I'm submitting a song for SLS22 consideration. I'm submitting "Heads Will Roll" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This will be the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' fifth song on SLS, following "Maps", "Gold Lion", "Phenomenon" and "Zero". "Maps", btw, still makes it onto just about every iPod playlist I make.
You know how much we Torontonians love our signs. I previously examined our love affair with signs after Ed Mirvish passed and I wondered what would happen to the Honest Ed's sign when that property is eventually re-purposed. Prior to that, there was the united cry to save the Sam
Everybody's favouriite Hagman scored twice and the Leafs actually held on to a third period lead to win in regulation. After losing four straight in regulation, we've now picked up six points in the last four games. We're now only six points back of the 13th-place Florida Panthers. This cup
A mondoville tweet led me to a fantastic Flickr photoset from Dave Till entitled Toronto ghost signs. Before the invention of modern billboards, sign painters used to paint advertisements and company names directly onto building walls. These gradually fading painted signs are known as ghost signs.Here are a few
I have vivid memories of discovering Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Yes, it was years before Wayne's World brought the song to a new generation. I discovered it in the best possible way. I started playing vinyl records found in my old man's collection. I also have vivid memories of discovering The
I recorded Sunday night's American Music Awards and watched it last night. Most of it was pretty bad, so I'm glad I was able to fast forward a good chunk of it. I did watch the closing performance by Adam Lambert, however, and part of that performance was one of
Yeah, I'm the guy who called you selfish for refusing to get the H1N1 vaccine. And you parents who won't get your kids the shot, you're doubly selfish. There, I said it. I wrote that at the end of October, but practising what I preached turned out to be trickier
I still can't believe we lost this one. In the third period alone, we outshot the Islanders 23-4. Down 3-0, you could feel the momentum shift the moment I turned on the television. That's right, I tuned in after the three Islander goals on poor 'ol Tosky. I'm taking credit
Haydain Neale was 39. He was the Juno Award-winning lead singer of Jacksoul.
It all started two years ago with an entry entitled "The Story of Stuff." It was about our mega-consumer society and the stuff we accumulate, particularly at this time of year. In the comments of that entry, I wrote a comment that was heavily on my mind all last December.
Wendy and Lucy: 7 out of 10. I must confess, I had never heard of Wendy and Lucy. My wife essentially ordered me to watch it and for 80 minutes I was drawn into Michelle Williams' character's world. Michelle Williams is fantastic in this, by the way. This ain't no
Anvil! The Story of Anvil: 9 out of 10. I've been looking forward to this one. It just seemed like my kind of documentary. I'm happy to report it was well worth the wait. Anvil! The Story of Anvil is awesome!!!1!1!! Read this little synopsis and tell me
Item #15 of the Bloggers Code is the following: "When friends make TV shows, free promotion is mandatory". My good friend Humble Howard, along with the gang at Redfish Entertainment Studios, have a new 13-episode docu-reality show entitled "Last Bride Standing". And this one actually airs on a station you
Do not adjust your laptop, desktop or smart phone. All of the following actually happened last night at the ACC. The Leafs won a gameThe Leafs won a game in a shootoutThe Leafs won a game in a shootout with Toskala in netThe Leafs won a game in a shootout
It's unseasonably warm in these parts. I don't think we're supposed to have double digit highs in late November. This heat has totally freed up my weekend. You see, I had a pretty busy weekend planned. This morning I had Learn to Play Hockey with my daughter, this afternoon I
Being a Leafs fan can be pretty tough. If we don't laugh, we'll cry. It's time for yet another remix of ."Downfall" This is a glimpse of what it might have been like if Hitler was a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.
For the third straight year, "nobody" is back. "Nobody" is an anonymous soul who essentially blogs on an entry I wrote six years ago about Christmas music. He or she posts these humorous updates on their Christmas tapes and love for holiday music. After this morning's comment, "Nobody" has left
Scott Niedermayer was named first star the other night after scoring the overtime winner for the Anaheim Ducks. He then tossed his stick to a little girl in the stands. That's when all hell broke lose. Stay classy, Ducks fans.
The entry I just wrote about Oprah triggered an onslaught of ads for Sarah Palin's new book. I'm guessing the company behind the ads, Newsmax.com, is bidding heavily on the popular keyword "Oprah", perhaps in conjunction with the keyword "magazine", realizing those in the Oprah cult are most likely
I've written about the cult of Oprah before. My wife is an Oprah fan. She records every show, reads her magazine, talks about her with friends. She's a big fan. The big Oprah news of the day is that she's pulling the plug on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011.
Enough is a enough. We jumped out in front 3-0, coughed that one up and blew a 4-2 lead in the 3rd. Ian White then scored with 30 seconds remaining, but the Leafs couldn't hold the 5-4 lead. Erik Cole scored with three seconds left to force overtime. The Monster
I'm submitting a song for SLS22 consideration. I'm submitting "New Fang" by Them Crooked Vultures. Let's see... singing this song is some guy named Josh Homme. The bassist and keyboardist is a guy named John Paul Jones. And on drums? Some dude named Dave Grohl. Did that get your attention?
Five years ago I wrote about milk bags. My family drinks a lot of milk, and we buy bags of milk. Canadians will be familiar with the three bags of milk totalling 4 litres that are so common in these parts. As peculiar as that sounds to an American, it's
Children of the blogosphere, there's a new blog in our midst. Horonymous has been commenting here and at Canadian Thinker for years, and now he's started his own blog. You'll find his blog at http://www.mississaugablogger.com/ where he's writing about things he finds interesting in the 905 and
If my memory serves me correctly, I've written about five radio stations flipping formats in the past seven years. I'm sure more stations heard in Toronto have changed their formats during this period, but I've only blogged about five. Here are those five entries and the number of comments left
