I received a voice mail this morning from Olivia, a producer of Metro Morning on CBC Radio One. Metro Morning is the top morning show in the city, and even though Andy Barrie is on vacation, I returned the call. Metro Morning wants to discuss Crocs, and they found this
There are 1623 complete albums in my collection. That's a lot of music. Imagine if you had to start your collection from scratch but you were capped at twenty discs. Which twenty albums would make the cut? It's a ridiculous question, because in reality there is no 20 CD maximum,
When I was in grade three, I fractured my foot and wore a cast for six weeks. There was a playground at St. Pius X that featured a fireman's pole. St. Pius X now has a new playground, but this was the old one we built with money raised by
We in Raging Storm showed up tonight, played great defence and beat the Sharks 6-4. You don't see many 6-4 games in slo-pitch, but this game was memorable for another reason. It was memorable for being completely unnoteworthy. Let's review our last four games, shall we? Our pitcher bails at
Every Monday I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in iTunes and list the first ten songs that play. Here are the ten tunes I heard today with a personal story about one of them. Pay to Play - NirvanaEvacuation - Pearl JamSoldier In A Box - Hot Hot HeatRuby Soho
I once wrote that I like progress but dislike change. I'm wondering if this isn't true of most Torontonians. Over the past few months, three of our city's distinct signs have been threatened, garnering a great deal of press in the process. First there was the Sam the Record Man
Watching Clerks II last night got me thinking about Clerks. The reason I loved that movie was because of awesome exchanges between Dante and Randal like this one regarding Jedi Politics.
Clerks II: 7 out of 10. Clerks was one of my favourite films of all time. I loved the dialogue, I loved the raw indie feel and I loved the sentiment. Everything was ultra cool, from the Death Star discussion to the ball hockey game on the roof. Even that
I resisted Facebook valiantly, much like I resisted MySpace, until I was pulled into the Facebook universe by a group I wanted to run with. Toronto Mike was on Facebook and I've been there for a little over one month. I think I've had enough. At first, the social networking
A long running joke in my house is the number of different pairs of shoes my wife owns. She's a typical female, and that means buying and collecting shoes. Us guys just can't relate. Now that I've publicly admitted I own a pair of Crocs, I realize for the first
John Ferguson, Sr. was 68. He won the Stanley Cup five times as a player with the Montreal Canadiens and was the assistant coach for Canada's 1972 Summit Series victory over the Soviet Union.
One year ago today I detected a series of searches bringing people to this site. These searches were for statements like "humble howard fired" or "humble howard fired from mix". The first thing I did was check the local news outlets for word that Humble had been canned. Even though
Last weekend we loaded up the van and hit the road for a little road trip. It was about a six hour round trip, so I filled up my new iPod Shuffle, plugged it into my FM transmitter and shuffled my way to Pinery and back. Never underestimate the positive
Ratatouille: 8.5 out of 10. Avoid Ratatouille if you hate funny, charming, entertaining films. Pixar is 8 for 8 if you're scoring along at home. We'll see if Wall-E makes them an unprecedented 9 for 9.
"Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harrassing that woman."
Tohea is a text-based roleplaying game centered around the popular show and game, Pokémon. I only know this because a Tohea forum has been hotlinking to one of my images for some time now. Hotlinking is not very nice, as I absorb the bandwidth cost every time someone loads a
Mo Pete played 542 games for the Toronto Raptors, a franchise record. His next game will be for the New Orleans Hornets who signed him to a four-year $23 million dollar deal. Morris Peterson was around a long time, and although I liked him, I never felt he reached his
Last night I threw down my thoughts on John From Cincinnati, a new HBO series airing on TMN here in Canada. I wrote that I had read a negative review in the New Yorker before watching the pilot. I've been corrected. In fact, Taryn read this negative review in the
On May 9, 1980, an independent slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller was released to the masses. The rest is hockey mask history.
My favourite Alice in Chains songs Would?Them BonesAngry ChairMan In The BoxNutshell
I noticed a traffic spike to this site this morning, so I checked it out and learnt a link from this Slate article is the culprit. The article is about Crocs, and they linked to my entry about The Crocs Conundrum. They look nerdy, but they feel good. Here's Slate's
We have a winner in the great re-name the Raging Storm slo-pitch team vote. Despite my best efforts to sell everyone on "The Zit Remedy", a name I believe would be perfect, the overwhelming favourite amongst my dumb ass teammates is "In The Face". Let me go on the record
In the absence of The Sopranos, I was looking for a new drama to sink my eyeballs into, so we decided to try John From Cincinnati. John From Cincinnati was created by David Milch and Kem Nunn. Milch created the very cool Deadwood, and John From Cincinnati is equally compelling.
Bush's "Little Things" came on my iPod Shuffle during my lunchtime walk. Hearing this song only reminds me of one thing: playing hours and hours of NHL 95 on the Super Nintendo. I think NHL 95 and Bush's Sixteen Stone came into the house at the same time, because I
Forget all this Avril Lavigne controversy, this is actually important. Did Bob Marley steal the "Buffalo Soldier" melody from the "Banana Splits" theme song? I think it's pretty clear he did. Listen for yourself.
