Tie Domi’s ex-girlfriend (from cover of Maclean’s) and ex-boss:
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| Belinda Stronach | John Ferguson, Jr. |
Even More Separated at Birth
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Lots of article changes
I changed my blog over to the new blogger format today. Visually, there isn’t much difference, but it makes it very easy to change the layout and stuff. One new thing is the addition of “labels”, which you can assign to each article. Down the side of the blog, there’s a list of all the labels, and you can see all the articles with that label. So if you want to see all the lacrosse articles, you can click on Lacrosse. Kinda handy, so this morning I went back and tagged a whole bunch of older articles. I didn’t do all of them (I’ve posted almost 200 articles to this blog since I started it a year and a half ago!), but quite a few. If you have an RSS subscription to this blog, you might notice a whole bunch of new articles – that’s why.
Do you KNOW what your kids are watching?
There’s a kids show called Go, Diego, Go! — a spin-off of Dora the Explorer. It occurred to me the other day that if you add a space and some punctuation, you could rename the show “Go Die! Go! Go!”
Does Jerry Falwell know about this?
URL changed
OK, the URL for this blog is now officially http://cutthechatter.blogspot.com/. I’ve created a new blog over at the old address, and I changed the feedburner.com feed. Turns out that the LiveJournal syndication user was using the feedburner feed anyway, so I didn’t have to do anything with that. The only other thing I’ve done is edit some old postings on this blog that contained links to other postings — I updated the URLs in the links.
If you notice anything weird, please let me know!
A magical visitor
The tooth fairy will hopefully be making her first visit to our house tonight!
Ryan lost his first tooth this morning. He told us a couple of weeks ago that
his two front bottom teeth were loose, and he’s been wiggling them ever since.
This morning while brushing his teeth, one of them came out. The other one is
really loose as well, so it probably won’t be long before it comes out as
well.
Ryan was very excited by this event, and while Nicholas was excited for Ryan,
he was quite upset when we told him that he probably won’t lose any for
another two or three years. In his words, “Why does Ryyyyyyyyan’s tooth fall
out and not meeeeeeeeeeeee?”
When Gail was a kid, only one of her teeth fell out by itself. The rest all had to be extracted, and to this day, Gail is not a big fan of dentists. When Ryan told us his teeth were loose, she was as excited as he was, and she was positively thrilled this morning when it fell out. She’s very glad (as we all are!) that he won’t have to go through the same dental nightmares that Gail did.
Saturday night update: Ryan’s second tooth fell out today! We forgot (!) to put the first tooth under his pillow last night, so he’s got two teeth under his pillow tonight!
Change to blog URL
I’ve decided to change my blog’s URL from graemeperrow.blogspot.com to cutthechatter.blogspot.com. I’ve never liked the original URL (boooooring), I just created it because I couldn’t think of anything more clever. “Cut the Chatter” wasn’t even the original name of the blog, but I like that name, so I’m going to change the URL. Bonus points for you if you know where the phrase “Cut the Chatter, Red Two” comes from.
If you’re using the feedburner RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/CutTheChatter), I’ll change that as well, so hopefully you won’t see any difference. If you are using the regular RSS feed, that will vanish, so you should switch over to using the feedburner one. There’s a LiveJournal feed as well, but I’m not sure how to change it — hopefully that’s not too difficult. I’ll probably create a new blog on the old address that just contains a link to the new address.
I’ll probably do this tomorrow, or sometime on the weekend; I’m just my readership giving some advance notice now. Hopefully I don’t lose too many readers by doing this, but if you’ve been looking for an excuse to stop reading this blog, here’s your chance!
How Are We Going to Get These Dogs Back In?
McSweenys is a site that contains hilarious lists of stuff. Things like:
- Actual and Made-up Adages Used to Promote the Consumption of Pork
- Possible Names for a Supergroup Consisting Solely of Jack Black and Jack White
- Other Names Sting Could Go by, as Suggested by My Thesaurus
- Hit Songs of the 1970s and ’80s If the South Had Won the Civil War
- Smart Sequels and Spinoffs That Failed With the 18-to-34-Year-Old Demographic
- Upcoming Jean-Claude Van Damme Film Titles That Show a Lack of Imagination on the Part of the Director and Screenwriters
- Obscenities Uttered by Jesus Christ
My favourite: Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders. “(Won’t You Give Me A Ride Home From) Funkytown” is the best.
Man of the House?
The doorbell rang last night just before dinner. Our visitor was a teenage kid, trying to get me to subscribe to the Toronto Sun. I said no (more on that below) and he left, but I just had to laugh at the first thing he asked me: “Are you the man of the house?” I said yes, but thinking back, I’m not quite sure what he meant. Did he perhaps think that I lived with my parents, and he should be talking to them? Maybe he was standing at such an angle that he couldn’t see the gray in my hair. In reality, I should have just said “I don’t know — hold on, let me ask my wife.”
About a year ago, I did get the Sunday Sun for a few months, thanks to a similar offer — something like $12 for 20 weeks. It’s such crap. The sports section is good, but I don’t like the way the paper reports the actual news. I currently get the Hamilton Spectator every day, and one of the things I enjoy reading is the letters to the editor section (I’ve even had a letter published). With the Sun, each letter has an editor’s comment after it, and they’re usually snarky unless you agree with them; this just seems childish to me.
The thing that bugs me the most is that the paper is so anti-Liberal, it’s not even funny. Shortly before the last election, they ran a front-page headline that read something like “100 Reasons Not To Vote Liberal”. It’s not that I’m pro-Liberal so I disagree with their position (I have no particular political leanings at all, actually), but what bothers me is the fact that the paper has a position. When I read the news, I want just the news. It want it presented to me in an honest unbiased way, so that I can read the facts and make up my own mind. Maybe that’s naïve, but when reading the Sun, I have no confidence that what I’m reading doesn’t have their own little (or not-so-little) spin on it. How do I know that some facts that might present the Liberals in a positive light aren’t missing, or distorted, or spun somehow to make it look more negative?
There’s also the fact that it’s a Toronto paper, and the Toronto papers all hate Hamilton. I’ll stick with the Spec, thanks.
On the radio again
On my drive home, I phoned into the FAN 590 during Bob McCown’s show. He was talking about an incident during a football game the other day where one of the players got his helmet knocked off and once the play was over, one of the opposing players walking off the field stepped on his head. The player has been suspended 5 games by the NFL for this moronic, blatant attempt to injure. I called in and told Bob about a similar play in a lacrosse game I saw a couple of years ago — Rock vs. Bandits. John Tavares hit Patrick Merrill and knocked him down (perfectly legal hit), but then after the play ended, he stepped on Merrill’s back on his way back to the bench. JT was given a 2-minute unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, but no other punishment. It was different though, JT didn’t intend to hurt Merrill, just humiliate him a little. It was certainly unsportsmanlike, but not as bad as the football play.
It wasn’t the first time I’ve seen JT do some dirty stuff either. He’s an amazing player — one of the best ever, no question — but in addition to this incident, I remember another nasty play in Toronto. JT had the ball when the whistle was blown, with the ref signalling a Buffalo penalty. He waited a couple of seconds and then fired a blistering shot directly at the goalie. It hit him square in the chest protector, but the shot was way after the whistle. Pissed me off, and I’m sure the Rock players weren’t too happy about it, but no penalty to JT.
This was my second time on the radio; I called in to the same show about a year and a half ago and blogged about it. I was just a young blogger then — it was only about my 6th blog enrty.
Run for the Cure
We participated in our third Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Run for the Cure in Burlington this morning. We walked the full 5 km — well, just like last year, Gail and I walked the full 5 km, while the boys rode in the wagon most of the way. We did make them walk some of the way; Ryan walked about 1½ km, while Nicholas split his kilometre between walking (and whining about the fact that he had to walk) and being carried on Gail’s back. Maybe next year we’ll get them to actually walk — as I told Ryan, it ain’t the “Ride in the Wagon for the Cure”.
We raised $400 ourselves, which beat our total from last year (I think we had $350 last year). I’m pretty sure you can still make donations after the event, so if you want to sponsor us, please click here. Great reasons for doing this are twofold: not only will you be helping out a great cause, but you also get to see a nice (two-year-old) picture of my family, taken at the Whispering Canyon Café restaurant at Disney World’s Wilderness Lodge Resort. Thanks for your support!
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