I have only one question about this video. How in god’s name do you do something like this without messing up? 100 Riffs (A Brief History of Rock N’ Roll) Hit the direct link for more details, including a complete list of the songs.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Are My Days Of Being Able To Take The Train Numbered?
Everyone’s favourite federal government strikes again? Since the new federal budget made it through the various levels of government and can now set about laying waste to everything in its path, word has come down that Guelph’s VIA Rail station will have no people working in it come October. This news is about as fantastic …
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The Travis Snider Trade: It’s Crappy, But Is It?
Remember that time way back in the spring when one of the biggest stories around the Blue Jays was the roster spot competition between Eric Thames and Travis Snider? That feels like so long ago, doesn’t it? And did we ever figure out who won? Thames started the season in Toronto but didn’t last, and …
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RNIB’s Ad Is Not Offensive. People Getting Offended By RNIB’s Ad Is What’s Offensive
Over the weekend, people on Twitter and probably other places I don’t frequent started getting all up in arms about this RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) fundraising ad. Yes, that acronym looks weird to me, too. “It makes blindness out to be pathetic,” they said! “This commercial is garbage!” “Makes us seem like …
Forward, march!
So…it’s assistance dog blog carnival time. I missed the one in May. The sad part about that was it was originally April, then it got postponed, and I still missed it. I forget what crazy was going on at the time, but since my life is full of more crazy than not, I’ll blame crazy. …
An Awesome Classic Story I Wish I’d Seen At The Time
You know, with my crazy schedule, I was starting to worry that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with Twitter anymore. I’d come home from work, stare at the piles of tweets that had accumulated, and then promptely decide I could put my time to better use by doing…anything but reading them all. But …
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More On The Blind Archer, Plus Just Where Can I Watch All This Stuff, Anyway?
After yesterday’s post, Ro sent me a pretty interesting article on Im Dong-hyun, the legally blind archer. I’m glad people are asking these questions, even though it seems they’re near impossible to answer definitively. Column: World record, yes. Blind? Not exactly LONDON — The headline sounded too good to be true: “Legally Blind Archer Smashes World …
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An Olympics Events Schedule, Plus The Difference Between Blind Blind And Legally Blind
Whether I bother watching a little or a lot of the Olympics has still not been decided, but what I know for sure is that this is about the handiest thing I could have found. Here Is Your Handy Olympic Master Schedule A list of when everything is going to take place, with the added …
Fifty Shades Of Sherlock
I’m hardly what you’d call one of those stuffy literature people, but this sounds kinda horrifying. Thanks to all this Fifty Shades of Grey junk, a company called Total-E-Bound Publishing has enlisted some of its romance writers to add sex scenes to the classics. Some original fans of Jane Eyre might be unhappy to discover …
Dear Rogers: Get Bent. Thank You
Update: Our pal James has suggested that this post needs a soundtrack. He is correct. Yes, they gave us a nice discount thanks to that ridiculous internet outage last week, but based on what I’ve just seen, Rogers can still go fuck themselves, preferably in the eye with something large, flaming and uncomfortable. Our bill …
