At this time of year I always get nostalgic for the days when Blue Jays baseball in late August actually meant something. There's an entire generation of ball fans growing up in this city who barely recall playoff baseball in Toronto. That's so sad. When I get nostalgic about pennant
According to The Economist magazine, the world's most livable cities VancouverMelbourneViennaPerthToronto
Sometimes I wonder if every dude is named Mike. I realize not every dude is actually named Mike, but sometimes it seems that way. Fact #1: In my 10k clinic there are exactly three guys. All three of us are named "Mike". Fact #2: On Raging Storm, my slo-pitch team,
All baseball fans are aware by now of what happened last night in Baltimore. The Texas Rangers put 30 runs on the board to win 30-3. It's been 110 years since a team scored 30 runs in a single game. Blue Jays fans are likely wondering what our team record
We have a For Better Of For Worse update. The strip isn't going away, but Johnston is scaling back. Next month, she will start running older material, which will occasionally be interspersed with new strips. She eases into it beginning today as older daughter Elizabeth, just reunited with her old
Eventually I'll probably stop recounting my weekly running schedule, but I find it handy to have one place where I can monitor my progress. If it bores you to tears, you shouldn't be reading this. Why are you reading this? Stop reading.... I knew you couldn't do it. It's week
A couple of sports headlines caught my attention this week because I knew the names, but I knew the names as they belonged to completely different people. First there was news that Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson completed a 25-day hold out. I know Larry Johnson, but I
When you compare and contrast the way we view our national basketball team with the way we view our national hockey teams, it's more than a little shocking. The FIBA Americas Olympic Qualification tournament starts today for our men's basketball team as we try and qualify for the 2008 Olympics
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. R.E.M. - Drive Earlier this year I
The stats tell me there are a bunch of Johnny-come-lately's checking out this space on a daily basis. There are a few things you newbies are likely unaware of, so here's a list of things you might not know. This site has a sitemap. From there you can see the
Some study is suggesting the fact females prefer pink and males prefer blue is innate. Boys like blue, girls like pink and there isn't much anybody can do about it, researchers said on Monday in one of the first studies to show scientifically that there are gender-based colour preferences.Researchers
This subject is just here to get a chuckle out of the boys and girls from Raging Storm. Can you keep a secret? Between you and I, a slo-pitch manager doesn't really have much to do with the outcome. Sure, I put together the lineup and the defensive positions, but
In the past, playoff games in our slo-pitch league have always taken place in September. Tonight's playoff game, on August 20, is by far the earliest date on record. It just seems too early to potentially play our last games, but there's a reason we're already this far in the
Leona Helmsley was 87. She helped her husband run a $5 billion hotel and real estate empire but sealed her reputation as the "queen of mean" during her 1989 trial for tax evasion.
When John From Cincinnati got canned earlier this week, I shared the opening credits of that show because it featured a very cool tune by Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros. That got me thinking about television theme songs that are too cool to be confined to the small screen and
Fuck: 6.5 out of 10. This documentary is all about the F-bomb. There is an interesting collection of people speaking up on this controversial word, with Bill Maher, Billy Connolly, Ice-T, Drew Carey, Kevin Smith and others on one end of the spectrum and a bunch of stiffs and
I just submitted a song for SLS18 consideration. I submitted The White Stripes' "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)". This was a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned. I recently referred to The White Stripes as the best band of the past decade. This
Two years ago today, I asked you to help a brother out. Here's my entry from that day. Help a Brother Out Published August 19, 2005 @ 08:42 in Gord Downie's HallelujahGord Downie covered Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" for the film "Saint Ralph". I recently wrote about this tune and I've
With great power comes great responsibility and I don't want to let down the esteemed SLS franchise. The 18th instalment of SLS is being put together over the next four months and I've got a backlog of songs that demand consideration. Here are three: Velvet Revolver - The Last FightFoo
About a year ago I asked you good people for an MP3 of the Toronto Blue Jays' official song, "OK Blue Jays (Let's Play Ball!)". Hours later I had it, and I meant to share it with everyone but somehow forgot. Listening to today's Jays game against the Orioles I
AFP has released an article with a title that immediate caught my attention. "Canada's last igloo to be flattened amid Arctic boom" it read, so I read it. I've now read it twice, but my feeble brain is awfully confused. The gyst of the article is that our far north
"A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds…it makes ice."
Earlier in the year, my brother predicted Mark Bell would score 40 goals for the Leafs. I said he would likely score closer to 13. Now that Bell is going to jail after this season, I'm feeling pretty good about my prediction. Tonight, Ryan and I made our bet official,
It's been a strange season for Raging Storm, the slo-pitch team I play for and manage. The regular season has come to an end, and the Raging Storm page shows our record as 8-7-1, but it's not as simple as that. As with The Transformers, there's more than meets the
I love to walk and sometimes I'll just walk the streets of Toronto. There's so much character to this place, the buildings, the people, the parks and the sounds all add texture to the fabric of our city. I discovered Damon Schreiber's most recent photo project here and I'm so
