In Tuesday night’s Ninth season premiere, the ten teams take off from the starting line in Winnipeg, Man. First stop is Calgary and on and on across Canada. But why is the episode titled, “I Hate Pancakes?” Who hates pancakes?? It was still a bit wintery last April/May when the race was run. There’s snow
When we left off this TV purchasing epic, all the pieces were in place. I had my TV – a 65-inch Samsung which came in an even larger box, and a ready-to-assemble TV stand to accommodate said TV. Now all I needed was someone to help me put it all together. Who ya gonna call,
And so, the decision has been made. I have purchased a new TV. I surrendered to the siren song of modern technology, and the incessant ‘buy a new TV’ chant from my sons. And I went all-in with a 65-inch screen. OK, technically that’s not ALL in; I could have gone much, much larger. But
I’ve recently come into a bit of money via inheritance. Not ‘villa in the south of France’ money. More like ‘I can buy myself something nice’ money. As an old man, I find that there’s not really a lot of stuff I need or want to buy. If anything, I’m at the stage of life
It looked like I was going to be able to just comb over the latest Donald Trump dealio until Scott Thompson brought it up on this week’s CHML AM900 radio chat. The real estate tycoon knows how to steal a slow news cycle with his hilarious summer run for the White House. That some polls put
Did you know that Samsung has been the No. 1 manufacturer of TV’s sold worldwide for nine consecutive years? That’s just one of the things I learned after an overnight test drive of the new Samsung curved, 4K UHD TV. The test occurred two weekends ago at a swanky, Hollywood-style pad tucked into the tony Toronto neighbourhood
Summer is the fastest season, A few days have already whizzed by before I could get this link up to this story I wrote on Summer Television for The Canadian Press. Things slowed right down, however, for Sunday’s Season Two premiere of True Detective (HBO, HBO Canada). I watched most of the first hour on an 88-inch,