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Hip-Hop Anonymous – Saturday
Hip-Hop Anonymous is a monthly hip-hop event thrown by DWG Entertainment. Tomorrow night, DJ Wiskaz will be holding down the 1s and 2s and cutting it up nicely all night long. With performances by Andro Joseph Bray Doniot Chase March Diztrikt Apolo Don Markx G Premacy Henny Honey Ice Boy I.G. Johnny Bars Nate Oh…
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That One Time I Ran Steeplechase
In middle school, I ran track and cross country. I still remember the first time I went to a meet and saw this beautiful red track. I was in awe. The surface was soft and had a bit of a bounce to it. It was nothing like the dirt tracks I had seen. In fact,…
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Star Trek / Planet of the Apes Crossover
Star Trek / Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive Star Trek was a television series that ran for three season from from 1966 to 1969. The first Planet of the Apes movie was released in 1968. That is one of the reasons that a crossover event just makes sense. They are both great sci-fi…
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FanExpo25 Highlights
FanExpo celebrated its 25 Anniversary this weekend and I had a blast. The Doctor Who Society always has props that you can get your picture taken with. This year, they had the Face of Boe there. So, I donned my 9th Doctor costume for this photo-op. Looks just like the episode, doesn’t it? One of…
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The Strange Library
What a strange looking book. The front cover opens from the bottom to the top. Underneath it, another flap needs to be folded down. The text on the first page is ridiculously large. It doesn’t quite fit two paragraphs. After that, the text is a more conventional size. There are colourful illustrations throughout as well.…
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Rapper Pens Great Fiction (Supermarket)
Supermarket by Bobby Hall I enjoy listening to audiobooks. I borrowed this one on the Libby App from the public library without really looking closely at it. It was recommended to me by a page I work with. The story captured me from the start and I whipped through the audio book quicker than usual.…
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DIY Turntable Covers for DJs
Here is my basement studio set-up. The only problem is that I want to keep my turntables plugged in and ready to go at a moment’s notice. It’s time-consuming to take the roadcase lid off and place it under the decks every time I want to use them. Then I have to plug them into…
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Sculptor Pays the Price for His Art
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud Scott McCloud wrote an incredible book called Understanding Comics that I highly recommend reading. Even if you are only a cursory fan of the medium, you will get something out of this book. I read it well before I started blogging about every book I read. I will have to…
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Show and Prove Your Hip-Hop Knowledge
This Saturday, we are celebrating hip-hop’s birthday with 24 hours of programming on Radio Western. It’s our second annual Word Up! spectacular and I wanted to do something special for it. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now. I love trivia and game shows and thought it would be amazing to…
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Wyoming Skatepark (ON, Canada)
The small town of Plympton-Wyoming has a skate park located in McKay Park on Ontario Street. There is a quarter-pipe a little bit shorter than this launch ramp. I forgot to get a close-up picture of it today. Here is the pyramid ramp that lies between them. And just off to the side is this…