I feel like I am just about to surface. The first round of the hockey playoffs is just about over and I can breath again. I don't know why I get so obsessed or why I need a strategy. I do not watch western conference games during the first round. I need the sleep and I can't over do it watching 2 …

Being in Ontario during the hockey playoffs is the right place to be. There is a pervasive legitimacy about being Leafs fans that you just don't get in the Maritimes with the mix of allegances for the Habs, the Bruins and whatever team is good this week. We watched the win over the Senators last …

I am listening to George Bush right now during the live speech part of tonight's presentation and I can't shake how similar it is to listening to the English lyrics sung by Swedish pop bands like ABBA or Ace of Bass. It is not what he is saying (I don't care much about debating that) but how he …

I was reading Living in a Society and Matthew's take on the CBC's contest/show idea/BBC rip-off, "The Greatest Canadian", and I see that he has one Maritimer on his list of top 50 Canadians (Alexander Graham Bell being another questionable claimant). That person is Joe Howe who is, of course, the …

I am going to give Air America Radio a listen. If I lived in the States, I'd be far left. In Canada, I am left-centre. But I don't want to just hear voices like me. I look forward to hearing Al Franken once in a while but I think of Al Franken, who has the noon to 3 pm EST slot, as a guy who used …

Sad news for any radio fans with the passing of Alistair Cooke at 95 - just a month after announcing his retirement. Every week since 1946 he gave a 15 minutes essay on life and politics in the USA on BBC radio called Letter from America. He was also the host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre for years …

Odd things noted:  •  More of you good readers looked at the movie of my feet leaving the Sarah Harmer concert than looked at the clips of the concert itself.  •  Sometimes I wake up and not sure whether I posted rude comments on the blogs of others the evening before or whether I dreamed I did …

I have admitted that I watch TV. TV is good. If it were not for TV, as Sean Cullen has said, we would all be sitting around with the radio on shouting "WHERE ARE THOSE VOICES COMING FROM!!!"  •  Anyway, last night was not a night of trash TV - which I reserve for Monday nights. I actually learned …

All melting all the time! Don't things look much warmer in Farenheit?  •  Seeing as it is within view, I find the weather forcasts from the next TV south at WWTI Watertown is more reliable for this corner of the lake compared to Ottawa or Toronto generated CBC radio weather. Kind of like the Bar …