Tonight, all thirty teams in the NHL will see action. It's been sixteen long months since the Stanley Cup was won by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Sixteen long, tumultuous months of nothing. Looking back, it all seems so surreal. The players were locked out, there was a great deal of
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. Over the last couple of days I've become more convinced than ever that Dubya has gone right round the twist. First there's this: http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/03/
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. Stompin Tom Connors - The Hockey Game No explanation
The Game - The Toronto Star is throwing all their Leaf content on one handy dandy page this season. They're promising "game previews, stories, photos and more". Another consistently great Maple Leafs portal is TMLfans.ca. As with every season, I'll be including a Maple Leafs recap of every game
The other day, a friend and I were discussing Beck's "Loser". It is a slacker anthem of sorts and as such it comes up in conversations now and then. At some point during this chat, I recited the lyric "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?". My
"Custom" is a rather popular term on the world wide web. There's custom everything, from tee shirts to software, not to mention customs, which opens an entirely new realm of data. I recently spoke to the people who own the domain custom.com only to learn they wanted a small
Season 7 of "The Simpsons" will be available December 13, just in time for Christmas. This is the season that brought us "Bart Sells His Soul", "Lisa the Vegetarian", "Fish Called Selma" and the ultra cool "Short Films About Springfield". The only DVDs I collect are seasons of "The Simpsons"
Throughout this coming winter I plan to watch as much Maple Leaf hockey as possible, documentaries that air on CBC Newsworld, TVO or PBS that intrigue me and a bunch of movies. I don't plan to watch many sitcoms, dramas or reality shows. Each year it seems I schedule less
Had SARS not claimed 44 lives in Toronto from two outbreaks in early 2003, would the outbreak of an unknown respiratory illness in a Toronto nursing home be front page news? No way, Jose. Six elderly patients at the Seven Oaks Home for the Aged in Scarborough are dead, and
Nipsey Russell was 80. He was the actor known as "the poet laureate of television."
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. Life Goes On - House Of PainTakeover - Jay-ZBoys In The Trees - Carly SimonMother Earth
CBC management and the Canadian Media Guild struck an agreement early this morning that is expected to end the lockout of 5,500 staff in the coming days. Not coincidentally, the first airing of Hockey Night in Canada in over a year is scheduled to air this coming Saturday at
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. Q. What is the difference between the Toronto Maple Leafs and a cigarette machine? A. You can get Players out of a cigarette machineQ. What do the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto
I've added 18 new CDs to my MP3 collection. Here they are... The Distillers - Coral FangL7 - Bricks Are HeavyL7 - Hungry For StinkDepeche Mode - The Singles 81-85Depeche Mode - The Singles 86-98 (Discs 1 & 2)Slipknot - 870621345Various Artists - WaxTrax! Black Box: The First 13
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Ice Cube - It Was a Good DayIce T - New Jack HustlerJames Taylor - Sweet Baby JamesJanis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGeeJimmy Hendrix -
I like Steve Thomas as much as the next guy, but I really didn't want him to make this team. I wanted a youngster or two to rise to the challenge and force us to say farewell to 42 year old Stumpy. Thankfully for all Leafs fans, I got my
"It's not the band I hate, it's their fans." - Sloan, Coax Me
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. As I sit here listening to all the different versions of Halleluja (for the 100th+ time) you put up, I realize that no one could do it as well as Leonard
The excitement surrounding the pennant races in Major League Baseball this season has me thinking back to the good ol' days when our Toronto Blue Jays were perrenial contenders. For two October's in the early 90s they ruled these parts stealing our hearts with back-to-back World Series Championships. I lived
When the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox finish the regular season tied for first place in the American League East division, things could be awfully interesting. How interesting it gets depends upon how Cleveland does this weekend. If Cleveland loses another game, both the Yankees and Red Sox
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My MindGreen Day - LongviewGuns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' MineHayden - Bad As They SeemHole - Miss
On the first day of every month I post the top ten search strings from the previous month. These are the Google searches that referred people to this site. Below are the top ten search strings for September 2005. pearl jamfamily guyjoe cartersuperdome cursenirvanaaurorasbill barilkoticket stubshurricanejustice
"I may occasionally kill out of anger; or to illustrate a point, but I'm no Grim Reaper!"
Stewie Live - Tell Stewie what to do.
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. Your choices for best Leafs are VERY surprising. You have a page dedicated to MR. BARILKO & he's not even in your top 5. How can that be? Frank Mahovlich -
