Author: Steven Garrity

2093

by Steven Garrity

Keeping up the traditions set by his mother, King Charles III will serve as king for 70 years, until he is 145 years old in the year 2093.

 

What would if you were king?

by Steven Garrity

With all of the coronation proceedings on the news today, my kids asked me:

“What would you do if you were king?”

Without putting any real thought into it, I made the following declarations:

  1. Give the property of the crown back to indigenous peoples.
  2. Set a side one nice cottage and a few priceless jewels for myself I can sell to buy a fancy guitar This is what I would do, not what I should do.
  3. Dissolve the monarchy.
 

Taking back the Canadian flag

by Steven Garrity

The Canadian flag has been appropriated by people with a slurry of anti-mask, anti-vaccine, and freedom-at-the-cost-of-others sentiments. This sucks.

One approach I’ve noticed to help take back the Canadian flag for an inclusive and mainstream use is to combine it with the pride/rainbow flag (and I realize there are many variations therein).

Emoji Canada flag and Rainbow flag side-by-side

If I see 🇨🇦, I think: “Are they going to shout at me for wearing a mask?”

If I see 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 side-by-side, I think “They like Canada, and they don’t like alienating people who are different than them.”

 

Boys of Summer was from a Heartbreaker?

by Steven Garrity

I’ve always found the song The Boys of Summer by Don Henley to be a great song, but it also felt like a guilty pleasure. It shouldn’t – there should be no such thing as a guilty pleasure, but that’s how it felt.

Still from video of Mike Campbell smiling and wearing a had and sunglasses, holding a Broadcaster guitar in front of some guitar amps.

I learned today from a YouTube clip that the music for The Boys of Summer was written written by Mike Campbell from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Now I can feel like I knew it was cool all along.

If the original is pure 80s, this cover of The Boys of Summer by The Ataris is pure 2000s.