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Music Monday – “I can tell you’re a sad boy just like me/Baby, don’t deny what your poor heart needs/Been so long since he called your name/On the run from a losing game/Just bat your eyes, baby, let me feel the pain”

“C’mon Baby, Cry” – Orville Peck I think we’ve established that I am neither hip nor cool. So I am reliant on younger coworkers to inform my musical choices and this one was perfect: “He’s like this gay guy from a punk rock group singing awesome country songs. He’s Canadian and we’re going to see […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2023 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “You’ve got your mother in a whirl ’cause she’s/Not sure if you’re a boy or a girl/Hey babe, your hair’s alright/Hey babe, let’s stay out tonight”

“Rebel Rebel” – David Bowie

¶ Posted 13 March 2023 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Sheets of empty canvas/Untouched sheets of clay/Were laid spread out before me/As her body once did/All five horizons/Revolved around her soul/As the earth to the sun”

“Black” – Pearl Jam

¶ Posted 27 February 2023 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive

Music Monday – “I just wanna feel real love/Feel the home that I live in/’Cause I got too much life/Running through my veins/Going to waste”

When Shea and I got married on the beach in Mexico in 2003, this song was in heavy rotation on one of the music channels in our hotel room. (In fact, I briefly thought she might call off the wedding to pursue Robbie Williams. Or if she didn’t, I might as he’s just that damn […]

¶ Posted 13 February 2023 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive

Music Monday – “Cause if summer is here/I’m still waiting there/Winter is here/And I’m still waiting there”

I have many fond memories of regularly going to the Ness Creek Music Festival, a hippie festival in Northern Saskatchewan, when I was in my twenties. I can’t remember their name but one moment of perfection was a band I’d never heard of but that ended up being a reggae band who brought a little […]

¶ Posted 30 January 2023 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, holiday, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Well did you hear?/There’s a natural order/Those most deserving will end up with the most/That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top/Well I say, “Shit floats”

“Running The World” – Jarvis Cocker

¶ Posted 23 January 2023 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

“Tell Me About A Time You’ve Gone Above and Beyond To Help Someone?”

One of the great ironies of the working world is that we often questions like the one above in interviews of new staff but then hire people who don’t feel empowered to actually go “above and beyond” to help people. This can be for a variety of reasons – too time-consuming, confusion or mixed messages […]