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Weekly MP3

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. Otis Redding - The Dock Of The Bay Last
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Saying Goodbye to Carlos

Carlos Delgado has agreed to a $52-million US, four-year contract with the Florida Marlins.  We've known for months that Delgado would be signing with another team for the 2005 season, but this announcement makes it final. Delgado spent 11 years with the Jays and leaves as the all-time club leader
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And The Nominees Are...

The 77th annual Oscar nominations were announced earlier this morning.  For a complete list, go here.  The major noms are below. Best Picture The AviatorFinding NeverlandMillion Dollar BabyRaySidewaysActor in a Leading Role Don Cheadle - Hotel RwandaJohnny Depp - Finding NeverlandLeonardo DiCaprio - The AviatorClint Eastwood - Million Dollar BabyJamie
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Guest Blog Entry

Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com.  I received the following submission earlier today. The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning.  Is it me or is everyone a little underwhelmed by the quality of the best movies of 2004?  I remember when Shawshank, Pulp
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30% Ignorance

According to a recent survey, three out of every 10 respondents failed to identify that Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust.  This stat has been released to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. This is sad but not difficult
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The Monday Shuffle

Every Monday I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in Winamp and list the first ten songs that play.  Here are the ten tunes I heard today. System of a Down - ToxicityJohnny Cash - I Walk The LineTool - UndertowNirvana - AneurysmJunior Parker - Drivin' WheelBlur - For TomorrowJanis Joplin
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Guest Blog Entry

Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com.  I received the following submission earlier today. Mike! Long time no chat. Good to see your site is running good. Well, now that all the chit chat is through ;) I'll get right down to business:I'm glad Vince
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Guest Blog Entry

Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com.  I received the following submission earlier today. Here you go Mike, just had to share this with you.  :)http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/24912/Mike H.Good link.  Judy Bachrach takes a nice play out of the Jon
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Melancholy Monday

According to Cliff Arnall of Cardiff University in Wales, today is the most depressing day of the year. His formula reads: 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ divided by MxNA, where W is the weather, D is your debt (and small d is the amount of money you'll get on your
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Michelle's First Tooth

This morning we saw Michelle's first tooth.  There's a little white nub emerging from her gums in the front on the bottom.  The purpose of this entry is to archive the date so we'll always remember she cut her first tooth a week before turning six months old. James, meanwhile,
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Rest in Peace

Johnny Carson was 79. He was host of the "Tonight Show" for thirty years. While the rest of the continent remembers Johnny Carson from late night TV, I know him best for his guest appearance on episode 9F19 of The Simpsons, "Krusty Gets Kancelled".  When Krusty went looking for tips
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XHTML 1.0 Strict

This site has been hand coded in valid XHTML 1.0 for quite some time now, but it was XHTML 1.0 Transitional.  Yesterday I changed my DOCTYPE declaration and tweaked each page so it's now valid XHTML 1.0 Strict.  See for yourself! Because I was already writing in
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My Quote of the Week

"Wilma, I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat."      - Lt. Frank Drebin, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
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Schadenfreude

Lenny Wilkens is likely to resign this week as head coach of the New York Knicks.  The Knicks have lost nine of their last ten games to drop to third place in our awful Atlantic Division. I hated Wilkens when he was coaching the Raptors.  I was shocked when the
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Free Stanley

Unwilling to wait for it to become official, I cancelled the 2004/2005 NHL season back on Christmas Eve.  I'm glad I did as its given me a period of time to accept what I cannot control.  Any day now Gary Bettman will call a press conference and explain to
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Chatting With Custom

Earlier today I mentioned that Custom had left a comment on the SLS page for his hit "Hey Mister", which appeared on SLS7.  Although I was fairly certain it was legitimate, I wrote him an email to be certain. It's the real deal.  Custom, or Duane Lavold as he signs
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Proof Dubya is the Anti-Christ

The Associated Press has released a couple of photos from this week's inauguration that prove Dubya is indeed the anti-christ.  As with all AP photos, these are undoctored. Dubya salutes Satan, his evil superior Dubya's daughter Jenna follows suit and also salutes Beelzebub I've suspected as much for a long
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Custom?

A comment was left early this morning on our SLS page for Custom's "Hey Mister".  It appears to be from Custom himself and it appears to be legitimate.  Here's what he wrote. this is custom. i fell apon this site. i live in new york and am from canada. thanks
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