Your reaction to the announcement that Live 8 is playing TORONTO, not OTTAWA, on July 2nd may have been the same as mine. Oh sure, once again, Toronto gets everything. But then I thought about it for a minute. And, as difficult as this is for me, I have put my ‘Toronto-gets-everything’ angst aside for this. The Live 8 concert needs to be in Canada. Somewhere in Canada. May as well hold it in a city that knows how to handle 150,000 people. The message is too important, and if you want specifics, check the makepovertyhistory.ca website. We need to make a big splash to send a message about finally doing something for the impoverished people in the world.
And now onto something frivolous. Its mosquito season. Stopped in at my favourite Giant Tiger store the other day and saw the funniest weapon yet in the war against mosquitoes. Its a hand held mosquito zapper that takes batteries and is shaped exactly like a tennis racquet. You simply sit out on your deck and swing away at the bugs, and the mesh of the racquet takes their lights right out. It looks like you’re playing a game of solo tennis when in fact you’re ridding your environment of mosquitoes. I suspect in the hands of Venus or Serena Williams, this thing is deadly.
Do you have your plan of attack yet for Bruce Springsteen tickets? 10 o’clock Monday, here we go again. This time there are two websites you can buy tickets from, www.capitaltickets.ca (a personal disaster for me), or you can try your luck at the House of Blues website, www.hob.ca. Then of course there’s always the option of standing in line at the Cataraqui Town Centre Sports Experts in Kingston.
This Monday on the morning show, we will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the movie ‘Jaws’. Courtesy of the good folks at CD Warehouse, we have tons of copies of the new Jaws Anniversary dvd to give away. Time to bone up on your Jaws trivia! Seems fitting that we’re having a ‘Jaws’ themed show on the day Bruce Springsteen tickets go on sale, because the shark in the movie was named Bruce. Bit of a stretch, I know. Good luck on Monday!!!
