I missed this one because I was busy supplying the tunes for a parrr-teee at a corporate retreat at Horseshoe Valley. It looks like I missed a real gem. I see Brad May got his first fight as a Leaf out of the way. Sure, we lost handily, but that
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. Here's a great ad for the Blue Jays Album, Class of '92. I love these songs, and I was lucky enough
By far the most popular entry I've written in 2009 is Scientology, Autism and the Death of Jett Travolta. Sure, we're only seven days into 2009, but I'll bet you a loonie that I'll be able to make the same claim on December 31. I've been at this game a
Edward Henderson was my wife's grandfather. Earlier this week, she received word from British Columbia that he had passed away in his 90th year. I only met Ed a few times but I knew he was reading every word I typed on this blog. Part of Ed's daily ritual was
Jordan wants you all to know it's once again time to help Toronto's less fortunate with Second Harvest's annual Lunch Money Day. Get involved: sign up to run a campaignvolunteer purchase a Lunch Money Day raffle ticketcontact Jordan for more informationFor every $5 donation, Second Harvest can provide enough fresh
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. Alanis Morissette - Uninvited Back in '98, Nicolas Cage
Thanks to a tip from Elvis, we called this one. The Toronto Maple Leafs have made a trade, acquiring Brad May from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for a conditional sixth round draft pick in 2010. May has been around forever, and is a toughie. And Brian Burke likes the
Bryan McCabe returned the Toronto and helped his Panthers beat us good, but I'm more interested in what might happen today. Elvis is a new local blogger who blogs at My Morning Expresso. Today he wrote that his associate was at a breakfast today where Brian Burke was a speaker
I'm submitting a song for SLS21 consideration. I'm submitting "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" by Weezer. This might be my favourite Weezer single since "El Scorcho." It's all over the place... And the opening sirens really mess with you when you're driving.
According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in December 2008. How do you visit your daily web haunts? Do you have the site bookmarked? Do you manually type in the URL? Or do you throw the name in Google and click
Canada has its fifth World Junior Championship gold medal in a row. I love this tournament and have watched faithfully for as long as I can remember, but I don't recall a tournament as exciting as this one. First there was that New Year's game against the USA. Down by
George Dubya Bush has 14 days left in office. A recent poll found that 79 percent of Americans will not miss him after he leaves the White House. This will be my very last entry about Dubya, a man I won't even miss as blog fodder. Throughout the past eight
Now that my son is almost seven years old, we're having some meaty convos. When I'm teachin' instead of preachin', I humour myself by borrowing phrases from a pop culture world before his time. Here are three such phrases I've used on the boy recently. And that's one to grow
I'm a sucker for all these Canadian music features the CBC like to throw at us every few years. The latest is from CBC Radio 2. Starting this morning, CBC Radio 2 is inviting us Canadians to help select the top “49 songs from north of the 49th parallel” that
For the second year in a row, my slo-pitch team has registered to participate in the annual Round-the-Clock slo-pitch tournament at the ballpark formerly known as SkyDome, the Rogers Centre. Our games are scheduled for January 30 to February 1, 2009. I'll never forget our 4:30 am game last
As found on Torontoist, which is magically still online despite their threats to unplug the site on December 31, this clip is from Steve Martin's 1974 televisoin special "The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada". I always thought Steve Martin should have been Canadian. He was recently throwing zingers our way
My, how the mighty have fallen. It wasn't that long ago that we couldn't buy a regular season win against the mighty Sens. They were in the Stanley Cup final, we were missing the playoffs. They were an all-star team, with Alfie, Spezza and Heatley leading the charge. Now, they
I had given up. There simply wasn't enough time on the clock for us to come back. The Russians had us, we were playing Slovakia for bronze. And then, with 5.4 seconds left in the third period, Jordan Eberle scored. That scream you heard when Eberle scored was me.
I used to swear by Winamp for playing my MP3s. For years and years I thought people were crazy for not using Winamp, then something happened with Winamp's development that had me looking for an alternative player. I flirted with the Quintessential Player for a while, and eventually ended up
I can't wait for tonight's semi-final in the World Junior Championship in Ottawa. Canada takes on Russia and you know it's gonna be good. The puck drops shortly after 7:30. Speaking of Ottawa, the Senators are in town to take on the Leafs. Normally, that would have my full
The 16-year old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, Jett Travolta, died today in the Bahamas. According to sources, Jett suffered a seizure at his family's vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island. A few years ago, Hollywood, Interrupted published a plea from
Last June, I took a closer look at the Edge 102.1 playlist. I was curious how many different songs were in rotation at CFNY. While I was crunching the numbers, I assigned each song a label: New, Recent or Classic Alternative. A comment from egerton on my 102.1
Whitby Dunlops' defenceman Don Sanderson is dead. Sanderson, a student at York University, and a native of Port Perry, got into a fight with Corey Fulton of the Brantford Blast in the third period their game back on December 12. Sanderson lost his helmet during the altercation and both players
Here are the blog entries that received the most unique visitors in 2008. 40% are radio related. 100 Wedding SongsRick Hodge Escapes Roger, Rick and MarilynMy Prima Television NightmareHumble Howard Returns To Morning Radio on EZ Rock 97.3HMS Ontario Found 228 Years LaterHockey Songs: The Best Music About Our
