Apollo Lemmon – play, politics & peculiarities

Music Week of 2019.07.12-2019.07.18

In 2004 I started using Last.fm to track the music I listen to each day. Over those 15 years my tastes have shifted and the

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Run 2019.07.18

Today I was able to head down one of my favourite routes, only to find it was under construction at one of the nicer legs.

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Ourselves The Elves – Self is Universe

Ourselves the Elves is a wonderful band that makes fanciful folk that goes into surprising territory and carries a rich constellation of influences. Self is

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Run 2019.07.17

My mid-week run took me back through the tourist-packed cemetery and through a familiar route home.

Run 2019.07.16

I fell victim to bad traffic light timing during my run today, getting stuck at lights I would normally be able to hit with my

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Run 2019.07.15

Running home after work is the easiest way for me to fit running into my life now that I have a baby. It helps that

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The Same River

Since May, Luna Nguyen of Luna Oi! has been sharing parts of her translation of the 1959 Vietnamese film The Same River (Chung Một Dòng

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Run 2019.07.13

I've been enjoying rerunning the third season of Zombies, Run! It's still surprising the team behind the app was able to put out 60 missions

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Matthew Sweet @ Paste Studio

This live performance by Matthew Sweet at Paste Studio highlights some of his wonderful newer songs that don't get the attention that his classic hits

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Dr. Mario World

Dr. Mario has been one of my favourite games, back to the NES classic. The new Android game Dr. Mario World is a departure in

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The Blood Queen’s Defiance

Getting folks together to play Dungeons & Dragons can be a challenge, and it's made tougher when whoever is DMing can't carve out the time

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Run 2019.07.09

Summer is fully here in Halifax and I've been enjoying runs through wonderful weather.

Ian Penn – A Love Like Yours

Ahead of a new album, From The Rear View Mirror, Ian Penn has a beautiful video for "A Love Like Yours" ready. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcCJmhKIESs

Fortune Doughnut

Today we stopped in at Fortune Doughnut for the first time. The store has a great aesthetic, which isn't surprising since it is run by

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Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe OST

Back in April I backed the Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe Kickstarter and today received the early access ROM to play. It's a very fun and

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Run 2019.07.05

Today I ran the latest Zombies, Run! new adventure, Track the Ripper, an alternative history story. I've been enjoying running stories free from zombies and

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The Revolution Will Be Cooked

A couple months back in Splinter, Natalie Shure, published a primer on the relationship between food and labour, introduced through an account of the Black

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Run 2019.07.03

The last mission before the mid-season break of this season of Zombies, Run! continued to be a compelling story. I'm happier with this season overall

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A Street Obscured

At the Halifax Central Library there is a series of windows that are covered in a dotted pattern. At different distances they obscure the view

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First Library Visit

Today I took Celestine around Halifax Central Library for her first visit to a library. We found a good book, but she seemed to be

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Big Wreck – Too Far Gone

Big Wreck has been a consistent bright point among Canadian rock bands and a personal favourite of mine for a long while. They popped up

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Run 2019.06.30

Running through the rain isn't so bad in the summer. I was in my Xeroshoes Genesis sandals, mostly to avoid having my other footwear become

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Run 2019.06.29

I was out running through the fog early today. It was a refreshing experience to cross the MacDonald Bridge in a cloud and then to

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Run 2019.06.28

I become very aware of traffic light patterns when I run routes with a lot of traffic lights. Today's run felt especially sluggish at the

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The Winnipeg General Strike

Earlier this week Stuff You Missed in History Class released an episode on The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. It's a fair introduction to the

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Run 2019.06.27

Today was the third in a row running the same route. I'm happy to have been speeding up my pace day over day as I

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Run 2019.06.26

This week I'm back to a familiar running route, passing the tourists visiting Titanic grave sites.

Klassy – Power Trip

The video for Klassy's "Power Trip" brings forward the heartbreaking evils of xenophobic immigration policies and makes a powerful track even more so. "Power Trip"

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