Prosecutors Kept On Asking For Statement From This Police Dog, So The Pooch Submitted This Note
The legal system doesn’t like to wait on small things like forms being filled out properly. When they want something, by gosh, they should have it. Just ask the West Midlands Police Department.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) kept on contacting the department, asking for a statement from Officer PC Peach related to an altercation with a criminal. Now PC Peach is a police dog. But CPS insisted despite being told PC Peach is a K9 officer. Because, you know, legalities and paperwork,
The department decided to send them this following statement signed with a paw print.
The Professional Standards Department (PSD) will be investigating the West Midlands Police Department after the statement above. I hope they can get PC Peach on the stand and they judge says afterwards, “Who’s a good boy? YOU ARE! You’re a Good boy!”
McDonald’s Canada Features Former Worker Now Country Singer-Songwriter Robby Johnson In New Ad Campaign
Robby Johnson’s journey from a small-town to the brink of stardom in Nashville is unique to say the least. It was made easier by his early love for American pop culture, which was only strengthened when he got a job at his local McDonald’s restaurant in Canada.
The restaurant chain has now reciprocated Johnson’s loyalty by hiring him again – this time as the star of a new ad campaign.
In a beautifully crafted commercial, Johnson goes back to his boyhood home, elementary and high schools and the McDonald’s where he worked to make ends meet.
Being on the McDonald’s team provided Johnson with a sense of value. “When I was a kid, we didn’t have much,” he relates in the video while sitting in his old bedroom. “Dreaming was pretty much the only thing you had. You just grew up thinking you won’t get more and you don’t deserve more.”
“It’s not just the work and the pay. It’s also what they teach you,” he continues. “They make you feel like you’re the most important person in the world. It truly changed my life. Everything at McDonald’s revolves around satisfaction of the client. If you don’t have clients, you don’t have a company. If I don’t have fans, I don’t have a music career. What I learned at McDonald’s I kept throughout my life and in my career.”
Also, in a series of social posts that include short videos, Johnson also reflected on the lingering lessons learned during his employment at McDonald’s. Comments include:
“When he’s on tour, Robby handles his bought schedule using the time management skills he developed while balancing his studies and job at McDonald’s.”
“Learning to work productively with team members … helped Robby collaborate successfully with other artists in his music career.”
“As an employee of McDonald’s, Robby learned that rich interpersonal skills are the key to building strong relationships in business and in life.”
Even before his high-profile McDonald’s campaign, Johnson has been impacting major media and a growing fan base with his music. People described his debut album, Don’t Look Back, as “refreshing and as seductive as … his brooding good looks,” while Billboard lauded his “neighborly tone” and Music Connection praised his “rugged good looks, appealing tenor and top-notch material.”
Additionally, the music video for his Top 20 Country Breakout Chart single, “South Of Me,” is now nearing three million views. The video topped CMT’s Pure 12-Pack Countdown for seven weeks and earned Johnson coverage on “The Late Show With David Letterman,” FOX’s “Huckabee,” and in USA Today, TV Guide and The Tennessean, among other major outlets.
Floppy Disks Are (Sort Of) Still A Thing
Do you remember floppy disks? Well, they’re still a thing. Sort of. Tom Persky, president of Floppydisk.com continues to acquire and process floppy diskettes for sale.
The Greatest Headstones You’ll Ever See…In Life And Death
These people will live forever in the hearts of many, and in the minds of thousands online.
Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame announces the induction of Jim Corcoran’s folk classic ‘J’ai la tête en gigue’
The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) is pleased to announce the induction of J’ai la tête en gigue into the Hall of Fame. This ironically ‘feel-good’ song was written by one of Quebec’s best loved singer-songwriters, Jim Corcoran. To celebrate the song’s induction, acclaimed singer-songwriter Ingrid St-Pierre performs J’ai la tête en gigue as part of the Covered Classics series, a collaboration between the CSHF and CBC/Radio-Canada that invites notable Canadian artists to perform their own rendition of a newly inducted song.
“As a songwriter, Jim Corcoran plays a very important part in my life. The first concert I ever attended was his; and I was all of seven or eight years old. Even though I was incredibly shy, I insisted on meeting him while he signed autographs,” says ADISQ nominated and SOCAN member Ingrid St-Pierre, “I mumbled something about becoming an actress and he told me to always believe in my dream and follow my instinct. I still remember it vividly. My mother used to sing me to sleep with Jim’s songs, and it’s now my turn to sing his songs to my boy.”
J’ai la tête en gigue was written in September of 1976 while Corcoran was driving through the Eastern Townships in Quebec. It was the beginning of colourful fall and the end of a love story gone wrong. The lyrics articulated themselves around one sentence: “J’ai la tête en gigue et le cœur en septembre” (loosely translated, my head is in a whirl and my heart is in September). The melody came around the same time as the words; and then, as was often the case for Jim, he worked on the song for months.
Anglophone by birth, Jim Corcoran became an aficionado of the French language, spending most of his musical career singing and writing in French. In 1972, he partnered with Bertrand Gosselin to form the popular folk duo ‘Jim and Bertrand’. They quickly became poster boys for Quebec’s New Folk Movement, but gained popularity outside of Quebec with their third album “La tête en gigue” released in 1977. The record won Best Folk Album at the Festival international de musique Montreux (Switzerland) in 1978, and was certified gold in 1982 by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (now Music Canada). In 2010, the song itself earned Corcoran a coveted SOCAN Classics Award for 25,000 radio plays.
“It’s a great honour to have my song, J’ai la tête en gigue, inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame,” says Jim Corcoran, “What a wonderful way to celebrate its 40th anniversary, and what a thrill to have this song included as part of Canada’s songwriting legacy.”
In 1981, Corcoran embarked on a solo career. He’s recorded over a dozen albums, performed around the world, won numerous awards, written lyrics for many Francophone artists as well as for Cirque du Soleil, and is the host of CBC radio show ‘A Propos,’ a national showcase for music from Quebec.
Every Bob Marley drum intro is up on Soundcloud
Bevause nobody asked for it, and you need to hear it, here’s a supercut of all of the opening drum fills in Bob Marley’s entire career
Ritzy of The Joy Formidable on the music industry and critics
I recently read Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney. There is a section where she talks about people always ask her what’s it like to be a successful rockstar while being a female. Do you ever feel like the industry treats you differently because you’re a woman?
Rhiannon “Ritzy” Bryan, The Joy Formidable: Starting off, I’m an opinionated asshole. The problem when you’re a female what’s come before you, in terms of conforming people thinking you should conforming to, anything outside comes outside of these. A couple of label people in early days told me “Ritzy should be more like this” or “Ritzy should look more like this.” How about being yourself, being truthful in your style? All that stuff is fucking boring. You’ve got to be strong, you’ve got to have to a lot of layers of skin. If you’re not loving the music the other stuff can really fuck you up. It can be tough sometimes but you’ve got to laugh, ignore the rest of it. Stand up for things. I’ve always been of the mindset to let the music do the talking, whatever your opinion is.
Do you pay much attention to critics?
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, they are fine with me. I don’t expect everyone to love it. What I really dislike about album reviews and certain writers is really just the laziness. A lot goes into recording, it all comes from a sincere and heartfelt place, so I’d hope that the writer considering our work put that same amount of effort in. We even had one of the local newspapers say that we are from London, we’re fucking Welsh. Some of these writers don’t deserve to be journalists. Love your craft like I do my music. I take pride in the records that I make, so I don’t want to read a review that sounded like it was written on the toilet. I was reading an article on Pitchfork, and I laughed and told them to go fuck themselves. You don’t know about the fight that goes on behind the scenes. I just don’t like nastiness and personal attacks. Be responsible. And everyone is so scared of the journalists too. The power used to be with the musicians, back when they didn’t care what was wrote about them. Back then artists said things because they meant it, because they believed it. They didn’t care about sponsorship, or money or whatever. Art is meant to lead.
How John Green Is Helping A Pro Soccer Team
“So I play FIFA, and I upload the videos to Youtube. I get ad money, and I want to give you that ad money.”
John Green is a best-selling author and a FIFA-loving YouTube star. AFC Wimbledon is a football club in London that plays in the fourth tier of the English football league system. The story of how one used his unorthodox fame to finance a club thousands of miles away is an inspiring tale of cultural exchange, triumphant populism, and the weird power of the internet.
THE BEST ENERGY DRINK REVIEWS YOU’LL EVER READ NO JOKE LET’S READ THEM TWICE!
THESE REVIEWS ARE SO GREAT LET’S ALL READ THEM WHILE RUNNING AROUND THE BLOCK A FEW TIMES ARE YOU READY LET’S GO THAT WAS FUN WANT TO DO SOMETHING ELSE LIKE CLIMB A BUILDING OR SOMETHING?
