Idol Worship
Ratings show the median age of an American Idol viewer is in their early 40’s. However it’s widely accepted that it’s kids who are doing the voting. …
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The Met
Lots of cities have problems with their downtown area. Empty storefronts, gatherings of bored young people with drugs or destruction on their minds, shoppers lured to the big box stores on the outskirts. London hasn’t fared as badly as many others have but the city has just made a positive move toward doing something about it with The Met. …
Garage Update
When we last left our steel building it was covered (or uncovered) in a blue tarp that the hostile winter shredded and left flapping in the wind. …
A Determined Man
We watched a biopic on NASCAR driver Wendell Scott and it was so compelling that I did some research on the man and his racing career. …
Biker World
It still amuses my family that I own, ride and love my motorcycle. I spent all day yesterday on it, riding up to Wingham, picking up a friend and riding around to various spots in the town with her, and then returning home. …
Not A Strong Suit
Ugh. The big family swimming party is coming up in about a month and you know what that means? I need a new bathing suit. Bring on the flourescent lighting, impossibly skinny saleswomen and see-through shop walls through which all passersby can view my shame. …
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The End of the World as we Know It!
Harold Camping, a broadcaster and “religious figure” in the US, says Saturday will be the day of rapture, when Jesus comes back to claim all good people for heaven. Five months after that the world will end, says Camping, based on calculations from writings in the Bible. …
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You’ve Got to Have Friends
I’m a freakish fan of the show Friends. …
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What’s The Matter With Boobies?
A campaign designed to get high-school age kids to develop an awareness about breast cancer is getting unwanted attention from school officials on both sides of the border. …
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Going Over to Dover
Eyebrows raise when I admit I’ve never ridden to Port Dover on a Friday the 13th. …
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A Pain the Gas
An “expert” is saying this morning that the high price for gasoline is being prompted by a low supply. Well that’s a new one! Until I read this particular article, everything else I’ve read has lead me to believe that we have one of the biggest reserves in the world. We also have one of the highest pump prices in the world for a country that produces oil. And the blame falls squarely on speculators. …
Strange Case Indeed
I’ve previously confessed to following fascinating New York City crime trials. Sometimes the court case concerns a story I wasn’t familiar with but my current mild obsession involves a case I’ve been watching since it first hit the New York Post. …
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A (Nameless) Public Shaming
Yesterday on my way into the radio station I encountered slow traffic on what is usually the best part of the ride in. There’ s a lovely wide curve on a decline of Springbank after Commissioners Road and it’s normally ripe for a little acceleration and “wheee!” from my inner child. For whatever reason yesterday, it was stop and go. So I stopped and I went like everyone else. …
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Just a Dab
Canadian designer Kimberly Seldon has a new magazine but you won’t find it on the racks. …
Happy Day, Mom!
Yup Dads are stepping up when it comes to child-rearing these days but when my brother Kevin and I were little, looking after the kids was definitely “women’s work”. …
I Don’t Know Much About Fashion
…but I know what I know and I know what I like and I believe that women dress for other women but men think women dress for them. …
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Justice and Revenge
It took nearly a decade but the air is just a little bit fresher this morning knowing that Osama Bin Laden isn’t sharing it. …
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Faces for Video
A former colleague and his business partner have started a terrific website aimed at the broadcasting set. …