Junior Seau was 43. He was a 12-time Pro Bowler and 6-time First-Team All-Pro NFL linebacker, enjoying his best seasons with the San Diego Chargers. Early reports indicate Junior Seau died from a self-inflicted gunshot. That's a damn shame, he was one of my favourites. Update: Junior Seau is the
Today is May Day, which is a holiday in a whole bunch of places for a wide variety of different reasons. When I hear it's May Day, I only think of one thing. Brad May's deke of Ray Bourque and goal against Andy Moog on April 24, 1993 in overtime
I've been watching a lot of playoff hockey lately, and that means I've seen the Meridith Valiando DigiTour Blackberry Bold ad about one million times. Of course, I haven't seen it a million times. I'm exaggerating. And that must be what Meridith Valiando is doing in the ad. She claims
Rob Ford sure loves subways subways subways subways subways subways subways subways subways subways.
For the past few months, I've been rotating between boring ol' regular Cheerios and Special K. That's it. Cheerios and Special K. A bunch of cereals I used to enjoy got fired when I read the labels. A lot of tasty cereals are loaded with sugar, and there's more than
I got an email from Scott asking me to update Custom's MySpace page with new unreleased tunes. I no longer control Custom's MySpace page, so I offered to share a couple of tracks here. This won't be the first time I've done this. I shared an unreleased Custom song a
I was reminded of something I wrote back in 2003. I had just seen an ad for Nutella, and felt compelled to write this. What's the deal with Nutella? When I was a kid, I was always envious of my classmates who would bring Nutella sandwiches for lunch. What could
Today was an interesting day. It began with the full release of Ubuntu 12.04 which I installed on my desktop. Then, the XPS 13 arrived from Dell. I didn't pay for the XPS 13. Dell just gave it to me, so I'm going to review it and compare it
I was watching some old footage of the NHL on FOX on Youtube. This footage was from 1995 and it included this graphic regarding the longest Stanley Cup droughts at the time. The Red Wings were suffering from a "40 year itch". They'd win a couple of Cups before the
In the 80s, when we were trying to act adult and cool, we'd drink Sarasoda. Sarasoda was non-alcoholic, but everyone in school knew it contained 0.9% alcohol, so it was our booze. It had this grapefruity flavour, as I recall. Here's an ad for Sarasoda I dug up. Does
In late 1989, I was reading the Toronto Star and they were asking folks what they thought were the best albums of the 1980s. Somebody picked The Clash's London Calling, despite the fact it was actually released in 1979. That very next Saturday, I headed downtown to Yonge and Dundas
There's not a lot of blogs left that go back 9+ years. Plenty of bloggers were writing 9 years ago, but most disappeared long ago. My archives go back 9.5 years, so I can read what I wrote about SARS exactly 9 years ago today. Here's the entry: SARS
This is a great National Film Board of Canada documentary from 1982 with fantastic footage from our city 30 years ago. This feature documentary studies one of the city’s most visible yet most anonymous character: the taxi driver. Filmed by day and night, the film offers an entertaining and
My kid is writing about the origin of hip-hop for school. We had a good chat about hip-hop being a culture as opposed to a type of music or dance. It's a collective encompassing rap, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti. This discussion had me diving into old Public Enemy albums, and
Prior to drafting my playoff pool this year, I wrote down the teams I thought would advance to the second round of the NHL playoffs. I picked: PittsburghNew JerseyNew YorkBostonVancouverSan JoseNashvilleChicagoExcept for calling Nashville over Detroit, I could get bulldozed. Pittsburgh and San Jose are already out and New Jersey,
Last night, while I watched the Penguins and Flyers, the Blue Jays turned their first triple play since 1979. At least it was the first triple play called properly by an umpire, but more on that later. With the runners moving in the third inning, Eric Hosmer hit a sinking
It's 4/20, and whether you partake or not, this is a good place to blow your smoke. What's on your mind?
Levon Helm was 71. He was a singer and drummer for the Band, singing such classics as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Up on Cripple Creek," "Rag Mama Rag," and "The Weight".
The Simpsons made their television debut 25 years ago today in a series of animated shorts on “The Tracy Ullman Show.” Seven years ago, I wrote about how I never missed an episode. As previously declared, I won't miss a new episode of "The Simpsons". I've been watching for half
Working from home, I found I spent most of the day sitting in front of the PC. Sitting all day will kill ya. Combine that with the usual holiday gluttony and the fact I spent a week in Germany where I drank and ate like a pig, and by the
Dick Clark was 82. He was the music industry maverick, longtime TV host and powerhouse producer who changed the way we listened to pop music with American Bandstand, and whose trademark Rockin' Eve became a fixture of New Year's celebrations.
The quote of the day comes from Wildrose candidate Ron Leech, who's running for MPP in the Calgary Greenway riding. I think, as a Caucasian, I have an advantage. When different community leaders such as a Sikh leader or a Muslim leader speaks they really speak to their own people
