I'll be at CFRB tonight for a live thing at 9pm on The Jim Richards Show. I'll be at CFRB, but I probably won't be on CFRB. I'm accompanying a friend who's promoting his Slime book. As a guy who's not in the radio biz, this is kinda exciting. It's
The web is a weird place. A couple of weeks ago I issued a frozen headphone wire alert. It was cold, the thought came to me and I wrote it and published it in less than two minutes. Somebody at StumbleUpon enjoyed that entry and added it to the service.
2007 Super Bowl Ads - Here's where we can catch the spots we missed yesterday. Here's a neat Coke commercial.
Right off the top I should declare that Fast Times At Ridgemont High is one of my favourite movies of all time. It's one of the few movies I own on DVD. There are so many great scenes and lines, but one line in particular from Mike Damone actually changed
I caught most of this sloppy affair, but with the rain and turnovers it never really hooked me. Super Bowl XLI started off with a bang when Bears rookie Devin Hester returned the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown, but things got really messy soon thereafter. I'm glad Tony
Despite my recent anti-NFL stand, I still intend to tune in to the big game today. No, I'm not talking about the Raptors and Clippers, the Raps already won that one, I'm talking about Super Bowl XLI. I don't really care who wins, I'm just hoping for a great game.
When James was two, he'd do his business in the potty and skedaddle. When Michelle uses the potty, she removes the container, disposes of the waste in the toilet, rinses it out and gently puts it back for next time. That, in a nutshell, is the difference between toddler boys
I received an email from my brother Steve yesterday afternoon. Here it is. If you guys don't already know about peekvid.com, you should check it out. You can stream recent releases on your computer and the quality is not bad at all. I just watched An Inconvenient Truth and
The day after my last university exam I started my first full time job. I was with this company from 1998 until the spring of 2000 and at some point during my tenure there the "My Cup" email was sent. We called it the "My Cup" email, because that was
Little Miss Sunshine: 8 out of 10. There is some serious buzz surrounding this film. It's up for four awards at this month's Academy Awards, including best picture and original screenplay, and everyone who sees it likes it and recommends it highly. Throw in the fact it stars some of
The post-all-star game winning streak has hit four, ladies and gentlemen. Last night we coughed up a 2-0 third period lead in Ottawa only to win it in a shootout. With the East this tight, we have to keep winning. We're currently sitting in ninth place and out of the
So I've got this MP3 collection I'm rather proud of. It's quite a few years in the making and it brings joy to my life daily. Lately I've been perfecting the meta data and now it's time to bring in the album covers. The album cover is the one thing
"How ironic. Now he's blind, after a life of being able to see."
I did this once before. Earlier today I copied the list of songs played on 102.1 in the previous twelve hours and I've added little notes to each one. People seemed to like that entry from September, but this kind of thing is a little more labour intensive than
You've all heard by now that several suspicious packages found attached to bridges in Boston earlier this week weren't bombs but were ads for Adult Swim. They were magnetic lights that comprised a guerrilla marketing effort in ten cities. Apparently, these lite-bright-like figures were in Boston for two to three
Since this blog is all about me, I'm going to write about Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon... again. Beautifully illustrated by Clement Hurd, it's the book I most fondly recall from my childhood. When James was younger, we read it every night. In fact, at two he was reading it
Gian Carlo Menotti was 95. He composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in the United States and Italy.
With the Raptors playing .500 ball, people in this city are actually starting to take notice. After an awful couple of years this team is starting to look respectable. In addition to leading the division, the Raps are earning props from the NBA. Guess who's the Eastern Conference player of
I used to listen to a lot more radio. I've been a fan of the medium forever, and I've written extensively about radio here, but lately I've had less time for her. For one thing, I rarely drive anymore. I used to commute to work and spend a great deal
These are the top searches that referred people to this site in January of 2007. A lot of Jory Steinberg fans have dropped by, thanks to my #3 Google ranking for her name. jory steinbergwedding playlistbill barilkotoronto maple leafsbig shiny tunes 2john majhorconcert ticketsbig shiny tunes 3big shiny tunes 6concert
Last night a song entered my head. That's not unusual, except this was a song that hadn't been in my head for at least 25 years. In fact, at first I didn't know where it came from or whether it was an old memory or something I invented. I sang
I don't know about you, but when Ian White sprung Mats Sundin on that breakaway in the third, everything slowed down for me. It was as if I was watching our captain stride in one frame at a time. When he snapped home the winner, I cheered so loud it
I caught most of American Idol yesterday, but there was a Leafs game on so I may have missed a highlight or two. There wasn't much that was memorable, but there was an audition from Chris Sligh that's worthy of a revisit. Sligh's a decent enough singer, and he's on
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. Joni Mitchell - Woodstock Joni Mitchell was inducted into
An interesting comment was left earlier today on this entry about Lynn Johnston's retirement from writing For Better Or For Worse. A fellow fan of the strip who goes by the handle T. K. Niland left Lynn a message, in the hopes that Lynn Johnston will find her way to
