Humble and Fred fans, I know you've been waiting patiently for Humble and Fred's Fifth Podcast. Dan's passed it over to me, and I'm ready to throw it into the wild just as soon as I get Freddie P's final blessing. I just listened to it, and about an hour
"Likely" posts over at Pension Plan Puppets and has just launched PuckingHilarious.com which offers "funny hockey apparel for puck heads". PuckingHilarious.com will give two of you a free hockey tee shirt. The only rules are that the tee shirt has to be shipped to a North American location
I think we all had Russia pencilled in as our semi-final opponent today, but somehow Switzerland upset Russia and had the pleasure of taking us on. No problemovitch. It was a fairly easy victory for Team Canada as we earned a berth in our 9th World Junior Hockey Championship final
I'm still a newcomer to the PVR (or is it a DVR?), having only taken the plunge in March 2009. As you all predicted, it has radically changed the way I watch television. In fact, I don't watch anything in real-time anymore, unless it's a live sporting event. Appointment viewing
I'm submitting a song for SLS23 consideration. I'm submitting "Just Breathe" by Pearl Jam. This isn't just the best song on Backspacer, it's the best Pearl Jam single since... since... well, since before SLS, that's for sure. There's a rule with SLS that the same artist can't be represented on
Our streaky Leafs are in a nosedive. We're now 2-5-2 in our last 9 games. After our 0-7-1 start, we had a very respectable 9-4-2 run that pulled us back into playoff contention. Now it seems that was all for not. On the bright side, I felt THE MONSTER was
There were 2,155 sources of traffic to this site in 2009. #1 was Google and #2 was Yahoo. That's search engine traffic, and important, but this entry isn't about search engine traffic. It's about other sites that sent visitors over here throughout the year. Excluding Google, Yahoo and Bing,
It's 01-02-2010. It reads the same, from left to right, as it does from right to left. As we all learnt from The Simpsons, that's a palindrome. Bart: “Hey, where’s Otto?”Skinner: “Now there’s one palindrome you won’t be seeing for a while.”Update: By popular request,
The Kleptones "released" one of my favourite albums of all time. I almost wrote "favourite mash-up albums", but that's not true. A Night at the Hip-Hopera is one of my favourite albums overall, just like Girl Talk's Feed the Animals was my favourite album of 2008. The Kleptones have a
According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in December 2009. rick hodge firedcountry 95.3sandra rinomato breastsparty playlist 2009party playlisttoronto mikeboom 97.3roy halladay adparty music playlist 2009big shiny tunes 2In December, people were looking for Rick Hodge, wondering what happened
Chris Cornell wrote a very sweet tweet that excites this Soundgarden fan. "The 12 year break is over & school is back in session. Sign up now. Knights of the Soundtable ride again!" Back in October, Soundgarden appeared on stage together for the first time since '97 during a Pearl
Freddie P finally wrote about Stephen Harper's request to prorogue Parliament. Fred's got a hard on for Stevie, anointing him "the rational man" no matter what he says or does. Fred's entry opened with a direct shot at yours truly. "Check out the crap going on over at Taliban Mike.
I was psyched for this one. Last New Year's Eve, I had to write an entry during the second intermission entitled "Bestest Game Evah!". In that game, the USA was up 3-0 before we stormed back. I just knew we were in store for another doozy. Grandma came over, pizza
I came very close to ending SLS at #21. 2009 has seemed like a abnormally weak year for music. I read the "too cool for school" blogs, sampled Merriweather Post Pavilion and other such "it" albums, and was left underwhelmed. Every other year of this decade produced an album that
I blogged less in 2009 than I did in any calendar year since 2003. I know this because I just crunched the numbers. Blog Entries by Year 2009 - 12302008 - 14332007 - 16592006 - 15982005 - 16402004 - 17222003 - 3692002 - 3In 2009, I took laser-focused aim at
My brother works with a guy who raps as K-Dot-O-Dot. He sent me this guy's latest album, produced by The Arkeologists, and called The Life & Times of Lucha Lonely. My brother is friends with K-Dot-O-Dot, but that alone wouldn't get me to share these tracks. I listened to the
This was game #41. That means we're halfway done. It was tough to watch, another awful effort we deserved to lose, by why should game #41 be any different? The fact we're still sort of in a pseudo playoff race is more a fluke of mathematics than anything. We can't
My how time flies. Has it really been over 12 months since I made prorogue the word of the day? Prorogue:tr.v., -rogued, -rogu·ing, -rogues. To discontinue a session of (a parliament, for example).To postpone; defer.Back then, Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean granted a request from Stephen
I understood why I was left off the Olympic men's hockey roster in 1998, 2002 and 2006. I wasn't playing hockey. In fact, I didn't play ice hockey after 1987 until last year. But that's just it. I've been playing hard every week during the past two winters. I've improved
For those Torontonians planning their New Year's Eve festivities, don't forget that the TTC is offering free service from midnight to 4am. I'm pretty sure other transit systems in the GTA have free service as well. GO Transit, for example, is free from 7pm on December 31 until 2:10am
In our first three games of this tournament, we've outscored our opponents 30-2. That's a serious goal differential margin, but goal differential isn't going to matter. It's all going to come down to whether we beat the USA tomorrow night as to whether we get a bye to the semi-finals
As 2009 draws to a close, you'll likely be seeing a lot of celebrity death lists, remembering those who died throughout the year. For as long as I've had a personal home page on the interweb, I've marked celebrity passings. You can read them all at http://www.torontomike.com/
If there's a face that symbolizes the Toronto sports scene, it's Jim McKenny's. I don't remember a time when Jim McKenny wasn't doing sports for CityTV. You can see him in this promo for CityTV's CityPulse sports back in 1984. Jim McKenny, a.k.a. Howie, spent ten years in
Star Trek: 8 out of 10. If I had written this review a year ago, it would actually be relevant. As it stands, the vast majority of people who will ever see Star Trek have already done so. As a result, I'm strictly writing this for the non-Trekkie hold-outs. Last
