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“Remember, Remember the Fifth of November” (This Isn’t A Movie Anymore; It’s A Warning)

Do you know the connection between Guy Fawkes, the movie “V for Vendetta” and the Anonymous movement? Or that today, was the Million Mask March at locations around the world? If you do, you probably also understand why a variety of worldwide movements and groups – from Anonymous to Occupy to WikiLeaks among others – are […]

¶ Posted 05 November 2013 § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § UK § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, history, movies, philosophy, unitedstates

17 Misused and Made-Up Words That Make You Rage

I’m horrified to learn I’m guilty of using at least a couple of these on a regular basis. I won’t tell you which ones but I will observe that it’s hot enough today that I could really go for some sherbert. 😉

¶ Posted 08 October 2013 § Humour § Meme § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Joan went east/Then she went west/I stayed right here in the middle/That’s where I liked it the best”

This song will always remind me of high school but even after listening to this song hundreds of times in my life, it took this slowed down acoustic version to make me realise I’ve misheard the lyric I quoted in the title of this post as “Joe went east/she went west” as if the narrator […]

¶ Posted 07 October 2013 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music, travel

Friday Fun Link – A Great Convocation Speech by Tim Minchin

God, I love Tim Minchin! (Er, never mind that I said that given the topic of this post!) 😉 This convocation speech is especially great…

¶ Posted 04 October 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, cool, philosophy

Muffled Voices: Five Famous Authors of Banned Books

This week is Banned Books Week in the US (as opposed to last week of February in Canada for some reason.) Oh well – I’ll happily celebrate any week that celebrates banned books and pass along great articles profiling authors who’ve been banned. In 2008, when Phillip Pullman learned his novel, The Golden Compass, […]

¶ Posted 24 September 2013 § Censorship § Library § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, freedomtoreadweek, unitedstates

Why I’m Voting “Yes” in the #yqr #wwtp Referendum (And No, It’s Not For The Reasons You Might Expect)

Like the title says, I’m voting “Yes” in the Regina Waste Water Treatment Plant Referendum. But it’s not for the reason you might expect… I think I’ve mentioned in passing on this blog that I sometimes regret getting more heavily involved in party politics, first by joining Ryan Meili’s 2009 Sask NDP Leadership bid […]

¶ Posted 22 September 2013 § Canada § Jobs § Pace § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: economics, history, saskatchewan, science

Saturday Snap – Pace’s Grade One Class Names

It’s interesting to see the trends in kid’s names via the “Name Board” in Pace’s Grade One classroom. Lots of “A” names, “K” names, “M” names; lots of “aid” sounds (Braydon, Jaden, Kayden); a few classic names (Ava, Gwendolyn, Paige). Anything else jump out?

¶ Posted 21 September 2013 § Pace § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: saskatchewan

A Couple Reasons I Really Like Doug Stanhope

Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff… And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this…

¶ Posted 05 September 2013 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § Politics § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: copyright, freedomtoreadweek, unitedstates

This isn’t where I got the name for my Head Tale blog…

…but I kinda wish it was! 😉 Atheism and religion are like two sides of a coin..one prefers to use heads, other relies on tales (This quote was posted to a thread on Quora about favourite atheist jokes. The actual story of how this site got its name, which I may have told before, is […]

¶ Posted 01 September 2013 § Blog § Humour § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism

Alan W. Pollack’s “Notes On” Beatles Series

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 […]