Apollo Lemmon – play, politics & peculiarities

Down To Luck is a new D&D actual play podcast from folks here in Nova Scotia. It’s great fun and it won’t take long to

Strand of Oaks’ Eraserland album was released today and it’s remarkable. I wasn’t familiar with Timothy Showalter or the project before, but I’ve been won

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The Very Best

Shannon Manor’s The Very Best is everything I could have hoped for from a Pokémon story. Shannon took the core story from Pokémon Red and

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Model Minority

Cory Doctorow’s Model Minority is a novella that explores police brutality and corruption, and social justice by taking the Superman story and refreshing it. Cory

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Brass Against – Parabol/Parabola

Brass Against have released a stunning cover of Tool’s “Parabol” and “Parabola” that has faithful vocals by Samuel Hope and an arrangement that elevates the

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Ruby Ibarra – Playbill$

Ruby Ibarra performed “Playbill$” accompanied by The Balikbayans on the Wish 107.5 Bus, and this rendition brought new life to the album track.

Dinner at Envie

Tonet and I had dinner Sunday at Envie, one of the vegan restaurants here in Halifax. It’s on the higher end of what I’m willing

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

I was late to seeing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse because I was traveling while it was in theatres, but even after hearing so many glowing

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Luna oi! on Rice

In this video Luna oi! explains rice. She shows how it is bought in Vietnam, to how to cook rice, and how to make rice

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Nintendo Cartridge Society on Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins

This week Nintendo Cartridge Society covered Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, a game I loved growing up. This game was a weird one,

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Golden Age Society – Big Fam

It took some time for me to warm up to Golden Age Society, but their Beatrock debut EP Epidemic is strong. “Big Fam” is a

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Every Little Thing on Forks

This week’s episode of Every Little Thing, “Forks: One Utensil’s Battle for Respect”, is a quick, engaging history of forks. Many folks living in cultures

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GBA Recasing

I’ve had a mini project ongoing for the past couple months of refurbishing a pair of Nintendo Game Boy Advance systems. I bought both used

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Ian Penn – Death of a Traveller

Ian Penn is a singer and poet that pulls on some of the threads that Leonard Cohen and Neil Young did. His new song, “Death

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Run with the Ancestors

Today I ran the Run with the Ancestors virtual race. It was good to get out for a winter run after avoiding the sidewalks because

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Sucré – “Roof” & “Walk Through”

Sucré’s new video looks like it repurposes a stop motion fairy tale and it’s a perfect fit for Stacy King’s haunting vocals and the moving

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Marit Larsen – I Don’t Want to Talk About It

Marit Larsen has been one of my favourite singer-songwriters for years and “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” is a great example of how

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Lily & Madeleine – “Can’t Help The Way I Feel”

Lily & Madeleine’s Canterbury Girls is a charming pop folk album that leans a bit more into pop. The first single, “Can’t Help The Way

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Two Crows

Many mornings as I walk to work I am flanked by two crows who fly ahead of me on either side of one street. I

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Will Turpin – Make It Home

Since 1995 Will Turpin has been an important part of my musical landscape, as the bassist in Collective Soul and now releasing solo albums. Will’s

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Eisley – “Save My Soul”

Eisley’s “Save My Soul” is a song that keeps getting stuck in my head. I love hearing even the imperfect busking version the band recorded

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A Snowy Walk to Work

My walk to work today was slowed by a large drop of snow.

The Mast – Nuclear Dragon

I’ve been revisiting some old favourite songs this week. The Mast’s “Nuclear Dragon”, from Pleasure Island is a great showcase of the duo’s uncanny sound.

Six Feats Under – Mouse Guard

Six Feats Under’s Mouse Guard podcast is a joy to listen to. It uses the Mouse Guard RPG system and David Peterson’s wonderful Mouse Guard

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Murals

For years two of my favourite murals have been surviving the creep of gentrification on Gottingen Street.

Google+ Exporter

I was an enthusiastic user of Google+ at its peak, and shared a lot of things there, from photos to reviews to links. The site

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Wheels of Aurelia

Wheels of Aurelia is a surprising game that combines third person driving and narrative to great effect. It’s a game that can be played through

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The Cybertronic Spree – Immigrant Song

The Cybertronic Spree are more than just a band that performs as Transformers; they’re excellent musicians and have discerning taste in fun songs to cover

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Unauthorized Bread

Cory Doctorow’s Unauthorized Bread is a sharp science fiction novella that addresses the real dangers that DRM and other forms of destructive intellectual property laws

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Carsie Blanton – Jacket

Carsie Blanton has a killer new album coming out on February 15, and the song “Jacket” has a smoking hot video. As a patron I’ve

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The Last Internationale – Hit Em With Your Blues

The Last Internationale is a band that has sounded out of time. Bluesy rock with powerful vocals, solid instrumentation and decidedly left politics is exciting

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