Another re-imagined Christmas classic… “Wonderful Christmastime” – Tom McRae
It hasn’t been consistent but over the years, I’ve often done one off or even a series of Christmas-themed “Music Monday” song posts through December. I thought I’d do it again this year and have lots of ideas for this year’s series from a MetaFilter thread looking at the Wham song “Last Christmas” as well as various other songs […]
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? One of many secret shames in that I never learned how to downhill ski when I was growing up. The first year we did a class trip to Mission Ridge in the Qu’Appelle Valley, I was injured and couldn’t go. Then the next […]
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Posted 31 December 2015
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So cool how you can find full concerts on YouTube. Oasis will always remind me of my semester abroad in 1995 although this one’s actually from 2005…
Remember how, in the old days, you’d try to maximize your $14.99 (or $19.99 or more!) when buying a cassette or CD? To do this, instead of blowing your cash on an album by a single artist that might only have 1-2 songs you like, you’d pick an album with a title like “Biggest Chart Toppers […]
Recently, at my library, I delivered a program called “Trip Planning 2.0: How To Research Your Vacation Online” where I gave registrants a “guided tour” of some the most useful sites for trip planning, both well-known (Google, TripAdvisor) and lesser-known (Reddit, FourSquare). (The program was basically an expanded version of a blog post I did […]
One of my and Sasha’s go-to bedtime songs… “Golden Slumbers” – Paul McCartney
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Well, since Pace was born by caesarean section, this year I got to see my wife give birth (I mean, *really* give birth!) which is the type of thing that, as a husband, makes you less likely to complain about anything ever again! […]
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band. – Brian Eno Growing up and living most of my life on the bald Saskatchewan prairie, my opportunities to see certified rock legends have been extremely limited. Luckily, in June 2000, I was in Toronto for a publishing […]
Way back in the early days of my use of the Internet (around 1996-97), I spent *a lot* of time on Usenet (basically, a precursor of today’s message boards and forums.) I regularly visited a few newsgroups including rec.music.beatles which is where I first came across Alan W. Pollack’s “Notes On” series where he’d do an […]
