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11 Ways To Piss Off A Canadian

How aboot make a viral video where the “American” looks more like a Canadian stereotype than the guy playing the Canadian? 😉

Posted 26 September 2013 § Canada § Humour ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Stay with me through September/The nights are getting cold/Old Man Winter gonna be here soon/And the cattle still ain’t sold”

“September” – Corb Lund

Posted 23 September 2013 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

EagleCam!

Someone mounted a POV camera on an eagle and the result is probably as close as I’ll ever get to what it actually feels like to fly (unless they hurry up and invent a workable, affordable jetpack!) (via Reddit)

Posted 17 September 2013 § Randomness § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “You could have your choice of men/But I could never love again/I’m begging you/Please don’t take my man”

It’s very possible that slowing down “Jolene”, the classic country song by Dolly Parton, makes it an even better song (not to mention how her suddenly masculine voice brings in all kinds of gender play beyond what was in the original version.) “Jolene” – Dolly Parton

Posted 16 September 2013 § MusicMonday § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

September 11, 2001 as it happened on CNN – 8:40am to 10:11am

I’m pretty sure I have most of this on a VHS tape somewhere but nice to have it online for easy access and archival purposes…

Posted 11 September 2013 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

A Few #Rider Related Thoughts on The Occasion of the #BanjoBowl

Bobby Jurasin Documentary (Featuring pre-fame Brett Butt) I was flipping through YouTube and came across a profile of my all-time favourite Rider, #71 Bobby Jurasin (which features a few cameos by a pre-“Corner Gas” Brent Butt starting around the 11:45 mark!) I got to meet Mr. Jurasin when a few of us who played with […]

Posted 08 September 2013 § MemoryLane § Politics § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – “Terms and Conditions May Apply” Documentary

Shea and I are watching a great documentary as I type this – you should too!  (Er, it’s on NetFlix and they’ll track that you watched it of course.)

Posted 06 September 2013 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Internet § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

A Couple Reasons I Really Like Doug Stanhope

Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff…   And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this…

Posted 05 September 2013 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § Politics § Technology § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “I was tired of being put right down/By myself for not being what you thought/You had found pulled hard in two directions”

Happy Labour Day! This year’s Labour Day is especially relevant as our current provincial government has proposed sweeping new legislation to “modernize” Saskatchewan’s labour laws by combining twelve existing pieces of Legislation into a single omnibus bill, a move which will “likely have many unintended consequences and costs.  Unions aren’t taking these changes laying down […]

Posted 02 September 2013 § Jobs § MusicMonday § Politics § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “It’s our party we can do what we want/It’s our party we can say what we want.”

So everybody’s talking about the raunchy Miley Cyrus performance last night at the MTV Video Music Awards (including perhaps the weirdest MetaFilter thread ever where a discussion of whether the Miley Cyrus performance is pushing the “real” news about Syria off of front pages leads to a long parallel thread that jumps back and forth with people alternating […]

Posted 26 August 2013 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,