Creationist propaganda, or cheesy Sci-Fi flick? (YouTube)
4.04.2009
Neil Young's Fork in the Road
The new Neil Young album, Fork in the Road, can be streamed over at MySpace. It'll be out in stores this Tuesday.
After a quick listen, the ten-track album sounds a lot like his current touring compliment: guitar, bass, drums, organ, backing vocals, and Young himself. Its closest relation in Young's recent discography has to be Living with War, except that Fork in the Road's concept – an album about an electric car – seems ridiculous at some points.
Saturday Morning Cartoon
The opening of a well-known, semi-loved classic cheeseburger. Not the most obscure or interesting thing out there, but pretty much mandatory--so let's get it out of the way now.
Via YouTube and copyright violation.
Via YouTube and copyright violation.
4.03.2009
Crowdsourcing to Monitor Sask Rents
For those who don't know what "crowdsourcing" is, it's when you get the public (via the web) to do some job for you. In a good way.
In this case, ActUpInSask.org is asking Saskatchewan renters who faced rent increases in our tight housing market to submit their rent increases.
In this case, ActUpInSask.org is asking Saskatchewan renters who faced rent increases in our tight housing market to submit their rent increases.
Six In The Morning
1 BUDGET DAY As I'm typing this, Regina is presenting its budget. There's going to be some spending, reportedly. Curious to see what we're looking at here. Hopefully more later. (Leader-Post)
2 LET'S AT LEAST CONSIDER IT Saskatchewan politicians unanimously agree to ponder nuclear possibilities. But is it all an astute Sask-Party plot to set the NDP's pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear factions at each other's throats? (CBC)
3 OFF WITH HIS HEAD You know, if the world wasn't so goddamn dependent on oil maybe we wouldn't have to put up with medieval bullshit from economically over-inflated little backwaters like Saudi Arabia, whose courts have upheld the death sentence (bad enough) by, um, BEHEADING, of a Canadian convicted of murder.
[EDIT] And not just any beheading but a PUBLIC beheading. [END EDIT]
News-followers may recall this is the same Saudi Arabia that recently sentenced a senior citizen to be flogged. Can we please, PLEASE, pour piles of money into alternative energy sources? Like we should've been doing for at least the last half-century? The world shouldn't be propping up Saudi Arabia. (Toronto Star, Guardian)
4 BOOZE LAW CHANGES Sask Party gov't unveils plan to 1.) allow restaurant customers to take their re-corked wine home 2.) to allow wine-kit stores to brew booze on the premises and 3.)grant licenses enabling the home delivery of alcohol. Here's my non-expert, off-the-top-of-my-head take: 1.) Excellent! 2.) Excellent, I think 3.) Are you guys out of your minds??? I'm willing to have opinion adjusted by smarter people, here. (Leader-Post)
5 LANDLORDS MAD AT CITY Landlords mad. City mad. Systemic problems of poverty, drug addiction, food security, hopelessness, crime and etc make people sad--and they need to be addressed to break the cycle of property destruction that fuels the antagonism between renters and inspectors, says one guy who used to be on City Council. Methinks guy is onto something here. (Leader-Post)
6 IOWA IS MORE PROGRESSIVE ON GAY RIGHTS THAN CALIFORNIA It's true. And you know why? Because Iowans are just plain, good people. I mean, who doesn't love this guy? (Wall Street Journal, IMDB)
UPDATE: Edited to add the adjective "public" to beheading. Designer Alex says that's an important point and I shouldn't leave it out.
2 LET'S AT LEAST CONSIDER IT Saskatchewan politicians unanimously agree to ponder nuclear possibilities. But is it all an astute Sask-Party plot to set the NDP's pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear factions at each other's throats? (CBC)
3 OFF WITH HIS HEAD You know, if the world wasn't so goddamn dependent on oil maybe we wouldn't have to put up with medieval bullshit from economically over-inflated little backwaters like Saudi Arabia, whose courts have upheld the death sentence (bad enough) by, um, BEHEADING, of a Canadian convicted of murder.
[EDIT] And not just any beheading but a PUBLIC beheading. [END EDIT]
News-followers may recall this is the same Saudi Arabia that recently sentenced a senior citizen to be flogged. Can we please, PLEASE, pour piles of money into alternative energy sources? Like we should've been doing for at least the last half-century? The world shouldn't be propping up Saudi Arabia. (Toronto Star, Guardian)
4 BOOZE LAW CHANGES Sask Party gov't unveils plan to 1.) allow restaurant customers to take their re-corked wine home 2.) to allow wine-kit stores to brew booze on the premises and 3.)grant licenses enabling the home delivery of alcohol. Here's my non-expert, off-the-top-of-my-head take: 1.) Excellent! 2.) Excellent, I think 3.) Are you guys out of your minds??? I'm willing to have opinion adjusted by smarter people, here. (Leader-Post)
5 LANDLORDS MAD AT CITY Landlords mad. City mad. Systemic problems of poverty, drug addiction, food security, hopelessness, crime and etc make people sad--and they need to be addressed to break the cycle of property destruction that fuels the antagonism between renters and inspectors, says one guy who used to be on City Council. Methinks guy is onto something here. (Leader-Post)
6 IOWA IS MORE PROGRESSIVE ON GAY RIGHTS THAN CALIFORNIA It's true. And you know why? Because Iowans are just plain, good people. I mean, who doesn't love this guy? (Wall Street Journal, IMDB)
UPDATE: Edited to add the adjective "public" to beheading. Designer Alex says that's an important point and I shouldn't leave it out.
4.02.2009
the polls have closed!
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The ballots will now be counted! Thanks to everyone who voted in prairie dog's 2009 Best Of Regina poll--results will be published in the April 23 issue.
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Stephen Harper salutes a Traitor to Canada
1. Owen Hargreaves (right) once lived in Harper's riding.
2. Owen Hargreaves (Wikipedia) was born in Canada to an English mother and Welsh father, so under FIFA rules he had the option of playing international soccer for one of those three countries. He chose England.
2. Stephen Harper doesn't care about Canadian soccer. I wonder when Harper will salute Brett Hull for his contributions to Canadian hockey?
What the heck. If his government can give the Byfields money to run a western separatist magazine, it's obvious that Harper doesn't care about anything that makes Canadian so ... well, Canadian.
Check out what the potential Canadian voting public has to say on one of the best blogs on Canadian soccer, The 24th Minute.
The dangers of leaving your democracy to others
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Just got an early report on Best Of Regina voting trends--apparently, one of the leading contenders for the city's best building is...
Victoria Square Mall!
So, no Sask. Power building. No twin towers. No First Nations University. No Hotel Sask. No Legislature, no library, no, whatever that wacky neo-socialist apartment building is called on Broadway, no heritage architecture in the Warehouse District.
No, one of the leading vote-getters is...a shopping mall. (Nothing against the Victoria Square Mall, of course.)
You have just over three hours left to vote. E-mail bestof@prairiedogmag.com for a digital ballot.
RFF Lineup
The Regina Folk Festival was announced in today's Leader-Post. Performers will include:
Iron and Wine
K-os
Corb Lund
The Wailers
Bedouin Soundclash
Connie Kaldor
Loudon Wainwright
Socalled
Plants and Animals
Chic Gamine
Pacifika
Daby Toure
Delhi to Dublin
Chad Vangaalen
Basia Bulat
Lal
Mark Berbe and the Patriotic Few
Ghost Bees
Royal Wood
Deep Dark Woods
Andy Shauf
No Luck Club
Meredith Jordan
Good Lovelies
Folle Avoine
The Fabulous Son
Some of these aren't huge surprises – Winnipeg Folk Festival bagged and announced Loudon, Iron and Wine, and Socalled as well, and Connie Caldor has been listed on Pollstar for months. Royal Wood and Plants and Animals have both toured through Regina recently and done well. And Saskatchewan boys like Deep Dark Woods and Andy Shauf are great and logical additions to the bill. Overall, a not-bad lineup.
Iron and Wine
K-os
Corb Lund
The Wailers
Bedouin Soundclash
Connie Kaldor
Loudon Wainwright
Socalled
Plants and Animals
Chic Gamine
Pacifika
Daby Toure
Delhi to Dublin
Chad Vangaalen
Basia Bulat
Lal
Mark Berbe and the Patriotic Few
Ghost Bees
Royal Wood
Deep Dark Woods
Andy Shauf
No Luck Club
Meredith Jordan
Good Lovelies
Folle Avoine
The Fabulous Son
Some of these aren't huge surprises – Winnipeg Folk Festival bagged and announced Loudon, Iron and Wine, and Socalled as well, and Connie Caldor has been listed on Pollstar for months. Royal Wood and Plants and Animals have both toured through Regina recently and done well. And Saskatchewan boys like Deep Dark Woods and Andy Shauf are great and logical additions to the bill. Overall, a not-bad lineup.
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