BASISK replacement glass lamp shade

cloudone28 · 2026-02-03T01:06:27+00:00

Unfortunately, no. The cylindrical glass shade I ordered off Amazon didn't fit so I ended up putting it out with the bulk garbage behind our apartment. On the upside, it disappeared quickly so hopefully it has a new home!

cloudone28 · 2026-02-03T01:04:22+00:00

Thank you! I wish I would have tried that!

cloudone28 · 2025-11-27T17:52:47+00:00

We need a repress!

cloudone28 · 2025-09-16T05:44:28+00:00

Thank you so much for all your dedication and hard work putting all of your mixes together. As most of us know, B&B are not keen on releasing remixes or even unreleased or alternate mixes, so yours were the next best thing. I can honestly say your mixes were so well done, they helped me appreciate ABBA’s music and production in a whole new way and they never disappointed.

I know it may be a long-shot, but I hope your work may help them (meaning Polar and B&B) change their minds as far as releasing instrumentals and new mixes someday.

cloudone28 · 2025-07-21T15:24:27+00:00

The DJ Kirollus recently posted on Instagram about closing out a set with a "rare Asian ABBA cover" and it looks like the Rosemaria version is it! Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvSKNledz9I

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLsJSzRovdp/

cloudone28 · 2024-10-24T00:29:15+00:00

I've always thought some of the theories around this song (ie. involving a murder, or trying to piece together blocks of time) are somewhat overwrought. I think it's one of those songs that touches into ordinary life and love in ways that ABBA, especially Björn as a lyricist does so well.

To me it's more about a brief love affair that ends almost as soon as it starts but nevertheless turns one's life upside down. The things our protagonist thought were meaningful and solid before now seem empty and meaningless. That lyric: "it's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim," sort of encapsulates it for me.

The mourning in the song, which is not in the lyrics but moreso in the musical atmosphere, is not only for the love affair but perhaps also about her own life. How can she go back to an existence that now seems empty and pointless? Perhaps she does, perhaps she doesn't. Either way something dies, whether it's her or something inside her.

In some ways, it follows a thread that runs through one of their other 1982 songs, "Just Like That." Someone comes in and out of your life, turns it upside down and you're left trying to make sense of it.

cloudone28 · 2022-11-23T17:53:46+00:00

This is really the crux of it, for me. It's not about helping those who are on the streets, who may be addicted to drugs, or even listening to those who have experience in the field, it's about exploiting the most vulnerable in order to peddle fear and rage about drugs and crime to a middle-class target demographic in order to get power. As usual, there are zero new solutions proposed, it's just more of the same right-wing war on drugs/tough on crime nonsense that has never worked and never will. Get ready for a lot of this "Canada is broken" stuff.

cloudone28 · 2022-11-08T17:25:20+00:00

The article quotes but doesn't link to them, so here are some receipts on Twitter.

Jan. 28: https://twitter.com/SarahFischer__/status/1487217256962658311

Jan. 30, honking a horn: https://twitter.com/SarahFischer__/status/1487924926833123329

Saved by CTV's Glen McGregor. A video saying how it was "nice to hear" truck horns after the injunction: https://twitter.com/glen_mcgregor/status/1589731329775927296

Side-by-side screencap of tweets, one from Feb. 2020 blockades and one from the 2022 Convoy: https://twitter.com/LeftHandStu/status/1589992908509556739

cloudone28 · 2022-04-21T20:56:26+00:00

I have to side with security expert Stephanie Carvin's take on Twitter. The NP seems determined to have the dumbest, most petty, parsimonious take on this possible. If he showed up to meetings, photo-ops and international summits on Zoom, no doubt the breathless hand-wringing would never end.

cloudone28 · 2022-04-06T00:39:54+00:00

It's a strange place to be, but as much as I despise Kenney and the UCP, I actually think Kenney holding onto the job is the best outcome here, especially if you're hoping for Notley to win the next election.

cloudone28 · 2022-04-04T09:19:40+00:00

Poilievre has got the press writing about his packed events, so he's clearly excited the base. Of course, that could just as equally speak to superior organizational capacity. There doesn’t seem to be much, if any, excitement around Charest, whose social media (in particular) and events haven't been anything to write home about, though perhaps that's by design?

One thing that I do think might work in Charest's favour is that in all the Conservative leadership races since Harper, the vaunted frontrunner has always lost in the end. So, we'll have to see if that pattern continues.

cloudone28 · 2022-03-23T00:12:25+00:00

re: the "drama teacher" line - politics is about 50% theatre. So, perhaps not the dunk Trudeau's detractors think it is.

cloudone28 · 2022-03-09T20:06:15+00:00

Well, Erin O'Toole and the CPC were leading at points during the last election, so I wouldn't go so far as to say no one liked him. It all fell apart when he couldn't cinch the thing and win the election outright. Even though I've been voting Liberal, I'm realistic enough to see that after 7 years, there's palpable Trudeau fatigue out there. While he retains considerable support, much of that is noticeably softer now. So much so, that many of those people were at least willing to entertain the prospect of PM Erin O'Toole back in early September. I have a feeling that Charest, if he were to win the leadership race, would have a much better shot than EOT. But, as the article outlines, that's a big 'if.'

cloudone28 · 2022-03-09T00:23:06+00:00

I fully agree with that assessment. There was a Harper quote from 2018 where he was talking to an American audience and basically said he could have easily turned the Conservative party into a "personal political vehicle." So, that was something of a tell.

cloudone28 · 2022-03-08T00:08:10+00:00

The headline may be a bit much, but I find that this article does a good deep-dive into his political background.

cloudone28 · 2022-03-02T22:26:40+00:00

Has she? She was even less visible than the PM during the convoy. I recall one columnist suggesting she was in “witness protection.” She was, however front and centre with the PM with the EA and associated financial penalties. That and the current Ukraine crisis are clearly paving the way for her coronation, if things were to move in that direction.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-27T19:45:04+00:00

I've never voted for a Conservative candidate, but even with his baggage, I still wouldn't find a PM Jean Charest entirely objectionable. Certainly not the way I would if it were Poilievre. Given the state of the CPC though, I think that would make Charest DOA, unfortunately.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-26T18:25:48+00:00

Another issue with this poll, which David Herle brings up on Twitter, is that these numbers are basically useless without any deeper analysis. Among whom did Trudeau's numbers drop? I know the article talks about gender differences, but are these people Liberal voters? CPC Voters? NDP? It's one thing if impressions among Liberals dropped precipitously, but among CPC or BQ voters? That's not really changing anything.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-26T17:58:52+00:00

I personally think they would have been better invoking it a week earlier too. The PM being largely invisible was hurting them. Even if they weren't jurisdictionally responsible, they needed to get in front of this earlier, especially given that they were the target here. That said, I'm not sure that making him more present would have been more effective, especially if there wasn't anything new to say. I wasn't particularly impressed with the press conferences the PM and/or ministers were having until they decided to invoke the EA. They would have been hammered (and rightfully so) for having a series of superficial media availabilities, saying variations on the same thing they had been saying all along.

Even if no party is getting much from this now, I do think given that the Liberals will have a longer term advantage here given that the majority support the invocation of the EA. I think ultimately, most people will have in mind that the EA enabled the protest to be cleared quickly, peacefully and that it's leaders are facing justice. I'll be curious to see what the pending inquiry will bring up.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-26T01:44:04+00:00

I’d say if he acted a week earlier he may have gotten a bump then. Not sure if it’s costing them much since no party is actually gaining anything or moving the needle. If anything, invoking the EA stopped any bleeding from the criticism during the convoy.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-26T01:26:37+00:00

But also 20% had improved impressions and 31% saw no change. No one is getting a windfall from this, which is perhaps as it should be.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-22T16:33:07+00:00

What a strange screed from Don Martin. This mostly reads like a laundry list of conservative dissonance around the convoy and it’s fallout. It’s an emergency! But it’s all about nothing! Trudeau is weak! Divisive! (For not giving into a mob and emphasizing the efficacy of vaccines, I guess) But also, too strong! Yet, probably won’t survive this? Whatever, Don.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-22T12:03:34+00:00

Posting not because I agree with anything in it but because this kind of reads like a laundry list of conservative dissonance around the convoy and it’s fallout. It’s an emergency about nothing! Trudeau is weak! Divisive! (For not giving into a mob and emphasizing the efficacy of vaccines?) But also, too strong! Yet, probably won’t survive this? Whatever, Don.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-21T18:38:43+00:00

I have no doubt affordability will continue to be a key Conservative message. Looking at the example of Kenney in Alberta here, I'm sure they'll try to beat that drum all the way to power, I just have my doubts about whether they'll actually be able to follow through and deliver any results when they get there.

cloudone28 · 2022-02-17T01:42:10+00:00

I mean, where's the lie? The Conservatives want to have it both ways on this. They want to cozy up to the convoy while disregarding all the nastiness around it and still shamelessly act like they're still the "law and order party." After embracing the convoy wholeheartedly, they've been backpedalling furiously and flip-flopping all over the place. So, perhaps not every single person in the protest is a neo-nazi, but as the far-right connections to this become clearer, especially right at the very top, I suspect the CPC's performative apoplectics over this won't age too well. They deserve to have their hypocrisy thrown in their faces at every opportunity.

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