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OK know this about me, I am NOT a violent guy!

I have the belief that if I don’t go looking for trouble, it will in turn never have the opportunity to find me.

Of course, standing 6’5 helps when the bar is closing and a guy sees two of me.

I also don’t mind a ‘noisy’ party or two in the neighbourhood because I was young once too.

So with that said, know that I must have been really pushed to do what I did during the early morning hours of this past Sunday.

It was after 4, closer to 5 and since I’m used to getting up at 3am during the week I found myself awake checking the scores on Sportsnet, when I thought I heard voices.

I turned down the TV and sure enough, I did hear voices. I thought one of my daughters was up but it turns out it was coming from the house across the street.

Despite the early hour, there was still some energy in these 20-somethings because it came out as sound during the walk from the front door to the cab, and loud enough for me to hear it in the living room with the TV on.

My dogs heard it to and started whining which would surely wake the family up, so I stood in the front door where they could see me hoping the hint would shut them up.

They finally got into their cabs, drove off, and silence once again filled the early morning air.

Went back to the living room when I heard something that sounded like ‘WHOOOOOHOOOO!!!!’

Now I’m mad!

I go the front door and see this young couple on the front yard of the house across the street, HE obviously not man enough to handle his booze, SHE trying her best carry his sorry ass out of the house.

The were walking in the middle of the road outside my house when he decided to give another victory yell.

That did it!

I opened the door as he decided raise his voice only this time that was followed by me raising MY voice, ‘Why don’t you shut up!?’…..of course for the purpose of the blog I had to clean it up a little.

It got their attention, as both hurried on their way to sleep it off.

I stood on the front porch watching them stagger away, and feeling quite proud of myself.

I’m the man of the house, and I just single handedly made the neighbourhood a better place to live, it was MY moment….which would’ve been a little more ‘manly’ if I wasn’t standing outside in a pair of Super Friends pyjama pants.

All the pictures of Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern on my legs weren’t enough to make me look cool at that second!

But at least it was quiet!

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Did you catch the Leafs game last Saturday?

Kind of sucked that they lost to Pittsburgh in a shootout but there was another thing that kind of bothered me.

When is it proper to have your national anthem performed by harmonica?

Now I’m not ‘dissing’ the mouth harp, but it has it’s place, and that place is Blues clubs, Country bars, kick butt rock shows, and as a way to pass time when stuck in jail.

The American anthem was performed that way Saturday night at the ACC and I thought it was terrible, not the player but just having to sit through The Star Spangled Banner with all that spit flying!

Just didn’t seem right!

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Proving once again you can’t lose on American Idol, Chris Medina appeared on The Tonight Show last Friday just a few hours after being told by the AI judges to go home, check it out;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc1xDq_r0CM

Who remembers their first celebrity crush?

We were talking this morning about Brad Paisley’s 4 year old son who is smitten with one Carrie Underwood, picking her flowers and showing off in front of her.

This made me think back to when I was a little Billy Hart and which famous faces had me swoon like only a little boy could!

Let’s start with all 3 of Charlie’s Angels, I had a ‘dinky car’ collection that included a Charlie’s Angels van and when I was tearing up the front lawn to make way for a new road, Kelly, Sabrina, and Jill were back there with me. Nothing happened, heck I was only 7!

Of course, the Angels had to share my admiration with Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter)!

During the 80′s with my hormones in overdrive, my attention turned to Daisy Duke from the Dukes of Hazzard! My buddy Lee Beazley and I used to argue about who was actually Catherine Bach’s boyfriend and then we’d ride our bikes to the store to buy hockey cards.

Her competition turned out to be a fish, well actually a mermaid (no, not Ariel!)

Although, it was a Disney movie I went to see on that fateful night!

I actually couldn’t sleep after seeing Daryl Hannah in the movie Splash! THIS was my first REAL crush as I seem to recall I named my pillow ‘Daryl’ which was disturbing to the family because ‘Daryl’ was my cousin’s name, and HE was no beautiful blonde mermaid!

Thank God for Google and Youtube because I can see those former future Mrs Harts anytime I want!

Don’t laugh, I’m sure you had weird crushes when you were a kid!

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If you have young kids in your house, I guess I don’t have to tell you who Phineas and Ferb are, right?

Even I love these guys, and Disney has them doing the talk show thing now and guess who was a guest on their show recently?

Check it out;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVwkIl97OZY&playnext=1&list=PL1429702DF05B4534

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You can put Hogtown back in the pen. Return T.O. to your alphabet soup. Store the T-Dot wherever it is you keep your Hammer pants. Toronto has a new nickname.

It’s true, and the following celebs has a say in what the ‘Big Smoke’ shall now be known as;
Russell Peters: The Toronto-born comic was the first comedian to sell out the Air Canada Centre
Emily Haines: Lead singer of Metric
John Tory: CFRB radio host, head of CivicAction and the mayor we never had
Matt Galloway: Host of CBC Radio’s Metro Morning
Jen McNeely: Editor and founder of city blog She Does the City
Michael Cooke: Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper
Evan Solomon: CBC TV host, novelist and co-founder of Shift magazine
Vito Piazza: Partner and Toronto managing director of branding agency Sid Lee
Amir Johnson: Toronto Raptors power forward

After 500-plus public submissions, and two rounds of elimination, our judges have delivered their verdict…

El Toro!

Huh?!?! El Toro!?!

They chose this over the other ‘contenders’ like T-Bone, T-Town, and The Big Maple!?! Heck, I’ll take ‘The Fort City’ over El Toro!

Sorry guys, there’s NO way I’ll calling my buddies to take a drive to ‘El Toro’ to see the Blue Jays!

I’ll stick with ‘T.O.’ thank you!

Wow, I am so NOT ready to have teenagers living in my house!

Last night while driving my daughter home from dance class, our conversation turned to her getting married someday!

Now she’s only 9 years old so I expected a light hearted back and forth about what colour balloons would be used and which McDonald’s would cater it!

Instead, I got a stern lecture how she’s NOT changing her name! ‘Hart’ is easy to spell, and she likes putting a little heart shaped doodle after her signature. I put her mind at ease when I told her that she can keep her name and hyphenate it with her husband’s, but she still wasn’t totally happy with that.

Fast forward to this morning when Jennifer and I brought this up and I was told that she knows two guys who took the bold step to take their wife’s name!

Can they do that?

Yes they can, upon further investigation guys aren’t only taking their wife’s name nowadays but they are also being asked to be bridesmaids at weddings!!!

Well, of course they’re not called ‘bridesmaids’, ‘bridesman’ I think!

Heck if Carrie Underwood can fit her dog with a tux for her wedding, why not have a guy stand with a bride’s wedding party!

Of course, this opens the door for a guy to add the stripper that performed at his bachelor party to his wedding party…..ok maybe not!

Bottom line is, all these thoughts are racing in my head now after my daughter revealed what’s going on in her head and her moment (hopefully) is around 14 years away!

This is why you always see me at the Beer Store!

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Big fan of Trace Adkins and have yet to see this video for his latest single ‘Brown Chicken Brown Cow’, here it is….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzQ4qdlhurc

Damn, that’s funny!

It turns out the title is play on words from a 70′s adult film guitar riff, ‘Bow chicka bow wow!’

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Why today is not deemed a holiday here and south of the border, I have no idea!

It was on this date in 1992 that the Saturday Night Live inspired movie ‘Wayne’s World’ opened in theatres!

It made ‘Party on’, ‘Schwing’, and We’re not worthy’ a permanent part of the vocabulary of every teen and twentysomething in the early 90′s and I’m proud to say I just used ‘schwing’ in a Facebook post last week!

Can’t believe it’s been 20 years, so let’s now pay homage to Ontario’s Mike Myers and…. somewhere in America’s Dana Carvey aka Wayne and Garth who have NOT missed a step in 2011….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwDARPvwxrE

Imagine for a moment, you got a loan.

Imagine further that due to unforeseen circumstances, you couldn’t make your payment for a few months.

They charge you INSANE interest!

You take them to court and win, and they are fined and have to pay you back the interest you paid.

And they respond by increasing your monthly payments to cover their court costs and fines.

Stupid huh?

The Ontario Energy Board says utilities can raise rates to cover 18 million dollars in fines and court costs they had to pay after the courts ruled they were charging too high an interest rate on late payments.The energy board is also expected to rule shortly on a request from Ontario Power Generation for a 6.2 per cent increase in electricity rates effective March 1st.

Thanks Dalton!

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Man, I hate it when sports teams mess with their jerseys, they rarely turn out better than the original.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are going with these boring uniforms next year;

Wow, somebody got paid to design these. They’re so…plain! My Pee Wee had a better jersey!

Kudos to Buffalo and Edmonton for going back to their originals this year but come on, the Junior ranks have better logos and colours than any NHL team!

Sucks to be a Lightning fan!

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OK, with all due respect to Dudley Moore there’s an Arthur remake coming out in the Spring starring Russell Brand and it looks FUNNY!

Check out the trailer;

http://arthurthemovie.warnerbros.com/

OK Quebec, I want to like you. I want to like you alot!

Your passion for hockey, your love for winter, your love for holding on to some of your province’s history.

But you’re making it really hard when you do things like this!

Montreal’s Arcade Fire, fresh from their Grammy win for Album of the Year, may not be allowed to perform during Quebec’s biggest celebration!

Luc Savard, a spokesman for the Fete Nationale said this week that the June 24 festivities remain a strictly English-free zone, and the only way the anglo Arcade Fire could take the stage would be if they sang in French.

Are you kidding me?!?!?

In 2009, organizers of an alternative Fete Nationale show were threatened by language extremists after announcing that two relatively obscure anglo acts would be part of the lineup. About 20 demonstrators turned up and tried unsuccessfully to disrupt the performances by blowing on a horn, beating a drum and yelling, “En francais.” The same year, organizers of a Fete Nationale talent show in the Montreal suburb of Laval turned away a trio of girls who had prepared two English-language pop songs to sing.

Quebec, I’ve had it with your anti-English stand, and I hope Arcade Fire packs up and moves to a place where they would be appreciated and treated like human beings!

You should really be ashamed of yourself.

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On a lighter note!

Who would’ve thought that a trip to the gas station would bring a guy like me so much joy? 

No, I didn’t win any money. 

No, I didn’t meet Darryl Sittler. 

Heck, I didn’t even slam the car door on my dangling seat belt buckle (hate it when that happens!) 

Instead, I went to get some air in one of my tires which was a little low and since air is no longer free, I decided to get some gas too to get change. I drove to Downtown Auto Center knowing that I would have to pay more since you have a guy pumping it for you (yeah, really)! I really had no choice, my tire really needed air! 

I pulled up and was greeting with a friendly ‘Good morning’. I only had $10 on me so I asked for $9, and change for the air pump. 

Much to my surprise, I was told air was free! Score! Then 10 bucks of gas it is! 

Not only that, I was really shocked to see this place still has a little faith in human nature and offers a gas can in exchange for a deposit if you need it. 

Last summer, I ran out of gas on Ottawa Street and went to THREE gas station who have discarded the idea and instead, opting to selling you one if you’re stuck. 

In a world where we are paying for water, and air, it’s so refreshing to see that some of ‘how it used to be’ is still here today! 

Thank you!

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You have to read this to believe it! 

A Mexican teenager is staging a hunger strike outside the British Embassy in Mexico City in a bid to secure an invitation to the wedding of Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton. Estibalis Chavez, 19, said she had not eaten for the past eight days and was living on just water as she camps in a blue tent near the gates to the embassy.

“Are they going to let me die just because they wouldn’t give me an invitation to the royal wedding?” Chavez wrote on one of the flyers she has plastered near the entrance to the colonial-style building.

“This is my only dream,” read another flyer next to a picture of the smiling royal couple who will marry at London’s Westminster Abbey on April 29.

The embassy could not immediately be reached for comment.

Chavez, wearing braces, pigtails and glasses, said Thursday the late Princess Diana, Prince William’s mother, had inspired her campaign.

“My mother was a big fan of Lady Di too and she died when I was born, so I promised myself I would attend her son’s wedding,” added Chavez, who has also taken her cause to the Facebook social networking site.

“The embassy could talk to Britain for me but they haven’t,” she said. “But I’m going to stay here until I can’t go on.”

For the love of God, am I the only one who believes she needs a doctor?

Get her off the street and stuff a sandwich in her face NOW!

Happy We Day!

I have to tell you, it’s really hard not to get caught up in the excitement of all this, a day where folks like Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Al Gore provide a little inspiration to our community’s youth and they leave with a belief that they CAN do something to make this world a better place.

Let’s be honest, with a good chunk of today’s headlines devoted to the wrong that our young people do, isn’t it great to see your TV’s and radios and Blackberries humming with scenes of singing, yelling, and a level of positive energy not shown in a video of an 17 year old teen being pulled over for driving too fast?

A couple of weeks ago, I was MC’ing an event at a local bar. The crowd was mostly college kids out for a good time, yes there was drinking, there was alot of ‘hey baby what’s your name?’, and alot of what you would expect from young men and women who mostly don’t have a power bill with their name on it at home.

Painted quite a picture here huh?

Among all this ‘debauchery’, I found a guy who was dancing, letting loose and having fun. This wild man is the kind of guy we should get on stage and give him a chance to win something.

He never did make it on the stage, couldn’t find him after.

This guy who many would label ‘irresponsible’, or ‘everything that’s wrong in today’s world’, left and with good reason!

He just got back from Haiti where he and his church group spent the week building houses.

Happy We Day!

http://weday.freethechildren.com/

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I was checking out the list of movies coming out this year because I have two daughters who love to go since their Dad has already pre-approved the financing needed to buy snacks!

Thought I scored a movie that was right up their already, ‘Red Riding Hood’.

Check out the trailer;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awZMW9kIoZg

Whoa!!! I don’t remember that much sex and violence when Mom read that story to me as a child! She was holding out!

When you think of it, I guess all of our favourite fairy tales reeked of horror.

I mean a wolf eats her grandmother, a witch with a candy house eats children, Snow White’s stepmother asks for her heart in a box!

We’re all homicidal maniacs! Thanks Mom! 

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I stand before you as a rock and roll fan of the 80′s who never had anything great to say about Country Music but admit to you now, that I LOVED the song ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’!

Now he’s calling it quits.

Glen Campbell, one of the most successful pop-country crossover acts of the ’60s and ’70s, is reportedly ready to tip his hat and bid fans farewell this summer. The singer, whose classic hits include ‘Gentle on My Mind,’ ‘Wichita Lineman’ and ‘Rhinestone Cowboy,’ is putting the finishing touches on his final studio album, titled ‘Ghost on the Canvas,’ according to Billboard Country Update. The project is slated for summer release, and Glen will perform a farewell tour in support of the new disc.

According to the album’s producer, Julian Raymond, Glen’s tour plans include arriving in towns early to conduct interviews and participate in other promotions before playing small halls or theaters in those selected cities. “He won’t go too hard,” Raymond tells Billboard. “But it will be strategic and a different way to get him out there than the night-after-night grind.”