Remember when you were a kid, (or a teenager), and every time you saw a tv commercial for K-Tel Records, you couldn’t wait to run to the record store and get it? I had quite a collection of K-Tel albums, but my favourite was ‘Believe in Music’, 22 original hits, 22 original stars. What they didn’t tell you is that they just gave you half of every song. On ‘Believe in Music’, there are such gems as ‘Go All the Way’ by the Raspberries, ‘Long Cool Woman’ by the Hollies, ‘Sylvia’s Mother’ by Dr Hook & the Medicine Show, and ‘Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves’ by Cher. And that was all on side one. If you have a K-Tel classic still kicking around, let us know! This Friday Sept 30th, on the ‘Morning After’, we’re kicking off Bob’s ‘K-Tel Weekend’! Original hits, original stars, like Maggie May by Rod Stewart. Only difference is, on the K-Tel album, Maggie May has been cut back to about 2 minutes long. We’ll play the ‘entire’ song! Should be fun. We’re also looking for other K-Tel or Ronco purchases you’ve made, maybe at 3 am while watching TV. Pocket Fisherman, anyone? Yes, I had one of those too.
The fall colors have started to appear, and a trip on the Wakefield Steam Train is a great way to see the gorgeous trees of the Gatineau Hills. Not to mention, the train drops you off in Wakefield so you can check out the shops and restaurants. But, a word of advice, someone you’re with should wear a watch because the train does leave without you if you miss the departure time because you’re eating beef stew in a Wakefield café.
You don’t need to be accurate, you just need to be aware if someone is nearby. If you have these two traits, why not come out and join us next Wednesday, Oct 5th, for the ‘Renegades Dart Showdown’ at the Lone Star Café, St Laurent Blvd. For just $125 for a team of 4, you get fabulous Lone Star food, plus tons of fun playing darts and the best part of all, most of the teams include an Ottawa Renegades player. Or, you can just come out for the food and fun and enjoy being a spectactor for $25. There will be prizes auctioned off, and all proceeds go to the Canadian Hearing Society. I will once again be on the team that finds new ways to lose each year, ‘The Screaming Hellfish’! For more information, contact the Canadian Hearing Society, www.chs.ca or call 521-0509! Hope to see you there!
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Feng Shui Beaver
Congratulations to everyone involved in the Chum – Byward Market Association Katrina Relief Auction! Thank you to those who bid on the 939 Bob FM website items, close to $8000 raised for the Red Cross to help our American friends. And now, to help our ‘4 legged’ American friends, a group of people from Ottawa organization B.A.R.K (Bytown Association of Rescued Canines) is headed to Louisiana to help out dogs displaced by hurricane Katrina. The plan is to bring back 25 homeless dogs, and they need help! Cash, crates, even vans and drivers to assist the rescue effort. If you can help, please go to BARK’s website, www.bark-ottawa.com.
I’m still so excited about JD Fortune coming out on top, and being named the new lead singer for INXS. JD’s real name? James Dean Bennison. With either name, the guy has rock star attitude and I think he’s going to be a great front-man. Everyone’s loving his single ‘Pretty Vegas’. Word is that when INXS tours in a few months, Ottawa is definitely on the map because we were so supportive from the beginning. Plus, JD loves Ottawa. He spent Canada Day here. We told him Ottawa’s always like that, year round.
There seems to be a new trend in hotels these days. It’s a combination of feng shui, minimalist décor, bamboo in vases, ocean breeze scent sprayed on your pillow at dusk, and incense in the lobby. That’s some of the stuff we had at the Toronto hotel we recently stayed in. But the clincher, was the elevator. In the elevator was a plasma tv, that showed ‘soothing’ scenes. On our first elevator ride, from the bottom floor to the 9th floor we were treated to a babbling brook. But for all other elevator rides for the rest of the weekend, up there on the plasma tv, was a beaver eating a branch. I guess it was soothing. If you’re Canadian.
Let the rivalry begin. It’s the season of the Sens versus the Leafs. Sure, we’ll play other teams, but really, its all about the Sens versus the Leafs. Leaf fans paint their faces more than Sens fans. But Senators hockey players are better than Maple Leaf players. Which, in the long run, is far more important.
I’m still so excited about JD Fortune coming out on top, and being named the new lead singer for INXS. JD’s real name? James Dean Bennison. With either name, the guy has rock star attitude and I think he’s going to be a great front-man. Everyone’s loving his single ‘Pretty Vegas’. Word is that when INXS tours in a few months, Ottawa is definitely on the map because we were so supportive from the beginning. Plus, JD loves Ottawa. He spent Canada Day here. We told him Ottawa’s always like that, year round.
There seems to be a new trend in hotels these days. It’s a combination of feng shui, minimalist décor, bamboo in vases, ocean breeze scent sprayed on your pillow at dusk, and incense in the lobby. That’s some of the stuff we had at the Toronto hotel we recently stayed in. But the clincher, was the elevator. In the elevator was a plasma tv, that showed ‘soothing’ scenes. On our first elevator ride, from the bottom floor to the 9th floor we were treated to a babbling brook. But for all other elevator rides for the rest of the weekend, up there on the plasma tv, was a beaver eating a branch. I guess it was soothing. If you’re Canadian.
Let the rivalry begin. It’s the season of the Sens versus the Leafs. Sure, we’ll play other teams, but really, its all about the Sens versus the Leafs. Leaf fans paint their faces more than Sens fans. But Senators hockey players are better than Maple Leaf players. Which, in the long run, is far more important.
Monday, September 19, 2005
Up Up in the Air
Tuesday night – we find out the exciting conclusion to ‘Rock Star INXS’! The poll on this website tells the story: Bob FM listeners want JD to be the new lead singer of INXS! Don’t think it has anything to do with the fact that JD is the only Canadian left in the top 3…… he’s certainly been consistently talented, he has the rock star moodiness, and his voice best fits the INXS sound. This is a guy who was living with his dog in a car under a bridge in Toronto a couple of months ago. JD was busking with his guitar to save enough money to buy a battery for his car. Don’t you love a story like that. All we need is the happy ending!
One of the side effects of my job, is that I tend to need a nap sometime in the afternoon. My alarm goes off at 3:30 in the morning, so I usually get sleepy just after lunch time. This week I brought my car into one of those oil change places and I asked if I could stay in the car while they hoisted it up in the air to do their work. They said sure. I guess I feel asleep while my car was w-a-a-ay-y up in the air. I woke up and couldn’t remember what series of events could possibly have lead to me being in my car twenty feet off the ground. And not moving. Just frozen up there in the clouds. It was somewhat disappointing when I realized I was just getting an oil change.
Thank you to Janet and Greta Podleski for stopping by ‘The Morning After’. These two vivacious ladies have put out their third cookbook, ‘Eat, Shrink and Be Merry’, and its just as much fun as their 2 previous books, ‘Looneyspoons’ and ‘Crazy Plates’. Recipes include ‘Eric Eggstrata’, ‘Life in the Fast Loin’, ‘Turk de Soleil’…half the fun of this book is just chuckling at the titles Janet and Greta come up with for the recipes. After an hour with these two, you can’t help but talk in puns. Pick up their new book, or win it here on BOB FM on the ‘Morning After Mystery’. It’s ‘worth every penne’. P.s. I’ve been told to leave the puns to the experts. My attempt, ‘Fleetwood Mac ‘n cheese’ was met with blank stares.
One of the side effects of my job, is that I tend to need a nap sometime in the afternoon. My alarm goes off at 3:30 in the morning, so I usually get sleepy just after lunch time. This week I brought my car into one of those oil change places and I asked if I could stay in the car while they hoisted it up in the air to do their work. They said sure. I guess I feel asleep while my car was w-a-a-ay-y up in the air. I woke up and couldn’t remember what series of events could possibly have lead to me being in my car twenty feet off the ground. And not moving. Just frozen up there in the clouds. It was somewhat disappointing when I realized I was just getting an oil change.
Thank you to Janet and Greta Podleski for stopping by ‘The Morning After’. These two vivacious ladies have put out their third cookbook, ‘Eat, Shrink and Be Merry’, and its just as much fun as their 2 previous books, ‘Looneyspoons’ and ‘Crazy Plates’. Recipes include ‘Eric Eggstrata’, ‘Life in the Fast Loin’, ‘Turk de Soleil’…half the fun of this book is just chuckling at the titles Janet and Greta come up with for the recipes. After an hour with these two, you can’t help but talk in puns. Pick up their new book, or win it here on BOB FM on the ‘Morning After Mystery’. It’s ‘worth every penne’. P.s. I’ve been told to leave the puns to the experts. My attempt, ‘Fleetwood Mac ‘n cheese’ was met with blank stares.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Do Barbers Know Everything?
Wow, was I wrong! My informal poll asking women if they ever used a mens washroom in a public place, yielded surprising results. Well, surprising for me. Turns out that most women just don’t do it. Even if there are long line-ups at the womens washroom and the men are coming and going into their washroom without a care in the world, most women will not go into mens world. I started this poll because I find the women’s facilities at the Civic Centre are just not enough to handle all of us during a concert. Thank you to the women who wrote in…..you have inspired me to stop using the mens public washroom. Unless I really need to go.
I ran into CJOH’s Brent Corbeil recently at Bayshore Shopping Centre. He and his cute young son had just gotten their hair cut. Brent said he has been getting his haircut at the same place for, like, 22 years. This made me think, there is no truer loyalty than that between a man and his barber. If you can top 22 years getting clipped by the same guy (or woman) let me know. Just think of the stuff the barber must know about you. If there was a trivia contest about personal information, I’ll bet your barber would win. I’ll bet your barber knows your most embarrassing moment, your worst trip experience, and the names of all your kids. All that plus every inch of the top of your head! Stories?
Isn’t it cool that Robert Plant spent last Saturday in Wakefield, before his show at the Corel Centre? Wonder what he did there. Maybe he rented a canoe. Or maybe he shopped for home-made jams. Or maybe he watched the Wakefield steam train. Or maybe he posed by the red covered bridge. But chances are he probably had a beer at the Black Sheep. If anyone knows what he did, enquiring minds want to know.
Be sure to check out the CHUM / Byward Market BIA auction for Katrina Hurricane relief, right here on our website. There’s some cool stuff to bid on, concerts, dinners, or how about a double invite to CHUM movie premieres for one full year. All proceeds go to hurricane disaster relief. I have my eye on the art lessons from the Ottawa School of Art. I’ve always wanted to be able to draw. Sometimes in a shopping mall you see an artist selling their paintings, and to be honest, well, the paintings just aren’t very good. I’d like to be at least as good/bad as those people.
I ran into CJOH’s Brent Corbeil recently at Bayshore Shopping Centre. He and his cute young son had just gotten their hair cut. Brent said he has been getting his haircut at the same place for, like, 22 years. This made me think, there is no truer loyalty than that between a man and his barber. If you can top 22 years getting clipped by the same guy (or woman) let me know. Just think of the stuff the barber must know about you. If there was a trivia contest about personal information, I’ll bet your barber would win. I’ll bet your barber knows your most embarrassing moment, your worst trip experience, and the names of all your kids. All that plus every inch of the top of your head! Stories?
Isn’t it cool that Robert Plant spent last Saturday in Wakefield, before his show at the Corel Centre? Wonder what he did there. Maybe he rented a canoe. Or maybe he shopped for home-made jams. Or maybe he watched the Wakefield steam train. Or maybe he posed by the red covered bridge. But chances are he probably had a beer at the Black Sheep. If anyone knows what he did, enquiring minds want to know.
Be sure to check out the CHUM / Byward Market BIA auction for Katrina Hurricane relief, right here on our website. There’s some cool stuff to bid on, concerts, dinners, or how about a double invite to CHUM movie premieres for one full year. All proceeds go to hurricane disaster relief. I have my eye on the art lessons from the Ottawa School of Art. I’ve always wanted to be able to draw. Sometimes in a shopping mall you see an artist selling their paintings, and to be honest, well, the paintings just aren’t very good. I’d like to be at least as good/bad as those people.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
women! Lets stand up for our washroom rights!
I’m doing a bit of an informal poll, wondering something about the women of Ottawa. If you are at an event, and you have to use the washroom, and the line-up is s-o-o-o long that you start to chew on your sleeve, do you have the guts to go into the mens washroom? Because inevitably, the men are zipping in and out of their washroom, nary a line-up to be found. When I was at the Stones concert, a group of us broke free from our women’s line-up and stormed into the mens loo. There was certainly strength in numbers. However, the other night at the Hall and Oates concert, as I waited painfully in a washroom line-up, I vocalized the idea of a bunch of us hitting the mens washroom. No one had the guts to join me, and I didn’t have the guts to go by myself. So, I figure we have two choices. We get the Civic Centre/Lansdowne Park people to expand the ladies washroom facilities, or we just get really brave and consider it open season on the mens’ facilities. What do you think?
The Humane Society Wiggle Waggle Walkathon is on this Sunday at the Experimental Farm Arboretum! Registration starts at 8:30, it’s a fun day with all kinds of activities and prizes and of course a 2 km or 5 km walk through the park. If you’ve never been, you gotta bring your dog out. You’ve never seen so many dogs of all shapes and sizes in one place, and everyone gets along beautifully. And dogs really love it, not only is it a cool outing, they get to go for a car ride. Most dogs love going in the car. Today’s dog hanging his head out of the car window is the modern day equivalent of the ancient wolf enjoying the breezes on a mountain top. Or something like that. But I still don’t have an explanation as to why dogs always prefer the driver’s seat. If you need more info for the Wiggle Waggle, check www.ottawahumane.ca.
Speaking of dogs, my Australian shepherd Mojo has long, fine silky hair. Most of the time. Since he spends a lot of time in the lake in the summer, his hair became pretty matted and he went to the groomer today. I picked him up and tried not to laugh. Dogs hate it when you laugh. His butt has been shaved. I told him he looked beautiful, but I was laughing inside. I think he’s too embarrassed to go to the Wiggle Waggle Walkathon.
If you’ve been following the show ‘Rock Star INXS’, it really is getting down to the wire. This show just seems to get more and more cool every week. We are now down to 2 Canadians, JD and Suzie, and Marty and Mig, and any one of them has the talent to be the new lead singer of INXS. But I think JD has the edge, just because his own personal style seems to fit the band INXS a bit more than the other performers. Anyway, I’ve become ridiculously attached to this show, and I will be very sad when its over. Thankfully, Fox TV has come up with ‘Skating with Celebrities’. This should help me move on.
The Humane Society Wiggle Waggle Walkathon is on this Sunday at the Experimental Farm Arboretum! Registration starts at 8:30, it’s a fun day with all kinds of activities and prizes and of course a 2 km or 5 km walk through the park. If you’ve never been, you gotta bring your dog out. You’ve never seen so many dogs of all shapes and sizes in one place, and everyone gets along beautifully. And dogs really love it, not only is it a cool outing, they get to go for a car ride. Most dogs love going in the car. Today’s dog hanging his head out of the car window is the modern day equivalent of the ancient wolf enjoying the breezes on a mountain top. Or something like that. But I still don’t have an explanation as to why dogs always prefer the driver’s seat. If you need more info for the Wiggle Waggle, check www.ottawahumane.ca.
Speaking of dogs, my Australian shepherd Mojo has long, fine silky hair. Most of the time. Since he spends a lot of time in the lake in the summer, his hair became pretty matted and he went to the groomer today. I picked him up and tried not to laugh. Dogs hate it when you laugh. His butt has been shaved. I told him he looked beautiful, but I was laughing inside. I think he’s too embarrassed to go to the Wiggle Waggle Walkathon.
If you’ve been following the show ‘Rock Star INXS’, it really is getting down to the wire. This show just seems to get more and more cool every week. We are now down to 2 Canadians, JD and Suzie, and Marty and Mig, and any one of them has the talent to be the new lead singer of INXS. But I think JD has the edge, just because his own personal style seems to fit the band INXS a bit more than the other performers. Anyway, I’ve become ridiculously attached to this show, and I will be very sad when its over. Thankfully, Fox TV has come up with ‘Skating with Celebrities’. This should help me move on.
Monday, September 05, 2005
Lets Give What we Can
Like everyone else, I have been watching CNN, trying to imagine the horror that the Hurricane Katrina victims are going through. Its impossible to realize. Not only have lives been lost, the survivors have nothing to go back to. No homes, no possessions, no jobs. Everything wiped out. The relief agencies are working over-time to feed, clothe, provide shelter and return dignity to the victims. How can we help? Cash. Whatever you can afford. The Red Cross needs our cash, fast. There’s a link to the Red Cross on this website, its easy to find and its easy to donate. We all know that returning to normalcy towns and cities decimated by Katrina will take time. But our donations will go a long way towards helping these people find promise and a brighter future.
Its unofficially ‘New Years’. Someone said that once, I’m not sure who, but it makes a lot of sense. The first week of September, back from vacation, back to school, back to work. At my cottage on Labour Day Weekend, the lake was really quiet, very few power boats roaring past my dock. Guess it was because families were in ‘back to it’ mode. Or, because the gas needed for these power boats is $1.30 a litre. Either one.
As Ottawa’s year of incredible concerts continues, I’m pretty charged up about going to back-to-back concerts, Green Day at the Corel Centre followed the next night by Hall and Oates at the Civic Centre. I’m sure that it’s the same audience for both shows.
Have you ever been to the New York City club CBGB? Its dark, its dingy, it actually stinks. But it was the nightclub that started the careers of punk gods the Ramones, Blondie, Bush, the Talking Heads and many others. I visited the club last summer and saw four bands in one night, and the vibe was about as cool as you could get. Well, sad news, it looks like CBGB is no more. The lease has expired and there’s some sort of legal battle, but Steven Van Zandt is not giving up without a fight. He’s enlisting the help of fellow Sopranos co-stars to get involved. One visit from Tony Soprano should just about do it!
Its unofficially ‘New Years’. Someone said that once, I’m not sure who, but it makes a lot of sense. The first week of September, back from vacation, back to school, back to work. At my cottage on Labour Day Weekend, the lake was really quiet, very few power boats roaring past my dock. Guess it was because families were in ‘back to it’ mode. Or, because the gas needed for these power boats is $1.30 a litre. Either one.
As Ottawa’s year of incredible concerts continues, I’m pretty charged up about going to back-to-back concerts, Green Day at the Corel Centre followed the next night by Hall and Oates at the Civic Centre. I’m sure that it’s the same audience for both shows.
Have you ever been to the New York City club CBGB? Its dark, its dingy, it actually stinks. But it was the nightclub that started the careers of punk gods the Ramones, Blondie, Bush, the Talking Heads and many others. I visited the club last summer and saw four bands in one night, and the vibe was about as cool as you could get. Well, sad news, it looks like CBGB is no more. The lease has expired and there’s some sort of legal battle, but Steven Van Zandt is not giving up without a fight. He’s enlisting the help of fellow Sopranos co-stars to get involved. One visit from Tony Soprano should just about do it!
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