The Buffalo Sabres are in town to take on our beloved Toronto Maple Leafs in our first pre-season game of the 2006-2007 NHL season. Those with LeafsTV, like me, will be watching tonight. I'm still curious as to who will score on this team. There's Mats Sundin, who we know
Tim Horton's Locator - Powered by Google Maps, this is a handy little tool for tracking down the nearest Tim Hortons. My mom will love this.
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Tonight we get episodes one and two of "Hockey: A People's History" on CBC. As a serious and commited puckhead, I've been looking quite forward to this. They're airing two episodes every Sunday night on CBC and repeating them Monday nights on Newsworld. Here's the full broadcast schedule and below
"Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental." - Jim McKenny
Ok, the baton has been passed. Humble Howard, long time local morning radio personality, now has his own blog. I installed and configured Movable Type, designed his templates and gave him one last push. I don't know how much he'll share in his blog or if he'll just use it
"You know me, Marge: I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming."
My favourite quotes from The Royal Tenenbaums "Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't." - Eli"You wanna talk some jive? I'll talk some jive. I'll talk some jive like you've never heard!" - Royal"Anybody interested in grabbing a couple
Cheri DiNovo, the NDP candidate in yesterday's provinicial by-election in Parkdale-High Park, will replace Gerard Kennedy as our Member of Provincial Parliament. She beat Liberal candidate Sylvia Watson by more than two thousand votes. For the second time in less than a year, this riding which previously overwhelmingly supported the
They're counting votes right now in Parkdale-High Park. The polls have been closed for half an hour and results should soon start coming in. This wasn't your typical by-election. The Liberal party sensed their powerful grip on my riding weakening and wiped some smear on the festivities. Things escalated with
I've bumped into a few celebrities over the past week. Tis the season, as they say. This list does not include celebrities making a scheduled appearance to promote their movies at the film festival, these are people I came upon by pure happenstance. John WatersWilliam H. MacyDaniel AlfredssonWaters was a
Here's the Google cache of Kimveer Gill's profile page at VampireFreaks.com. Gill wore a black trench coat when he opened fire on students at Montreal's Dawson College yesterday. Two are dead and nineteen are wounded, six critically. Going by the name fatality666, Gill's web page is quite revealing. When
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. The Beautiful South - A Little Time I've always
Derailed: 6 out of 10. "Derailed" is your prototypical twisty thriller and it's not terrible. It's not great either, but Clive Owen is compelling enough to earn it a passing grade. I think Clive Owen should be in every movie. I didn't take notice of the guy until "Closer", and
Yesterday I discovered the last 12 hours of edge music. I love this kind of info and I love the possibilities such a page presents. I'm already monitoring song repetition, noting classics that still get airplay and realizing how much Nickleback CFNY Edge 102.1 plays in a twelve hour
Pete's comment on this entry about political smearing in my Parkdale-High Park riding got me reading NDP MPP candidate Cheri DiNovo's sermon from October 2, 2005. Pete's comment was "Well I think she's screwed now after saying Karla Homolka is being treated by the media as Jesus was by the
The Terry Fox Run is fast approaching. I've always regarded Terry Fox as the greatest Canadian. His Marathon of Hope affected me deeply in 1980 and he continues to inspire me to this day. I'm not running this year (I'm planning to run in 2007), but a good friend is.
the last 12 hours of edge music - I've been waiting for this feature to return to the 102.1 web site. They used to have a module on the front page that told you the song currently being played but this feature disappeared for some reason. This new page
Just for the heck of it, here are the top Google searches that referred people to this site since I changed hosts earlier this month. humble howardconcert ticketsbill barilkohumble and fredconcert ticketstewiebig shiny tunes 6big shiny tunes 8big shiny 90'spearl jam
911 Anniversary on Google Video - It still gives me chills.
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. What Are My Lies - Green DayLook Into My Eyes - ScarfaceSledgehammer - Peter GabrielOnly In
The Constant Gardener: 7.5 out of 10. "The Constant Gardener" is good stuff. Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes are awesome in this political thriller based on the John le Carre novel. It's a little depressing, but one hell of a ride. Weisz deserved her Oscar. Fiennes deserved consideration as
My generation wasn't alive for Pearl Harbour, the Bay of Pigs invasion or the assination of JFK. We have no memories of Viet Nam or Watergate. We were too young to appreciate the social impact of the murder of John Lennon and the lingering Cold War. Five years ago today,
Holy shit, will I really be settling in tonight to watch my eighteenth season premiere of "The Simpsons". Can that be possible? Let's see... 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Yep, that's 18. Holy shit. I've written
I saw the Stereophonics at Edgefest back in 2003 when we were supposedly saying goodbye to Molson Park. In that entry I noted that The Stereophonics used to be called Tragic Love Company, partly because of their fondness for our very own Tragically Hip, one of their favourite bands. The
