RIP, Rita MacNeil

I had an obituary post planned for Rita MacNeil (the late Canadian folksinger) for a couple of days, but I kept yanking it because the (very funny) clip of her Trailer Park Boys cameo I was using had our heroes waving guns around like idiots, as is their wont, and it seemed inappropriate considering the events of last week. So, instead, here is a lovely tribute from the CBC. She was a great lady, and she had a rough start in life.

Another RIP today to Chrissy Amphlett, of The Divinyls. My first day of college, one of my roommates started playing “I Touch Myself,” and we started dancing like we were in a movie musical from the 1930s, and then a girl came down from upstairs because she heard the music and started dancing with us, and we were all friends by the time the song ended.