There will be the mandatory fiddle-music playing, with colorful characters from Canada’s Voyageur past. They will dance in exaggerated movements, and will be having a much better time of it than the audience will. There will also be the mandatory wailing and drum music to recognize the First Nations. Young children will clumsily dance around [...]
Archive for February 2010
Friar’s Predictions for the Olympic Closing Ceremonies
February 28, 2010Window-Gazing Across Canada
February 26, 2010Even though passenger jets have been around for over 50 years, they never ceases to amaze me. It wasn’t too long ago (1885) that the Transcontinental Railroad was built. Before that, there were no road and very few towns. It took months to cross the prairies, let alone the continent. Today, we sit in a [...]
Feeling Blue
February 26, 2010Friar’s Blogging Tip #157: When in doubt, show a painting of some fruit. It’s almost guaranteed to generate at least one snarky comment.
A Twitters’ Guide to Selecting the Right Coach For Yourself (*)
February 22, 2010(*) No, I did NOT make these up. These are from actual bios found on Twitter. (**) With apologies to my Life-Coach Friends. This isn’t’ about you…it’s about the spammers who insist filling on following me. ****************************************** Certified Life Coach Nothing unusual here. This one’s fairly mainstream by now. Life Success Coach It’s one thing [...]
Viking Nursery Rhymes
February 20, 2010Hyûmpeti Dûmpeti wanted it all. So Hyûmpeti breached the castle wall. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men, Couldn’t stop Hyûmpeti from plundr’ing again. s ********************************** s Jörgen Pyörgen, Lutefisk and rye. Slayed the enemy and made them die. But Jörgen let some get away, So he could slay them another day. s [...]
Rejected Offerings
February 13, 2010Behold! Though the attempt at home-made bread failed. It was placed at Odin’s feet, as an offering to the woodland creatures. The woodland creatures, however, did not appear to appreciate the rock-hard substance… …and knocked over Odin, in the process. Ungrateful varmints.
Random Ski Thoughts
February 9, 2010You can get pretty interesting weather skiing out West. Literally, on the same morning, you can be skiing below the clouds… …in the clouds… ..or above the clouds. Another thing I discovered while skiing on a remote gnarly bump-run… ..is that someone had carved and burned a demon-mask right into a tree. Now..THAT…is AWESOME. (And [...]
Looking Through the Glass
February 8, 2010An Optimist will say the glass is half-full A Pessimist will say the glass is half-empty. A Severe Optimist will burst into tears of gratitude, and will write an inspiring blog post about being thankful for having access to clean drinking water, and a glass to hold it in. An Engineer will say the glass is at 50% full [...]
