Pretty shocking development in the fake/real world of WWE, not only that top star Roman Reigns dropped his persona during the opening promo of RAW to announce he had leukemia, but also the revelation that he first battled leukemia *eleven years ago* and this wasn’t public knowledge and/or exploited by the WWE who have exploited pretty much everything they could to make a buck over the years.
More discussion of this sad news on r/squaredcircle and (perhaps surprisingly?) MetaFilter which has this amazing in retrospect anecdote…
I’ve mentioned my daughter on here a few times because she had cancer and got to meet Bayley.
Well, in June, Bayley invited us to the MSG house show and took us backstage to meet a few of the superstars. We met Ronda and Matt Hardy and Seth and a few others. But before we left, Roman walked into the catering area that we were in. Sam mainly likes Bayley and doesn’t recognize lots of the wrestlers but she knew him.
So he came over and Bayley introduced Sam, he told her how proud he was that she had beaten cancer, and in a moment I didn’t think of until yesterday, mentioned how he had to fight something like her before he started wrestling.
This song is probably my current favourite on Colter Wall’s new album and I also like that the clip I’m posting features Brad Wall’s son joking about smoking a big joint. 😉
I wont’t be blazing any icky…sticky, dank or otherwise. But thanks for thinking of me…..bud. https://t.co/lDkWL2rMeT
It’s not like I look at my last.fm account daily but tonight, I realised that last.fm had stopped scrobbling (that’s the term for when any site that I listen to music on – Deezer, YouTube, etc. – sending the name of the song to last.fm to build my profile) some but not all of my music listening, probably sometime in the last couple months or so.
Deezer moved to a new site design recently and I also dropped from their “Family” plan back to “Premium” so I think one of those things might be what broke my last.fm accounts (though I look at some online forums which indicate others are having this same issue so maybe not?)
At any rate, now I’m scrambling to figure out how to reconnect my laptop [edit: solved by disconnecting Last.fm integration and then reauthorizing] and smartphone because it freaks out my anal retentive librarian brain to think that I won’t have a full and accurate record of every song I’ve ever listened to at home, in the car and at the campsite! 🙂
Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines.
But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂
Dollar Street, from the GapMinder Foundation, uses a well-designed interface to help counter misconceptions about different income levels in the world.
Figured this would be a good week to dig deep in the photo albums for a shot from a weekend trip to Amsterdam our host college arranged while I was on a semester exchange to England in 1995.
(That England trip will probably fill 7/10 spots if I ever do a “Fondest Pot Memories” list like I mentioned yesterday!) 🙂
I briefly thought of doing a list of “10 of My Fondest Memories of Pot” for this post. But since it feels weird to talk about something I did that was very common within my circle of friends but illegal (even if it’s now legal), I’ve decided to hold off on that list for now. (Uhm, also my mom and mother-in-law read this blog so that’s part of the decision. But my mom also found a roach in my pocket when doing laundry after I was out to a party while in college so she’s probably not 100% surprised to learn that I occasionally partook either!) 😉
It’s weird that so many people are acting like this a groundshaking change for society. Technically, humans have been using pot for 12,000 years or so. But in terms of being widely available and commonly used, that’s probably since when, the 1960’s at least? If society didn’t implode after Woodstock, it isn’t going to implode now.
With that said, it’ll be nice that a huge number of people – mostly people of lower socioeconomic status and without the privilege of say, white college-educated librarians – won’t be ending up with criminal records for something that’s basically no worse than alcohol or tobacco.
Of course, there is still lots of fear about “reefer”. Just the other day, I overheard someone sharing that old chestnut: “Pot is a gateway drug!” I wanted to speak up and say “Sure, if the gateway is to ketchup chips!” But the reality is that studies have shown marijuana actually might be a gateway drug – but not to cocaine and heroin like so many people imply – but actually to two already legal but highly addictive substances, alcohol and nicotine!
Marijuana, widely used for a variety of medicinal purposes, was recently found to help heal broken bones. Wish I knew that this summer!
Also, due to various regulatory delays and our lovely conservative government dragging its feet, plus the time to prepare for those who did get a license (obtaining inventory, signing a lease, doing renos, etc.), not one pot shop was open in Regina today and people had to go out to Pilot Butte (10 minutes outside Regina) if they wanted to purchase pot (which I admit I briefly thought about doing, if only to be part of the opening day excitement!)
I said I won’t share my favourite pot stories. Part of the reason is that one of my favourite stories is about the first time I ever tried pot which very indirectly involves a fairly high placed Conservative politician whose hypocrisy on weed and other social issues continues to anger me to no end. (What would a post about legal pot be without one point that’s sort of hazy and vague?) 😉
