I was sad to hear the news a few days ago that Ernie Harwell, the radio voice of the Detroit Tigers for what seemed like forever,has inoperable cancer. Even though I didn’t grow up anywhere near Detroit and am by no means a Tigers fan, Harwell’s voice had a big impact on me. WJR came …
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No Bobblehead, No Money, No Concert?
My sleep sucked last night and I’m feeling lazy as a result, so I’m just going to jam the few things I wanted to mention so far today into one post. Here we go. I survived Toronto, over-priced beer, biblical flood and all. The game was great. I got to see a win, they opened …
Big Media Gets What It Wants While The Consumer Gets Hosed…Yet Again
CRTC increases TV funding to bolster local programs, small-market stations Aside from a couple of problems, this is great news. Unfortunately the problems are A that it won’t work and B that we the consumers are going to have to pay for it. The cable companies are alreadymaking that second one perfectly clearby using phrases …
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We Shouldn’t Worry About Swine Flu, We ShouldWorry About Brain Rot
We really love to grasp at straws lately, don’t we? Here’s the latest straw. “We’ll get a black president when pigs fly” has become “when we get a black president, we’ll get the swine flu.” Can we get any more ridiculous? Oh no, I shouldn’t ask the question. Oh, and here’s a funny aside for …
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He’s Down, But Support Says It’s A Problem On My End, Not His
Ted Rogers, CEO of Rogers Communications, hasdiedat the age of 75. Services will be held any time Monday to Saturday between the hours of 8 A.M. and 5 P.M., so if you could wait around that would be great.
Cleanup In Aisle 5
The funniest thing aboutthisisn’t that somebody thinks Northern Peaks is a good name for a porn channel or even that part of the draw is that much of it’s programming will be made in Canada thus ensuring that for the first time ever somebody will actually watch a Canadian movie. Oh no. What makes this …
It’s Not Quite The Same
So Track & Field has finally gotten started in Beijing and I can’t help but notice a rather obvious absence from Team Canada… and it’s not someone you might think. This is the first time in my lifetime that I have sat down to watch an Olympic Games, or really any major Canadian sporting event, …
Random post time
There are two random posts coming: one non-dog, and one dog. Isn’t that scary? I have enough drivel to categorize it. Hmmm. Maybe it’s not as random as I thought. Let’s start with the non-dog stuff. For some unknown reason, I was thinking about that Raffi song “Oats and beans and Barley” (sorry, the song …
A Couple More Snake Stories
Carin’s been finding a lot of stories about snakes lately, so since I never like to be outdone even though most of the time I’m too lazy to do anything about it, I figure it’s time I get in on the act. Here are a couple of snake-related mishaps I’ve come across in the last …
Sunday Morning Positivity
Who gave it permission to drop to 11 degrees outside in the middle of August? I realize I shouldn’t complain since in a few short months it’s going to be -11 and I’ll be longing for mornings like this here shitty one, but still, going from 30 and air so thick you could eat it …