Born Ruffians

I’ve gotta mention a feat accomplished last week by a co-worker. Jason Furman, against all odds and nay sayers (and in record time), consumed a ‘Coronary‘ burger last week at Dangerous Dan’s burger joint at Queen and Jilly’s. (Anyone know the east end of Toronto?). So that’s two 8 oz patties of burger four slices […]


Page France

I’m not sure what project Wes Anderson is working on right now, but I think I’ve found a band for the soundtrack…. They are called Page France from Marching Band, Maryland. (Paula, thanks for the tip. 2 gold stars.) I was just on their site and read one of their posts in the news section […]


Malajube

Kudos to my buddy Mike at BlogTo. You got me into Malajube‘s show last week, you posted a great review and took some great pics. And I agree, the band sounded great, and it didn’t really matter that we couldn’t understand the lyrics because they were in French. I really liked the fact that they […]


Bed

I used to be one of the biggest Q-bert junkies growing up. Colecovision was my system. Sure, better games and machines came along. Nothing felt quite like the vision did…. that’s what we called it. the vision. On a completely unrelated note, where did this come from? And on another completely unrelated note… Q: Name […]


Soundtrack to our lives

Dick Clark was the robot who first said “Music is the soundtrack of our lives”. We all associate certain songs we hear to things that we do in our lives. We wash the car to Huey Lewis. We get stoned to Pink Floyd. And we drive aggressively to Belle and Sebastien….. I’m climbing the CN […]