At The Taste of the Kingsway Festival this weekend, the kids got helium filled balloons. I was sure to tie these balloons down as there's nothing sadder than a kid watching his or her balloon float up to the heavens. There was one exception to this rule and that was
Jane Wyman was 93. She was an Oscar-winning actress and the first wife of former US President Ronald Reagan.
As threatened, I tuned into the MTV Video Music Awards last night. While it's fresh in my mind, and because you're dying to know what I thought, here's my two cents. The Brit wasn't ready for prime time. Bless her heart, she didn't look bad considering her diet of Doritos
American Hardcore had such great footage of Bad Brains rocking out in Washington, DC and New York City, I feel as if I've discovered something great. Of course, Bad Brains has been right under my nose this whole time, and most of you are probably laughing at the fact I'm
American Hardcore: 6 out of 10. The cool kids always wore tee shirts celebrating bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys or D.O.A. It was a scene I completely missed and never totally understood. The songs seemed to be big walls of noise devoid of melody or hook.
Tonight's the 24th annual MTV Video Music Awards and us crazy canucks can watch it live on CTV at 9pm. For years this was my favourite music awards show of them all. The best artists were always on the bill and the coolest videos for great songs often took home
Everybody's talking about the Kanye West showdown with 50 Cent on September 11. Everybody should be talking about another grudge match that promises to deliver all the drama you can stomach. We in Raging Storm have a semi-final series against RobArts Rage, that same RobArts Rage that went headhunting in
While I'm doing the video thing I thought I'd share this cute and funny clip of a father scaring his daughter. It only takes a minute - this is worth the time investment.
I'm writing this entry from my front porch. Work bought me a shiny new laptop so this afternoon I picked up a wireless router from Future Shop and just set her up. That's right, I'm a little late to the wireless party, but better late than never. Testing the new
The Taste of the Kingsway festival has been around for ten years but I don't think I ever went until today. Sure, I made fun of it, but I never made the stroll to that part of Bloor Street to check it out. It's okay. The kids got on a
Today is the city of Toronto's recreation and cultural program registration day for Etobicoke and York districts. That means Daddy has to wake up early to battle other mommies and daddies for a valuable spot in desired courses. James needs swimming lessons and Michelle is dying to take ballet, so
"He didn't give you gay, did he? Did he?!"
This is a nice little recap of the internet thus far. These are the people we met on the information superhighway. High Speed Internet by Distributel
I never liked Troy Glaus as a Blue Jay. It's not that I don't like Troy Glaus, it's that I loved Orlando Hudson at 2nd for the Jays. Orlando Hudson was the best 2nd baseman to play in this city since Roberto Alomar and I hated giving him up for
I just received this message via my contact form. I've read it three times and for the life of me I can't figure it out. Does anyone want to take a crack at deciphering this cryptic message? I changed the rogers.com email addy to protect the guilty. i have
Now that I've finally got used to calling the O'Keefe Centre the Hummingbird Centre, they're changing the name to the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Hummingbird Centre, we had some good times together. I'll never forget that Hip concert with Sam Roberts opening or Edward Scissorhands. Memories...
Madeleine L'Engle was 88. Her novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has been enjoyed by generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s.
I recently inherited a web site that was littered with BOMs. A BOM is a byte-order mark which is the Unicode codepoint U+FEFF, corresponding to the Unicode character 'ZERO WIDTH NON-BREAKING SPACE' (ZWNBSP). To dumb it down a shade, every instance of a BOM displayed like  in the
I've collected $366 online and $50 offline for my 2007 Terry Fox Run, but that still leaves me short of my $500 goal. I'm running on September 16 so there's still time for you to sponsor me. If you've already given, and many of you have, I really appreciate it.
I loved Back to the Future. Scratch that, I love Back to the Future. It's as good today as it was when I first saw it back in '85. Whether I'm watching it 22 years ago or today, I take serious issue with the portrayal of cereal in this otherwise
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I just submitted a song for SLS18 consideration. I submitted "Young Leaves" by Attack in Black. I wasn't sure about this tune at first, but I now think it's at least worthy of consideration. It sounds an awful lot like late 90s Goldfinger to my ears with a tinge of
I had to read the email twice. I received it yesterday afternoon and it both confused and amused me. I was being asked to speak at U of T for the Varsity Christian Fellowship. I immediately forwarded the email to my mom and brothers for shits and giggles and then
Luciano Pavarotti was 71. He was opera's biggest superstar of the late 20th century who brought the genre to the musical mainstream.
My monthly Google Friends Newsletter tells me I can now embed Google Maps on my website or blog. There's a new feature on Google Maps that enables you to easily embed an interactive map on your website or blog just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML (much in
