Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: 6 out of 10. "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" isn't in the same league as "Knocked Up" or "Superbad," but it's a fun 90 minutes if you're just looking for a few laughs, some neat cameos and music that ain't half bad. Look
The Leafs fought hard, but a couple of sweet goals by Vincent Lecavalier did them in. It was interesting watching Mike Smith beat us between the pipes while earning a point. Many moons ago, when he was just an Iowa Star, I shared this picture of his very cool Tragically
As it gets easier and easier for regular folk to publish on the web, I find less and less publishers are actually bothering to get their hands dirty with design. Using Blogger? Simply choose a theme from the list. Using Facebook or MySpace? The default settings will do. Using Wordpress
When I threw my support behind the Phillies, I referred to something that happened in this city fifteen years ago. It was fifteen years ago Saturday, to be precise. In Touch 'Em All, Joe I revisited that moment. Joe Carter came to the plate in the ninth inning of game
Have you heard that tune by Kid Rock? The one that borrows from Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama?" Of course you've heard it, who am I trying to kid? Every time I hear it, I think about how great Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London"
Conrad "S.D. Jones" Efraim was 63. He was a former professional wrestler best known as Special Delivery Jones from his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). I had an S.D. Jones action figure.
Charles Dubin was 87. He was a former Ontario chief justice who dominated courtrooms for more than half a century. If you're like me, you remember Charles Dubin best as the man who chaired the Dubin Inquiry after sprinter Ben Johnson lost his gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Larry David recently wrote a guest post for The Huffington Post. I've always laughed my ass off at Larry David, both his contribution to Seinfeld and his most excellent Curb Your Enthusiasm. Read what Larry has to say in a post he entitled "Waiting for Nov. 4th." I can't take
Tony Hillerman was 83. He was author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes - Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.
Merl Saunders was 74. He was a keyboardist who had a long-term collaboration with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.
I've never met Buffalo Boy, but I helped build his blog and I help him out now and then. Earlier today, I received an S.O.S. email from him. A visit to buffaloboymike.com was resolving at maplemusic.com. At first I didn't believe it, because it didn't happen
I'm submitting a song for SLS20 consideration. I'm submitting "Sex On Fire" by Kings of Leon. I'm dedicating this video to RCA Records, a unit of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. RCA Records, a unit of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, is still disabling the embedding of their YouTube videos. That means
We're almost done with October and I just realized I totally forgot to see The Dark Knight. How the hell does that happen? I purposely avoided it during its first few weeks of release, because I didn't want to deal with the crowds, but I never meant to miss it
My brother yesterday told me he's happy when the Leafs lose, because we're supposed to be losing at this point in the building process. I'm sorry, but I can't do that. I really, really wanted to beat the Sens Saturday night. When Poni scored our 3rd goal, you could have
I had to have Use Your Illusion I and II on the first day of its release. That was back in 1991 and I was a big time GNR fan. If you were there you knew there was no bigger rock band on the planet than Guns N' Roses. We
I'm just catching up on the viral video hits from this past week, so I only just now saw Ron Howard's Obama promo on funny or die. It's great fun, even if you're not an Obama supporter. I was a little young for The Andy Griffith Show, but I loved
I went to Harveys for lunch yesterday, and I couldn't believe the song they played in-store. It was The Extras with their novelty 80s hit "Circular Impression." It was kind of surreal to hear it at a Harveys. I mean, it is all about a condom and it does start
My favourite songs with "busy" in the title Born to Get Busy - Cypress HillToo Busy Thinking About My Baby - Marvin GayeBusy Bodies - Elvis CostelloGet Busy - Mr. LeeGet Busy - Sean Paul
You may have heard that Dolemite passed away earlier in the week. It was actually Rudy Ray Moore who passed away, but he was Dolemite, his 1970s blaxploitation persona. I didn't know about Dolemite until Big Daddy Kane introduced me to him in 1990. I was a big Big Daddy
This team reminds me of those little dogs who don't realize they're little dogs and pick fights with much bigger dogs. Down 2-0, I didn't think we had it in us to rally back in Boston, but lo and behold, that's exactly what we did. That's the second game in
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. Back in 1983, there was only one way to celebrate Halloween. You stayed home and watched Seeing Things on CBC. Seeing
The Kool Haus provided an intimate setting where I could get super close to the acts without fearing for my life. This is a good thing as I'm no longer the young man I once was. In fact, it's fair to say on this night I was one of the
I'm going to make my way over to the Kool Haus soon. I'll be checking out the 2008 CASBY Awards. One of the bands performing, USS, impressed me when I saw them at Edgefest. I wonder if we'll hear Porno Star Trek tonight?
25 regular season Raptors games are going to be televised on TSN2. There's only one problem with that. If your cable provider is Rogers, as mine is, you can't get TSN2. This is a great deal worse than throwing the games on RaptorsTV, because at least a Raptors fan can
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. The Pursuit of Happiness - Consciousness Raising As a
