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Sappy Sunday – The 100 Saddest Songs

A whole bunch of sadness in convenient list form. Coincidentally, I’ve just made a playlist on Rdio called “Guaranteed Tears” where I tried to collect all of the songs that have made me cry in the past. (Sad songs list via MetaFilter)  

Posted 26 August 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Thou shall not judge a book by its cover/Thou shall not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover”

Posted 20 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Rape? Rape Who? Rape Jokes – Are They Funny?

About a month ago, there was a minor uproar online after a female patron at a comedy show posted of an extremely unsettling experience her and her friend had on a Tumblr blog. The two women decided to go to a show featuring well-known comic Dane Cook (who they’d heard of) with Daniel Tosh (who […]

Posted 19 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Internet § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Legal Decisions Are Fun!

I’ve made a few passing references to the fact that I am no longer the Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. Without going into specifics, there’s a bit of back story to how that all came about but the main thing to know for the purposes of this post is that when my position […]

Posted 17 August 2012 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Work § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “Trying to keep up with you/And I don’t know if I can do it/Oh no I’ve said too much/I haven’t said enough”

I’ll send this one out to my cousin…

Posted 06 August 2012 § Family § Internet § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

“Goodnight iPad” – A Parody

The classic children’s book gets re-imagined for our modern age.

Posted 22 July 2012 § Humour § Library § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – “Where do babies come from?” A magic potion.

Reddit has a couple cool sub-Reddits – one called AMA (Ask Me Anything) and another larger one called IAMA (I Am A) where users can take questions from other Redditors related to their jobs or their celebrity or other experiences they’ve had – from the amazing to the horrifying – to pretty much every other angle you can […]

Posted 20 July 2012 § Humour § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Sappy Sunday – The Best High School Graduation Gift Ever

Saw this idea on Reddit and thought – wow, that’s amazing. If only I knew of a kid that was starting kindergarten this fall that I could do this for! 😉

Posted 24 June 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Mick Burrs: Real Live Poet

Had a surprise visitor at work the other day – poet Steven Michael Berzensky (aka Mick Burrs). I first came across Mick’s books when, as a young English major, I would go to Yorkton as part of my job as a door-to-door salesman with Image Cable Systems.  I would spend the night at a co-worker’s […]

Posted 20 June 2012 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Save a Library By Burning Books?

Brilliant! (via MetaFilter with a h/t to the colleague who sent it to me at the exact same moment!)

Posted 15 June 2012 § Humour § Library § Politics § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,