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Music Monday – “I was following the pack/All swallowed in their coats/Their scarves of red/Tied ’round their throats/To keep their little heads/From falling in the snow”

There’s a whole sub-genre of songs that aren’t technically Christmas songs but get identified as such because they mention winter or snow or even Christmas in passing (Joni Mitchell’s “River” being the most famous example.) Below is a recent song that I think is also gaining favour as an non-Christmasy seasonal favourite. This is a […]

Posted 19 December 2011 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – “Mine is a stupid book!”

Jimmy Kimmel: helping to scar the children of America this Christmas!  (This is pretty cruel and also pretty funny!)

Posted 16 December 2011 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Google 2011 Zeitgeist – Year in Review

Google has released an amazing video that captures the major highlights of the year (while also acting as a great showcase for their various services, especially Google+.) (via HuffPost)

Posted 15 December 2011 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “Cause if it sounds wrong on Christmas/Why does it ever sound right?”

“A War Song on Christmas” by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (yes, the actor.)

Posted 12 December 2011 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

We All Shine On…

I don’t know how long it’s been around but Bagism.com is one of the first sites I visited regularly on the Internet back in the mid to late 1990’s.  I haven’t thought of that site for years until thinking about a good way to capture today’s sad anniversary.  I’m sure it’s not what John meant […]

Posted 08 December 2011 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “I really like Christmas/It’s sentimental I know/But I just really like it/I’m hardly religious/I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu/To be honest”

I’m planning to post a month of Music Monday Xmas tunes, starting with this great atheist-themed Christmas song originally posted by my friend Cenobyte last year on Facebook or her blog (I don’t think I ended up posting it last year but if I did, it’s worth listening to again!)

Posted 05 December 2011 § Family § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Anything we have known/Anything we’ve forgotten/In the rain/In the dark/We’ll lay”

Pretty cool video made with tens of thousands of jelly beans and a lot of stop-motion photography…

Posted 28 November 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Sappy Sunday – It’s Time

A great commercial from Australia provides a touching perspective on an important social issue… (via MetaFilter)

Posted 27 November 2011 § Family § Politics § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Jane says/Have you seen my wig around/I feel naked without it”

I had this song cranked on the way home from Weyburn yesterday when I suddenly heard a voice from the back seat singing along…”Jaaaa-soooon!  Jaaaa-sooonn!” Pace apparently things that Perry Farrell and I are really close friends and he even wrote one of his best known songs about me! 😉

Posted 21 November 2011 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 11 Sounds Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard

Luckily, through the magic of YouTube, now they can!

Posted 18 November 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,