Good news and bad news... Ever notice how they seem to come coupled together? Here's a true exchange that happened this week. Pal: I've got good news and bad news... Me: Yesssss..... Pal: I'm having difficulty scoring those Sound of Music tix for your ladies. but..... Me: Yesssss..... Pal: I
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. I remember this ad for CFTR 680AM's Commercial Free Sundays well. That was my radio station back in 1984. Specifically, I
Sometimes, on a Monday, I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in iTunes and list the first ten songs that played. Here are the ten tunes I heard today with a personal story about one of them. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led ZeppelinJay's Rap - Jay and Silent BobWhat
Our Maple Leafs finished the pre-season 2-5-2, pretty much the winning percentage I've predicted for this team. With a few days before Thursday's season debut, it's time to focus on the positive. I caught a few of the pre-season games and most of the highlights, and here are my thoughts.
Michael Clayton: 8 out of 10. This is a smart, well acted film that I thoroughly enjoyed. At first I thought George Clooney's Michael Clayton was sort of like Mr. Wolf in Pulp Fiction. He's a janitor of sorts who gets called in when the shit hits the fan. Where
When choosing a rooting interest in baseball, once my Jays are out of the picture, I usually focus on teams with Canadians and former Jays. There are a handful of Canadians in the Major League Baseball playoffs this year, and a whole bunch of former Jays. Canadians Russell Martin -
I just voted. With my mind made up, I decided to beat the rush and stroll over to the advance voting station. I usually mark my ballot early and I highly recommend it for those of you who are decided. Even during a power outage, I witnessed democracy in action.
For years I had a Saturday morning routine. I'd think of a good Homer Simpson quote and add it to my Homer Simpson's Quote of the Week page. After burning through all of my favourite Homer quotes I decided to halt that ritual on February 2, 2008. Today, instead of
Driving home tonight, I heard The Tragically Hip's "Fireworks". I love that song, and it always makes me think about hockey. Here's the opening verse. If there's a goal that everyone remembers, It was back in ol' 72We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger and all
The best films with Nicolas Cage in 'em Raising ArizonaAdaptationFast Times at Ridgemont HighLeaving Las VegasMoonstruck
My fellow Canadians, I have no doubt you'll be tuning into the debate tonight. After all, it's the first televised English debate between Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe and Elizabeth May. What's that? You're going to watch a different debate tonight? Shame on you... but since we're
Mike Kic turned me on to Atmosphere. I was hanging out at his house when he slipped me a bunch of Atmosphere CDs and told me it was right up my alley. I've only recently dived in, and now I can't get enough. I'm always going back to Atmosphere, a
According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in September 2008. Sixty percent of this list is radio-related. The Rick Hodge inspired searches are particularly high with 1,143 people hitting my site up after googling his name. wedding songsrick hodgeroger rick
Breaking news... I just heard Guns N' Roses on Edge 102. You'll see "Sweet Child O' Mine" was played at 7:40am. I remember when CFNY first played Metallica. Is this another shift in the space-time continuum?
You've likely seen the footage below which shows Sarah Palin struggling to name a single newspaper she reads. She can't come up with a newspaper or magazine name, not even the Anchorage Daily freakin' News. I don't know about you, but I suspect she's not reading the news at all.
I mentioned I've been invited to sit in with the hosts of the EZ Rock morning show. I'm going to be sitting next to Humble and live blogging the EZ Morning Show on Friday, October 10. When I first mentioned this, you nice people gave me a bunch of questions
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. Transplants - Diamonds And Guns Some songs can survive
It's nice to see Pension Plan Puppets, a fun little Leaf fan blog, enjoyed my Luke Schenn photoshoppery. I used that same picture again last week when I declared Luke Schenn was our Scott Stevens. It took me five periods to realize how damn special this kid is. He's already
This is fun. In honour of Google's 10th birthday, they've brought back their oldest available index so you can Google like it's January 2001. Get your fill off it now b/c they're only keeping it online for a month. In January 2001, I was focusing on a site I
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind was a documentary DVD released in March 2005 as part of the Classic Albums series. It featured interviews specifically for this release with members of the band and "Nevermind" album producer Butch Vig about the recording of the album. Other interview highlights include Thurston Moore
I'm submitting a song for SLS20 consideration. I'm submitting "Troublemaker" by Weezer. I sorta thought I was done with Weezer. Nobody was a bigger fan of their blue album than yours truly. It was a play-through that I played through hundreds of times. Pinkerton was a tremendous follow-up and I
Not only am I not an economist, but I'm also not a lawyer. As a non-lawyer, I find myself confused by copyright law. This story says the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee has trademarked the line "With glowing hearts". That's right, they've trademarked a line from "O Canada", our national anthem.
I am not an economist. I took economics in grade 11, but that was it. I remember something about supply and demand... the rest is a little hazy. I have been following the US government's $700 billion bank bailout plan, and I am aware the House of Representatives has voted
60 Concert Posters From Ten Amazing Artists - Here are 60 inspiring concert poster designs from 10 amazing artists, as compiled by Smashing Magazine.
