My favourite George Clooney films O Brother, Where Art Thou?Out of SightThe Perfect StormThree KingsFrom Dusk Till Dawn
May 19, 2026
9/11 was seven years ago. Four years ago, when we were three years removed from that infamous day, I wrote this. Ask anyone where they were three years ago today and they'll tell you. 2,749 people were killed in Manhattan, 184 people died in Washington and 40 died
I love mash-ups. I'm very happy with so-called illegal music put together by the Kleptones or Danger Mouse or whoever. Last night, I learnt about Feed the Animals, the fourth album by Girl Talk. Girl Talk, it turns out, is actually a guy named Gregg Gillis. Feed the Animals is
I'm running for Terry in High Park on Sunday morning. I've thus far raised $572 but I'd like to raise more. That's where you can help. If you haven't yet contributed, pledge my run online and help me help the Terry Fox Foundation. It's really, really slick. You enter your
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. Tones on Tail - Go! There are two sure-fire
With the Blue Jays on a ten game winning streak, it's okay to dream. We all ponder "what if" scenarios and wonder what might happen if we keep this up. After all, anything is possible, right? Wrong. Ken Roberts has created an "odds of the making the playoffs" website. He
The blogosphere is a funny place. It's not as important what you write as it is how people get there. Allow me to explain... When my friend Humble Howard became part of the morning team at EZ Rock this summer, I wrote about it. My entry didn't even mention the
Brian tipped me off about this homemade Simpsons intro using Lego. Sweet...
I'm featuring 1988 Topps Cards featuring members of my beloved Blue Jays that are featured on this blog. Lest we forget that we won a World Series with light hitting Manuel "Don't Call Me Manny" Lee playing shortstop. In 1991 he became the only guy to ever strike out 100
I'm submitting a song for SLS20 consideration. I'm submitting "Detroit '67" by Sam Roberts. Yes, I'm nominating "Detroit '67", but I'm thinking about "Bridge to Nowhere". Every time I see or read about Sarah Palin, which is all too often, I think about Sam Roberts' "Bridge to Nowhere". Here's a
Not only did I catch Teen Wolf at the old Humber Odeon during its initial theatrical run, but we recorded it onto VHS when it played during a free preview of First Choice - Superchannel and watched it incessantly. My brothers and I knew every line by heart and we
I'm featuring 1988 Topps Cards featuring members of my beloved Blue Jays that are featured on this blog. Duane Ward was lights out for the Jays in 1992 and 1993. In 1992 he usually came in to close out the 8th leaving the 9th for Terminator Tom Henke. In 1993,
Oasis front man Noel Gallagher was treated in hospital after a man ran onto the stage and attacked him while he and his brother Liam were performing at the annual Virgin Festival here in Toronto. As you'll see in the footage below, Noel Gallagher "fell heavily onto his monitor speakers,
On Fred's entry today about his new job in Peterborough, Humble just left a comment. Hey Pal, Congratulations on the next phase. Feels great to be back doing something don't it? As you know I wish you all the best in the world, I just thought I'd say it here
Erik Nielsen was 84. He was a former deputy prime minister in Brian Mulroney's Conservative government and elder brother of comic Leslie Nielsen.
For the third time in four years, we've got a federal election. Stephen Harper has dissolved Parliament and has called an election for October 14. It's a shame we're going to the polls only a couple of weeks before our neighbours to the south as I fear Obama vs. McCain
Breakfast with Scot: 6.5 out of 10. "Breakfast with Scot" was the first of the two Toronto Maple Leaf movies released over the past twelve months. I first wrote about it here. You may recall the buzz about it because it featured an ex-Toronto Maple Leaf who just happens
Often, when I need to learn about an event, a person or a thing, I start with Wikipedia. For everything from sports to music to politics, Wikipedia serves up a ton of great info. Sometimes, however, you have to wrestle with wikiality. When Gregg Zaun came to the plate today
I just got back from a little 13 inning game at the ballpark formerly known as SkyDome. I took the kids who were enthusiastic angels for all 13 innings and it couldn't have been a more exciting game. It should have been a quick 3-0 shut-out and a well deserved
If you recognize the title of this entry, you're a child of the 80s and Canadian. You're also likely a little creeped out right now. I'm a child of the 80s, and the ASTAR public service announcement from The War Amps always freaked me out. It was a pretty cool
My all-time favourite songs with "electric" in the title She's Electric - OasisThe Body Electric - RushThe Electric Co. - U2Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called QuestOver the Electric Grapevine - Primus
In this entry I mentioned my need to introduce pagination for my category pages. Some categories have many hundreds of entries making the pages very long and painfully slow to load. MT-Hacks has a slick little pagination plug-in for Movable Type that introduces pagination. I've got it working now. For
I'm still angry. Last night my rec league softball team lost a semi-final game by a single run. It was as close as a game can get with me as the tying run deserted at third base in the bottom of the last inning. I'm still angry because one of
I caught about 4 minutes of The Fan 590 during lunch and they were calling in to vote on which sport was best on the radio and which ones you have to see in order to enjoy. This got me thinking about the four major sports: baseball, basketball, football and
Let's try this again. This will the fourth year in a row I've encouraged you to vote for Tom Cheek as a finalist for the Ford C. Frick Award. You can vote here at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Here are previous entries I've written about Cheek's eligibility for the
