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~ Swirl ~ (A Poem About How The Orlando Shootings Gave Double Meanings To Everything This Weekend)

(I started writing this Sunday night but didn’t finish until Monday. I’m backdating it to be a Sunday post though as that seems most appropriate given Sunday’s incredibly tragic events.) ~ Swirl ~ Thursday My library staff do a tour of the local Muslim school. We observe prayers. We learn to say “library” in Arabic. […]

Music Monday – “Balloons all filled with rain/As children’s eyes turn sleepy mean/And Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain/For a boy in Fiddler’s Green”

Following up on yesterday’s post about death and dying in Tragically Hip songs, here is perhaps the saddest song in the Tragically Hip’s catalogue… “Fiddler’s Green” – The Tragically Hip

¶ Posted 30 May 2016 § Canada § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – The 100 Jokes That Defined Modern Comedy

This is an amazing list covering all the jokes/skits/moments that have helped define our modern understanding of (and sometimes approach to) comedy.

¶ Posted 26 May 2016 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: freedomtoreadweek, history

Gord Downie Taught Me To Dance: Memories of A Band That Defined Me and My Country

So I woke up today to the very sad news that Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip, has terminal brain cancer. Obviously, as you age, it’s natural that your own heroes and icons will age ahead of you. But 2016 has been a rough year where we lost some top-shelf music icons – […]

¶ Posted 24 May 2016 § Canada § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: hockey, music, saskatchewan, travel

Music Monday – “We’ve got real def rhythms and fresh new jams/And ya think we got egos but we’re just hams/Scott plays stickball and likes to skate/Frank is never on time he’s always…Sleeping! ‘Late!'”

I loved this song when I was in college… “I’m The Man” – Anthrax

¶ Posted 23 May 2016 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, music

Friday Fun Link – Another New Social Network For You To Join

Saw this on The Daily Show the other night – Li.st is a new social network by author and actor, BJ Novak. It’s got all the usual social media features you’d expect – Follows and Likes and Trending – so I guess the main thing that sets it apart is the conceit that everything on […]

¶ Posted 13 May 2016 § FridayFunLink § Internet § List § Meme § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Man, I can’t, I shan’t, formulate an anthem, where the words comprise mnemonics”

Happy (extra special) Pi Day (3/14)! It probably shouldn’t surprise me how many nerdy “Pi” songs there are on YouTube. Here’s one of the most clever I found…

¶ Posted 14 March 2016 § Humour § Meme § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, education

FTRW 2016 – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – Freedom to Read in Cuba?

Below are a couple photos I took in Havana during our 2011 trip to Cuba. This was a street vendor stall selling books (which is good!) but most here (and in our hotel’s gift shop or anywhere else we found books) were heavily propagandistic (bad!). Cuba isn’t commercialized with billboards selling blue jeans and soda but in its […]