“For a chance to win a free mobile phone, please complete a free survey based on your most recent call to [my phone company]. Reply Yes.” Yes “What was the main reason for your call? Reply using 1 to 6 (1= Contract, 2= Phone, 3= Plan, 4= Billing, 5= Cancel, 6= Other)” 1 “Rate the […]

It’s now been two weeks since I signed up for this year’s AIDS Walk for Life, and after a slow start, I’m grateful to be able to tell you that we’re well underway! At the time of this writing, according to my sponsorship page, people like you have generously donated a total of $145.00, which is 14% of my […]

I’m currently reading a book called Under Pressure, and as much as I wish it was the definitive volume on the vast differences between that one song by Vanilla Ice and that other song by Queen, it’s actually a terrific book on parenting by Carl Honoré, the bestselling author of In Praise of Slow. It’s […]

Today’s the day I’ll find out whether my iPhone is gone forever. I misplaced it on Saturday night, most likely on the all-night bus, and since the TTC Lost Articles Office was closed for the long weekend, they won’t get a new batch of unclaimed items until today. When I call them this afternoon, they’ll […]

If I’m going to develop and stick to a daily posting habit, then I’m going to need all the help I can get – and I think I may have found it in the form of an editorial calendar. As the folks at Copyblogger once explained, an editorial calendar is “just a fancy term for […]

On the subway down to Stella for tonight’s show, I was sitting across from three people who I can only assume were tourists. Not because everyone who lives here has left town for the long weekend, and not because this is one of our biggest tourism weekends of the year, but because of what happened […]

If you’re in town for the long weekend, then I’d like you to drop by Stella on Bloor West tomorrow night, where I’ll be spinning my first set in months, if not years, for Babylon Telecom. Select bookings at Stella are currently managed by Ron Blake, who’s a regular at Everyone’s a DJ under various […]

It’s been a week since I signed up for this year’s AIDS Walk for Life, and that means it’s time for an update. Unfortunately, this early on, there’s nothing new to report; the fundraising total on my sponsorship page currently stands at zero. Now, that’s not me being passive aggressive! That’s just me calling on […]

After phoning it in on Friday, and promising I’d make up for it on Saturday, I ended up ignoring my blog all weekend. In the process, I broke my daily posting habit in the making, and not for the first time. Ah, well. Nothing to do but start again and give it another shot. That’s […]

Sometimes, keeping a pledge to blog daily means logging in late on a Friday night to post a quick check-in, even though it’s the end of a long week and you’ve got basically nothing to say. I do keep a list of post topics on file, for occasions just like this. You’ve got to, if […]