The Galleria Mall at Dufferin and Dupont is where I worked for five long years of my life. I was a grocery clerk at the Food City there, and helped Oshawa Foods convert it to a Price Chopper. Five years is a long time to work anywhere, let alone the
I unplugged for a few days, so I'm only now getting to some unfinished business. I wrote about the Jays game I attended on Sunday. During the game, I was given a Sony RX100 IV camera to play with, and these are the shots I took.
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
I loved our '85 Jays. It was probably the first team I followed every single day. I listened to most games on 1430 CJCL, falling asleep nightly to the sweet tones of Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth. My favourite player was George Bell, but I loved that entire team. This
The WindupI was jazzed about this ballgame all day. The Blue Jays had never won 12 games in a row, but were riding an 11-game win streak. I had also never met the greatest Blue Jay of all-time, and that was on the agenda. I biked to the dome and
Can't Feel My Face by The Weeknd is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. The Weeknd is Toronto's own Abel Tesfaye, making him the 39th Canadian to top this chart. Here's the complete list of 39 Canadians to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It's Love-Love-Love by Guy
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
I love seeing everyone donning their Blue Jays caps, jerseys and tees. The Jays logo is everywhere. I'm so glad we changed our logo in 2011. Prior to the change, our primary logo was awful. I hated it so much, I refused to buy a single piece of memorabilia that
So few directors can actually get me into a theatre these days, but Quentin Tarantino is definitely one of them. Without a doubt, he's my favourite director, and he's yet to disappoint me. His latest film, The Hateful Eight, arrives in December. The teaser trailer was released today.
In this 132nd episode, Mike chats with 102.1 the Edge host Josie Dye about her years on the air, her butchering of O Canada, her relationships with Martin Streek and Dean Blundell and why Diamond and Dye didn't work. Also, intense air is cleared. This episode is exactly 1:
On my daughter's birthday, the Blue Jays were 8 games back of the New York Yankees in the American League East. We were just hoping for run at a wild card spot. Fast forward to today and our Jays are only 1.5 games back of the Yanks. We've won
Frank Gifford was 84. He played with the New York Giants his entire NFL career, from 1952 to 1964, and went to the Pro Bowl at three different positions. If you're my age, you know him best as part of the broadcast booth of "Monday Night Football."
I've been sharing retro Blue Jays songs on this blog for over a decade. I loved those old cheesy Jays songs from the late 80s and early 90s. Suddenly, traffic to these entries are spiking. I wonder why? For the first time since '93, Blue Jays fever is sky high.
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
In the spring of 2013, following a few big moves by AA, the Blue Jays tried to push the hashtag #LoveThisTeam on us. That shit has to be earned, and that team wasn't particularly lovable. Things improved last season, but we were still pretenders as opposed to contenders. By August,
The Nintendo Wii arrived for Christmas way back in 2007 and was an instant hit. If 2007 sounds like a long time ago, it's because it is. It's been eight years of Wii play in my home. The last few years, however, the Wii has primarily been used as a
In the world of trade show marketing, the term “dog-eat-dog” doesn’t quite sum it up; there are no easy victories and competition for investor attention is incredibly stiff. Trade shows are a magnet for capital – the lifeblood your business craves to get it to the next level. But in
Karim Mosna sent me a link to this little documentary about CFNY thinking I might be interested. It's 22-minutes long and includes chats with Alan Cross, David Marsden, Ivar Hamilton and Dani Elwell. If you're looking for a more long-form deeper dive into this subject, I strongly recommend the following
Christopher Hyndman was 49. He was co-host of the afternoon talk show Steven and Chris on CBC-TV. Prior to their CBC show, the real-life couple starred in Chic with Steven and Chris, Design Rivals and Designer Guys.
I set a personal best for KM cycled in a single month in June, but I trounced that number in July. July was an amazing month for cycling this city, and I made the most of it. Here's how my cycling in July 2015 measured up against July 2014. July
