This is my very first blog EVER!!!
So a little HEY to all you Q 92 listeners - I’m Jess!! The new girl on the air waves! I’ve been at Q just over a month now, and I’m having a blast!!

My first blog has to be about my favourite fall, winter, and spring activity - watching NHL hockey!!!

As you might know, I’m a big Sens fan! And I was actually just at the Leafs vs Sens game on Tuesday. Now while I don’t want to talk about the outcome of that game - I did have an awesome time! It was my 6th time watching the Sens at Scotiabank place, and our seats were intense…. 2nd row up from the ice on the goal line!! I was trying not to cheer too loud, as I do work in radio and need my voice, but I couldn’t help it! It was a physical game; my mom was worried the glass was going to fall on us every time Carkner or Orr banged up against it…. silly Mom!

Is anyone else pumped for playoffs to start? Who are you cheering for? Right now it’s shaping up to be a pretty good first round, can’t wait to see how it all goes down!

And don’t forget to vote for Timmins for Kraft Hockeyville!!! Commmmon
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/hockeyville/community/1554/en/

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I don’t know why but the only word I’ve ever been able to do with an Irish accent is the word Irish. Sounds like oy-rish. Happy St. Patty’s Day! In honour of the day I’ve made my blog green…HOW FESTIVE! It sucks St. Patrick’s Day is on a freaking weeknight….but hey, what can you do? I know Micky J’s will be having a St. Paddy’s day celebration on Friday. So if you want to indulge but can’t due to the crappy week placement of the day…you’ll have a chance Friday! I’ll be going to Micky J’s tonight if you want come out and say hi! It’s got Guiness on tap, and if there’s any day to have a pint of Guiness…it’s today.Here’s a few weird St. Patrick’s Day facts for you. I never knew this…but St. Patrick isn’t Irish! He was British, he just brought christianity to Ireland. And his colour was blue…not green. In fact, the Irish of St. Patrick’s time thought the colour green was BAD luck. If children wore too much green, they believed faeries would abduct them! So I’m not too sure how green became the official colour of St. Patrick’s Day and the Irish…must have happened much like a half century long telephone game.

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If you’ve been in your basement for the last week or so, allow me to bring you into the present. IT’S FREAKING SPRING IN TIMMINS. A little earlier than usual, but hey, you won’t hear me complaining! I know some people are pretty bummed about the snowmobile trails being shut down after only being open for 7 weeks….but believe me this is a FREAK occurance. You only have to deal with it this year. This is the 2nd mildest winter in the history of our fair city, so if you’re depressed about winter being done so soon, you only have to deal with it this year. As for the rest of us…WAHHOOOO! Dust off the golf clubs and fire up the BBQ’s!

Join me and my new co-host Jess at the Kamiscotia Snow Resort next sunday if you want the best of both worlds! You’re already on our website, so just nip over to the contests section and find where to enter for Q92 Rocks the Mountain. If ya win you’ll get a 1 hour snowboarding lesson with Jess and myself, as well as your rentals and lift ticket all covered and good to go! Oh and you get to bring a guest to come hang out with us! I’m looking forward to it! I’ve never snowboarded before, and it’s so mild that we can learn to in t-shirts if you wanted. (Kamiscotia can make their own snow incase you’re wondering how we’re going to rock a bare mountain). Enter to win! We’ll have fun!

Finally I’ll leave you with this. I finally got around to organizing my pictures from Britian and I thought you might like this one. I couldn’t be in London and not go walk across Abby Road!! Now you’ll notice my one buddy has bare feet like McCartney did in the orginal picture…and I realize that Paul was 2nd last and not last on the walk across… but we didn’t have the album in front of us so we guessed a best we could! I’m still happy I got to be Lennon. Had a lot of fun in that whacky country! There’s a wall of graffiti outside Abby Road Studios that has tonnes of Beatles lyrics written all over it. I wrote “I got blisters on me fingers, Love Canada” with a sharpy.

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You could be deaf, dumb, blind and have no arms for that matter… and you can be a pinball wizard!

German scientists have made a device that makes it so you can control the paddles in a pinball game with your MIND!

Check this out!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/03/the_opposite_of_wii_fit_mental.html

Has someone let Roger Daltrey try this thing out yet?

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Being a video gamer…hearing that it took a guy 2 years to beat the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time isn’t even close to impressive. Hearing that the man who did this is blind IS impressive however!!! Ocarina of Time is widely renowned as one of…if not THE best game ever made. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve played that game. To hear that a blind man did it is just awe inspiring! He had help of course. One of the man’s friends stayed by him for the last two years and guided him all the way through the game, Deku Tree to Ganon’s Castle. The 2010 Paralympics start next week, and it’s amazing to watch! You can’t help but be impressed! Since I’m a nerd, a blind man completing Ocarina of Time has the same effect on me! Anything is possible!
Adversity is in your mind my friend! Now if only I could find a way to get a beer out of my fridge without having to get up..

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Let me start off by saying we won our Olympics. We invited the world into our country and firmly kicked their ass…during the last week of the games. Yes, a bit of a rocky start, but we pulled it together in the end man! We set the record for most Gold Medals in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, and also most Gold Medals by a host country. So please join me in saying WE ROCK. Myself and a bunch of the people here at Q92 went out watch our final 2010 Olympic victory at Micky J’s. There was definitely a tumble-weed rolling through town once that game started…an arctic tumble-weed. What, they exist! Everyone was infront of a TV somewhere. One pitcher of beer turned into three (our nail biting victory didn’t help :P) And while watching the closing of the games I was washed over with a massive surge of national pride. I think we did okay in these games to say the least…both in competition and in putting them on. Even being in England for my vacation kind of filled me with national pride as well. I like how we do things here in Canada. I like how we as a people conduct ourselves. We are indeed a nation to envy. Oh Canada my friend!

On that note… here’s some winter safety tips from Rush’s Geddy Lee! Doesn’t get much more Canadian then that!

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Well I’m off for the next little bit. Spending the next week in Great Britain! Behind enemy lines for the Olympics…and don’t you worry they’ll know everytime Canada wins a gold medal! My Canadian pride shall border on obnoxious while I’m over there and I may come back with a few less teeth. Anyhoo I’ve always wanted to go to Britian, this is my dream vacation that I’d saved up for a long time and now it’s finally happening. So I’m excited to say the least! This clip from a British TV show called “Top Gear” is just one of the many reasons I love the British. A buddy showed me this clip off youtube a year or two ago and I’ve fallen in love with this show. ENJOY! See ya again on the 22nd! In the meantime Beef and Mike will be filling in mornings until I return. Enjoy the long weekend!

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…or at least mine anyways! THIS THING IS INTENSE! You can make the warmest most badass snowmobile with just a rear-wheel drive car and this Russian one hour conversion kit! It’s called the “Snow Foot Car” The system works like this: Take your rear wheel drive car and drive it up on to what’s basically a car trailer with balloon tires at the rear and a snow ski at the front. Lash the rear end to a support and take off the rear wheels and replace the rim with an offset chain sprocket. Run a chain around sprocket and to the rear wheel gears then lash strap the front wheels into a cradle that’s hooked up to the ski’s steering system. SIMPLE!

I have no idea where to find this conversion kit…but I almost want to learn Russian just so I can track this thing down!

If I find it I’ll let you know. In the meantime please enjoy a video of this thing in action set to the raddest porn music I’ve heard in a long while.

-Max

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Look at this picture and tell me if you see anything strange. This is a bank in Australia, and it is being interviewed about the nations interest rates and other boring business statistics bull &%$@. Anyhoo, you can see a man in the background of this “live on national television” camera shot…and it doesn’t look like bank statements on his computer screen. In fact it kind of looks like a near-naked Victoria’s Secret model named Miranda Kerr! Yaaaaaahhhh…the man in the foreground being interviewed? That’s half naked model looker’s boss. Oops. So now the bank is being made fun of by the entire nation of Australia and on top of that this picture has now gotten global attention. Just goes to show…if you’re going to surf your workplace’s internet for hardcore porn or even just half-naked model pictures…MAKE SURE THERE ISN’T A CAMERA BEING POINTED DIRECTLY AT YOUR SCREEN FEEDING TO NATIONAL TELEVISION! Just a word of advice.

-Max

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You can learn a lot from a great movie….but you can learn even more from a horrible train wreck of a movie. The Oscars are well and good, but if you really want to see a year represented in film, you have to look at it’s worst offerings. That is why the Razzies exist….they are the anti-Oscars. Below are the nominations for the worst in film making last year, but they didn’t stop there! They also released nominations for the worst of the last decade. Look at these movies. Where were you when you saw them…did you even stay for the whole thing? Are some of your favourite actors and actresses falling from grace? How much money did you spend on these pieces of $%@&. This definitely was a bad decade for ma man Mike Myers (except for his bit part in Inglorious Basterds of course)

I personally LIKE bad movies. I get in moods for them. I find them just as entertaining…sometimes even MORE entertaining than their blockbuster brothers and sisters. If you share my love of the awful…get some popcorn, get your significant other, and hole in for a night of the film industry’s scum of the Earth. The below nominees shall be your guide!

WORST PICTURE OF 2009
“All About Steve”
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”
“Land of the Lost”
“Old Dogs”"
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (a.k.a. “Trannies, Too”)

WORST ACTOR OF 2009
All Three Jonas Brothers, “Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience”
Will Ferrell, “Land of the Lost”
Steve Martin, “Pink Panther 2″
Eddie Murphy, “Imagine That”
John Travolta, “Old Dogs”

WORST ACTRESS Of 2009
Beyonce, “Obsessed”
Sandra Bullock, “All About Steve”
Myley Cyrus, “Hannah Montana: The Movie”
Megan Fox, “Jennifer’s Body” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
Sarah Jessica Parker, “Did You Hear About the Morgans?”

WORST SCREEN COUPLE OF 2009
Any Two (or More) Jonas Brothers, “The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience”
Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper, “All About Steve”
Will Ferrell and any co-star, Creature or “Comic Riff,” “Land of the Lost”
Shia Lebouf & Either Megan Fox or Any Transformer, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
Kristin Stewart and either Robert Pattinson or Taylor Whatz-His-Fang, “Twilight Saga: New Moon”

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF 2009
Candice Bergen, “Bride Wars”
Ali Larter, “Obsessed”
Sienna Miller, “G.I. Joe”
Kelly Preston,”Old Dogs”
Julie White (as Mom), “Trannies, Too”

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR OF 2009
Billy Ray Cyrus, “Hannah Montana: The Movie”
Hugh Hefner (as himself), “Miss March”
Robert Pattinson, “Twilight Saga: New Moon”
Jorma Taccone (as Cha-Ka), “Land of the Lost”
Marlon Wayans, “G.I. Joe”

WORST PICTURE OF THE DECADE
“Battlefield Earth” (2000)
“Freddy Got Fingered” (2001)
“Gigli” (2003)
“I Know Who Killed Me” (2007)
“Swept Away” (2002)

WORST ACTOR OF THE DECADE
Ben Affleck - “Daredevil,” “Gigli,” “Jersey Girl,” “Paycheck,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Surviving Christmas”
Eddie Murphy - “Adventures of Pluto Nash,” “I Spy,” “Imagine That,” “Meet Dave,” “Norbit,” “Showtime”
Mike Myers - “Cat in the Hat,” “The Love Guru”
Rob Schneider - “The Animal,” “Benchwarmers,” “Deuce Bigalo: European Gigolo,” “Grandma’s Boy,” “The Hot Chick,” “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry,” “Little Man,” “Little Nicky”
John Travolta - “Battlefield Earth,” “Domestic Disturbance,” “Lucky Numbers,” “Old Dogs,” “Swordfish”

WORST ACTRESS OF THE DECADE
Mariah Carey – “Glitter”
Paris Hilton - “The Hottie & The Nottie,” “House of Whacks,” “Repo: The Genetic Opera”
Lindsay Lohan - “Herbie Fully Loaded,” “I Know Who Killed Me,” “Just My Luck”
Jennifer Lopez - “Angel Eyes,” “Enough,” “Gigli,” “Jersey Girl,” “Maid in Manhattan,” “Monster-in-Law,” “The Wedding Planner”
Madonna - “Die Another Day,” “The Next Best Thing,” “Swept Away”

ENJOY!

-Max Major

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