About a year ago I complained about the anti-piracy advertisements they force down your throat when you're watching a legitimate, store-bought movie on DVD. What kills me about these ads is you can't skip them and they play every time you put the DVD in the player. It makes watching
I wrote about my old stereo, recently resurrected and now bringing me much enjoyment on a daily basis. She's got twenty FM station presets on her, and I use every one. At night I'll browse through the twenty stations and hear what's cooking in the city. I recently taught James
All day long I've been hearing about how they closed the Gardiner Expressway because huge chunks of ice were falling from the CN Tower. It seemed like an interesting local story, particularly for commuters who take that route, but it didn't seem like big news. This afternoon, while checking my
Babel: 8 out of 10. That was neat. Alejandro González Iñárritu has created a rather compelling little flick here, letting us into the lives of four families who are all connected in Magnolia / Traffic style. All four stories are interesting with tense pacing and strong writing. It's all about communication,
The Bourne Supremacy: 6.5 out of 10. I still love my story about watching The Bourne Identity. I borrowed the DVD from a friend and watched 90 minutes of it before the DVD conked out. With 30 minutes to go, Taryn shot off to Rogers to rent it. Later
I'm not a very big reader. Well, that's not entirely true. I'm not a very big reader in the traditional sense. That is to say, I don't read many novels. My wife is constantly reading a book or two, but I spend that time reading and creating content on the
The Sun has an article today about Mike Bullard. It's all about how happy he is working at XM Satellite Radio, hosting his own show Mike Bullard Uncensored. Here's an excerpt from the article. "When I got depressed -- and I got depressed -- I just said I am not
When you've got 1275 discs ripped to MP3, you're going to have some duplicate songs. iTunes makes it easy to isolate these dupes, so I can tell you that if I just played such songs I could could listen non-stop for eight days. As a random example, I have The
I've added 10 new CDs to my MP3 collection. Here they are... k-os - Atlantis: Hymns for DiscoTegan and Sara - If It Was YouVarious Artists - Garden State SoundtrackVarious Artists - The Kings of Hip Hop (Discs 1 & 2)The Irish Rovers - The Best Of The Irish
I had seen the cast of The Simpsons on Inside The Actors Studio, but Buffalo Boy led me to an edited version that's 9:03 of pure hilarity. It's worth another viewing.
I found it easier to love our craptacular teams of the 1980s. They'd bore us in the Norris and I was young enough to get really excited about a 6-5 win over Chicago in the middle of January and forgive them for finishing 19th overall. The Buffalo Sabres are missing
My wife still owns one of those old style film cameras. You remember those 33mm things that you had to stick a roll of film in. You actually had to complete the roll before you could develop the pictures and if you took a bad pic you couldn't delete it.
I've been looking for an offline challenge. I've noticed that outside of fatherhood, all my recent personal challenges have involved a computer. It's time to set a goal that doesn't involve staring at an LCD screen for hours at a time. I was inspired by Saint Ralph. For some writing
James and I watched that hit on Tomas Kaberle and while I was envisioning our playoff aspirations disappearing before our eyes, he felt the need to clarify something. He looked at me and reminded me "they're not bad grown ups, they just play for a bad team". I disagreed with
"Okay Marge, its your child against my child. The winner will be showered with praise. The loser will be taunted and booed until my throat is sore."
What did Jean-Sebastien Aubin ever do to piss off Paul Maurice so royally? Guess who's getting the start in net for the Toronto Maple Leafs as we take on red hot Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils tonight? That's right, Andrew Raycroft for the 26th game in a row.
I met Bingo Bob for the first time when we all showed up at Dan Duran's house to record the 17th annual Humble & Fred Christmas Show. He used to produce the Humble & Fred morning show and recently scored a cool gig producing the morning show at 103.9
Since this thing is all about me, I'm going to write about my left thumb. I jammed it during the first game of a slo-pitch double-header back on July 28, 2006. I know that's the date because I blogged about it. It was essentially unusable during the second game and
I've finally created a category for my trips back in time to the late 70s and early 80s children's TV. Rocket Robin Hood was an animated show I used to watch daily on Global television in the 1980s. The series was actually created in the late 60s by a Canadian
Our fire and police departments are asking us to stay indoors today. Downed power lines and tree limbs across Toronto wreaked havoc for pedestrians and motorists during Friday morning's commute and were dangerous enough for the city's fire and police services to ask residents to stay inside."In the interest
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. Public Enemy - Power To The People There's one
It's no secret I love The Tragically Hip. I celebrate their entire catalogue and catch them live whenever possible. There is no band I enjoy seeing live as much as I enjoy catching The Hip. No matter how much I like this band, there are always people who will have
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was 89. He was the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration.
There's only about four months to go before SLS17 is unveiled. Of course, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. You're all about the SLS, aren't you? I just submitted a couple of songs I've been digging lately for SLS17 consideration. Tokyo Police Club - Nature Of The
From where I'm sitting, Toronto has essentially disappeared. It was there an hour ago, but blowing snow has swept in and blanketed the horizon. I could swear I just saw lightning. I don't think I've ever seen lightning during a snow storm before. Spooky...
