My brother Ryan just sent me the following email and asked me to share it with you all. During the Christmas Season I met with my two brothers and had Mike burn a disc full of some nice tunes.  I have always been a big Music/Sports Fan. But over

Checking out this weeks flyers I see Kraft Dinner is now 2/94¢ at Wal*Mart.  Even my alma matter Price Chopper has them two for a dollar.  This is a far cry from the 97¢ a box I've been seeing for the past few years. When I was in

Regular visitors might have noticed this site has been offline for the past couple of days.  Happy New Year everybody! If you sent an email to one of my @torontomike.com accounts, please resend it.  If you're suffering without the Leafs recap from a couple of nights ago, I'll get

I want to wish each and every one of you a very happy Festivus.  For those who don't know what Festivus is, there are three easy to follow steps: "Get the pole out of the crawl space". Or go out and buy one. Remember, it should be aluminium, due to

When this blog was fairly young and only visited by a few dozen people, many of my visitors dropped by because of this entry about the Star Wars kid. His name is Ghyslain Raza and he was fifteen at the time he made a video of himself imitating the combat

One of my favourite Christmas movies is "A Christmas Story", which inspired the phrase you'll read in the current masthead for this site.  I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle! Heck, Ralphie says it best.

First things first.  If you're with your young children, don't play this until they're out of ear shot.  It's so sweet when they believe and I'd hate to be the catalyst for any crushed spirits this holiday season. Now that it's just you adults, you've got to watch this.  It's

It was four years ago today.  In the midst of a grunge resurgence of sorts, I decided it was time to ditch the old torontomike.com format in favour of a blog.  Blogs were starting appear here and there during my daily surfing and I was hooked on the format.

Love.  It's sought by all.  Nothing is more vital to our emotional well being.  Love truly is all you need. If a sweet young couple like Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson can't make it work, what hope is there for the rest of us? Love.  Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson

A few things have been banging around in my head and I haven't had a chance to commit the thoughts to blogification, so this is a smorgasbord. 1) Prime Minister Stephen Harper has stated the Quebecois form a nation within Canada.  Does that actually mean anything?  Considering Quebec is not

Late last night, someone sent me a message via this contact form.  Unfortunately, this person forgot to include an email address where I could reply. This happens every so often, and I just discard the message or request, but this particularly plea is laced with importance and must be addressed.

Watching the Leafs game on TSN, I keep seeing an advertisement for Gillette.  It's the one where the girlfriend doubts her guy just returned from a run because his shirt "doesn't even smell bad". The girlfriend's voice is clearly dubbed over.  The dubbing is so poor, I'm guessing it's intentionally

This blog is up for Best Blog and Best Personal Blog at the 2006 Canadian Blog Awards.  If everyone who visits this site votes a million times a day for me, I'll win.  I'm sure the grand prize is massive. Vote at http://cba.myblahg.com/ until November 21.  While

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Canadians are asked to pause and remember the thousands of men and women who sacrificed their lives fighting for freedom and democracy during the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Afghanistan conflict and

Because I wear a cool Fonzie leather jacket, there's no where to pin a poppy.  Thinking outside the box, I pinned my poppy to the strap of the brief case style sack I carry to work each day.  When I slink this thing over my shoulder, the poppy is proudly

Love.  It's sought by all.  Nothing is more vital to our emotional well being.  Love truly is all you need. If a sweet young couple like K-Fed and Britney Spears can't make it work, what hope is there for the rest of us? Love.  K-Fed and Britney had it.  As

It appears I've been nominated for Best Personal Blog at the Canadian Blog Awards.  Actually, I see dozens of nominations, and considering how few Canadians blog, it seems all blogs have been nominated. I was nominated for Best Culture Blog last year.  Have I gone from Culture to Personal.  Believe

I've carved four pumpkins into Jack O'Lanterns during my lifetime.  Not coincidentally, this is my son's fourth Halloween.  The OB/GYN won't mention it, but an additional change in your life when you become a parent for the first time is the requirement that every October you carve a pumpkin.

You had to be there to believe it.  There was a floating toilet, I swear. Since you weren't there, I've got the pictures to prove it. Oh yeah, there's video too.

Peace Point Entertainment Group is producing a brand new Canadian television series called “Fanatical” about obsessive fans of television shows.  It's going to air on TVtropolis and one episode will be based on "The Simpsons".  I know this because I've been in discussions with the producers about being one of

Much like Mats Sundin last night, I reached a milestone today.  A couple of posts ago, I hit 5000 entries. That's a nice and juicy round number.  5000 entries.  Wow.  Although I started blogging in November 2002, entries were few and far between until the following summer and they didn't

Now that Google has bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, they're likely looking to acquire a Toronto blog next.  I believe that would be the next logical step.  Capture the online-video audience first and then go after the Toronto market. In the spirit of this assumption, I would like to

During a Thanksgiving long weekend, you're either in the Sunday celebration camp or the Monday celebration camp.  Some probably fall in both camps.  We had our turkey yesterday. When you've been blogging for four years, you get a few Thanksgiving entries under your belt. Like a flashback episode of your

I want to wish each and every one of you a very happy Festivus.  For those who don't know what Festivus is, there are three easy to follow steps: "Get the pole out of the crawl space". Or go out and buy one. Remember, it should be aluminum, due to

This afternoon I heard the following announced over the paging system at a local Canadian Tire.  "Manager to the gun rack for customer service".  Something about that sentence didn't sit right with me. During the same visit to Canadian Tire, I asked a member of their helpful crew where I