Monday, February 10, 2025

MEDIA-RELATED STUFF: SUPER BOWL AND CBC

The local mid-day show on CBC Radio One in Quebec is called "Radio Noon", which is what the Ontario mid-day show used to be called.


Glad that on Wednesdays, "Ontario Today" is doing a two-hour show throughout the provincial election. Reminds me of the old days when the program was always two hours in length.


I like the Tim Horton's "Football Song" commercial. Gently satirical. 

Saturday, February 8, 2025

NATURE NOTES: SPACE AND YOUR OWN BACKYARD

Anyone noticed the winter birds acting strange this year?


The wind rustling through leaves on a winter's night is still a wonderful sound.


Two canyons bigger than the Grand Canyon have been discovered on the moon. The heavens declare God's glory and the firmament shows His handiwork. 

PET STORIES: A SNEAKY DOG AND A NOT-AT-ALL SNEAKY KITTEN

My aunt and uncle were sitting a dog. It was only allowed to walk on tile floors, such as my relatives had in their kitchen, but not on wooden floors, such as they had in the living room. One night while my aunt and uncle were watching TV, they noticed the dog gradually inching from where it had been lying on the kitchen floor into the living room.


This same dog was also forbidden to eat chips. Once, they left a bag of chips out and briefly had to leave the room. When my aunt and uncle re-entered, they noticed some of the chips were gone. They then heard the dog, who had ambled down the hallway away from them, eating his ill-gotten gains.


Last Saturday, as I was about to leave Mom's house after having eaten dinner there, her kitten stood between my foot and the door, stock-still, as if to say, "If you're heading out of here, so am I." 

MEDIA-RELATED STUFF: PRIVATE MEDIA MATTERS

The Wolf Peterborough's sure been playing Metric's "Combat Baby" a fair amount lately.

 

Find it at least a bit humourous that the guy who voices the ads for Sub-way also narrates a PSA concerning talking to your kids about pot.


John Irwin, the voice of He-Man, has died. He inspired a generation of boys to wreak havoc in living rooms, TV rooms, rec rooms, and anywhere else young males had televisions.


Cool Frank Morano had a guest on talking about Arthur Conan Doyle's non-Holmesian works Thursday night.

FOOD NOTES: HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD

Had tomatoes with salt and pepper the last two nights for supper. A summer treat in the dead of winter.


Am hoping to someday try venison curry and venison vindaloo.


Really like the jasmine scent of Basmati rice. 

Friday, February 7, 2025

RADIO-RELATED STUFF: SOME CBC NOTES

The Brazilian woman who was on "Commotion" Tuesday morning deserves a slap.


Glad Radio One's schedule now features more repeats of music programs.


Why is the morning show promo that airs Thursday nights before the 7:00 news always screwed up? It's either for the wrong morning show or an outdated spot for the correct one. 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

MADOC'S OPEN MIC THIS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7 6:30 P.M. AT THE LEGION

Dear Friends:

Looking forward to seeing everybody this Friday!! :D

I know people have been practicing and getting ready to play and others are just keeping the date on their calendar to come out and have a good time.

There has been a lot of talk recently about the atmosphere at the Legion. Too Bright!! We've been hearing - has been the main one. So just want to let you know that we are working on it!! And you'll see some changes THIS week. (: Lower lights. Curtains on the walls around the stage - temporarily covering the dart boards. So that NO musician needs to be nervous about being a target! :D Improved stage lighting. And other changes are in the works!!

We are happy to have Jerry Whyte bringing his sound equipment and helping us all to sound our best. And I wonder what the February Mocktail of the month will be?? Guess we'll find out Friday night - but sure that Tracey is working on it. (:

So come on out for Live Local Music - and the company of fellow musicians and a friendly audience.

See you Friday!!

Elizabeth and Robert