Meghan Warby, who blogs at 2nd Floor Living Without a Yard and who works for PR firm Hill and Knowlton, invited some Toronto bloggers to the Air Canada Centre last Thursday to take part in Brew 2.0. It was an event hosted by Molson where they would showcase their beers and introduce a new brew [...]
Author Archives: Joey deVilla
Happy Canada Day!
July 1, 2008 – 1:38 pm
I’m out and about, enjoying our national holiday and indulging in all sorts of Canadian stuff, so today’s blog entries will appear later this evening. In the meantime, please enjoy these musical tributes to Canada, my home country since 1975:
Ren and Stimpy: The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen Theme
South Park: Blame Canada
Robin Williams’ Version of Blame [...]
RubyFringe Guide: Boozin’ in Accordion City
June 30, 2008 – 11:59 pm
Welcome to the third installment in Joey’s Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto, a series of offbeat articles to acquaint attendees of the upcoming RubyFringe conference with Accordion City.
There’ve been two articles in the series so far:
Where Did All the Cigarettes Go?
Getting from the Airport to the Hotel
In this article, I’ll cover the social lubricant [...]
A Failed Attempt at Escalator Spinning
June 28, 2008 – 12:35 am
Inspired by the “Escalator Spinning” video (which I showed in this entry), some guy decided to give it a try, with less-than-spectacular results…
[My thanks to Chad Nolan for the heads-up!]
Technological Mishap of the Day
June 26, 2008 – 11:04 am
So far, two things that my friend Miss Fipi Lele sent me this morning have made me laugh out loud. The first is the video showing what happens when you smash a can of WD-40. The second is this set of “before and after” photos:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
These look staged, but this remote [...]
RubyFringe Guide: Getting from the Airport to the Hotel
June 25, 2008 – 11:30 pm
In preparation for people coming to Accordion City to attend the RubyFringe conference (as well as those of you who are coming here this summer for other reasons), I’m writing Joey’s Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto, a series of articles with useful tips for visiting our fair city.
So far, I’ve published one article: Where Did [...]
Escalator Spinning
June 25, 2008 – 7:28 pm
With the rising cost of oil putting a damper on travel plans, more people are spending their holidays at home on “staycations” and finding local fun. For starters, you don’t have to go to Vegas for Cirque du Soleil-style acrobatics: all you need is the escalator at the nearby mall:
* I am not responsible for [...]
“He Said It First”
June 25, 2008 – 4:00 pm
The comedy troupe Public Service Administration have put together a high-larious video that pokes fun at John McCain’s outburst in which he flipped out and used the “c-word” on Wife 2.0 in 1992.
John’s outburst — “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***!” was in response to Cindy’s remark about [...]
Celebrity Gossip is Nothing New
June 24, 2008 – 2:41 pm
Here’s an old magazine from the late 1960s featuring some hot stars of the time:
Leonard Nimoy on “religion and dirty movies”,
Barbara Bain and Martin Landau, back when they were still married,
William Shatner and his “month-at-a-time” marriage,
Frank Sinatra (aren’t you wondering why Ol’ Blue Eyes needed to find the youth pill?) and Mia Farrow (then “Mia [...]
