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Music Monday – “I want to help you lift enormous things/A pinch, a sting/I don’t feel a thing/And as the Earth revolved around the sun”

New Tragically Hip single! And as a Hockey Night in Canada Intro:

Posted 21 May 2012 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Saskatchewan 1973

A promo from local CTV affiliate, CKCK in the year of my birth…

Posted 18 May 2012 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Thought you’d do right by me/But who am I kidding/You’re the Sask Party/Shows like Corner Gas/I guess you don’t remember.”

I went to the massive rally by the Saskatchewan film industry at noon today and it was quite the spectacle. In Saskatchewan, when we have protests, it tends to be farmers rolling their tractors up to the Legislature that creates a big scene. But the film community, as you might expect given their skills, put […]

Posted 14 May 2012 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

George Carlin’s Greatest Moment

Definitely one of them…

Posted 10 May 2012 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets used so often in the US to denote “different but equal“) The timing is good coming in the wake of a North Carolina vote that saw the state’s […]

Posted 09 May 2012 § Family § Politics § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge […]

Posted 07 May 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

“There’s a bear…strung up. I assume murdered. Maybe a suicide. I dunno.”

Christopher Walken read’s “Where The Wild Things Are“. Probably a fake but either way, wow, just wow.

Posted 02 May 2012 § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “When all is said and done/We’re not the first to be here/There’s nothing new underneath the sun.”

A co-worker told me about this really cool Nashville-based, jazz-funk band called “Here Come The Mummies” who apparently play in costume to hide the fact that they’re all under contract to different labels as session musicians…

Posted 30 April 2012 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I’m a Pilsner drinking, whitetail hunting, purple burning, stubble jumping, slough bogging, prairie dogging, rod and reeling, snowmobiling, genuine big ski sun of a gun from Saskatchewan.”

I knew of Tim Hus before but discovered this song due to the magic of Rdio.  Not too often I hear my hometown name-checked in a song!  (“Moose Jaw and Indian Head/It ain’t as flat as everyone says”

Posted 23 April 2012 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Birth to 12 Years in Three Minutes

These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years) then splices them together into a short time lapse video. I wish I had the dedication to do something like this with Pace – but once every […]

Posted 22 April 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,