I just submitted a tune for SLS15 consideration. I submitted "Blood On Our Hands" from Death From Above 1979. There's more to You're A Woman, I'm A Machine than "Romantic Rights". For example, there's this tune, which is worthy of SLS15 consideration. I've already got a solid 1:04 of
Jane Jacobs was 89. She was the Toronto urban expert and social activist who wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
One of my favourite Nirvana songs is "Serve The Servants". It opens with the splendid lyric "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I’m bored and old" and broods along nicely after that. It's a great tune, but I've always been troubled by the line "I tried hard to
You know you're a somebody when they mention you on Breakfast Television. In the small world of Toronto media, BT is a comfortable grilled cheese sandwich. I didn't see the piece that aired earlier this morning, but apparently they were discussing local blogs and my sister-in-law-but-not-really Kara suggested this site.
A huge day for Buffalo empowered Ryan to a strong second place position with 21 points. He trails Enzo and Marc by a single point. I had a pretty good day, but when Dallas lost in overtime my squad went on life support. Without Dallas I'm destined to continue my
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I just got an email from ourladypeace.com regarding their Canadian Tour Ticket Giveaway! Our Lady Peace's Canadian tour starts in two days and they're giving away a pair of front row tickets to every seated show. For fun, I scanned the fifteen dates of their Canadian tour for the
Steve Stavro was 78. He was the owner of Knob Hill Farms whose sports holdings once included his beloved Maple Leafs.
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. The Spark That Bled - The Flaming LipsDeja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungGift Shop
GTA Bike Retailers - This is an awesome and thorough list of Greater Toronto Area bike shops.
Enzo's Calgary contingent and a three point night from Brad Richards helped propel him to a solid twenty points after only three days of action. Whenever I start to pity myself for only accumulating seven points I just look down at Steve's paltry three. For the current standings, visit http:
All week long while we worked it was warm and sunny. All weekend long it has been rainy and cool. Here are my favourite "rain" songs. Not "rainy" songs, "raining" songs or "raindrop" songs, but "rain" songs. Early Morning Rain - Gordon LightfootRain When I Die - Alice In ChainsNovember
Christine Turcot is a local Toronto artist I've worked with in the past. There will be an exhibit of her art June 1 at The Unicorn which you'll find at 175 Eglinton Avenue. That's right by Young and Eligible. Here's the poster for "Art For Art Sake". The show gets
Saint Ralph: 8 out of 10. Last night, I finally watched "Saint Ralph". I first wrote about this movie last August when I learned The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie recorded a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" for the movie. Jeff Buckley's cover of Cohen's "Hallelujah" is one of my ten
Every team has one game under their belt and we've already got four poolies in double digits. Patrik Elias' six points propelled Marc into a first place tie with Enzo. Jomp also rode the Devils train to success and he and Stefan sit only one point back of the lead.
"'In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." - Margaret Atwood
I just read in the paper that Babar is turning 75. An encounter with a Babar book at a young age really affected me. I can still remember the illustrations of the King of the Elephants stopping to eat mushrooms that caused his death. It was bad enough that Babar's
Enzo had a monster start, thanks in large part to Paul Kariya's four points. He's got twice as many points as Ryan's second place team. I, sadly, didn't earn a single point and sit in dead last with only a couple of other poolies to keep me warm at night.
"We're gonna get a new TV. Twenty-one inch screen, realistic flesh tones, and a little cart so we can wheel it into the dining room on holidays!"
Nobody wants an Ipperwash sequel. In 1995 Dudley George was shot dead during a standoff in Ipperwash, Ontario. Today, a standoff between native protesters and police at a construction site in Caledonia, Ontario, continues and sympathy demonstrations are disrupting freight train and Via Rail service. The demonstrators are attempting to
My Date With Drew: 7 out of 10. It's funny, but last week I watched "Fever Pitch" and mentioned in my little review that I was quietly rooting for Drew Barrymore's failure. Irregardless of this fact, this is a cute little doc. I enjoyed it. Even Drew herself comes off
The all-time NHL playoff point leaders Wayne GretzkyMark MessierJari KurriGlenn AndersonPaul Coffey
I thought my campaign to weed out safe pop-rock completely void of any soul or integrity was going well, until I heard All-American Rejects' "Dirty Little Secret" on CFNY Edge 102 the other day. Way back in August of 2003, I called for a complete ban of sound-alike, wanna-be-punk, nauseatingly
In a game in which Julio Franco became the oldest player to hit a home run at the age of 47, Kazuo Matsui was accomplishing a different rare feat. His inside-the-park homer leading off the third made this the third straight year he's homered in his first at-bat of the
The Worst President in History? - Here's an excerpt from this Rolling Stone cover story. The president came to office calling himself "a uniter, not a divider" and promising to soften the acrimonious tone in Washington. He has had two enormous opportunities to fulfill those pledges: first, in the noisy
