It Happened to Me

Fun at the Festival of Beer

"Hey, Joey," said my coworker Kim, "wanna come to the Beer Festival?" And hence this morning's slightly pasty mouth. Last…

20 years ago

Plotting to Save the World, One Blog at a Time

Last night, I had the privilege of dining with Rebecca MacKinnon, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis and Hossein "Hoder" Derakhshan at…

20 years ago

Chill out, Richard, I was being ironic

Richard, in his Simpsons-quoting blog Improvident Lackwit, shows his great dislike the title of my entry about local businesses offering…

20 years ago

Leveraging Synergies

This morning, I had breakfast at my favourite new cafe, Scene It. Scene It is two businesses in one, being…

20 years ago

We were Harold and Kumar before “Harold and Kumar”

How can you not want to see a movie whose unofficial tagline is: "The Asian guy from American Pie and…

20 years ago

Weekend Update

For those of you not familiar with Canada, today is that most generic of Canadian holidays, the Civic Holiday, the…

20 years ago

From the backlog: Kickass Karaoke 5th Anniversary Photos

Another entry in the series of things that have been sitting on my hard drive, awaiting posting: photos from the…

20 years ago

From the backlog: Movies from the White Cowbell Oklahoma concert at the El Mocambo

They're trashy, they're vile, and they're ugly paunchy men who  sometimes play the guitar butt naked. They're White Cowbell Oklahoma,…

20 years ago

From the backlog: Movies from the Om Festival

They're a little bit overdue (it took place at the start of the Summer Solstice back in June), but here…

20 years ago

The Further Adventures of the Swing Formerly Known as Secret

I'll be damned: MuchMusic just called me, asking for the location of the Secret Swing. VJ Jennifer Hollett (whom I…

21 years ago