Every year around Thanksgiving, there's this awesome salmon run in the Humber River at Etienne Brule Park. It's just north of the Old Mill Bridge at the weir. You see hundreds and hundreds of salmon trying to swim up the weir and it's pretty fun to watch. Today, as my
Although I didn't take to Facebook, I recognize it's the big daddy of social networking sites. About 9 hours ago, Facebook made it possible for regular folks like you and me to secure vanity urls. I was up anyway after the awesomely fantastic game seven of the NHL Stanley Cup
Today I'm enjoying Just Look Them Straight In The Eye and Say.... POGUEMAHONE!!, a boxset of rare and unreleased tracks from The Pogues. One of my favourite Pogues songs is "Dirty Old Town", a song I never get tired of. It's been scientifically proven that you can't listen to "Dirty
The only late night talk shows I watch are Conan O'Brien and Jon Stewart. Both shows get PVR'd every night and I catch up when I can. This past week, I missed a couple of funny bits on Jimmy Fallon's new show and David Letterman. Fallon had Zack Morris on
My 7-year old has been told he can stay up for the entire game tonight. He, like his father, is heavily rooting for the Penguins to upset the Red Wings in Detroit. He's pretty psyched about watching the whole game and watching the cup get passed from player to player.
I'm still laughing at the fact our city Photoshopped a black guy onto the cover of the current Fun Guide. It really happened. Click here to see the before and after images. Some are laughing at the terrible Photoshop job, others are laughing at the need to do it in
Before the final series of The Wire aired, HBO released three prequel shorts produced by Wire creator David Simon, exploring the backstory for the characters Prop Joe, Omar, and William ''Bunk'' Moreland. Omar Little is the single greatest character in the history of television. The Wire is overflowing with amazing
A medical isotope shortage isn't sexy, despite what natural resources minister Lisa Raitt said. The Springfield Isotopes, an AA minor league baseball team that plays its home games at Duff Stadium, however, is sexy. Just ask Dancin' Homer.
Tomorrow night, the NHL playoffs conclude. That means we'll have a winner in our annual Hockey Playoff Pool. Patino looks to have first place locked up, thanks to his clever drafting of Evgeni Malkin. Patino picked up Malkin 6th overall. When I got my first pick at #13, I went
Andrew (with the capital "A", not the commenter with the small "a"), directed my attention to Mike Stafford's latest blog entry. As Mike writes: The smiling, ethnically diverse family featured on the cover of Toronto's latest edition of its summer Fun Guide was digitally altered to make the photo more
I rarely do this, but I'm in love with a 4-disc compilation I just borrowed entitled "Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground". It's all the best stuff we heard on CFNY in the 80s. Seriously, if you find yourself missing the spirit of radio, you have to
Years ago, Custom put out an album entitled "Fast". It was a great album, but it was on the experimental Artistdirect label and everything fell apart shortly thereafter. I came on board Team Custom in 2004, rescuing the teamcustom.com domain from Artistdirect and helping out with the web parts
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain This song popped
The Savages: 7.5 out of 10. I'm not capable of disliking a Philip Seymour Hoffman movie. He's so good, his presence elevates a film. He's definitely in my top five - the man can act. Throw in a great Laura Linney performance, and you can't really screw it up.
I'm pretty sure we haven't hit Father's Day yet, because my kids haven't said a word about it, but I've already received a pretty kick ass Father's Day gift. It arrived this afternoon from Canadian Tire. Since I was more than happy to give one of you a $199 lithium-ion
I think The Sun buried the lead. They're reporting that the Leafs are done with Cujo, which I assumed was pretty obvious. Curtis Joseph is 42 years old. Several paragraphs deep into the Sun article is this little bombshell. Burke has suggested that if Gustavsson, widely considered the best goaltender
Down Goes Brown isn't just the handle of a great Maple Leaf blogger I borrow gems from periodically, it's also a great call by Joe Bowen back in 1992 on The Fan 1430. Sylvain Lefebvre took on Rob Brown and "Down goes Brown! Down goes Brown!" was born. Here's the
I've never watched the Tony Awards. I'm not a theatre guy. I didn't know they were on last night, and even if I did, I wouldn't have tuned in. Having said that, I didn't realize Poison was going to perform and Bret Michaels was going to nearly be decapitated. Seriously,
I mentioned in my interview with Andrew Goodman that I'm attending the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Toronto 2009 today and tomorrow. I'm throwing down a quick entry with some thoughts about search engine marketing and e-marketing in general, and then we in Raging Storm have a game to
I've been attending the Search Engines Strategies conference all day today, and I'll write a bit more about that later. In one discussion about the future of search, a panelist mentioned Wolfram|Alpha. I'll admit, I hadn't heard of Wolfram|Alpha. I wrote down the name and Googled it at
Just last September, I called Dave Stieb the greatest starting pitcher in Toronto Blue Jays history. I have Roy Halladay at number two on that list. It's now nine months later and the order remains the same, but the gap is closing. The Jays beat Kansas City 4-0 today at
I attended a screening of a new Canadian film entitled "The Baby Formula" this afternoon at the Drake Hotel. It was part of their First Weekend Club film series. The Drake has this sweet set up where you get a free drink from the bar, watch a cool new film
On Friday night, during my own ball game, I got a tweet from Vegas Geoff. Alex Rios swears at a fan. Just for you, @TorontoMike http://bit.ly/8AMYdI watched the video that night, actually felt bad for Alex Rios, and tweeted the following: @Vegasgeoff If I had 5 strikeouts,
Twilight: 5 out of 10. My wife loves the Twilight books. She's read them all, and raves about them. My only exposure to Twilight was all the awards the movie won at the recent MTV Movie Awards, and that's usually the kiss of death for a flick. Still, I was
It seems the most popular entries around these parts lately have been about Toronto radio. It started when Martin Streek and Barry Taylor were fired at Edge 102, continued when I wrote about the problem with Jack FM and culminated in the birth of Kiss 92 where Jack once broadcast.
