I’ve been trying to greatly reduce my beer drinking from summer camping levels (essentially down to one per week instead of one per hour!) and I’m also trying to drink only terrible tasting low-carb beer (fuck, I’m old.)
But I made a special exception for one last beer I had left from our Calgary trip in August that I thought was appropriate for the start of the hockey season – Go Flames Go!
Are fowl suppers a Saskatchewan tradition or a Prairie tradition or a Canadian tradition?
At any rate, my friend Deron, has once again posted his annual Fowl/Fall Super Guide.
I’m hungry already!
We only went once before, for my birthday last year, but were sad to show up at a local restaurant called the Neighbourhood Pour House yesterday to find the doors locked.
Shea did some digging when we got home and found an announcement that they’d closed their doors very recently but their flagship restaurant, Jack Keaton’s BBQ, would remain open.
Good article from The National Post about the changing nature of the debate around Freedom of Expression.
What remains is that challenges still come from all sides of the political spectrum.
…the bulk of work on freedom of expression is shifting from people who fruitlessly complain about books to attacks on journalists and bloggers. Also on the table are concerns about the shady, hard-to-discern role Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other social-media outlets have in policing and suppressing speech by “deplatforming” people without any kind of clear public process — often using algorithms that work in undisclosed ways.
The camping season’s over but I can’t help but share this funny video…
This song has always been incredibly powerful from when it became a worldwide smash in 1990 but it might even be more powerful to hear it now, nearly thirty years later, after Sinead O’Connor has led a life full of controversy and pain.
“Nothing Compares 2 U” – Sinead O’Connor
Shea and I went to see “Book of Mormon” today, one of the most successful, long-running Broadway shows of all-time, written and produced by the same guys who made South Park.
I’ve been a fan of South Park since someone told me about “Rainbows? I hate rainbows!” but I don’t watch it as religiously (pun intended) as I used to.
But watching the very NSFW, very hilarious “atheist love letter to religion” (as Stone called it) play, it got me thinking back about some of the most offensive, controversial stuff South Park has done.
Walking to school…
(This is also the cleanest his room has been in seven years as well since we’d cleared it out while preparing to paint it.)
