Jim

They say you should never meet your heroes, you'll just be disappointed. I say, 'then you need better heroes'. Pete and Bas are two of the kindest, funniest, classiest human beings I've ever met. You'd never guess they are hard-core rappers if you didn't already know. #fuckcancer #igotthis

Getting to see my fave musicians who also happen to be personal heroes of mine. Seeing them in the UK in 2 weeks, then in Portland and Seattle in October. Absolutely STOKED.

YouTube video by Jim Winslett F Cancer - a thank-you letter to Pete and Bas

Sometimes, the help you need comes from the strangest places... youtu.be/QH6oSgpuzgQ?...

YouTube video by Jim Winslett F Cancer - a thank-you letter to Pete and Bas

Sometimes, hope comes in the most unlikely of places...
Sometimes, you just gotta write a song about it.
#fuckcancer #PeteAndBas
youtu.be/QH6oSgpuzgQ?...

I voted for Satisfaction because the cover version by Devo is FIRE.

Want to see a musical spectacle that will blow your mind? Four world-class conductors, 100+ musicians, playing one of the world's most unique and complicated instruments.
You've never seen handbells like this. Get your tickets now: www.classicbronze.ca/concert

@rexparker.bsky.social a single 'tum' is also just fine. I mean, you wouldn't want to tell an OG gangster otherwise, would you?

HOW did I miss all the other rounds??? And I was watching your feed for the links, too....

I had booked a week-long trip through the midwest. Even though some of the hotels were paid for and non-refundable, I still canceled my trip. Using the money to fly to the UK to see Pete and Bas perform live. #noregrets

I thought our uniting value was "we are NOT American"

In a different song:
Walk outside with a pint and a pasty
Crossword in the back of the taxi
All these birds looking at me
And you know I know why (Exactly)

I read that Bas (the taller one) hasn't missed a daily XW in more than 50 yrs!

@rexparker.bsky.social You know rap better than me... is there anyone other than Pete and Bas rapping about crosswords in their songs? Do any of them make it sound this badass?
Full line: Hop in a cab and I'm banging me crossword / Heading to West and I'm banging a posh bird

OMG.... Control-alt (ought)-delete.
What you resort to when the thing you're dealing with isn't doing what you want.
Their wordplay is top-shelf.

Drinks all round
Just chuck 'em on the bar tab
Tip to waiter, 'Have a nice a day'
Ice in the pail of the champagne Cava
Text from a side piece "on my way-
Been a little while ain't seen you lately, How's your father?"
Cut to the chase
[dance moves ensue]

If anyone had ever told me that I'd spend nearly $3K to fly to the UK for a concert to watch a couple white guys in their 70s do hardcore gangster (with the 'r') rap, I'd have said you were nuts. I hate rap music, but these guys are so good, it doesn't matter. They're better than your fave rappers.

Come on, then, shake a leg
This one'll make you bang your head
Back then I could've lost meself, but then
I picked me feet up and I danced again.

-Pete (of Pete and Bas), cancer survivor. Rap god.

I appreciate that you framed it with "favourite" shows and not "best" shows. There are a number of really well-made, well-acted shows paired against some technically inferior stuff that I happen to like better.

YouTube video by Sindhu World Pete & Bas - T-Pain

@rexparker.bsky.social I only knew MUKBANG because of a couple Cockney pensioners doing blistering rap. youtu.be/SLIZpWrK8xo?...

surf at sunset with a paddle boarder and Cape Town's Table Mountain as a backdrop

One of the better pics I took on vacay. #CapeTown

Canadian flag with the caption "No blue on this flag, no blue on my ballot"

#MarkCarney

#NeverPoilievre

#ABC

I voted!
#neverPoilievre

It's just as much a minefield as in-person dating, except you can weed out the idiots and posers BEFORE you waste face time on them. I met my hubby on SilverDaddies and we just had our 10yr wedding anniversary. Hang in there. You're sexy and adorable. The right guy will find you.

I'm on the Viking Sky right now, Singapore to Cape Town. 7th Viking cruise. They're the best!

Danielle Smith asked for foreign interference in Canada's politics from Tucker Carlson, who had, prior to this, called for the US to invade Canada? She asked for his help to get Justin Trudeau fired.
Danielle Smith is a traitor. She is not Team Canada as she now pretends. #cdnpoli

I went Houston to LA and arrived 29 hours late.

I’m on a cruise right now, with folks from USA, Canada, Australia, UK, and other places. It’s surreal. The Canadians are showing off our nationality with Canadian flags on the cabin doors, tshirts, lapel pins, etc.
The Americans seem ashamed to admit it.

They’re the ones behind the “tell Danielle we want to be a state” billboards in Alberta, I’ll bet

Menu for tonight’s flight Vancouver to Bangkok

the "big reveal" at Petra where the narrow canyon suddenly ends and you're faced with the magnificent Treasury is one of my favourite travel moments, ever.
If you were to stand at that spot for an hour or so, you'd overhear how to say "holy shit" in at least 50 languages

Nice! Hubby and I are about to set sail from Singapore to Cape Town on Viking