The population of Parksville is far fewer than 15,000 … but we must have had 15,000 at the Canada Day celebration. The beach was packed.
I was most impressed with fireworks.
Tiny little girls were dancing / celebrating / cartwheeling while watching the show. Very cute.
I caught 3 of the musical acts. All good.
Headliners were The Tragically Hip Experience. Very Canadian.
… Or maybe it was actually The Joe Cocker Experience. Very British. Anyway, entertaining.
I’ve read all Michael Palin’s book. Always engaging and entertaining.
The audio version is particularly recommended as Palin reads it himself.
In September 2014, marine archaeologists discovered HMS Erebus, her snapped stern furred with algae, on the Arctic seabed. Palin starts there and works back. …
… September 1839, accompanied by HMS Terror, … four years on an Antarctic adventure, where the dashing James Clark Ross captained her to the Barrier, or the Ross ice shelf as it was then known. …
The two ships set the record for most southerly latitude reached under sail alone.
I actually enjoyed reading about the successful Antarctic voyages — 12 months avoiding icebergs — than the more infamous Northwest Passage attempt under captain Franklin.
… disappeared while on his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate the Northwest Passage in the North American Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew died of starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning, zinc deficiency and scurvy.
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The TV star’s vivid memoir of HMS Erebus and its epic polar expeditions is lively and diligent
I knew the story best from the lyrics of one of my favourite songs. “Northwest Passage” by Stan Rogers.
Palin refers to the classic in the last pages of the book.
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“I have a semester and a half of College. So I understand Freud.”
I finally got around to watching one of the greatest TV series of all-time.
And I see the appeal. The cast is excellent. The dialogue real and compelling.
The opening credits montage and theme song are fantastic.
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Still, I’m not motivated to carry on to season 2.
I get the idea.
A song inspired by a 1979 school shooting in San Diego. ☹️
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Though the family was very poor, the killer’s father — Wallace — had given his daughter a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition for Christmas 1978.
She later said, “I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun.” When asked why he might have done that, she answered, “I felt like he wanted me to kill myself.”
The killer will die in prison.
The father, I assume, is free. If it were up to me, I’d put him in prison too.
I doubt any human has had life easier than me — a white, male, heterosexual Canadian born 1957.
Talk about privilege.
Any man calling himself victim to the women’s rights movement is an idiot. And a snowflake. 😀
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Back in my University days we bought tickets for Joe Cannon every year.
In fact it was Keith Erhardt and friends who sponsored his trips to Calgary.
So far as I know Joe still lives in Sun Valley.
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