Game Console Controller Family Tree - My all-time favourite remains this one.
December 19, 2025
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. The emotion the Cdn.Jr. team displayed when they won the GOLD medal was awesome. ALL were singing O'Canada. I stand corrected - their focus was on this 1 & only
Barry Cowsill was 50. He achieved teen idol status in the late 1960s as a member of the Partridge Family-inspiring pop act the Cowsills.
Miikka Kiprusoff took care of our winning streak stoning us on a number of good third period opportunities to record his sixth shutout of the season. This was only the second time we've been shutout this season. It's Hockey Day In Canada with Ottawa and Montreal going at it at
"I am so smart, I am so smart, S M R T, I mean S M A R T."
My favourite Matthew Broderick movies Ferris Bueller's Day OffYou Can Count on MeThe Cable GuyElectionGlory
Lou Rawls was 72. He was the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to record such classic tunes as "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine."
I have seen the future of Toronto Maple Leafs hockey, and his name is Justin Pogge. Pogge posted a .952 save percentage for the tournament, his 1.00 goals-against average ties him for best in tournament history and Canada's six goals against set a record. He recorded three shutouts and
It's very early, but already I've nominated a number of great songs for inclusion on SLS15. SLS15 won't be finalized until late June, but here are my early submissions. Use It - The New PornographersI'll Believe In Anything - Wolf Parade7-4 Shoreline - Broken Social SceneThe Bridge - Elliott BroodOut
I have vivid memories of a class trip to the Runnymede Public Library I took in 1983. We were assembled in a room on the second floor and shown a program on video cassette. The show we watched was "The Kids of Degrassi Street". I would soon discover other episodes
Million Dollar Baby: 8 out of 10. Clint Eastwood is getting better with age. Great direction, great acting and great casting. Hilary Swank is a great Maggie and nobody handles the narrator-type role like the great Morgan Freeman. Needless to say I had very high expectations for this film. It
Irving Layton was 93. His gritty, satiric and erotic poems left an indelible mark on Canada's literary landscape.
The Liberal MP in my riding is Sarmite Bulte. I've written about this so called democracy and the conflict I share with many Canadians. We're less than three weeks from election day and I'm as torn as ever. Each and every election, either federal or provincial, Taryn blindly votes Liberal.
I rarely link to jokes, but this is a pretty damn good one.
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. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything This is
Free CD Cover Search - In the late 90s, there was a great CD covers resource I used to hit all the time. Copyright laws forced it to shut down at the turn of the century and nothing as good ever crossed my path again... until now.
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. Watching the Canada Jr's play against Finland & winning was a great accomplishment going to the GOLD medal game for the 6th year in a row.I'm DISGUSTED with the players
For the fifth straight year, Canada has advanced to the finals at the world junior hockey championship. Once again, our foe is Russia who we face Thursday at 19:00 EST for gold. This year's squad plays a typically hard defensive game and relies on Leaf prospect Justin Pogge between
I watched a lot of hockey. I cheered a great deal and was always pleased with the end result. Here's the details... December 23, 2005 - Toronto Maple Leafs 2, Boston Bruins 1December 26, 2005 - Canada 5, Finland 1December 26, 2005 - Toronto Maple Leafs 2, New Jersey Devils
The Leafs spoiled Sidney Crosby's NHL debut in Canada by winning their sixth in a row. Chad Kilger was the unlikely offensive hero with two goals early in the third before Bryan McCabe won it in overtime with a lucky goal that seemed to bounce off his chest. The Maple
We've finally unveiled the cover for SLS14. SLS14, of course, was unveiled over a week ago. In addition to maintaining the official Smells Like Sour home page, I also keep a list of every SLS song ever as part of this site. Submissions for SLS15 are now being accepted. There
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. Here is a link that some might find interesting:Towards a Fact-Based Strategy to Reduce Gun Violence in Toronto (.pdf) or (Google .html cache)JillI'm intrigued by the Boston Gun Project:
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today. Spending the last 4 days north west of Sudbury, the local newspapers (front page) & local news lead story was about Jane Creba & how Toronto has become a city with
Using statistics gathered from my Last.fm page I've created a new My Music page The URI is http://www.torontomike.com/music.html. Right now it's simply displaying my weekly artist chart and my overall artist chart. Once my creative juices start flowing, I'll add more exciting features aimed
Every Monday I shuffle my entire MP3 collection in iTunes and list the first ten songs that play. Here are the ten tunes I heard today with a personal story about one of them. Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Bessie SmithStar Bodies - The New PornographersBox of Rain
