Feeling a bit irritable tonight? Misanthropic to the point of apoplexy? Looking for someone to take it out on, to be a lightning rod for your contempt? Well, imagine sitting around a campfire with a bunch of friends and seeing a 1965-issue Barry McGuire wander over from a neighbouring campsite, grab a beer, affect a wide stance, and start singing Eve of Destruction.
It never happened but I’m still annoyed about it.
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There’s Nineteen Men a-chasin’ me, and my pony’s gettin’ tired / I killed a man in Laramie fer callin’ me a liar… ‪♪‬
Run, Johnny Western, run.
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Another comes on, and another comes on, Another One Rides The Bus… ♫
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Tonight, English author, producer, and songwriter Mitch Murray takes youthful angst and romantic volatility to comedic mood-swinging heights with his 1965 hit single Down Came The Rain.
You gotta be pretty worked-up to start the word “rain” with an “L” sound.
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As the sun sets, and we await the traditional fireworks display, take a moment to remove your helmet and sing along: “Oh Canada“.
Your tips and alternative melodies in the comments.

This evening we gaze upon some solemn black & white images of some of the thousands of volunteers cleaning up the Bowness neighbourhood in NW Calgary. Taken by photographer Shaun Robinson, they provide a wonderful example of how effective the lack of colour in photographs can be in certain circumstances. Recommended background music while viewing the photos is provided by Canadian artist, Loreena McKennitt. Attentive viewers will notice that one of the volunteers is an Olympic class speed skater who was born in Romania but now is very much a proud Albertan.
Your solemn or witty reader tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.

EBD has taken a vacation, so you get the Coles Notes version.
Have a good night.

I recently had the great pleasure to attend an annual hot-air balloon festival in Tigard, Oregon. Here’s one video I put together from the event and here’s a more humorous time lapse compilation.
Your lofty or more down to earth reader tips are welcome in the comments.

“We don’t want other children to lose their parents.”
h/t Jondular Minty
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‪‬Oh a thousand miles I traveled and a thousand sights I saw, but there ain’t no sight like a moonlight night on the Bam Bam Bammy Shore.. ♫
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John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival seem to like pretty much everything about Suzie Q.
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Tonight we feature a most interesting “hyper-lapse” video comprised of individual images taken by those special cars that Google uses to create their Street View database. You can learn more about hyper-lapse photography here.
Your insightful, hyper-like reader tips are welcome, as always, in the comments.

“We don’t want other children to lose their parents.”
h/t Jondular Minty
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Tonight we watch a calm, moderate, scholarly, and informed televised discussion of the finer protocols of wife-beating.
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Uh-oh: Your Squaw Is On The Warpath.
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In tonight’s detour en route to the tips Belfast-born Van Morrison takes us Into The Mystic.
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During the three years that I’ve been hosting the Reader Tips (I co-hosted with Vitruvius for several years prior to that) I’ve been searching in vain for the musical Holy Grail, for that one magic song that every single commenter, without exception, will approve of and enjoy. Tonight, I am happy to announce, with no small measure of self-satisfaction, that I’ve finally Found It.
Special thanks go out to TJ and all the other members of the Eternal Complaints Council, whose unceasing tough-love criticism has been the spur that drove me over the years to undertake this now-completed quest. I shall remain eternally grateful.
Tomorrow, we return to our regular programming.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips the force of nature known as Maria Callas sings the aria Casta Diva from Vincenzo Bellini’s 19th century opera Norma.
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No one can say “la la la” without actually pronouncing those nonsense syllables quite like the French. Tonight we listen to the relaxing, vaguely ethereal, meadow-frolicking sounds of Claudine Longet, as she blows absently on a puffball called Lazy Summer Night.
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