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On July 3rd, I decided to list and link to my favourite clips on YouTube. Three months later, many of the clips I linked to have been removed. This is the problem with YouTube, the best clips are posted without consent from the copyright holder. The National Film Board of
There's a 25 Signs That, Sadly, You've Grown Up list making the rounds, and it's pretty spot on. I recently started pro-creating and I've since left my 20s behind for good and this list is a staunch reminder that aging only goes in one direction. Here's the list and my
In a little over a year, the Louisiana Superdome has gone from unspeakable horrors to hosting tonight's Monday night clash between the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons. In that entry from September 1, 2005, I wondered how they would ever return to playing football in the Louisiana Superdome. The
The Flickr MT plug-in I use for the home page displays the last seven pictures uploaded to my Flickr account in the sidebar. On every other page you'll see ads, but on the home page you see pictures. You'll see pictures, unless the image uploaded to my account is a
Everyone I know calls me Mike, but it wasn't always that way. My birth certificate shows my name as Michael and for the first ten years of my life, my parents, teachers, classmates and friends called me by my given name. I was Michael until I realized I might have
I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only Toronto blogger who didn't take the bait. A few months ago, I was contacted by a marketing company in Toronto that was going to lend Toronto and Vancouver bloggers a cell phone for a short period. It was a fine phone that
Yeah, yeah. The Jays have self destructed and we're back to looking at next year. I'm tired of looking to next year. This entry isn't about that. This entry is about the five Blue Jays players eligible to be a Hometown Hero, a promotion by Major League Baseball designed to
Although this blog has been around for almost four years, I only started accepting comments in early February. That's almost six months ago, but today a single entry received more legitimate comments than any other entry in the history of this site. Throughout the day, well over a thousand fans
As I just learned from Wikipedia, the periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements, first devised in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. That's fine and dandy, but should these symbols be permitted in Scrabble? Taryn says yes. In fact, she
I just read about Cristina Clayton. Camping at Sandbanks Provincial Park near Picton when a 4-month-old boy was struck by a falling tree, she moved on to another camp site northeast of Peterborough where she was killed by a falling tree during yesterday's storm. Reading about her reminded me of
You know that guy. He's always gotta do something outrageous, stupid actually, and more than a little dangerous. He does this stuff because he didn't get enough attention as a child and now he's feeling neglected. Look at me! Look at me! He's so desperate for attention he'll be a
I just watched the Portugal ~ England quarter-final decided by penalty kicks. I followed the Argentina ~ Germany match yesterday which was decided in the same torturous way. This is cruel and unusual punishment. Let them play! End these games naturally, not with a stunt. Stop the insanity! I don't care if
I mentioned I watched the post-game celebration the other day as Hurricane after Hurricane took their turn with the Stanley Cup. I watched the CBC feed and took note of the "Fuckin' Right" Ray Whitney yelled when he hoisted the mug. It was raw emotion upon reaching a difficult goal
When I listed my five favourite comic strips a couple of years back, coming up with number one was easy. Lynn Johnston's "For Better Or For Worse" is the only strip I read on a daily basis and I've been doing so for as long as I can remember. A
Pope Benny visited Auschwitz on Sunday. His words were widely reported, but here's an excerpt in case you missed it. "In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did
Barry Bonds hit his seventh home run of the season yesterday. It was also the 715th of his career, bumping him ahead of the Babe into second place all-time. Majoring in history at the University of Toronto, one of my favourite classes was American Pop Culture. This class was amazing.
The other day, Rosie DiManno wrote this article for The Toronto Star. She argues that Edmonton is not Canada's team and will never be Canada's team. She writes, "the Oilers are, have always been, will always be, a near-exclusive Edmonton phenomenon." I'm a life-long Torontonian and proud Canadian with no
Would you have helped David Sharp? He's the British mountaineer who collapsed on his way up Mount Everest last week. In desperate need of oxygen, about 40 people walked right on by while he sat dying. That's right, 40 people climbing Mount Everest saw Sharp but kept on climbing. Sir
We can talk about the great shaving racket, but we should really be talking about the great Mighty Machines racket. "Mighty Machines" is a show my kids watch on Treehouse TV. It's the biggest scam going. They basically film construction crews at work, sanitary engineers collecting garbage, buses stopping at
I've stumbled across quite a few references to the shaving cream racket the past few weeks. It's as if people are just realizing the presumed need for shaving cream is a big scam. This is something I learned long ago. When I first started shaving as a niner, I was
What we once called Revolution is now Wii. That's the name Nintendo is going with for its new console. From what I've read on the Interwebs this afternoon, people don't like the name Wii. I instantly liked it. For one thing, it looks good in print. the two i's side
Winnie the Pooh just got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's pretty rare that they honour fictional characters in this manner. Check out all these names and count the number of non-humans. There are ten: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Big Bird, Kermit the Frog, Bugs Bunny, Godzilla,
To protest our seal murdering policies, Morrissey is taking a stand by refusing to take his tour to Canada. He's also asking all his fans to boycott Canadian goods. In his statement, he compares the act to the Nazi's construction of gas chambers and pins us alongside China as "the
I'm sitting here hoping the Leafs can score in the final eight minutes to force overtime, when that Ben Johnson Cheetah ad comes on. This ad makes me cringe. I hate it so damn much, it makes my skin crawl and my blood boil. Yuck. If you haven't seen it,
Here we go again. The Man says we have to jack our clocks forward an hour. Right after the Leafs game, I'll be forced to do just that to the clock radio, the microwave, the VCR and the car radio. A couple of years ago I pleaded with you to
