Thanks to community radio for bringing this song to my awareness a couple days ago. Useless trivia: the song doesn’t mention “Murphy” in the long list of Irish names it features even though “Murphy” is the most common surname in Ireland. Happy St. Paddy’s everyone! “It’s A Great Day For The Irish” – Judy Garland
As I may have mentioned on this blog before, I grew up watching professional wrestling. When I was around 7 or 8 years old, it was pretty amazing to see heavily-muscled, fantastically-named guys like the super-heroes I read about in comic books – whether good guys (The Dynamite Kid) or bad (The Mongolian Stomper, The […]
A great question from Reddit’s /r/books sub-reddit.
I sometimes think the only reason we have kids is to teach them cute tricks. Sasha has a few – when you say “Are you cute?”, she’ll tilt her head at 90 degrees (usually), if you ask how big she is, she’ll throw both arms up over her head (usually), she can wave when prompted […]
(Via Stephen’s Lighthouse)
Wired magazine asks if what we’re seeing in Sochi is a manifestation of some of the tropes of current dystopian literature like “Hunger Games”, the “Divergent” trilogy, etc. – a gleaming, authoritarian rule masquerading as a utopia but with a barely hidden sub-class, propaganda, televised spectacle, corruption, rigged competitions, doublespeak, etc. It’s an interesting idea […]
Today saw the opening ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Lots has been made about Russia’s anti-gay laws and the statement by the mayor of Sochi that their community of 400,000 people has no gay people which have drawn protests from everyone from the Head of the UN to Google to the Canadian […]
More and more companies, whether they actually buy Super Bowl ad time or not, are releasing their ads early, starting social media campaigns or otherwise trying related techniques to get as much attention as possible for their product. One of the best viral videos that wasn’t actually a Super Bowl ad came from Newcastle Brown […]
I haven’t had the opportunity to play Cards Against Humanity but have heard enough about it to know that the Library Edition would be especially hilarious, at least for a small subset of people I know! 😉 Here’s a demo of the original game so you can get a sense of how it goes…
I must’ve posted this as a Music Monday link (or just as a blog post generally) at some point in the past since I consider it the single greatest song ever written. But for that reason, you can never hear it enough and so here it is again… “Find The River” – R.E.M.
