Brad Wheeler

Katy: How far are you prepared to go?
Justin: Just watch me.

Nichol is amazing. I'll be back.

Giant drink menu.

Small crowd at Dina's (the former Silver Dollar) for Seattle dream pop trio Coral Grief tonight. When it was a blues bar in the 1990s I was here every weekend. They've cleaned it up. Nice lounge, with a dive bar aesthetic.

Trump is attacking Wrigley Field?

THE YEAR I QUIT BASEBALL — West End Phoenix It was 1995. A sheep was born in a petri dish. A bright comet was streaking through the sky. And, in pre-internet Toronto, something even more remarkable was happening: The High Park Little League tea...

A poem for your Sunday...

THE YEAR I QUIT BASEBALL by DAVID JAMES BROCK

It was 1995, something remarkable was happening: The High Park Little League team was headed to the World Series.

From the pages of WEP April 2020

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As King of Kensington turns 50, it shows the challenge of keeping classic Canadian TV in circulation CBC has uploaded 10 of the sitcom’s notable episodes to Gem. But it’s easier said than done to upload them all

Neat piece on King of Kensington by @nestruck.bsky.social. #YesKings www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

"Sir, if you were a tree, which tree would you be?"

TOP TEN REASONS CANADA KEEPS BEATING US IN THE WORLD SERIES 10. French baseball chatter very disorienting. 9. U.S. players get sleepy standing through two national anthems. 8. Special enzyme in Canadian bacon that turns players into game-winning zombies. 7. American teams discouraged by Clinton's new RBI tax. 6. All our secret plays are being funneled to them by that weasel Paul Shaffer. 5. Exchange rate makes Canadian runs worth more. 4. Stirring pre-game talks, which always end with "win one for Lorne Greene." 3. They don't bother to use actual Canadians. 2. Let's face it - we're a bunch of "Hosers." 1. Those damn mountie umpires.

This was the Letterman Top Ten list on October 25, 1993:
"Top Ten Reasons Canada Keeps Beating Us In The World Series"

He's not spending.

Sarah McLachlan and the Guess Who (Randy Bachman/ Burton Cummings) up against Taylor Swift!

Meet the cheese whiz: Why Michael Finnerty traded the grind for the rind An unpaid work sabbatical in England led this radio presenter to a new path – as a cheesemonger

The person who conceived this headline wins all the awards today.
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The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via @RoysEnergy

Davis Schneider post game. I haven't seen back acne like that since Mark McGwire taught us how to spell androstenedione.

a man is playing a guitar in a dark room ALT: a man is playing a guitar in a dark room

Instead of OK Blue Jays during the 7th inning stretch, let's have Geddy Lee sing Working Man to get the dome a-rockin'.

a man in a brown sweater is holding his head and making a shocked face . ALT: a man in a brown sweater is holding his head and making a shocked face .

Tara Slone at last night's Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame concert and Viggo Mortensen at Koerner Hall concert this month both mentioned scores of Blue Jays playoff games in progress. Please don't do that, hosts and narrators. I'm taping the game to watch later!

The speeches last night at the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame gala at Toronto's Meridian Centre were so strong. Highlights were inductees Ian Thomas and Jane Siberry, and their inductors Murray McLauchlan and k.d. lang.

Phone songs were better before reverse number lookups.

He's the Babe Ruth of Rick Wises.

Like a tick on the back of a kangaroo, Reese Witherspoon's "big leap" is "co-writing" a novel with a best-selling author. Apparently the book's premise was her idea: A surgeon who becomes a fugitive. Why didn't Harrison Ford think of that?

Saturday.

Elbows up, thumbs down: Why we’re blowing a generational moment for Canadian culture We’re checking the origins of our groceries, but where’s the love for the sector that truly defines who we are?

The Arts team @theglobeandmail.com worked on this fantastic #culture #Canada #culture package. 1/3
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On The Great Lakes Suite, Rheostatics reject bumper-sticker nationalism The band’s 13th studio album is out Nov. 21

My Q&A with @davebidini.bsky.social on "Elbows Up" and the epic forthcoming Rheostatics album, The Great Lakes Suite. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

Thoroughly enjoying the new Americana record from Meredith Moon. Produced in Toronto and Nashville by Colin Linden, who also plays guitar.

I doubt patients, especially kids, are entrusted to instruct surgeons on where to cut. Didn't happen.

Best seat in the house at Communist's Daughter for people watching and listening to John Borra. Sunday afternoon coming down.

We were lucky to have Diane Keaton Legendary actress and director died on Saturday aged 79 in her native Los Angeles

Great appreciation of #dianekeaton from Joanna Schneller www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

It's not the "same bread," it's better.

Approaching Willie Nelson's pace.