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.
When it comes to getting my news, I turn to the CBC first. It's straight up, solid information, and it doesn't appear tainted by glitz, glamour or bias. I like CBC Newsworld for my television news and CBC Radio One for my radio news. A tremendous resource when it comes
I don't blog as much about my two slo-pitch teams as I used to. That's partly because I realize blogging about the exploits of Raging Storm in the RSPA is only interesting to me and about 10 other people. But wait... isn't this all about me? Hell yeah... We in
Less than a week ago, I wrote about the problem with 92.5 Jack FM. The ratings were abysmal, and I predicted there would be a format change by Labour Day. Jack didn't make it a week into June. Jack FM is now KISS 92.5 FM, being billed by
30 years ago The Sugarhill Gang released Rapper's Delight, the beat that signalled the birth of hip hop on the world stage. To mark the occasion, BBC aired a 60-minute mix by Jaguar Skills that covered all 30 years. 538 tracks charting the entire history of hip hop, from block
I'm PVRing The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. I watched the first show on Wednesday night and was taken back to simpler times. There was a time when I wouldn't miss Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and I even saw the show taped at the Elgin Theatre. It was great
A lot's been said about the Skydome turning 20 this week. I still have my Domer turtle from that opening ceremony somewhere. I didn't attend the opening, but a friend of the family did and gave us Domer. I caught two Jays games during the first week of games at
David Carradine was 72. He was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, which spawned sequels in the '80s and '90s, but I knew him best as Bill in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films.
If you liked the literal version of A-Ha's "Take On Me" and the literal version of "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears, you'll love this. It's the literal version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
Koko Taylor was 80. She was the Grammy-winning blues singer known as the "Queen of the Blues" who belted out her signature hit, "Wang Dang Doodle," at hundreds of concerts.
Remember Bing, the new Microsoft search engine? Here's a good use for it. Click the pic to enlarge it.
This is pretty cool. Canadian Tire is giving me a Father's Day gift, and they're giving a Toronto Mike reader a Father's Day gift. I told you this was pretty cool... And we're not talking about some cheesy $20 gift. We're talking a Yardworks 20V (6Ah) / 12-in Lithium-ion Grass Trimmer
