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Another quick commercial rant… As you watch this advertisement please note that despite the frantic appearance of a dozen or more ipod nanos it took almost to the very end to convince me that it wasn’t selling the ridiculously bright clothing peddled at the Gap. “I got a feelin’ that...

It’s scorching in the Paris of the Prairies lately. All these +30C days get me dreaming about…Hockey. Recently a friend and I co-wrote a submission to the grand CBC Hockey Nicht in Canada Anthem Challenge. Now I know it was sad and a shame and possibly a travesty that they...

Sorry, my weblog has been down for the past few days as my hosting service changed the location of my site and deked out the configuration settings. It’s all right as rain now and I hope to be bringing you some good to great news in the next little while....

No big news lately so I’m just posting to fill in a few cool items that have happened in the last while. One of my songs, Stay Awhile is being included in an episode of the Saskatchewan produced TV show Renegade Press. The touching melodrama is that (TV is all...

Special thanks to Angela and Stephanie for making the translation happen. I think I want to learn some Dutch as the construction of the language seems (in translation) to be quite wild and fantastic. Daryl Pierce comes from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada. This is a place that is too beautiful...

When I was young I would lay on the living room floor with a CD player and a set of headphones. I would shut my eyes and listen to the entire CD. It’s like having a profound little conversation between the music and your brain. Anyone who has listened to...

Last week my wife achieved the monumental when she became relationally one degree separated from Oprah. Now that sentence sets up a back-story and here it is! Many years ago Valancie tutored a young girl named Ellen Page while she was acting in a show that was called ‘Ghost.com’ at...

My self titled CD was reviewed by the Belgian based online magazine called Rootstime and I believe the review is written in Dutch. I’ve tried some online translators and can get the vague and general idea of the review but I would like to get some nuance and detail. If...

OK, again with the advertising. There’s a new holiday series of commercials from Old Navy with the following lyrics You’ve got your’s and I’ve got mine, You’ve got your’s and I’ve got mine It’s all the usual visuals of folks lounging around in ways no ordinary person ever would. It...

I wrote to my Member of Parliament yesterday (Maurice Vellacott) regarding rumours about a new copyright bill being discussed in the House of Commons. I’ll include a portion of the letter here for your reading pleasure…. The “digital rights management” (DRM) technologies used by publishers should not stop the public...