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New on the 'BlogCrawl' that is...
It's creaky, especially given that you now have to delve into the guts of the old blogspot code to add new stuff, but readers often mention that the BlogCrawl over there on the left side bar is one of the main reasons they stop by here regularly (if you're on your phone, scroll down to the bottom and hit 'View Web Version' to see it).
Anyway, here are three new additions:
New on the 'BlogCrawl' that is...
It's creaky, especially given that you now have to delve into the guts of the old blogspot code to add new stuff, but readers often mention that the BlogCrawl over there on the left side bar is one of the main reasons they stop by here regularly (if you're on your phone, scroll down to the bottom and hit 'View Web Version' to see it).
Anyway, here are three new additions:
Tim Bray, software guy, who now lives in Lotusland. I've added his blog for no particular reason other than he has lots of interesting things to say about all kinds of, well, things, including a recent trip to Seattle so that he could take his teenage daughter and a friend to rock show at the Woodland Zoo that led to his visiting a Jazz Club to see a group called GoGo Penguin in the interim. Go figure.
A tour diary by Ben Sinclair of 'The Beths', my current favourite band from New Zealand. And here I thought Mike Watt was the most obsessive, ever, with this kind of stuff. The thing about Ben's diary that is so fun is that it is both comprehensive and good, with great little embedded movies together with some really insightful stuff about what it's like to be an indie band kinda/sorta making it on the road. The most recent post is about a trip from Palm Springs to Las Vegas at the end of their most recent tour a couple of months ago (they'll be back out on the road again soon, starting in mid-August).
Katelyn Jetelina's Epidemiology blog is a good one. I've been following her stuff for awhile now, for reasons that are pretty obvious. Her most recent post nails down why gun violence really and truly is a public health issue in the U.S. This includes the almost impossible to fathom fact that firearms-related injury is now the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in that fine country.
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Like Mr. Bray, I recently took a trip with one of my daughters, in this case littler e., to see a show in Seattle. Only in our case we went to the same event, together, to see the fantastic Adrianne Lenker at the Paramount theatre downtown...e. bought the tickets because it was my Father's Day present...Imagine that!...That's us at the top of the post.
And, for Bigger E....I've dug out the story of a long ago road trip to Las Vegas with, not a band, but instead my former editor...More to come on that one sometime soon, I hope, once this latest round of damnable grants is done....
Earworm in the header for this fine Canada Day weekend?...Of course...This!
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5 comments:
Thank you for the video!
Ah, the blog crawl. its a wonderful thing. when you don't have your own computer, all I need to do is remember your blog and the others are on the list to the left. That is how I found Empty Wheel and a few others.
Have a HAPPY CANADA DAY! tomorrow.
Note to PP: Our country is not broken. Its working quite well. It still is one of the best places in the world to live. The number one cause of death of American children is guns. Canada, not so much.
Our democracy is still working fine, all we have to do is go out and vote or run for office.
The important things such as fire departments, police departments, health care; they are all working.
Water and sewer are working in most parts of the country, certainly are in Nanaimo.
Kids have schools not too far from home and its free, unlike other countries.
We get to live fairly long lives, thanks to our medical system (yes it does need a bit of improvement, but on the whole we are way ahead of most of the world.
Some carry on as if it were the end of the world with the current "high interest" rates, high cost of food, homelessness due to lack of affordable housing. Note to politicians and others, These were not unexpected issues. Homelessness was being written about by the Vancouver Sun in the mid 1980s. Lack of hospitals, some communities have been asking/demanding more for 30 years. Surrey knew it would need more schools back when Diane "whatever" was Mayor. Now any of this qualify for a "broken" country. NO. We are still way ahead of the game of a quality life.
If some think the current situation is a particular person's fault, no its not. It all the voters and politicians since the 1970s when the first food bank in Canada opened. Politicians and voters can complain about a lack of all sorts of things, but really folks can't remember too many if any governments in the country planning ahead or doing something about the countries impending problems.
Now it maybe said I'm looking at it from my middle class status/income, with "generational wealth". That maybe true, but the parental units arrived in Canada in 1951, with me and a $100. When the parental units died, we the off spring continued to enjoy their efforts.
Those of us who live in Canada are lucky. We have a functional democratic government, health care, and a lot of decent water along with mountains, forests, provincial parks. This country isn't broken. Its Canada and its a great place to grow up and live out your life.
HAPPY CANADA DAY!
p.s. I also like paying my taxes.
I hear you e.a.f.--
But we olds have to remember how privileged we are compared to the young ones.
Case in point....If your then young Mom and Dad were to arrive in central Lotusland today, even with $10,000 in their luggage, they would likely be lucky to find a basement suite for them and their wee one...And, unless one or both secured a top 10% job, likely a professional one, it would take a long shot miracle of medium-sized lottery winning proportions for them to move out of it before you got to high school.
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Ditto on that blog crawl, I love it! A lot of stuff I read there gets posted to my Mastodon account.
e.a.f.- I completely agree with your post. Canada is a great Country.
Happy Canada Day to all.
I am also happy to pay my share of tax.
Yes, it is more difficult to purchase a home these days, however I do remember a time in the 1970s and then into the 1980s when interest rates were 22% for a mortgage. We were able to obtain one for 19 1/2% on $3M. Major deal. Interest was running about $50K a month. Oh, we did manage to build 53 townhouses for our co-op.
Wages simply have not kept up with the cost of living. Of course while housing prices were going up in the 1980s and 90s every one was happy. They were making money. Investors bought up a lot of Vancouver and here we are today, unless you plan very well, you won't be purchasing a house in B.C. or Toronto. Regardless of the price of housing Canada is still a great place to live. We have a functioning democracy, health care, education and best of all we don't have Trump and an American style Supreme Court.
Had a great Canada Day!
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