Al just wrote me about First Sounds, a blog written by Derry, a former Deaf Mute who had his life changed by a specialist who did an implant surgery giving him the ability to hear and speak. Al does a far better job describing First Sounds. Hi Mike,It's Al,
The Dubie strikes again! Wade Dubielewicz was born in Invermere, BC and I think he hates Toronto. He knocks us down every chance he gets. Mark Bell scored his second goal as a Leaf. You may recall the $50 Mark Bell bet I have with my brother. Last summer, after
Make that 19 straight wins in this tournament. That's an incredible streak and probably under appreciated at this point. John "The Next One" Tavares led the charge with two goals. I watched this game and thought it was awfully close. If not for some solid goaltending from Jonathan Bernier, we
Danger! Danger! Danger! Andrew Raycroft will be in net tonight when we play the Islanders. Raycroft last started November 24 in a disastrous 5-1 loss in Phoenix. That's the game that triggered these 41 tears. My new best friend Vesa Toskala has been 7-2-3 since that game, but he can't
Did you know 30% of visitors to this site are named Mike? It's true*. This teaser for the new Knight Rider series with home boy Will Arnett as the voice of KITT is for that 30%. * Not necessarily true.
My favourite Boxing Day tradition is settling in to watch the Canadian juniors open their World Junior Championship. The World Junior Championships 2008 takes place in the Czech Republic and we play the host team in about 130 minutes. The Star has a nice summary of players representing the GTA.
Both kids got awfully spoiled yesterday. James got Transformers and Hot Wheels while Michelle got Baby Alive and Cinderella. As I sit here on Boxing Day, fresh from nine rounds of golf with James, it's pretty clear which present will bring the most joy to this household. That would be
Santa came. I've set up the Wii and I'm loving it. We're all loving it, but I'm really loving it. Everyone is coming over for food and drink so I wanted to pop online quickly and wish everyone a Merry Christmas. So Merry Christmas!
Oscar Peterson was 82. He was the the Canadian known globally as one of the most spectacularly talented musicians ever to play jazz piano.
I've got a little thing for lists. I'll throw anything in a list. Top ten movies with a geographic location in the title, best songs written by a Canadian citizen while living in England, greatest top ten lists ever, you get the idea. This is prime time for hanging with
I wonder what a traffic chart for noradsanta.org would look like? For 11 months of the year it would be pretty dead, then for the month of December traffic would increase with a massive spike on December 24th. If you want to track Santa's journey across the world today,
It is with great privilege and honour that I unveil to you the final song list for SLS18. For an SLS primer, go here and to see what appeared on SLS17, go here. We listened to hours and hours of new rock before deciding upon these 20 tracks. Without further
Happy Festivus everyone! For those who don't know what Festivus is, I've summarized it below in three easy to follow steps: "Get the pole out of the crawl space". Or go out and buy one. Remember, it should be aluminum, due to the "very high strength-to-weight ratio". Remember, "it requires
Ignorance might be bliss, but knowing is half the battle. I just wrote about the agreement I struck with my wife yesterday and already we're coming to our senses. We'll call this the morning after chill. The pros of having a third child: children are awesomeanother person to love and
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 Pretenders - 2000 Miles For the remainder of
The Leafs haven't had much luck this road trip. Vesa Toskala, or Tosky as I like to call him, has been brilliant, but goals have been few and far between. We keep getting caught from behind, as we were yesterday, but this time we found a way to win. Pavel
I've never liked "The Twelve Days of Christmas". It's so repetitive I'm usually bored by the third day. Bob and Doug's 12 beers of Christmas is fun, but is there a version of the proper song that isn't terribly boring? I say there's one. This is John Denver singing with
We bought this gingerbread house kit at the grocery story that seemed easy enough. It came with ready-made icing and all the pieces. There was even instructions. How could we fail? It was easy enough to put together, but decorating it was a challenge. James wanted it to look like
Back in September I wrote about negotiations discussions I was having with my wife. She wanted a third child and I was pretty sure I was done. I've got the two best kids in the world and I'm not feeling an urge to do it all again. Today, with my
I just shared Dubya's great cover of "Happy Xmas (War is Over)", and now I see the President of the United States of America is at it again. This time Dubya's taking on R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel
"We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!"
Almost a full year ago, I declared blogging was going to be all about me in 2007. I was only going to write about what I wanted to write about. I was going to write the same content whether 40 people were reading or 40,000 people were reading. I
I shared The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" earlier in the month as a weekly MP3. Normally I only host MP3s for seven days before yanking them, but dammit, this is Christmas, so you can still grab it if you haven't already. If you can't wait to hear this holiday
Saddest celebrity passings of 2007 Honest Ed MirvishDon ChevrierJohn MajhorPhil "The Scooter" RizzutoJune Callwood
The 2008 'Round the Clock Coed Slo-Pitch Tournament takes place at SkyDome in January. For those only born in the past few years, the SkyDome is that ball park downtown officially named the Rogers Centre. Call it whatever you want, I'm just psyched about playing there. That's right, my championship
