After a few years with little snowfall, my shovel got used to one, maybe two big snowstorms a winter.  This winter, however, there have been several days of heavy duty shovelling. My shovel got one hell of a workout, and earlier today, as I was shovelling the walk, it gave

I was just reading that Mike Smith of the Dave Clark 5 had passed away from pneumonia.  Earlier this week, goaltender Mike Smith was traded by Dallas to Tampa Bay.  That Mike Smith once wore a Tragically Hip mask I wrote about here. As a Mike, I probably take better

In response to Sarah Silverman f**king Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel retorted with a star-studded cast.  He's f**king Ben Affleck. And yes, I wrote "retorted".

On my Contact Me page I've got a Meebo widget that actually provides visitors to that page with an instant messenger connection with me.  I use Meebo throughout the day so I know when somebody loads that page. Today I saw somebody sitting on that page for a while, so

It's time to re-purpose some content...  Four years ago today, when there were approximately 40 unique visitors to this site each day, I wrote a little tribute to a man who helped provide the soundtrack to my early years of life.  Kenny Rogers still does it for me, as I

I was at Old City Hall today fighting a speeding ticket.  Every time I go to traffic court my friends tell me the police officer won't show up and they'll withdraw the charges.  Every time this turns out not to be true.  Today, as usual, the police offer showed up.

As a follow up to this entry about Second Harvest and Lunch Money Day, fellow dodgeballer Jordan wrote this: Tomorrow is Lunch Money Day.  We will be in subway stations and Union Station from 6:45am-9:30am doing Lunch Money Day collections and between 4:30-6:30pm at Union Station

This is a cool little animated video on the history of evil.  Hitler and Bin Laden make the cut, but there's no sign of Harold Ballard or Vince Carter.

I just sent an email to somebody with a Hotmail account, and this being my first email to this person and me being the harmless jerk that I am, I opened with this line.  "Hotmail?  You should let me introduce you to Gmail. :-)" The email bounced back with this

It's just sinking in that this Family Day thing is for real.  For those of you reading outside of Ontario, Family Day was an election promise by provincial Liberal Party leader Dalton McGuinty.  McGuinty got reelected and made it official on October 11, 2007.  Tomorrow will be our very first

I enjoy these "You Suck At Photoshop" tutorials so much, I'm going to post them as they're released.  Here's the 6th instalment for your viewing pleasure.

Baltimore police officer Salvatore Rivieri doesn't like skateboarders who call him "dude". Dude needs some perspective.

A couple of days ago I wrote that "I had never skated on a sheet of ice shared by a professional hockey team".  That was true, prior to Sunday, but it was also false. The picture below was taken a couple of years ago at Rennie Park.  The Leafs are

I just received an intriguing offer via email.  It was from Ching-Hua Hsu, Executive Vice President, Head Auditor Wealth Management Division of Taiwan business Bank, Taiwan.  I don't get a lot of email from Taiwan, so I read with great interest. Apparently there's $44.5m USD sitting in a dormant

No, I won't be breaking bread with Sidney Poitier tonight, but Humble Howard, his wife Randee and his brood are trekking east to enjoy Taryn's world famous lasagna. I've been to the Glassman's palatial Oakville estate several times, once with the whole family, and I once got to fly his

It's easy to start feeling sorry for yourself when you're a Leafs fan.  Sometimes, when you feel things are at their worst, you need to look on the bright side of life. ESPN The Magazine had an great little write up by Bill Simmons about the horrible situation in New

Without a doubt my favourite sketch comedy show of all time is "Kids in the Hall", but outside of KITH the funniest sketch comedy show I ever watched was "Mr. Show". "Mr. Show" was created by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross for HBO and the genius was in how the

I enjoy these "You Suck At Photoshop" tutorials so much, I'm going to post them as they're released.  The guys at MyDamnChannel.com actually send me the link every time they post a new episode, so this'll be easy.

Hey kids, Sarah Silverman is funny.  She put this video together for Jimmy Kimmel and it's tres amusing. How ya like them apples?

Chris Berman goes crazy.

When Homer Simpson attended his high school reunion, he left with the "Person Who Traveled the Least Distance to Be Here" award.  This wasn't viewed as a positive thing. I live less than 4km from my primary school, my high school and the hospital I was born at.  Does anyone

I had a 3pm appointment at King and York, and it was colder than a witch's tit out there today, so I was pretty pleased to find a parking meter right on King by the Roy Thompson Hall.  I was also pretty pleased that I could buy an hour of

I recently wrote about how we now know what bridge Gord is on in The Tragically Hip video for "Yer Not The Ocean".  Patrick, a big fan of suspension bridges, identified it as the Buntzen Lake suspension bridge near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  Hit up that entry for a pic.

I completely missed the Krispy Kreme kraziness and now the franchise has all but disappeared in these parts.  Back in 2001 I read and heard all about the lineups outside Krispy Kreme stores in the GTA.  People were going nuts for these donuts and it was a pretty big local

It's funny how this blogosphere thing works.  The other day I saw this entry from Jewelgurl come across my RSS reader.  She was writing about a good deal at Pizza Pizza.  Last night, we ordered that deal. For $11.99 Pizza Pizza will give you two medium pizzas with a