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Music Monday – “Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous/Wicked and able, media-ready/Heartless, and labeled/Super US citizen, super achiever/Mega ultra power dosing, relax/Defense, defense, defense, defense”

Originally about the Reagan years but the sentiment applies to most right-wing governments including Trump’s… “Ignoreland” – R.E.M. (Side note: “Ignoreland” is my least favourite song on probably my most favourite album of all-time. Wish it had been on “Monster” instead.)

The Covid Continuum

As Saskatchewan adds more restrictions, mostly on retailers in the post-Christmas period, I’m thinking a lot about how everyone is somewhere different on what I think of as the “Covid Continuum”. I’d say the range for this starts with anyone who’s absolutely minimized their outings since March – maybe only leaving the house to buy […]

¶ Posted 26 December 2020 § Family § List § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, health, parents, saskatchewan

@officialRPL ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas… #yqr

RPL’s Marketing Unit has created some great content recently including this timely video featuring a number of well-known Regina names…

¶ Posted 24 December 2020 § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, cool, holiday, xmas

Happy Cha-Noo-Kah!

For a small fee, Cameo is a site that allows people to book celebrities to record short personalized messages for birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Cameo blew up during quarantine as people weren’t able to celebrate milestones in the usual way. This one of Smokey Robinson recording a message for someone has gone viral for being both […]

¶ Posted 16 December 2020 § Humour § Internet § Meme § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, economics, holiday, music

Secular Sunday – Judgement on Covid-19 (HEAVY METAL Kenneth Copeland Remix)

I can’t decide whether to use this on Secular Sunday or Music Monday! And honestly, I’m a big fan of science and logic. But do I not also sometimes wonder how much more interesting life might be if I believed this kind of loony-bird bullshit? Like imagine being somebody who watches the guy on the […]

¶ Posted 06 December 2020 § Humour § PopCulture § SecularSunday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Covid, education, health, music

Music Monday – “I ain’t taking you home, I found a little place that’ll do/It’ll never match the beauty of a Tennessee spring/But it’s something new”

One of my favourite things about listening to music is hearing a song that catches you just right and you like it so much, you end up playing it repeatedly. That was me with this song this past weekend… “One More Night in Brooklyn” – Justin Townes Earle

¶ Posted 30 November 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Music Monday – “Angel of Death/Monarch to the kingdom of the dead/Infamous butcher/Angel of Death”

Is it too early to start posting Christmas songs? 😉 “Last Christmas/Angel of Death” – Wham!/Slayer Mash-Up

¶ Posted 23 November 2020 § MusicMonday § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, music

Music Monday – Spike Lee’s “Do It Acapella”

Normally I feature a single song in my Music Monday posts but a recent Twitter thread about how popular acapella was in the 1990’s reminded me of this documentary I happened to catch on PBS when it was first broadcast. Later, I found the CD in a record store, possibly in the States, and it’s […]