Kal from Zeros 2 Heroes Media contacted me and asked me to put out a call to all Canadian novelists, playwrights, screenwriters and journalists.  I told him he could write a guest blog and I'd paste it down.  He outsourced that strenuous task to Morgan.  Here's what Morgan sent me.

Sometimes I wonder if every dude is named Mike.  I realize not every dude is actually named Mike, but sometimes it seems that way. Fact #1: In my 10k clinic there are exactly three guys.  All three of us are named "Mike". Fact #2: On Raging Storm, my slo-pitch team,

The stats tell me there are a bunch of Johnny-come-lately's checking out this space on a daily basis.  There are a few things you newbies are likely unaware of, so here's a list of things you might not know. This site has a sitemap.  From there you can see the

Four years ago today, the power went out.  I look back at that blackout and remember it as if we were powerless for days and days.  No computer, no phone, no refrigerator or stove, it was tough. As I wrote in that entry of August 15, 2003, we were only

This made me laugh.

If you're bored, you might have some fun with this Napoleon Dynamite wallpaper generator. I was wrong about Napoleon Dynamite.  When I first saw the film, I was underwhelmed and gave it 6 out of 10.  Since that day I've seen Napoleon Dynamite several times, liking it more and more

Taryn bought this huge box of Mr. Freeze jumbo freezies for the kids.  There were about 50 in this box, and I'm pretty sure I devoured 45 of them. I remember as a kid these jumbo freezies were 25¢ at the local variety store.  For 10¢ you could buy a

Jake Brown is an X Games skater guy from Australia.  Check out this fall... I still can't believe the dude walked away. Do not try this at home.

I've run ads on this site for about a year now.  They're from Google as part of their Adsense program, and their content is driven by my content.  For example, if I write about the Leafs, the ads will typically be about Toronto Maple Leafs tickets or memorabilia. Last Monday

I write a lot.  Professionally speaking, I'm always writing white papers, press releases, articles, marketing copy, education guides or plain and simple web site copy.  As a hobby, I'm writing here.  I spend a solid chunk of every day writing, and when you throw a double major in English and

A long running joke in my house is the number of different pairs of shoes my wife owns.  She's a typical female, and that means buying and collecting shoes.  Us guys just can't relate. Now that I've publicly admitted I own a pair of Crocs, I realize for the first

Tohea is a text-based roleplaying game centered around the popular show and game, Pokémon.  I only know this because a Tohea forum has been hotlinking to one of my images for some time now.  Hotlinking is not very nice, as I absorb the bandwidth cost every time someone loads a

Last night I threw down my thoughts on John From Cincinnati, a new HBO series airing on TMN here in Canada.  I wrote that I had read a negative review in the New Yorker before watching the pilot.  I've been corrected. In fact, Taryn read this negative review in the

I read my fair share of Archie comics growing up, but I didn't realize how unintentionally sexual many of the covers and panels were.  This message board has some hilarious examples, and not only from Archie. Here's one particularly creepy page from Archie.  Yikes, that's pretty gay!

Michael Moore has his critics, but I'm a fan.  I've enjoyed all his docs and I find him to be a rather sensible and enlightened chap. Here he is with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's The Situation Room kicking ass and taking names.

I might be a cool white guy, but it's been a month since I wrote that entry and I still haven't stuck Infernal Affairs in the DVD player. What's up with that?  Where did tv time go?  I've caught a few flicks recently on TMN and I've been watching John

I received an email from a company called Web Sheriff the other day with the subject line "URGENT/DMCA TAKE DOWN-WHITE STRIPES".  Here's what they wanted to tell me. SUMMARY DMCA NOTIFICATION1. Rights Owner(s) : BEGGARS DIGITAL2. Rights Agent : WEB SHERIFF3. Infringed Rights : COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK & MORAL RIGHTS4. Infringed Artist(

It was a jam packed long weekend, so I'm going to cheat a little and flashback to an entry I wrote four years ago today. Published July 2, 2003 @ 09:40I've gotta share this story, because it's too surreal not to post. Yesterday my buddy Marc gave me a call

I must confess, I had never heard of MSNBC reporter Mika Brzezinski, but this footage of her refusing to open with a story on Paris Hilton is pretty damn cool.

LeapFish offers a free domain appraisal service.  For fun, I decided to pit the two domain names that resolve at this site against eachother.  TorontoMike.com vs. torontomike.com. It wasn't even close.  The estimated domain value of TorontoMike.com is $21.00 while the estimated domain value of torontomike.

Throughout the summer, I'm going to step into the Toronto Mike time machine and see what I was bitching or raving about in years past.  The blog started in 2002, so I've got over 6000 entries in the archives waiting to be rediscovered. Four years ago today, I was upset

I entered torontomike.com at this site to find out what it was rated.  The options are G, PG, PG-13 and R. I missed the G rating because of one instance of the F-bomb in my Custom update.

Yesterday I shared a collection of images that changed the world.  There was one picture I had never seen before.  It was of Omayra Sanchez and I visited Wikipedia to learn about her.  She was a 13-year old victim of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano which erupted on November 14,

I recently wrote about being contacted by the Deputy District Attorney for Clark County in Las Vegas regarding the State v. Greg Chao.  You can click that link for information on the sensational case.  They wanted to talk to Toronto Mike and that's how I got involved.  I was subsequently

I'll be seeing Izzy again this weekend.  I like seeing Izzy, but as I tried to explain to Taryn, it's not just because she's pretty.  I enjoy her character. Taryn crushes on Matthew McConaughey, so I feel I'm entitled to my Izzy crush.