Today’s Music Playing Kids Dress Up As And Sound Like The Bee Gees

This is from a TV talent show called Your Face Sounds Familiar. The kids, the oldest of whom is thirteen, perform under the name the TNT Boys and are becoming pretty well known for doing things like this. By the way, Too Much Heaven is the best Bee Gees song. Fight me.

Go To Your Home!

This is perhaps the best baseball meltdown I’ve ever seen. Someone's got a case of the Mondays… #SCNotTop10 @SportsCenter pic.twitter.com/FIhOJyXQbM — Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks (@FMRedHawks) August 7, 2018 Late in a tied ballgame between the Chicago Dogs and the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, umpire Mike Jarboe punched out Metzger on …

With Friends Like These…

Update: There’s a less than zero chance that the tweet cited in this post came from a fake account. My apologies for not catching that if that is indeed the case, although I’m far from the only one who bought it. This, however, does not change the main point of what I wrote. What this …

Good Times Bad Times Drummed By An Eight-Year-Old Music Playing Kid

This is Yoyoka Soma, the happiest eight-year-old you ever did see, absolutely nailing the drums on Good Times Bad Times. There are adults with plenty more experience who can’t come close to doing that. She’s been playing for six years, which means exactly what you think it does. She started when she was two. Two! …

If English Were Phonetically Consistent

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said that English is a frustrating, nonsensical language where rules matter until they don’t and that it could seriously due with some consistency. But what if we actually had some of that consistency? English would sound like it, German and Swedish had a drunken, baby makin’ 3-way, …

Yes, Things Have Been Quiet, But That’s Only Because We Were Off Learning That Siri Existed 30 Years Ago

Well hello there! Yes, both we and the site do, in fact, still exist. Things have just been quiet the last little bit because it’s summer and that tends to be how things roll around here regardless of intent. Usually you all have the same idea as us, but for some reason numbers haven’t fallen …

Happy 29th Birthday, CBC Newsworld!

It’s hard to remember a time before CBC Newsworld, or CBC News Network as we know it now. For years it’s been the first place I turn when I hear about the sort of breaking news that gives me an urge to follow it nonstop, because it’s one of the very few television news outlets …