We’re baaack….

That’s right, all you radio boys and girls.  We’re back, meaner, grumpier, and more jaded than ever.  Oh, and we laugh more.  Don’t worry, ’tis still all fun.

Check out the newest episode of Lemurs and Meerkats here.  We promise a huge half hour of awesome.

Speaking of awesome, check out Mike’s new “other” show, Scottish Gravy, and Kat’s new “other” show, The Scene.  I [Kat] am pretty sure I can promise you nothing but more awesomeness on both these shows.

Lastly, for those of you who are around the Blind Duck next Thursday the 24th, or perhaps Oil City, watch out for NAIT’s RTA [ReallyTotallyAlcoholic] students taking part in the time-honoured tradition of “meet the firsts.”

All for now,

Unicorns, sparkles, and other unabashedly ridiculous things,

Kat [Mike by proxy]

L&M – Episode 10 – First time back

Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of All Ages….

The Circus, better known as Lemurs & Meerkats.  Is Back.

Kat & Mike brought you hockey, News, and a Movie Review this past week…if you missed the show. [It was at the ungodly hour of 11 AM on a Saturday], then check our podcast here.  For more detailed versions of the stories we covered, that’s what this silly blog is all about.

Coming up next week, Kat was at the Pride Parade…she’ll talk about that, Mike will talk sports – like tennis & Roger Federer, and then the usual randomness that you know, and hopefully have grown to love.  This time, we will drink coffee, and maybe we will wake up prior to the show ending….nah.

News:

1. H1N1 Virus @ NAIT.  Check out the campus’s action strategy here, and look for updates online at your student portal.
2. Friends of Medicare:  More about the New F.O.M. Campaign from Executive Director David Eggen Next Week.
3. Calgary Officer Charged:  A Calgary Police Officer was charged with trying to have sex online/meet online an individual under eighteen years old.  More from canada.com.
4. Khat Bust: A man is being charged with one count of trafficking after close to twenty pounds of the drug Khat was found in his Grand Prairie home.
5. Zoompass: Bell, Rogers, and Telus are launching a mobile pay service that allows users to download it, and use Zoompass similarly to the way Pay-Pal is used.  Files from the CBC.
6. Bill 44: Albertan educators may already be feeling the ramifications from bill 44 – which makes it possible for parents to remove their children from classes if/when topics surrounding religion and/or sex come up in the classroom.  Back on June 3rd,  children in a grade seven were pulled from a presentation on sexual harassment and assault by the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton.  See prominent Progressive-Conservative Blogger Ken Chapman’s take on Bill44 here.
7. Edmonton Growing Younger.  Latest Census data from Edmonton shows most people who moved here were between 25 and 34.
8. Guantamano Bay/Fox News:  PM Harper chose to appear on FOX News to talk about “Gitmo”, and the troubles that will face Canada and the United States Due to Protectionism on both sides of the borders.
9. Alberta Caps Claims on Soft Tissue Injury.

Politics:

1. Election: Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff will decide Monday, June 14th whether or not to bring a vote of non-confidence against the government, after the release of their second fiscal update.   If the Liberal Party does decide to force an election, this will be the fourth election for Canadians in just under five years.  [And for Kat, on a personal note, the fourth in two years…]
2. Iranian Elections: Check out the Huffington Post for video feed, or CNN.com for more breaking news.
3. Nova Scotia Elections: Hell Hath Frozen Over…the NDP formed government in a second Canadian Province.  The other being Manitoba.
4. Lisa Raitt:  Taped  with former aid Jasmine McDonnell discussing how Raitt thought that Environment Minister [and Calgary MP] Jim Prentice tried to move money dedicated to wind farms into the Clean Energy Program. [Kudos to Aaron Hay for passing on this story]

Sports:

1. Penguins Win!  Hurray for Nova Scotia….in more ways than one.  Seriously.
2. Fight for the control of the Pheonix Coyotes
3. Hershey Wins AHL…but, Manitoba Moose Fans give a standing ovation to their team anyway.  Why both Kat & Mike think Winnipeg deserves an NHL Team.
4. Formula One Racing: FIA + Ferrari = Fight
5. Tennis
6. Blue Jays
7. World Cup of Soccer
8. Toronto FC’s Turf to become real grass – possible that the club may cover the bill.
9. Edmonton Eskimos – First game is against the Rough Riders.  Go Esks Go!

Thanks so much for tuning in and visiting our site – we’ll have sexy photo’s from the Pride Parade, as well as Kat doing her first sports story next week.  Frightening, right?

Cheers to Beers,

L&M

L&M – Episode 3 – Third Time’s the Charm

Yes, it really is that time again, time for another update from the Lemurs & the Meerkats.  The third show featured a nail-biting game of chess-boxing between your co-hosts.  There was no outright winner of the chess-boxing…Kat won the boxing part, Mike won the chess.  There will be a tie-breaker next week…mostly because we are both ridiculously competitive…AND, you get to help us pick the tiebreaker! So vote in the poll below, or add in your own suggestions.  That’s right, we’re putting ourselves in your hands…so give us an entertaining [yet still allowed on nr92.com] challenge.

Anyway, enough of that drama, next week we promise to settle these differences, and the show will go on like normal.  Or, as close to normal as we will ever get.  On to the summary!  And, like always, our podcast is available online, and you’ll probably want to listen to it first, the links will make more sense, trust us.

News not in the Podcast:

• New Cancer drug approved in Alberta
• Junior Hockey Player Appeal Denied
• Bike Plan for Edmonton

Other News/Idea Sources:

• CBC
• Globe and Mail
• Canadian Press
• Daveberta
• Tiny Perfect Blog
• etc. there are too many to list.

Sports Links:

• NHL
• WHL
• TSN

Until next week, ladies & gentlemen, we hope you enjoyed the third episode of Lemurs & Meerkats.  Thanks for checking us out online.

Cheers & Lemony Skittles,

L&M [M&K?] [K&M?]

L&M – Episode 2 – We rocked this one

We realize that there is a lot of information in our little hour of sports, politics, news, and entertainment.  Actually, we don’t really like *entertainment* news…so you might get less of that here.  Unless Kat is ranting about how awesome MILK is, or a genuinely “cool” celebrity type does something other than fall over.  Point is, L&M brings the information to you, from nr92.com.

So, for those of you who need a refresher course after listening to our pod-cast, check out these links.  And yes, the following will make no sense unless you listen to the show first.  Trust us. It’s more fun to listen.

Politics

• Flaherty: Spend, Spend, Spend! NOW!
• PSAC workers rally against Budget Implementation Act clauses.
• Weekly Obama Love-in. &  Canada & Afghanistan.
• Afghan Elections
• Russia!

News

• Vatican Holocaust Denier
• Tamil Man on fire outside British Parliament
• Drugs Drugs Drugs & Organized Crime
• Quebec Pension Fund in Toilet.  Charest Blames Parti Quebecois. PQ blames Charest.
• Facebook Democracy
• Emergency Plane Landing

Silly Stories

• Breastfeeding + Cell Phone Chatting + Driving = Stupid
• Diamonds & Debt
• $81.5 million gas-up.
• Car Wash Robbery
• Tree Branch Hold Up @ Chicken Joint
• News of the Weird
• Crazy Balloon Guy

Ongoing Coverage

• Responsibility: Out of Bounds Skiing, Missed SOS Signal
• Robert Dziekanski – Braidwood Inquiry

Sports

• NHL
• WHL
• Oil Kings
• Trade Rumors

Entertainment

• U2 Rooftop
• Barenaked Ladies

Random Stuff Mike Found Online

• Wife Carrying Championship
• Cherry Pit Spitting Contest
• Chess Boxing – Stay tuned Next Week for when Kat and Mike take each other on.

Nerd Stuff

• English Language – The word “stick” will die out.

We know not all of what we talked about today is linked in the post.  Can you blame us?  We’ll come clean with you.  We improv.  A lot. The news is researched, the scores are correct, the weather is accurate – but the rest?  Well…you’ll just have to listen and be entertained. 

Cheers,

L&M