…I find myself downloading apps to test my hearing at midnight, suddenly worried that a lifetime of listening to loud music and going to concerts that left my ears ringing is catching up to me.
(Luckily, at least according to a free iPhone app, I have nothing to worry about…yet.)
Shea and I are hooked on “Yellowstone” right now and a big part of that is realising how many songs on the soundtrack are already part of the “Camping Faves” playlist we listen to non-stop every summer (including a few by Ryan Bingham who also stars in the show as a singing cowboy.)
“Southside of Heaven” – Ryan Bingham
This is pretty cool (even though the tone sounds like an auto-tuned hockey organ!)
When I was in high school and later, in university, the neighbours across the street hosted a Boxing Day road hockey tournament every year.
This was followed by an airing of the latest Don Cherry “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em” VHS tape that one of their two boys got from Christmas, finger foods, basement beers and ping pong.
The mom of the family recently posted some photos from albums she created over the years – in the 1995 picture below, I’m the guy in the bright blue parka (that memorable jacket having literally just gotten home from a semester exchange to England about four days earlier! And that’s our double garage in the background of various pics since she was taking shots from her own driveway. There were *a lot* of sports played on that driveway and against those garage doors growing up – basketball, baseball, tennis, hockey, even pro wrestling!)
Anyhow, I thought this was fitting to post as I was talking to a colleague about growing up playing hockey.
“Yeah, but I wasn’t very good” he said.
“Me either,” I replied. “Come to think of it, I was about as good as you’d expect a guy who grows up to be a librarian to be at the game!” 😉
Well, the dominant narrative of this story is “large group of Internet-enabled Reddit underdogs figure out strategy to bankrupt billion dollar hedge fund” but the reality, as usual, is probably a lot more complicated and also consequential.
Not a fan of his politics but the man is the best hockey player of all-time and probably the most accomplished athlete out of any major sport ever!
Hard to believe he’s 60…
We've got 60 facts for Wayne Gretzky's 60th birthday ??
Think you know everything about The Great One? @robpizzo begs to differ ? pic.twitter.com/FDWGLCtu5v
— Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) January 26, 2021
It’s a long way from the stage of the “Cancer Jamboree” at Nickle Lake outside Weyburn (where we’ve camped for years and now have our own seasonal campsite) to the American Country Music Top 20 airplay charts…
“Somebody Like That” – Tenille Arts
It’s like Tim Minchin says, “Some of the hymns that they sing have nice chords but the lyrics are dodgy” (though in this case, I’d say “Amazing Grace” is of the few religious songs that totally transcends its genre into an all-time classic, no matter your atheistic leanings!) 😉
Garth was good but this is an even better example – Barack Obama’s rendition during a funeral service after the Charleston shootings.
How does this happen?
Well, one bottle is our home bottle, one was brought back from the lake at the end of summer and is still not used up and one was accidentally opened by a kid who doesn’t look very hard to see if there are any other open bottles anywhere!
