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Music Monday – “I like a pop song sober in the afternoon/I like a chord hanging down when I’m in the nude”

What better songs to post for Canada Day than a couple tracks from a new Canadian super group called “The Mounties”? The group features Hawksley Workman, one of my favourite Canadian musicians of all-time and the video for their first single contains a few prominent shots of the Canadian flag: “Headphones” – The Mounties …while their […]

Posted 01 July 2013 § Canada § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I can see him right now knees all skinned up/With a magnifying glass trying to melt a Tonka truck/Won’t he be a sight with his football helmet on/That’ll be his first love/Til his first love comes along”

I would’ve sworn I posted this video around Pace’s first day of kindergarten but apparently, I only put it on Facebook. So, instead of a rare re-post of a Music Monday song which I thought it would be, this video gets to be posted for the first time here to celebrate Pace’s kindergarten graduation today. […]

Posted 24 June 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Sometimes I Wish We’d Had Twins…

…like when I see a video like this:

Posted 18 June 2013 § Baby § Humour § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “For years they’ve been married/Not one day of trouble/Got two happy boys/Good luck/Daily double/Love to dance with each other/Say they live in a bubble”

I’ve written about Sam Baker before – a Texas singer-songwriter whose ultra-streamlined literary style and unique vocals have drawn comparisons to Leonard Cohen: Baker captivated me. His songs are closely observed narratives of eccentric and marginalized people finding meaning in seemingly defeated lives–almost like Leonard Cohen’s, if Cohen had been a Baptist raised in West […]

Posted 17 June 2013 § Humour § MusicMonday § Sad § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Sasha: Two Months in Two Minutes

I did this for Sasha’s one-month anniversary but that was cobbled together quickly and didn’t have dates or even every daily photo that I had in those first 30 days (I was working with limitations of the iPad software I used to make the video.) Anyhow, I’ve done something similar for her two month anniversary and like […]

Posted 16 June 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

One From The Archives – Jason Interviewed on Medicine Hat Local Access in 2002

Found this clip buried in a folder on my hard drive… One thing I’ll always remember about this trip to a writing event I helped organize in Medicine Hat in 2002 – why do event organizers (even other writers who should know better!) often provide a huge meal right before an event when the energy […]

Posted 11 June 2013 § Humour § MemoryLane § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “And that Holy Water, that you soak in is then poisoned/When everyone else Is more comfortable remaining voiceless/Rather than fighting for humans/That have had their rights stolen”

Hip hop isn’t always known for its sensitivity around issues of misogyny and homophobia  so this song, written in support of efforts to legalize same sex marriage in Washington State, is a welcome change… “Same Love” – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Posted 10 June 2013 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Here’s a hymn to welcome in the day/Heralding a summer’s early sway/And all the bulbs all coming in/To begin”

“June Hymn” – The Decemberists

Posted 03 June 2013 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Getting Excited for @TEDxRegina #yqr

Went to TEDxRegina last year and am excited to be going again this year.  Plus, unlike last year when I went on my own time, this year my employer is funding me plus a few other colleagues to attend.  Yay! That is *exactly* what I was saying last year about how libraries need to ensure […]

Posted 29 May 2013 § Library § Meme § Saskatchewan § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “How I wonder what you are/Up above the world so high/Like a diamond in the sky”

A pianist uses a popular children’s song to do a very cool demonstration the past century of recorded music…

Posted 27 May 2013 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,