Category Entertainment
An End To Fear
Times have changed. You can’t watch it on television anymore – unless you are an Apple TV subscriber. But for 50 years it was a broadcast television staple at this time of year. A Charlie Brown Christmas is based on the Peanuts comic strip that became popular in the 1950s. The strip was a cultural […]
And In The News…
It is Friday. which is the day the New York Times puts a news quiz online. Eleven questions on events of the past week. I’m sure there’s a reason there are 11 questions, not 10, but I haven’t asked. I make sure to take the quiz each Friday, to see how well I have absorbed […]
The Last Single
If you are a music fan you’ve probably heard the song by now. The final Beatles single was released earlier today. The tune is pleasant enough, but I’m struggling with the band label attached to it. Just because each member of the Fab Four played on it doesn’t make it a Beatles tune to me. […]
Say It Ain’t So
The evidence, including a birth certificate looks pretty conclusive. Buffy Saint-Marie, indigenous Canadian icon, is apparently no more indigenous than I am. For six decades she has been a well-known singer-songwriter, winner of multiple awards, and supposedly she’s not who she says she is. I must admit, I am a little surprised. At the same […]
Beach Thoughts
Reading might be my favorite recreational activity. I use it to stimulate my brain – and to de-stress when i get over-stimulated. Today’s post on teh topic comes from August 2, 2015. I don’t have anywhere near as much time to read for pleasure as I would like – except when I am at the […]
Time To Apologize?
No-one else will do it, so I will ask. Does Shania Twain owe Ottawa an apology? The 2023 edition of Bluesfest kicked off Thursday evening. It was a beautiful hot summer day, and 30,000 people gathered at Ottawa’s LeBreton Flats to meet up with friends and share some beer, food and conversation. I noticed though […]
Dribbling
I’ll admit it. I was entertained despite myself. I don’t watch basketball on television. Or in person for that matter. Haven’t since the 1970s. The sport has always struck me as a good way for football players to keep in shape. The actual games are rather silly – they are almost always decided in the […]
Legendary
The first tine I heard a Robert Charlebois record I really wasn’t sure what he was singing about. Even with the lyrics in front of me It was 1968 and I was in a high school French class. The teacher thought we should hear and study this new music. It was in French, and then […]
Still On The Road
It was a huge event. A live worldwide satellite broadcast back before the invention of the World Wide Web. The final show for legendary rock band, The Who. I thought of that 1982 concert as I passed by an advertising poster in the London Underground last month advertising The Who’s summer UK tour. Forty-one years […]
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