Shea and I still have the cheap couches we bought at The Brick nearly a decade ago. They’re now ripped, stained and worn so we decided to take advantage of the Retirement Sale at local furniture institution, Alford’s, to buy some new furniture.
It won’t arrive until early December and we’re excited to (finally) get new furniture but sad to see this old furniture go…
A show ahead of its time in many ways…
There have been a couple major media storms recently – Toronto Public Library faced a huge outcry for allowing a controversial speaker to proceed with a presentation in one of their branch meeting rooms and Sportsnet faced a huge outcry after longtime hockey icon, Don Cherry, made controversial remarks where he accused recent immigrants of being not sufficiently supportive of the Canadian military.
It got me thinking about the similarities and differences between these two situations.
SIMILARITIES
DIFFERENCES
Those are some quick thoughts – what’d I miss?
I honestly never knew this song had lyrics until I started putting together this post…
“Moonlight Serenade” – Glenn Miller Orchestra
Staff at my branch had a lot of fun creating this display…
Continuing my theme of the week…
When I was accepted for grad school, we were pretty lucky to find an apartment that a young woman was giving up (I think she’d done a semester and became a “Christmas grad”) so when I started my program in January, we were not only able to assume her lease but buy out a lot of her furniture and household items as well.
That saved us furnishing an apartment then we turned around at the end of my program and sold/gave away a lot of the stuff in the apartment.
If memory serves, that meant we managed to move home with only a few suitcases, a hockey bag and a total of about *ten* U-Haul boxes.
In wrestling, Ric Flair had a character as a rich, arrogant, entitled asshole and one of his main rivals was Dusty Rhodes, a schlubby working man who was the “son of a plumber.”
During one of their many feuds, Dusty delivered what is widely regarded as one of, if not the greatest, wrestling promos of all-time:
Dusty’s son, Cody, never had a great level of success in the WWE but went off on his own as an independent, basically organized a hugely successful PPV on his own and then, with the backing of a rich NFL owner, became both a top-level talent and behind-the-scenes promoter for a newly launched promotion, AEW, which is a David to the WWE’s Goliath.
Cody recently delivered a promo which might rival his dad’s for intensity and passion, in part, because both had a feeling of being “real” in the otherwise contrived world of pro wrestling:
“Ok boomer” has become Generation Z’s endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don’t get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people — and the issues that matter to them.
The latest meme online is “OK Boomer” which is a way that Gen Z and Millennials can quickly and easily dismiss any comment they disagree with by older Boomers (interestingly, Gen Xers either end up getting linked with the group being targeted – Gen Z & Millennials often call us “Boomers” and Boomers often call us “Millennials”. Or we get ignored completely which we’re used to!) 😉
Anyhow, that led into discussion about whether this meme was ageist or offensive with one commentator pointing out that it was no different than saying “the n-word” (and then people responding that if you’re comparing two words and you won’t even write out one of the words, that’s probably a much worse word and not comparable at all!)
*That*, in turn, led to a spin-off meme where it was suggested that non-black people could just rewrite rap songs to replace the n-word with “boomer”, often to hilarious results.
I thought it’d be fun to give it a shot myself using a classic Public Enemy song (uhm, times have changed so you probably want to listen to this one with headphones on, not with it blaring on a driveway while playing basketball like I did in 1991!) 😉
