Tag Archives: nostalgia

I made a mini &Yip-yip& alien! – FIBER ARTS

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=200247.msg2128256 Felted Yip-Yips. What remains to be said but, “uh-huh, uh-huh, YIP YIP YIP YIP!” Want.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_re_ca/obit_mirvish_1;_ylt=AmuNWFvR_E5ZeDBRmxhpeowE1vAI OH SWEET INTERNET ACCESS, how I’ve missed thee. I’m back and I’m Stumbling, though recent events are making me ever so slightly homesick for TO. Or, more specifically, the Toronto whose cultural institutions and figures have passed on in the few months I’ve been away. My heart broke to read of the end of […]

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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html A Stumble from Razvigor induces nostalgia. Here’s an online edition of Baldassare Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, as translated by Thomas Hoby. I was lucky enough to have spent the better part of my second year at Uni on a research project, preparing an annotated version of Hoby’s diary. Hoby was one of the […]

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Longtime Toronto DJ Majhor dies – Arts & Entertainment – CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2007/01/23/majhor-obit.html John Majhor, a fixture on Toronto radio and television for nearly two decades, has died at the age of 53. John Majhor hosted Toronto Rocks, which may or may not have been Toronto’s first TV show devoted solely to music videos. I know for a fact that it was where I first saw such […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzhP9zRmlEA When I finish my time machine, I am so heading back to 1964 to catch a Sam Cooke show. *swoon*

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Marvin Gaye (Hitch Hike)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FioNrMTrVXk Many groovy thanks to TomCat42 for this fantastic Stumble! I have long believed I was born in the wrong era, and this clip of Marvin Gaye cutting a spirited rug on an early-60’s variety show really makes me nostalgic for a time I never knew. This was pre-lip synching (Ashlee Simpson, eat your tiny […]

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