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Townie Bastard: March 2014
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Thursday, March 06, 2014. There’s been a thing going around Facebook where people pick their 12 favourite/most important to them records. And rather than just listing them and that being that, I figured I’d offer up a few thoughts. Oh, and this at this moment. Ask me again in a year’s time, it may be different. I have nearly 11,000 songs on my iPod, which probably means close to 1,000 records. These are the 12 that stick with me. In no particular order:.
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Townie Bastard: May 2014
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Sunday, May 11, 2014. Mom and I, Christmas morning, 2012. So, in honour of Mother's day, a story about my mom. And not one that involves her nearly killing me. On a Florida interstate. Let us pause briefly, just for a moment, to contemplate what kind of greedy corporate assholes open their store on Christmas morning.all right, back to the awesomeness that is my mom. So mom was working cosmetics on Christmas morning. When I found out about this I was pre...
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Townie Bastard: July 2014
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Thursday, July 31, 2014. So some house-keeping before I get to Maui stuff. Maui has been more laid back, so there's less to write about, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. So now they will keep bags for a month, assuming you have a return reservation already in place. Which is quite fair. They also contacted me personally to let me know that the coolers I abandoned were reclaimed from our room and are waiting for us when we return to Ottawa. It's an au...
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Townie Bastard: Geek OD
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. I think I might, possibly, finally have overdosed on geek culture last Wednesday. She is very pretty. So yeah, this was building for awhile. And there was certainly geek news on Wednesday.the trailer for the new Supergirl TV show, the news of a New Mutants movie.what ultimately broke me was New York Comic Con (NYCC). In the last three years, NYCC has gone batshit crazy. For those of you lucky enough to catch Mad Max: Fury Road t...
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Townie Bastard: Frozen
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Saturday, February 14, 2015. When you live in a place like Iqaluit you get used to being asked a lot about what it's like to live there. Some of it is genuine curiosity, but I've always thought there is some internal measurement system going on. "Could I handle living in a place like that? 3 Lack of southern amenities. I've viewed the cold (including wind chill) at three levels. There's cold (0 to -20), Cold (-20 to -45), and Fucking Cold (-45 and colde...
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Townie Bastard: June 2014
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Saturday, June 21, 2014. So it seems the people have spoken. I'm not as obsessed with blog traffic as I was back in 2009, when this blog was at its prime. But I'm still curious as to what people like to read. Have said some very kind words. I look at it and all I can see are the typos. It's the problem when you feel ranty and hit 'post' before doing a couple of hard edits. On a personal note, I engaged in the middle age masochism of doing a road race today&...
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Townie Bastard: No complaining
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Monday, June 22, 2015. There's a rule in Nunavut - don't complain about the weather. Well, you can, but be very careful about when you choose to do that. Mainly because you don't want to be one of those people who come up from down south and complain about it being -30C in February. It's winter. It's the arctic. It's going to be cold. Suck it up. But, for example, snow in May? Yeah, no snow. Lots of sunshine. Beautiful looking day. Weirdness. By the way, an...
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Townie Bastard: August 2014
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Saturday, August 16, 2014. So this is a milestone post that more than once over the last few years I never thought I would make it to. Blogger is telling me that this is my 2,000th post. The blog start in Newfoundland in February 2005 as a way, if I recall, to write about some stuff the Express. Wouldn't let me. Probably politics. Always drove me nuts that I had a successful, award-winning political column with the Packet. First, it can be hard to write abo...
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Townie Bastard: The Last Booth Memorial Post
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They weren't kidding about that climate change. Friday, May 22, 2015. The Last Booth Memorial Post. Earlier this week Heather Barrett, who is a producer with CBC in Newfoundland, did a story. About how she was a proud alumni of Booth Memorial. The school is closing and this was her way of saying goodbye. I swear to God, it feels like virtually every family member and friend I have either tagged the story to me, retweeted it or did something to make sure I noticed the story was out there. Now, I thought i...
