Via David, here is a great site where you can access the living social history audio collections of the British Museum. Tonight, I will be listening to a first person recollection of going to a football match in the 1950's:  •  “Arthur recalls the experience of going to watch Burnley FC in the …

Because Canada is a confederation of colonies with a fairly recent coming  •  together in theory and much residual cultural division remaining, the place of  •  provincial pride rates perhaps ahead of, say, the North v. South Dakotan  •  question.  •  As part of that tradition, at least for some …

I watched last night with half my attention elsewhere. Here is what I saw:  •  I like "Hey Ya" and was happy to see how the video was trasformed to a stage performance for live TV. Sooner or later I am going to be able to hire a high school marching band for some purpose in my life, too.  •  If …

Still the sign of failure to many Maritimers, redemption to others  •  One of my favorite bands is the Grievous Angels. I can't get on the 401 without thinking of their song "Crossing the Causeway" off of One Job Town. I wonder if there is an exit 666.

Ian has an intersting post  •  about images of men in 1970's media that we later learned - or really just  •  had confirmed - were gay. The word flamboyant comes to mind as how we were able  •  to accept their personalities. I am glad those days are over. If you were not  •  bid, brassy and, most …

The worst thing ever on the internet. Not sex...not violence...but it will put you off the first and make you contemplate the second. Why? Good Lord Why?

Just listened to Terry Gross's interview of Robert Plant on NPR's Fresh Air:  •  “Robert Plant. The former lead singer of Led Zeppelin has a new CD that includes tracks he recorded before 'Zeppelin. On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks to Plant about his life and listens to recordings that …

Mandy likes 80's music. Ee-ee writes about 80's music.   I can't recall exactly how my tastes played out in undergrad other than they were pretty broad.  Liked the Eurymics, the Clash, Bowie, King Crimson, U2 and later Bragg, the Pogues.   Even the ubiquitous Phil Collins hit had its purpose …

My order came from murderecords today:  •  Closed by jale (1995, ep cd)Smart Bomb by Thrush Hermit (1994, ep cd)Peppermint by Sloan (1992, ep cd)Mock Up, Scale Down by The Super Friendz (1995, cd)Peter by Eric's Trip (1993, cd)  •  Three months but who cares. Five disks of Halifax scene. I used a …