I watched most of the Academy Awards last night. At around 11pm I bailed, but I caught all five musical performances. This entry is about the five songs I saw performed last night. Three of the five songs were just awful. Not average or mediocre but awful. "Happy Working Song"
I have a collection of expressions I'll use in place of "goodbye". Many of these expressions came from hip hop songs from the late 80s and early 90s as is the case with a farewell line I've been using for 17 years now. That would be, "I'm out like Buster
In response to Sarah Silverman f**king Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel retorted with a star-studded cast. He's f**king Ben Affleck. And yes, I wrote "retorted".
It's official. Mats Sundin will not waive his no-trade clause. Neither will Pavel Kubina, Darcy Tucker or Tomas Kaberle. Bryan McCabe might, if it's to the right Eastern Conference team. I'm guessing Uncle Cliffy will be doing a whole lot of nothing these next two days. I'm giving Sundin a
For the second time in two weeks, James and I spent a Sunday afternoon taking in a Toronto Marlies game at the Ricoh Coliseum. The more I visit the Ricoh Coliseum, the more I love it. Firstly, there isn't a bad seat in the building. I've sat close to the
Vacancy: 5.5 out of 10. I was going to give "Vacancy" a 5, but Taryn liked it so much, I've bumped it up a notch. On the positive side of the ledger, it's only 85 minutes long, although I thought that was still a little lengthy for this film.
Yeah, we won, but this game wasn't significant because we took out the Thrashers. This may have been Mats Sundin's last game as a Toronto Maple Leaf. In 970 career games with the Maple Leafs, Sundin has 413 goals, 558 assists and 971 points. In Mats own words: No matter
I'm watching the tribute to Bob Gainey. They're retiring his number in Montreal. He played his entire career for the Montreal Canadiens, captaining that team for nine seasons and never missing the playoffs. I'm not suggesting Mats Sundin is Bob Gainey, Mats certainly doesn't have the Stanley Cup rings, but
Watching "The Last Mimzy" with my son got me thinking about "Time Bandits", a 1981 Terry Gilliam film I watched dozens of times as a kid. I loved that movie. The entire film can be viewed on YouTube in 12 parts. Embedding is disabled by request, but you can start
The Last Mimzy: 7 out of 10. James and I are having a dude's day. With the girls out of the house, James and I skated for an hour at Rennie Park and then settled in to watch "The Last Mimzy". Here's some sage advice from a father of two.
YouTube user WNED17 recently uploaded some fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips have brought back a tonne of memories for me, so I'm going to feature them one by one over the next few weeks. Here's a Maple Leaf game promo from 1986. The game was aired on CHCH TV out
For years I ran an Oscar pool I'd open up to the public. It got to be a pretty big pain the ass as it grew and grew, so a couple of years ago I opened it up to family members only. This year, I did the same. I sent
Robin Moore was 82. He was the author best known for writing "The French Connection" and "The Green Berets."
On my Contact Me page I've got a Meebo widget that actually provides visitors to that page with an instant messenger connection with me. I use Meebo throughout the day so I know when somebody loads that page. Today I saw somebody sitting on that page for a while, so
It's time to re-purpose some content... Four years ago today, when there were approximately 40 unique visitors to this site each day, I wrote a little tribute to a man who helped provide the soundtrack to my early years of life. Kenny Rogers still does it for me, as I
My favourite films featuring Gwyneth Paltrow Se7enThe Royal TenenbaumsShakespeare in LoveThe Talented Mr. RipleyEmma
Yes, I'm still watching. I wouldn't want to miss Kubina's breakaway goal, would I? The trade deadline is Tuesday @ 3pm EST. I'm going to be all over this sucker, updating this site regarding anything involving the Leafs. Go Cliff Go! Current Record Last GamesSeason Leaders25-28-9 59 points 5th in Northeast5-1
I completely missed The Brit Awards this year. That's too bad because I always enjoy the Brits. In this new age of YouTube, however, all is not lost. Rhianna mashed her hit "Umbrella" with the Klaxons "Golden Skans" and the result was pretty cool. Check this out.
James wanted some Doritos, so I went into the cupboard to grab a plastic kids bowl to fill. The only clean one was a Disney Princess bowl that belongs to Michelle. I handed James the pink Disney Princess bowl of Doritos and told him not to worry about the fact
I was at Old City Hall today fighting a speeding ticket. Every time I go to traffic court my friends tell me the police officer won't show up and they'll withdraw the charges. Every time this turns out not to be true. Today, as usual, the police offer showed up.
I rarely write about ad campaigns but this Obay marketing effort has me intrigued. Ads have popped up all over Toronto promoting an obviously fictional drug called Obay. They're everywhere and I have no idea what they're for. One ad shows a father and son with the caption "My son
I'm featuring 1988 Topps Cards featuring members of my beloved Blue Jays that are featured on this blog. Rance Mulliniks was one half of our legendary platoon at third base. He shared the duties with Garth Iorg for most of the 80s before Kelly Gruber took over. Rance was a
You know it's one of those days when the clock approaches 7pm and you still haven't recapped last night's Leafs victory. The Dominic Moore - Chad Kilger - Boyd Devereaux line is kicking some serious ass lately. On any other team that's a pretty decent fourth line. On the Leafs
As a follow up to this entry about Second Harvest and Lunch Money Day, fellow dodgeballer Jordan wrote this: Tomorrow is Lunch Money Day. We will be in subway stations and Union Station from 6:45am-9:30am doing Lunch Money Day collections and between 4:30-6:30pm at Union Station
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. City And Colour - Sleeping Sickness I just got
