My volleyball team wrapped up its winter season last night. We're Victory Volleyball Intermediate Plus Champions. Throughout the playoffs, as things got more competitive, tensions mounted. It heated up, calls were disputed, and the intensity magnified. When that happens, I struggle... because volleyball is different. My participation sports of choice
I had never seen the meteorology term 'broken clouds' until today. Here it is, just moments ago, whispering to me from the weather panel in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx. Broken clouds sounds about right...
I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty damn excited about the Blue Jays in 2011. Did you see the numbers Arencibia and Bautista put up last night? And right off the bat Rajai Davis reminded us all what a little speed does for the offense. He's going to be fun
According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten organic search keywords that brought people to this site in March 2011. toronto mikegirl talk all day sample listjason barrteri polo deathandrew krystal firedsongs with love in the titlethe champrick hodgefadooandrew krystal fan 590Once more, six of the top ten search
Remember that song "Friday" by Rebecca Black we've been yakking about for a couple of weeks? That was soooo March 2011. This is April, and Rebecca Black's Friday has been supplanted by Ron Wilson's Reimer. Of course you want the MP3 for your iPod! Here it is. [via Down Goes
There's a Jays game tonight. I'm not going, I'm playing hockey instead, but I wish I was off to the ballpark formerly known as Skydome. Use the comments of this entry to discuss the Jays' chances this season, or anything you want. This is your space.
Today is the perfect day to share my favourite song from the first band I saw live in concert, Chalk Circle. April Fool
I love this time of year, when the puck drops on the NHL playoffs and Blue Jays baseball starts up. I've seen the Rogers Sportsnet Blue Jays ad set to "Coming Home" by Diddy-Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey about 100 times and it still gives me goosebumps when it comes
Courtesy of Retrontario, here's a 1989 television ad for CFNY's Humble and Fred morning show. Man, that Miami Vice look did not work for Humble. Fred, however, still dresses like that.
I'm not sure what the big deal is with the lyrics to Rebecca Black's Friday. As you'll see, the lyrics align perfectly with one of my favourite Beatles songs. If you've been living under a rock the last two weeks, here's Rebecca Black's Beatles-esque song, Friday. [via The Daily What]
With a federal election scheduled for Monday, May 2, 2011, my friend Freddie P's blog www.canadianthinker.com has become a part of the Conservative Party's propaganda machine. It's essentially unvisitable until this election passes, so for your convenience and mine, I've created this handy little countdown clock: //Dynamic countdown
Roger Abbott was 64. He was one of the driving forces behind CBC’s Royal Canadian Air Farce on both TV and radio.
The JUNO Awards are tonight. The JUNOs always make me think about the U-Knows, CFNY's music awards for Canadian independent and alternative acts. The U-Knows have been called the CASBYs since 1986. Check out this clip of CFNY's Nick Charles celebrating Chalk Circle's 1986 CASBY win. Mondoville is sharing highlights
That was far more fun than I thought it would be. We limped into the all-star break, with little hope and almost no reason to care, and have gone 15-7-5 since. I don't know about you, but I sure started to care again. Leafs games became must-see-tv, scoreboard watching became
Global News Toronto reporter Mark McAllister suffered what's being described as a "minor medical issue" while live on the air Monday night. Here he is, struggling to speak about defence minister Peter MacKay. He's been back on the air since and claims to be feeling fine. Here's hoping that moment
I just learnt something new. In America, these are Smarties: Those, of course, are called Rockets here in Canada. These are what we call Smarties: I had no idea...
Terje Sorgjerd spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years. This was shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east.
Elizabeth Taylor was 79. She was one of the 20th Century's biggest movie stars, winning winning a best actress Oscar in 1960 for "Butterfield 8" and then again in 1966 for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Here she is on What's My Line?
Let's call a spade a spade. I'm a pretty influential person. I'm the Oprah of the Toronto blogosphere, nobody said to nobody. Why do you think I won a Gemini? A little over a year ago, Dove Men+Care sent me some nice smelling stuff. Well... they're at it again.
YouTube user Retrontario frequently uploads fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips never fail to bring back a ton of memories for me, so I feature them from time to time. At some point, my kids switched from Treehouse TV to Family Channel. It literally happened over night. Bob the Builder was
I love the character of George Costanza. I recently listed him as one of my favourite television characters of all-time. It's hard to believe that David Letterman's sidekick and fellow Canadian Paul Shaffer was considered for the role. I'm glad Paul never became George.
When it comes to television, what's the most sensible option in Toronto? Bell and Rogers seem to offer an assortment of digital TV programming packages, with or without a PVR. But it can start to cost you an arm and a leg. I have a very important question for you
It's not the 4 points we're behind Buffalo that'll kill us, it's those 2 games the Sabres have in hand. That combination means this realist isn't getting his hopes up. But that's okay. As commenter Ryan G. pointed out, we've been playing playoff hockey for the past few weeks. that
A big glove tap to Mondoville for reminding me where I'd seen it all before... Boom 97.3's new spring ad campaign is called Cover Up and you'll see the ads plastered all over Astral-owned ad space in this city. It's people holding vinyl record sleeves and covers in front
My daughter has a boom box she plays her music on. It's got radio and a CD player, that's it. When she wants certain tunes, I kick it old school. That means I make an audio CD from MP3s and she plays that disc. I'm actually glad I finally have
