The most weather. I’m at Somerset and Kent. Not that much has changed and a lot has changed. All the nightclubs are gone, the Aloha Room is a weed store now, but there’s a burrito place!

Same! But took a turn at the end and wrote my honors thesis on tagging and folksonomies. I still live in Centretown. It’s snowing at the moment.

I still have a shocking number of nightmares about missing exams. It took me 10 years to get a 4 year degree for a reason. In retrospect being stoned 24/7 may not have been the best coping mechanism.

We must have almost certainly been in some of the same classes. I remember writing my last exam by hand. I don’t think I could do that now.

Same. University of Ottawa B.Comm about 20 years ago roughly today. Wild.

Paraphrasing Wanda Sykes, “Sometimes America just gotta America.”

The words “Britpop Demon Hunters” appeared in my head and I’m feeling queasy

Around here they’re pretty ubiquitous at the other end of the spectrum too. Disgusting night club, mission critical extension cords, windows 7 PC running the light that still work. Mixer, x32.

If those people have to be somewhere, it’s better if it’s somewhere seen.

No cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

these were called 'record stores'

Operation Everyone Is Twelve.

With you see Scott Thompson on that CNN version the other week? Oooof.

They still have payphones in Neuromancer. It’ll be interesting to see if that translates into the upcoming HBO adaptation.

Meanwhile in Ottawa.

Apple Music pays around $50 million annually to sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

The NFL pays the performers $1,246 for the performance, the minimum allowable SAG rate for theatrical performances.

I love how that's considered peak success in the music industry. 🫠

One dog per team, mandatory.

You can walk from all but the very west-est of westboro to city hall in less than an hour. I do it all the time. Drop ‘em in Bells Corners instead.

Colbert’s intro still says, “live on tape,” even though I’m fairly sure zero tapes are involved.

Me too! Bus shelter ads near parliament for copper mining and big oil.

Friends who follow such things tell me all their merch sold out.

Also, warehouse raves.

Music’s wild, it’s like ‘I’m gonna chant rhythmically about the worst thing that ever happened to me and you can half-listen to it in a dentist waiting room in twenty years.’

47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

Some people only have one?

Rumor is Spotify etc are pushing it because they don’t have to pay royalties on generated content. This is an experiment to see if they can cut artists out of the loop.

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

Good idea but personally I’d like them to do a bit of time travel or Q shenanigans and retcon the events of Picard out of existence completely.

“Harris winning would have been terrible for late night comedy….”

things like this really drive home that the primary function of the “EDM” movement was an extraction and mass-commercialization of Black dance music to be widely palatable to the monied white Chad demographic