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

This is not a good day for those who suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia.  Even those who merely suffer from triskaidekaphobia are feeling uneasy. If you suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia or triskaidekaphobia, don't fret.  Tomorrow is another day.

On Halloween night, I think I consumed about 20 chocolate bars.  They were those smaller sized bars for trick or treaters, but it was still 20.  Both kids scored so much loot, I knew I'd be surrounded by chocolate for all of November. I'm not particularly good at moderation.  I

Canadian Tire is giving one of you a $199.99 Yardwords Lawn Vacuum.  The winner was randomly selected from the 68 comments left on this entry. The winner is Alex with comment #6.  After all, Ace Bailey's #6 jersey was the first ever to be retired by an NHL team.

I've worn the same costume the past five Halloweens. It's quite simple.  All I do is wear my old school goalie mask à la Friday the 13th's Jason. That mask is the genuine article.  I plan to make it my Halloween costume every year I'm walking this earth.

Later this month, this blog will celebrate its 7th birthday.  Seven years of constant blogging means this blog is older than the vast majority of blogs you read each day.  Name a blog... I'll bet I beat it to the blogosphere. I've had this site for ten years, and I

I just realized tomorrow is Halloween.  It's been that kind of week. I've got my pumpkin, but it's uncarved.  I do believe this is the first time I'll be doing the carving on Halloween Day.  The pressure is on... there's no room for error. Dare I cheat and download a

The good people at Canadian Tire want to give one of you a Yardwords Lawn Vacuum.  They tell me this thing retails for $199.99 in Canadian Tire stores. Last time we did this with a grass trimmer, Rob S. was randomly selected from the comments and shipped the trimmer

Earlier this month, there was a shitstorm swirling around Mr. Sub's Gay Dad Dinner ad.  I got an email from the ad agency, BOS Toronto, asking me to remove the YouTube video of the ad I embedded in my original entry about the ad. Shortly after I wrote about this,

I warned you not to fall for the Veronica trap.  The mad geniuses behind Archie Comics have decided to go completely crazy. Despite the tide of public opinion, Archie proposed to Veronica in ARCHIE #600 and she accepted! Fans hoped that something would ruin the wedding plans and Archie would

American bloggers are busy blogging about a decision by the Federal Trade Commission to require that bloggers clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. As a Canadian, the FTC ruling doesn't apply to me, but I'm still left with one lingering question.... Why

There is now an official Anne Frank channel on YouTube.  Amongst the videos you'll find there is the only existing film footage of Anne Frank. July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get

This week closed with a flurry of shitstorms.  Here are the most recent four.  Review them and pick your favourite. Shitstorm 1: Mr. Sub's Gay Dad Ad Gets Ad Agency Canned, ACTRA Pissed and Me Threatened Read about it here. Shitstorm 2: Blue Jays Won't Play For Cito Read about

On Monday I suggested that Mr. Sub's "Dinner" ad in which a father comes out as gay to his family might just be the worst ad I'd ever seen.  It sparked quite the discussion in the comments. Earlier today, someone from the ad agency BOS Toronto wrote me a stern

Our dryer broke in the spring.  All summer we dried our clothes outside, which was great, but with summer behind us and our washer on its last legs, I'm in the market for a washer / dryer combo. Where should a poor bastard in need of a stacked washer/dryer go

If you've had a life these past few years, and have missed the viral YouTube videos everybody's been talking about, you can catch up in four minutes.

This blog just received the nicest comment.  It really made my day.  Here it is... I don't know If I said it already but ...Great site...keep up the good work. :) I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but,

This just hit my RSS reader. It's cruel and unusual punishment and it needs to stop.  Now.

This is how Captain Kirk kisses a woman.  I think I'm doing it wrong.

In this internet age, everything happens in real-time.  Even now it seems a little late to be commenting on what Kanye West did to Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards, and that just happened about 90 minutes ago. If you missed it, here's what all the fuss is

I've always felt Toronto, as a city, has been underserved by the blogosphere.  I've always felt something was missing... something more personal than a Torontoist or BlogTO, something that's clever and insightful and funny.  We have one or two such blogs, but a city this size deserves far more. Marc

Today is September 9, 2009, or 9-9-09. I don't think that means anything, but it's pretty neat.  It's so neat, I'm back dating this entry to 9:09am. Here are some "nine" songs.  Are there others? Nine Double Em - Brother AliCloud Nine - The TemptationsGlock Nines - Beanie Sigel

I've always loved the old exploding pizza CBC logo.  For a while many years ago, this was the masthead for this blog. I did a double-take when I saw a tweet that CBC's "exploding pizza" logo was appearing on Stella Artois ads on the London Tube.  According to the Inside

It seems rock band KISS was caught screwing with the Shwa and Gene Simmons was quick to call on the spin doctors. That's Simmons' game.  He's always marketing, always selling the shit, and this time his story isn't being bought by anyone.  Let's see what Gene Simmons had to say