Best weekend ever? Yeah, I’m feeling pretty good about a couple of days full of friends, fun and song. McClin and I created three new tracks on Saturday and, tooting my own horn, two of them are pretty bloody fantastic. What really got me poppin’ was the title of his upcoming disk, “Dirty Paper”. It’s [...]
Neighbours speculated that a black man who drove his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree at 2.20am last night was probably “drunk or high on that rap music they all like”. Edith Brothweiser, 78, a resident of Windermere, Florida, was sipping Ballantines and watching old episodes of “Murder, She Wrote” when a series [...]
PUG LIFE..with the interest in Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather red hot, the target date for their clash has been bumped up to May 1st. There is too much money involved to delay the confrontation. An extra inducement must be the prospect of the pair becoming involved in a series of fights…yeah, May 1st. Kentucky [...]
On an American Thanksgiving many years ago, when I was holed up in Windsor, the Psycho Warrior and I headed over to Detroit to get some dinner. We were met by an absolute Ghost town. Nothing was open. No one was about. Greek Town shuttered. The whole city quiet, wrapped in fog. I learnt just [...]
My heart raced at the news that Roald Dahl’s masterpiece “Fantastic Mr Fox” will be made into a big time Hollywood movie. You see, within the confines of that lovely tale rests one of my literary heroes. No, not the gentle badger, nor the vegetarian rabbits or the mysterious weasel. Not the moles. I am [...]
GRID IRON..the Dallas - Washington game, for Suicide players who had the home team, was the equivalent of watching a car crash unfold until Tony Romo pulled out a win with 2:41 to play. I guess, in retrospect, I had a great afternoon watching the game - I’ve never cursed, ranted and freaked as much as [...]
MEDIA..Globe and Mail writer Stephen Brunt has penned a classic with “Gretzky’s Tears”. The book details the circumstances surrounding the Great One’s trade from the Edmonton to the Los Angeles Kings in August of 1988 (about one month before Ben Johnson was stripped of his Olympic Gold; tough time for Canadians). The trade played into Canadians [...]
LOVE AT THE RAIL..what with the Leafs and the Irish soccer fiasco, we were a bit glum as we headed out for the Rail last night. But the mood evaporated when the big news was delivered to these eager ears; Len and Maria are engaged! Hip hop hooray!!! On a sandy midnight beach in Jamaica, with sparkling [...]
It was January 6th, 1980, when the young Racing Meridian was introduced to the harsh realities of contemporary sport. In a moment of infamy, perhaps outranked in American history only by Pearl Harbour, Houston Oiler Mike Renfro, cruising through the end zone open and unmolested, was ruled to have bobbled a clear catch in the AFC [...]
It’s a hockey fairytale; a series of events so improbable as to beggar belief. But let’s try to roll this one past you. A famous hockey player, Greedzky, becomes implicated in a major gambling scandal. Trembling, his perfect image about to be shredded, the Grate Greedzky comes up with the most intriguing of strategies; he [...]
