At about noon today, I grabbed my new iriver H10 and went for a stroll. I was randomly playing the tracks when Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" came on. I blasted it, rapped along with Chuck D and felt an eerily familiar high. It was that same high I used
A couple of Mikes, formerly on top of the world and now just falling from grace, were prominent in the news this week. There was Mike Tyson's loss and retirement from boxing and a verdict in the Michael Jackson case. Reading about these two got me thinking about Ben Johnson.
Ronald McDonald is getting a makeover. McDonald's has announced they're making him more athletic and health-conscious. Reading this story reminded me about the time I was responsible for Ronald McDonald. As a teenager, I spent eighteen months working at a Toronto McDonald's. Our franchise helped sponsor a local weekend festival
I recently uncovered some gems from my past and I've been sharing excerpts from the documents I found. Below are thoughts I jotted down on May 17, 1996. After class I biked to Queen and Yonge for the grand opening of CFNY's new location. Shortly after twelve Sloan performed for
Quentin Tarantino once said the sign of a good movie was that it made you want to go home, eat some pie and talk about it. Without a doubt, my favourite movies have been those rare flicks that have never left me. These gems become a part of me, altering
In the mid-80s through the early-90s, I kept a scrapbook. In this scrapbook I pasted articles about the important sports occurrences of the day. I hadn't seen this scrapbook in a while, but my brother Steve recently stumbled upon it and gave it to me today. I brought it home
I was in grade seven the first time I learned about AIDS. My grade seven teacher gave the entire class a lecture about the disease, probably based on guidelines provided to him by the board. It wasn't long before he left these guidelines in the dust and began to share
I recently uncovered some gems from my past and I've been sharing excerpts from the documents I found. Below are thoughts I jotted down on October 3, 1996. It's interesting to read what I thought about Roberto Alomar on that day considering the praise I heaped upon him only nine
Nineteen years later, I still remember the Diet Coke. For years and years afterwards, clinch night meant having Diet Coke on stand by. Being born in the mid 70s meant being too young to remember any Maple Leaf playoff success in that decade. The early 80s was a virtual wasteland
I recently uncovered some gems from my past and I've been sharing excerpts from the documents I found. I assembled this list of my ten favourite movies back in 1991. Terminator 2The Naked GunBatmanRaiders of the Lost ArcIndiana Jones and the Temple of DoomIndiana Jones and the Last CrusadeTotal RecallThe
I mentioned I uncovered some gems from my past recently. Here's an excerpt from one of the documents I found. I wrote this at 13:27 EST on August 23, 1996. Yesterday was weird. Earlier in the day a man held a knife to a fellow Price Chopper cashier's neck.
I recently got a few boxes out of storage and uncovered some very cool relics from my past. I hadn't seen these boxes in almost a decade and among my old university essays were various notes and observations. Back in 1991, for example, I documented random thoughts in a wordperfect
I attended the last Toronto Maple Leafs game of the 1980s. I have the ticket stub to prove it. I attended the game on December 30, 1989 with my buddy Joe and it remains to this day the most entertaining game I've ever seen live. This is the story of
As a youngster, I have vivid memories of tuning in "The Doctor Demento Show" show on my little transister radio. I believe it was on Sunday nights on CHUMFM at 20:00 and I was there every week. There is now a web site hosting over 90% of the past
YTV used to have young people hosting their programming they called PJs. I never did understand what the P stood for but understood this was a play on the MTV and Muchmusic VJs. The PJs may still be around but I wouldn't know not having spent a minute on YTV
Yahoo! turns ten years old today. In honour of the occasion, they've put together a very cool Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the web. Going to the University of Toronto in the mid-nineties, I remember vividly when we were all given email accounts. We'd line up in the libraries
An entry earlier this week reminded me of a time long ago when I was making minimum wage. For about a year before joining Oshawa Foods as a grocery clerk, I flipped burgers at McDonalds. I vividly remember the moment I knew I couldn't stay much longer at the fast
My first paid job was as a fifteen year old when I was hired to work a game booth at the CNE. Minimum wage at the time was $3.85, if my memory serves me correctly, so I thought I scored when I learned I was going to be paid
Yesterday, my brothers and I hooked up to play a DVD version of Trivial Pursuit. I was quite looking forward to it. I love playing games of trivia and this DVD version would play clips from movies, television shows and songs before posing a question about it. That's right up
There is one Thanksgiving I will never forget. It was twelve years ago today and my beloved Blue Jays were battling the Oakland Athletics for the American League crown. Toronto was up in the series 2-1 with game four taking place at Oakland Coliseum. Jack Morris started and stunk up
The 700 Club in baseball is the penthouse for the home run hitting elite. Prior to last night, only two legends were members: Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. As a kid I had a book about the 500 Club that listed every member while paying respects to the sole member
Ask anyone where they were three years ago today and they'll tell you. 2,749 people were killed in Manhattan, 184 people died in Washington and 40 died in Pennsylvania as a result of the worst act of terrorism ever to take place on North American soil. I remember that
It was one year ago today. I was on vacation and had stopped at my mom's to help her with her computer when the lights went off. There was some construction taking place a block away, so I assumed it was localized and a result of something happening at that
I've been going through a bunch of my old stuff cleaning out the crap. One box I stumbled upon in the cellar was filled with my cassette tape collection. I wasn't sure what to do with my old cassettes. I'm 100% sure I'll never, ever play them again. As technology
When our Canadian Olympic baseball team takes the field in Athens, there will be a few familiar faces to Blue Jay fans. Paul Spoljaric and Rob Ducey are on the squad and both used to suit up for the Jays. Peer into the dugout and you'll see we're managed by
