jump, Magic, jump
A screenshot of something I ran across in Google Reader, while adding my Two Gay Uncle-in-laws’ youtube cooking show to my feed.
Dammit, Google – you’ve done it again!
A Brief Refresher
I understand why it’s easy to confuse the two:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBqcEo5CNTQ]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S90z0jJDAQ]
Both were written by the same fellow, Jesse Fredrick.
Jesse Frederick is a film and television composer best known for writing the themes to television shows such as Perfect Strangers, Full House, Family Matters, and Step By Step. – Wikipedia
Chad Allan & The Reflections
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puYjGU27eo0]
Man, The Guess Who were a weird and fantastic band.
I don’t really enjoy the stadium style of BTO anymore – it certainly held a fascination for me when I was twelve – but Randy Bachman is one of the CBC’s greatest assets at the moment.
Er, while this began as a ridiculous Friday night music post, ten minutes of wikipedia has me thinking I may be returning to this topic. Is there a quality book on 1960s & ’70s Canadian rock music?
I suddenly feel like re-watching Festival Express.
The News
Somewhere there’s a woman elbow deep in another human’s blood, scalpel in hand, her brow roiling with sweat. She is an expert. She has trained her entire adult life to carry out these delicate maneuvers, investing countless hours in study and hard won practice, living for her victories, raging against her defeats.
Somewhere there’s a cluster of men in a humvee, scared and fatigued, rolling down a sun drenched street. The dust of their tires is the only evidence of their passage. Each pile of refuse that slides by their sandy windows may mean death, each inquisitive face that turns to watch their progress must be assessed to be friend or enemy, with little room for error.
Somewhere there’s a Mother who has just made the hardest choice of her life, having crept into the silence of suburbia in late morning. She is waiting at a bus stop with all she has in the world – a baby carrier, two small pieces of luggage, and a black eye.
Somewhere there’s a rich, self-important golfer, holding a press conference.
Deco Quickie: The Returnining
Jessica was asking me about the deco posters I occasionally use as desktop wallpapers, and if they were obtained at the recently mentioned Vintage Venus. While I love the stuff at VV, the posters she’s got in mind are actually the work of talented fellow, Steve Thomas.
My favourite work is definitely his series of planetary travel posters:
Full size images, as well as more great travel posters are available at Steve Thomas’ site.
Deco Quickie
A quick selection of posters from a place named Vintage Venus.
The site also offers to sell any of their beautiful finds as a print, which seems like a grand way to decorate a home.
Notebook: Citroen Half-tracks In Snow
A couple of pictures for later consideration:
Almost Too Honest, Subway
Took this phone cam picture at our local Subway the other day.
“Ehhh, it’s like a friggin’ mayonnaise type thing, know what I’m sayin’? A light dressing, sorta. Like an edible-petroleum-product kinda sauce?”
I was also pretty impressed with their follow up punch: admitting flat out that the “secret sub sauce” is just Zesty Italian.
Titles, Revisited
Hey – if Kentucky gets to hand out Colonelcies all willy-nilly, why can’t some other geographic location pick a rank and start throwing it around? Florida Admiral-ships, San Jose del Cabo Doctorates, Albertan CFO-hood?
