After Saturday's game, I was just glad to see some of our forwards actually made it to the ACC for this one. Still, when you out shoot a team by a two-to-one margin and can still only garner a tie at home, something is amiss. The Leafs have to become
Seven new videos of James, all taken yesterday during our Thanksgiving get-together, are now available in Videos. There is some priceless video of James blowing bubbles, talking on a cell phone and some very intimate footage of Steve and Homer.
We Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving each year on the second Monday in October whereas Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November. Personally, I'd rather have the holiday in October when the fall weather allows you to venture outside for a nice walk or game of football. You just know
Saved by the bird! Allow me to explain... Yesterday's Bills game was the first of the year I didn't watch in its entirety. We were at my mom's for Thanksgiving Dinner and turkey was served shortly after kick off. Sure, the game was on in the background, but there was
All week I've been telling anyone who'd listen how awesome our forwards are this year. On paper, we have three amazing lines to balance the offensive attack. Sure, our defense is going to be an issue, but with forwards like Mats Sundin, Alexander Mogilny, Owen Nolan, Gary Roberts, Nik Antropov
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzsche
A couple of days ago I wrote about Alex Halderman who pointed out copy protection software could be blocked if people used the SHIFT key when they inserted a CD. This morning I read in the news that SunnComm Technologies, the company that developed the anticopying technology in question, was
In a recent blog entry I questioned whether a tune can be considered cool if it's being played on CHUM FM. I pondered whether being played on an MOR station was the kiss of death for a tune, no matter how good it is. I've been giving this concept a
Here's an email I received. Greetings Mike Boon. My name is also Mike Boon and I am doing a solo comedy show in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Stumbled across your site when I put my own name into Google. Just to say, I wanted torontomike.com for my own website,
Since the dawn of Napster a few years ago, the recording industry has been trying to play catch up as they lose business to MP3 rippers sharing their files via P2P networks. Ask the average computer savvy person in their 20s when they last purchased a CD. For many it
Early reviews are in and it looks like Kill Bill is good. Phew! Kill Bill is the 4th film by Quentin Tarantino and is set to be released this Friday. If you've read my HyperLists, you know two of my ten favourite movies of all time were directed by Tarantino.
Sidney Crosby. Are you familiar with that name? You will be. Sidney Crosby of the Rimouski Oceanic is the CHL Player of the Week. Crosby scored five goals and added four assists for nine points in four games last week. This 16-year-old native of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia is being
It took overtime for the home team Bills to get past the Bengals. If the Bills are truly a Super Bowl contender, this game should never have gone into extra time. Listening to WGR Sports Radio 55 after the game, the consesus among Bills fans is that this is a
The Toronto Raptors have just unvieled their new alternate road uniform and logo. The Raptors will wear uniforms with this new logo during a minimum 10 road games and 4 home games, including opening night on October 29th when the Raptors take on the New Jersey Nets. When the Blue
"Touch 'em all Joe. You'll never hit a bigger home run in your life." - Tom Cheek
Like thousands of Ontarians, I voted last night. We are fortunate to have fair and democratic methods in place for the selecting of political representation. My concern is with the nature of our political system and the ballots used to poll the electorate. Although we were choosing a Premier for
The sports section of The Toronto Star has a very interesting article today from Garth Woolsey on the EA curse. EA makes sports video games. In fact, the only video games I play come from EA with my favourite being their NHL hockey series. A big honour in the world
Three evenings a week I undergo physiotherapy for my injury (see September 24, 2003 / 19:43 EST). The clinic plays CHUM FM over the ceiling speakers to entertain us while the various machines work to soothe and heal our pains. Yesterday I was particularly surprised and concerned upon hearing Finger
An 11-year-old boy is in serious condition at the Hospital for Sick Children after being struck at a crosswalk on Lake Shore Blvd. W. near Royal York Rd. Back in August, pedestrians were struck at two different crosswalks one day after the other. Pedestrians being hit while crossing at crosswalks
No sooner did I post a blog entry on crappy sitcoms (see September 30, 2003 / 15:20 EST) than I came across the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy's list of the best 20 sitcoms of all time. Now the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy is a British publication,
I would like to discuss three shows that the masses seem to find quite humourous. The general consensus from what I read online or in magazines and newspapers is that these three shows are each very successful with a devoted fan-base. A couple of these shows are regularly celebrated come
Six new videos of James, all taken this afternoon, are now available in Videos. Two of them are footage of James as he watches the opening to The Simpsons. You've got to see James' Homer imitation. Speaking of Homer, if you weren't aware already, I post a different quote from
Having lost two in a row, our Bills are starting to look more like pretenders than contenders. Was that explosive start to the season an illusion? Where's the offense? The Bills managed just 129 net yards of offense through three quarters before Drew Bledsoe closed the gap with a fourth-quarter
Another Blue Jay season has come to an end with eerily similar results. The American League East, a division of five teams, has finished in the exact same order for six consecutive seasons. Once again, our Jays finished in 3rd, but this year there is much reason for optimism. The
A common pastime for Jay fans is to turn down the volume on the TV and listen to the play by play of Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth. Tom and Jerry have been calling Blue Jay games for as long as I've been a fan, and they've always been far
