I should keep track of points this team blows. I'll bet we can point to this bucket of missed opportunities at the end of the year when we finish 9th, a point or two out of 8th. Last night we had this game. I was digging the effort after two
Kenneth "Big Moe" Moore was 33. He was a Houston rapper whose 2002 album Purple World reached number 3 on Billboard's hip hop charts.
I write a great deal about my team, and not all of it is hero worship. In fact, I pride myself on being a realist. I root heavily for one team, but I don't wear blinders. Those who have read my Maple Leafs rants and recaps will have noticed the
Johnny Fay, drummer for my favourite band of all-time, once famously quipped that being the biggest band in Canada is "like being the world's tallest midgets." I always liked the quote, and I was pleased to see it in an Aspen Times News headline today. The Tragically Hip are in
Hey Toronto, can anyone help Steve out? He sent me this message earlier today... HEY MIKE MY NAME IS STEVE FELMAN I WAS THE SINGER FOR IRON BUTTERFLY FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS, ANY WAY, WE DID A SHOW AT MOLSON PARK IN 1989 WITH STEPPENWOLF ,BUDDY MILLS ETC. LOOKING
The Pursuit of Happyness: 8.5 out of 10. I must confess, I'm not a big Will Smith fan. I liked him in Six Degrees of Separation and thought he was pretty good in Ali, but that's about it. In The Pursuit of Happyness, however, he's fantastic. The entire film
Let's Go To Prison: 5.5 out of 10. Ok, there are better comedies out there, but I didn't mind "Let's Go To Prison". Maybe it was the fact I liked seeing Will Arnett because he reminded me of Arrested Development, or maybe it's because it was directed by Bob
The Sweet Hereafter, a great Atom Egoyan film, features a cover of The Tragically Hip's "Courage" sung by Sarah Polley. I've always liked this haunting reworking of the tune and meant to share this video some time ago.
How many of these are there going to be this season. This was a game I thought we should have won. We were up 3-1 in the second when some guy named Sidney Crosby woke up and scored his first two goals of the season, including the winner with 4:
Here's a message from the President of the United States of America, Al Gore.
"God can't be everywhere, right?"
As I prepare for Sid the Kid, it's time to give some love to my Toronto Argonauts Football Club. Not that long ago, the double blue were 2-6 and all hopes we'd play in the Grey Cup game we're hosting were spilling down the drain. We won 35-17 victory over
This morning, at precisely 9:30, I ran the 10km Oasis ZooRun through the Metro Toronto Zoo. You can see the course here, which started in the Zoo parking lot and snaked around the perimeter for a couple of kilometres before heading into the zoo and finishing up near the
My favourite Robert De Niro films GoodfellasThe Godfather: Part IIJackie BrownHeatThe Score
Toronto Mayor David Miller recently initiated a series of cuts to city services, including delaying the opening of outdoor rinks until January. That meant our outdoor public skating rinks would be closed during the Christmas season. MasterCard has fixed that. MasterCard is donating $160,000 to make sure city ice
Tomorrow morning I'm running my first ever 10k race. It's only my third race overall after a couple of 5k races this past summer. My packet is picked up, my 10k clinic is complete and there's nothing left but the runnin'. This route looks pretty cool. I hear the stampede
We're down to four teams in the chase for the World Series, and I know who I'm rooting for. I'm backing the Colorado Rockies. When the Blue Jays are eliminated, picking a team usually forces me to examine three factors. Do the Jays have a history with the team, are
After getting hammered by Carolina on Tuesday night, I was interested to see how the Leafs would rebound against the Islanders. Wouldn't you know it, we put a hurtin' on New York behind solid goaltending from Andrew Raycroft, Matt Stajan's four point night and Mats Sundin's assault on the Leafs
Mats Sundin just scored in a wonderful hockey game our Leafs are dominating. It was his 917th point and 390th goal, becoming the all-time Maple Leafs leader in both categories. I'm loving the fact it's now 7-1, but I'm especially pleased with how things unfolded for Sundin to set both
The woman who cut my hair tonight asked me about my brother Jason. I don't think I have a brother named Jason, but she insisted I did. Apparently, a guy named Jason could be my twin. I was intrigued, so I started asking about Jason. I learnt he's a real
Excluding the one-hit wonders, those who visit this site after Googling "running playlist" or "mp3 collection or whatever, the vast majority of people who visit this site live in Ontario. That's not surprising, I'm blabbing about very Toronto-centric stuff which loses its appeal the further you go from the GTA
It's only a matter of time, but I'm going to lose my wedding ring. I don't know if my finger is slimmer or what, but it's been feeling awfully loose these past few weeks. Earlier today, while throwing something into the garbage, my wedding ring flew off my hand. Eventually
Dalton McGuinty's Liberals just won the first back-to-back Liberal majority government since Mitch Hepburn won 70 years ago. The Liberals took 71 ridings, 17 more than the 54 needed for a majority in the 107-seat legislature, and left just 25 seats for John Torys' Progressive Conservatives. Here are my final
My 10k clinic goal race, the Oasis Zoo 10k Run, is this Saturday. I'm ready. So long as I don't go out too fast in the first half I'll be fine. Tonight's run was the shortest run I've done in a long time and at 5k it felt like a
About a year ago, I test drove StarP.M., a free, downloadable afternoon daily newspaper in PDF format. Every weekday afternoon since I've enjoyed this little paper with up-to-date news. StarP.M. has been cancelled and will make their last issue available on October 17, 2007. The email I got
