Last week, my slo-pitch team stormed back for a come-from-behind quarter-final playoff victory against Game Over. That set up a semi-final best-of-three series against the Cardinals, a team that had beat us badly in all three regular season meetings. Again, I know only a handful of you care about my
My personal favourite provincial park for camping is Killarney, but I just realized I've taken the kids to Pinery instead for three summers in a row. The kids prefer Pinery for one reason: the sand. Pinery is all about sand. It's sand dune after sand dune and the sandiest beach
I was lucky enough to see Pearl Jam live in concert for the seventh time yesterday. I can already hear some of you snickering about how you've seen one band 32 times or another 45 times, but I've only seen one band more times than I've seen Pearl Jam. This
What an amazing week. I couldn't have drawn this sucker on the board any better. One night I was playing my best series in years as my slo-pitch team surprisingly swept our semi-final and will now play for the divisional title. It's the highest skill level division in this league
The car is packed, the kids are psyched and I'm hitting the road. Consider me unplugged. In the interim, here are the five entries this month that have received the most comments thus far. When you're done resolving these issues, get crackin' on world hunger. Toronto Safe Injection Sites: A
I first heard of Fearless Fred when I broke the firing from CFNY / Edge 102 of Martin Streek and Barry Taylor. I was informed by my trustworthy tipster that Fearless Fred had been hired from Edmonton and would debut sometime in August. About ten days ago, I wrote that Fearless
Burn After Reading: 6.5 out of 10. I'm on holidays. I'm still in the city, because I've got a couple of important slo-pitch playoff games to play tonight and my priorities are in order, so my wife and I decided to watch this Coen brothers film we missed last
Political columnist Robert Novak, a diehard conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" monikor, died today at the age of 78. That's a convenient excuse to share Frank Zappa's 1986 appearance on CNN's Crossfire, a show co-hosted by Novak. I first saw this clip a couple
Stuff White People Like has done it again. Just like they did with The Wire, they've nailed camping. If you find yourself trapped in the middle of the woods without electricity, running water, or a car you would likely describe that situation as a “nightmare” or “a worse case scenario
Coors Light is running a localized marketing campaign in British Columbia poking fun at Torontonians. The billboard campaign proudly declares the beer is "Colder Than Most People From Toronto." Here's the ad: I get that the rest of Canada is united in their dislike of Toronto. When that guy was
I mentioned I'm taking a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid for a week test drive. I picked it up this morning and drove it around town, and here are some quick initial thoughts. When you turn the ignition, there's complete silence. The only indication you've turned the car on is a
The camper's enemy is mosquitoes. Luckily for me, I'm protected by CFNY's High Frequency Anti-Mosquito Tone. You can hear all about CFNY's High Frequency Anti-Mosquito Tone in the ad below. It's making the summer of '85 the best ever. Your browser does not support the audio element.
I'm camping this week. Not quite yet, because I want to play a Raging Storm playoff game before leaving town, but the kids and I will be away from it all before you know it. I'm officially in prep mode. I want to thank the very cool people at Canadian
You Don't Mess with the Zohan: 4 out of 10. I'm getting tired of mediocre comedies. This Adam Sandler flick might be the mediocre-est of them all. I want my 113 minutes back.
I heard the 100m final from the World Championship in Germany was taking place at 3:35 this afternoon, but CBC was airing tennis. Then, I remembered this fandangled new invention called the internet. CBCSports.ca was streaming the final live and I witnessed Usain Bolt shatter his world record
The Canadian National Exhibition opens next week. Of the 131 years of The Ex's existence, I worked a game booth across from The Polar Express every day it was open for three of 'em: 1989, 1990 and 1991. If you want to revisit my many CNE memories, visit my CNE
Hancock: 5.5 out of 10. For the second flick in a row, I was reminded of Arrested Development. Last time I saw George Michael Bluth and this time I saw Michael Bluth and Rita, together again. And once more, she wasn't who he thought she was... This is typical
I don't know about my fellow Canadians, but I've found a great deal of the rhetoric coming from the United States regarding President Obama's health care reform to be incredibly cringe-worthy. The conservatives and anti-Obama crusaders don't seem to understand our health care model in the least. Here's one of
If memory serves me correct, summer usually arrives around these parts in June. This year, it came in August. Better late than never, I suppose. Here are some songs to help you celebrate the arrival of summer. These are "summer" songs in my collection. That means the word "summer" has
I'm well aware that only a handful of you actually care about Raging Storm, a slo-pitch team in the competitive division of the RSPA, but this entry is for that handful of Storm-rootin' peeps. Last night, at Max Ward Park in Etobicoke, we played the defending champions in the first
Ted "Teeder" Kennedy was 83. He won five Stanley Cups with the Toronto Maple Leafs during a Hall of Fame career in which he scored 231 goals and 329 assists for 560 points in 696 regular-season games, as well as 29 goals and 31 assists for 60 points in 78
One of the cool things about having a blog that's almost 8 years old is that you can go back and read how things seemed at the time they were happening. For example, six years ago today was The Blackout. Six years ago tomorrow, I wrote all about it. 24
I've got a healthy dose of anticipation and nervousness flowing through my veins today. My comp division slo-pitch team has a couple of playoff games tonight. You can play the game two nights a week, every summer for years and years, but you don't lose that tingly feeling come playoff
YouTube user Retrontario frequently uploads fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips never fail to bring back a ton of memories for me, so I feature them from time to time. This commemorative piece of the SkyDome roof is certainly something over 2 million visitors wouldn't want to be without. I mean,
Les Paul was 94. He helped revolutionize popular music with his innovations on the guitar and in the recording studio. He is credited with developing one of the first solid-body electric guitars, which went on sale in 1952 and contributed to the birth of rock.
