of the first year we had a seasonal camp site at Echo Lake Provincial Park.  A year of Covid really makes you appreciate all these little moments – having various family and friends to our campsite, shared meals, laughs around the campfire, sleepovers, meeting random strangers.

Posted 13 May 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,