If I had to pick one video that represented Christmas time on MuchMusic back in the day when they actually played music videos, this would be it. It's a great song, a great message and totally seasonal. Band Aid was made up of these guys and the money raised went
Things you can buy me for Christmas The Simpsons - The Complete Eighth SeasonThe Simpsons - The Complete Ninth SeasonA black scarfAn official Scrabble dictionaryWorld peace
The first mention of Sidney Crosby on this site was October 6, 2003. I opened with "Sidney Crosby. Are you familiar with that name? You will be." I wrote that entry after reading a quote from The Great One himself. Wayne Gretzky said Crosby was the best player he'd seen
One of the benefits of maintaining a site like this is you can always reference dates of past occurrences. I can link to this entry from December 9, 2005 in which I mentioned the big snowfall we had. I can also link to this picture of the snowman James and
When Peter Boyle passed away earlier this week, many mourned the passing of Raymond's dad on "Everybody Loves Raymond". The fact is, not everybody loved Raymond. I never found it funny. Many others mourned the passing of the monster in "Young Frankenstein". The scene in which Boyle sings "Puttin' On
Toronto transit map - This map contains public transit (bus, subway, street car, train, and LRT) lines for much of the Greater Toronto Area on a map provided by Google. Data for TTC, GO Transit, VIVA, Brampton Transit, Mississauga Transit and Vaughan Transit is included. This is a useful tool
Here's a quick Humble and Fred hit from holiday seasons past. It's short but sweet. I'd still like to know what this countdown is for. Other promo clips in this seasonal series: Little Drummer BoyWe Three Kings IILittle Town of BethlehemSanta Claus Is Coming To TownCarol of the BellsWe Three
The SLS countdown is on. I just submitted a bunch of tunes for SLS16 consideration. Here are the new nominees that can be added to this list. Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber) - The Flaming LipsPhenomena - Yeah Yeah YeahsProvince - TV
War of the Worlds: 6.5 out of 10. I'm one of those guys who thinks Tom Cruise is a pretty good actor. I almost always enjoy his movies. In "War of the Worlds" he's not smiling and playing a super lawyer / agent / pilot or whatever, he's just a guy
We are the media. At about 11:30am, a kitchen fire started at Sassafraz, a Yorkville hot spot for celebrities and celebrity watchers. Local bloggers started covering the event immediately. Even yours truly was on the scene filing this report. Check out this Technorati search for the term sassafraz and
I was hearing an inordinate number of sirens, so I threw on my jacket and took a stroll along Bloor. Sassafraz, a cafe in the heart of Yorkville, is on fire. I've got to stop taking walks without my camera. I watched as firemen hammered into the roof of the
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. Barenaked Ladies - Green Christmas It's time for some
Peter Boyle was 71. He was the tall, prematurely bald actor who was the tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and the curmudgeonly father in the long-running sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond."
The Isotopes win a game! The Isotopes win a game! Chad Kilger proved why he excelled in our skills competition by coming oh so close to his first NHL hat trick. The pulling of Jean-Sebastien Aubin for Andrew Raycroft seemed to provide the required spark. I think it had more
One of my favourite Christmas movies is "A Christmas Story", which inspired the phrase you'll read in the current masthead for this site. I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle! Heck, Ralphie says it best.
This week I saw a new kind of crossing light in Toronto. It's similar to the walk / don't walk lights, except there's a counter that ticks down the seconds until it changes. I first noticed these new traffic lights yesterday at Bloor and Bedford. It makes so much sense I'll
HumbleandFred.com looks awfully cryptic this morning. Head on over and check it out. There's a count down, currently showing 9 days, 21 hours, 53 minutes, and 33 seconds left. What are they counting down to? What's happening over there on the morning of the 22nd? What's with that creepy
First things first. If you're with your young children, don't play this until they're out of ear shot. It's so sweet when they believe and I'd hate to be the catalyst for any crushed spirits this holiday season. Now that it's just you adults, you've got to watch this. It's
If you've never heard of Humble and Fred, this series of holiday themed jingles from the duo must be boring the crap out of you. They were on the air in this market for seventeen years and it was their morning show that woke me up every weekday morning of
Cindy Klassen beat out some great competition for this years Lou Marsh award. Klassen won over such formidable opponents as Steve Nash, Justin Morneau and Joe Thornton. I knew it. Five Olympic medals was not going to be denied. Here are recent winners of the award. 2006: Cindy Klassen2005: Steve
All month long I'm streaming some old holiday themed audio from the Humble and Fred morning show. This jingle is yet another take on We Three Kings. Other promo clips in this seasonal series: Little Town of BethlehemSanta Claus Is Coming To TownCarol of the BellsWe Three KingsLet It Snow
The Polar Express: 8 out of 10. I just sat down with the kids and watched "The Polar Express". I loved it. Of course, I'm a sucker for that "I believe!" stuff. This DVD had been floating around the house for about a year but I only got the motivation
Niagara Motel: 5.5 out of 10. Part of the deal with TMN, the movie network we get here in Southern Ontario, is that for every quality movie you've heard of there are a few movies you'll never hear about anywhere else. Following another dismal hockey game, we decided to
This will be James' fifth Christmas. Between the ages of one and four, James wouldn't sit on Santa's lap. When he was one he was too little to fear anything so he just sat there like Daddy and Mommy told him. Then, he got too smart to sit on some
Yesterday I wrote about songs that reference Canada. I promised I'd share my ten favourite musical references to my home and native land. Here are my top ten with apologies to Stompin' Tom Connors. "Bobcaygeon" by The Tragically Hip - I'm starting this list with Bobcaygeon because it's a village
