This has been stuck in my head for nigh on 3 days. These guys are great musicians and I find myself singing their latest release over and over again. :)
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with sleep deprivation and repetitive behaviour (feed baby, change baby, put baby down to sleep, hear baby cry, feed baby, change baby, rinse and repeat).
Edited: Larry brought to my attention that the video didn't run anymore because of copyright crap. So here's a link to the video on another site. Click here
Oh, and here's their latest release on their official You Tube channel: Gotta Be Somebody.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Best Christmas Gift Ever
I'd like to introduce you to Chip Shagwell-Stone.
He arrived early on December 29th weighing in at 8 lbs and measuring 19 inches.
He is the most amazing, cutest, most kissable, softest, sweet-smellingest baby in the whole wide world.
He also has his Momma's attitude, as clearly shown in this photo:
Ever seen a kid with a better WTF face than this? Notice the hand ready to bitch-slap, too.
I am head over heels in love with my youngest son. He is the ulimate Christmas gift.
He arrived early on December 29th weighing in at 8 lbs and measuring 19 inches.
He is the most amazing, cutest, most kissable, softest, sweet-smellingest baby in the whole wide world.
He also has his Momma's attitude, as clearly shown in this photo:
Ever seen a kid with a better WTF face than this? Notice the hand ready to bitch-slap, too.
I am head over heels in love with my youngest son. He is the ulimate Christmas gift.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Is Nothing Sacred?
Happy Days? Fine.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? If you must.
But this??
I simply cannot accept it. I won't. It's ethically, morally and just plain WRONG.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? If you must.
But this??
I simply cannot accept it. I won't. It's ethically, morally and just plain WRONG.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Up Yer Kilts!
For my real life hubby and my cyberguy, both of whom look awesome in kilts:
Guys' Top 15 Reasons to own a Kilt:>
2. Air circulation = Virility
3. The way his pleats swing when he walks
4. It would be a shame to hide legs like that.
5. It takes confidence to wear a kilt, and confidence is sexy
6. I don't have to bother asking, "Boxers or briefs?"
7. When I'm with my man, the look of envy I get from others
8. Sitting across from him on the Subway.
9. Zero to naked in 2 seconds
10. Sean Connery, Mel Gibson... need I go on?
Guys' Top 15 Reasons to own a Kilt:>
1. Chicks I've never met before ask me about my underwear.
2. Kilt + Bathroom = Easy.
3. The freedom to scratch when and where it itches.
4. It itches a lot less in a kilt- it's the breeze
5. It makes people wonder.
6. You can call Punks conformists.
7. Almost as good as being naked.
8. Women love men in kilts.
9. When operating a zipper is too far beyond your capabilities.
10. Floor mounted AC vents on a hot day.
11. History has shown that men in kilts routinely kick the shit out of the trousered.
12. In the words of Mel Gibson in Braveheart ..."Freedom!"
13. Two Words. Beer Pockets.
14. Asshole Auto-Detect System: Anyone who snickers and says "nice skirt" is obviously a homophobe or just plain stodgy...
15. It's called a "kilt" 'cause we done kilt everyone who called it a skirt.
Reasons Why Women Love Men Who Wear Kilts:
2. Air circulation = Virility
3. The way his pleats swing when he walks
4. It would be a shame to hide legs like that.
5. It takes confidence to wear a kilt, and confidence is sexy
6. I don't have to bother asking, "Boxers or briefs?"
7. When I'm with my man, the look of envy I get from others
8. Sitting across from him on the Subway.
9. Zero to naked in 2 seconds
10. Sean Connery, Mel Gibson... need I go on?
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
To all my American friends, I wish you the happiest of Thanksgivings today, and the best of whatever shopping deals you can find tomorrow!
Eat, drink and be merry!!
Eat, drink and be merry!!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Highway of Heroes
We live very close to the stretch of highway to which they're referring (though we're not in Coburg, but a bit further west).
I've seen hundreds of people crammed onto the overpasses: old, young, families, firefighters, cops, ambulances..you name it. I've seen the motorcades go by.
And I've wept for the fallen every time.
I've seen hundreds of people crammed onto the overpasses: old, young, families, firefighters, cops, ambulances..you name it. I've seen the motorcades go by.
And I've wept for the fallen every time.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Re-post?
This email has been out for a while, and I'm pretty sure I posted it on the old Penny blog. However, while it's a bit overblown and preachy, it's still a good read.
British news paper salutes Canada . . . this is a good read. It is funny how it took someone in England to put it into words... Sunday Telegraph Article From today's UK wires:
Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, 'The Sunday Telegraph' LONDON :
Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region.
And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored.
Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped Glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts.
For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.
Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy.
Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.
Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, it's unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular memory as somehow or other the work of the 'British.'
The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone.
Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time.
Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.
It is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, [and Keifer Sutherland], Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British.
It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.
Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces.
Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia. Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan ?
Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun. It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This past year more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.
Lest we forget.
British news paper salutes Canada . . . this is a good read. It is funny how it took someone in England to put it into words... Sunday Telegraph Article From today's UK wires:
Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, 'The Sunday Telegraph' LONDON :
Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region.
And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored.
Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped Glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts.
For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.
Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy.
Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.
Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, it's unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular memory as somehow or other the work of the 'British.'
The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone.
Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time.
Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.
It is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, [and Keifer Sutherland], Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British.
It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.
Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces.
Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia. Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan ?
Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun. It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This past year more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.
Lest we forget.
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