Islanders crowd once again chanting “F**K YOU STAMKOS” in New York…
— ??? ???????? (@ZacOnTheMic) June 24, 2021
The Captain is bloodied, pissed off, & we’ve still got a full 3rd period to go#GOBOLTS 2-1 btw… @953WDAE pic.twitter.com/YBW3OF3a12
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“Thank you Stamkos”
Cuba Develops Its Own Effective Vaccine Amidst Economic Crisis and Embargo
Pretty amazing accomplishment!
Saturday Snap – Happy Father’s Day!
Everybody in this photo has two doses of vaccine (except our teen who has one and our kid who isn’t eligible yet.)
Feels really good to get close together on the couch for a family picture before a delicious steak supper!
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “Trump Trips Up” (~May 1991?)
I was going through some old papers in a box under the stairs recently and came across a folder of articles I’d clipped and saved, long before most articles from popular magazines were available online from databases or from the magazine’s own web site like they are today.
Had to chuckle for a couple reasons:
* first, that in 1991, there was something in an article about Donald Trump “tripping up” that caught my attention so much, I decided to save it. (I was looking for something else so snapped this picture but didn’t bother to re-read the article…hmm, I should do that.)
* also funny that this desire to archive and preserve articles (even creating my own very basic index) was so strong in me that it was perhaps no surprise I would end up becoming a librarian.
* …and of course, it goes without saying, I was a uniquely nerdy kid as I suspect this was probably not typical behaviour among my peer group, even among the other nerds! I guess I could reach out to ask how they catalogued their D&D manuals to be sure though! 😉
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 during the entire show?
Or maybe because, if he truly shot this all himself, that’s an unbelievable achievement in terms of the lighting, sound, composition and even “set design” for lack of a better term?
Or maybe because it is a prescient commentary on Internet culture which has only grown more central (and insidious) to our lives during the pandemic?
Or maybe because it shows enormous artistic and personal growth from his controversial beginnings?
Or maybe I just like it because I’m a straight white man?
Music Monday – “Whereas some of us weren’t always fair/To the Native kid on borrowed skates/Chippy Goolies and Ukrainians/In the corners with our elbows up”
Goolie was originally a derogatory term referring to people of Icelandic descent who settled in Manitoba. The derivation of the word remains a mystery. The most plausible origin I encountered while researching When Falcons Fly was that the first Icelandic settlers had thick Norse accents and pronounced the word “goalie” as “goolie.” Interestingly, the word is specific to Manitoba and is unknown in other areas of Canada, Iceland, or parts of the U.S. such as Salt Lake City with large Icelandic populations. Today, the word has lost its insulting meaning and is considered a term of endearment for Manitobans of Icelandic descent. (source)
“https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/rivertonrifle” – John K. Sampson
(I was today days old when I realised this song title was also the URL of an actual petition that you can sign!)