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Saturday Snap – Dancing at Rory Allen

Fun night with my mom and dad at Rory Allen’s Christmas show last night…

¶ Posted 23 December 2023 § Family § Humour § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: parents

Music Monday – “And the boys of the NYPD choir/Were singing Galway Bay.”

“Fairytale of New York” (portion)

¶ Posted 11 December 2023 § MusicMonday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: xmas

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – RSO at RPL (September 2010)

Hosted a visit by the RSO Chamber Players tonight at the Glen Elm Branch and was reminded that the partnership between RSO and RPL is probably one of the most long-standing, most successful in RPL history. Here’s a pic of the RSO at RPL back in September 2010…

¶ Posted 07 December 2023 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “We watched our friends grow up together/And we saw them as they fell/Some of them fell into Heaven/Some of them fell into Hell” (RIP Shane MacGowan: 1957-2023)

RIP to the only performer that ever scared the shit out of me when he appeared on SNL in the early to mid 1990’s. And what a performer he was! “A Rainy Night in Soho” – The Pogues And at this time of year, I have to mention the greatest Christmas song of all-time… “Fairytale […]

¶ Posted 04 December 2023 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language

Friday Fun Link – How Tarantino Uses Violence

¶ Posted 01 December 2023 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, movies

Music Monday – “How I lived a childhood in the snow/And all my teens in tow/Stuffed in strata of clothes”

“January Hymn” – The Decembrists

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Music Monday – “And now, breathe deep/I’m inhaling/You and I, there’s air in between/Leave me be/I’m exhaling”

I’d seen the original viral clip of Maggie Rogers with Pharrell but it didn’t really register at the time. I even told my sister I wasn’t familiar when my sister recently mentioned her and her husband were big fans (“travel the US to see her, name their new dog after her” level fans) and I […]