Pete, I don't know if you're reading this, but your bro "borrowed" your copy of Neil Young's Live at Massey Hall 1971 and lent it to me. I've been spinning it all morning, and it's heaven. Young was 25 and on his game. It sounds brilliant, and his words and
Throughout the summer, I'm going to step into the Toronto Mike time machine and see what I was bitching or raving about in years past. The blog started in 2002, so I've got over 6000 entries in the archives waiting to be rediscovered. Four years ago today, I was upset
Chris Benoit was 40. He was a Canadian wrestling star in the WWE known as the "Canadian Crippler".
It started with a quest. I was to come up with a definitive list of the 100 best Canadian tunes. Over the past month I've dumped CanCon classics which you can read here and now I've pruned those songs down to 100. Guys and gals, I need you now more
I played ball tonight with Raging Storm and once again we were down early before clawing back and taking the lead. This time though, we ended up on the losing end of a tight one. For the second week in a row, tempers flared. Last week there was the incident
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace is an essay by Danah Boyd that's worth reading. She breaks down the socio-economic divisions she's detected, and it's quite interesting. The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from
I'm researching slo-pitch leagues in the Etobicoke / West Toronto / Mississauga area. I play in the RSPA, so I know all about that league, and I'm familiar with the Centennial Slo-Pitch League (CSPL). Does anyone out there know of any others?
I loved Diff'rent Strokes. Us kids looked up to Gary Coleman. Not literally, we were all taller than the little dude, but he was a mentor of sorts. Who wasn't upset when Mr. Drummond was told he couldn't BBQ on the balcony? Who didn't fear for Arnold Jackson when he
Dustin McGowan pitching a no-hitter into the ninth yesterday reminded me of the final regular season game of the season, September 27, 1998. I was sitting in aisle 120, row 20, seat 4, and the Jays were facing the Detroit Tigers. A young Roy Halladay was on the mound and
I hand code all my XHTML and CSS. I do it in Dreamweaver, but I can do it in any text editor. I just go, and I thought I was pretty skilled, until I watched this.
I've written about my little blooming comedienne before. As Michelle ages, she's becoming more and more of a ham. She'll be three next month, but already she's got some pretty solid material. Whereas James is far more serious and deep, Michelle prefers to ham it up. I pulled out my
Rod Beck was 38. He was a relief pitcher who wore a bushy mustache while earning 286 career saves, primarily for the San Francisco Giants.
I entered torontomike.com at this site to find out what it was rated. The options are G, PG, PG-13 and R. I missed the G rating because of one instance of the F-bomb in my Custom update.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: 6 out of 10. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby isn't bad, but it's no Knocked Up, which I saw earlier in the day. It's really saved by Gary Cole who plays Ricky Bobby's father, Reece. The middle scenes with Ricky and
Family Ties was a key part of the NBC Thursday night lineup, and can't miss television for a period in the 80s. It launched the career of Michael J. Fox but in our house the focus was on Meredith Baxter-Birney who many thought looked like my mom. My favourite episode
CFNY Edge 102 is playing 90s music all weekend. I've been listening here and there throughout the day, and it's got me wishing they'd keep it going long term. I was 15 when the 90s arrived and 26 when they left. Those are everyone's core music adoration years and the
Knocked Up: 8.5 out of 10. Charming, sweet and very funny, Knocked Up is fantastic. I found it far funnier than The 40 Year Old Virgin. There was a great deal I could relate to and there were an awful lot of maple leafs to give it some nice
Hank Medress was 68. His vocals with the doo wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the top of the charts.
I loved WKRP in Cincinnati. It was a great collection of characters and it made radio seem so cool. I frequently recall moments from those four seasons and smile. If anyone has the closing theme song in MP3 form, throw it my way. Here's the extended opening theme from season
"Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it."
For no other reason other than I feel like it, I'm going to start sharing the opening theme songs from shows I used to watch. This will likely be a little heavy on nostalgia and therefore full of 80s sitcoms. We'll start with Growing Pains, a show I used to
July 27th is fast approaching. Please be good, please be good, please be good, please be good, please be good, please be good, please be good...
Now I'm confused. There are reports at this hour that Craig Leipold has withdrawn his offer to sell the Nashville Predators to Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie. This is a rather shocking development. I had the team in Southern Ontario for the 2008/2009 season. Once again Hamilton got their hopes
My quest to come up with a definitive list of the 100 best Canadian tunes is down to the last dump. On Monday I'll throw down a solid shortlist and you peeps can leave your top ten in the comments. Here's the seventeenth dump of Canadian gems. The Waltons -
The Leafs have acquired Vesa Toskala and Mark Bell in a draft day deal with the San Jose Sharks. This trade isn't about Mark Bell, it's all about Vesa Toskala. Actually, it's all about Andrew Raycroft. If you've read my Leafs ramblings over the past year, you'll know I'm not
