Toronto needs a mayor: Mrs. Ford, let me know if you need the name of a good family law lawyer

Speaking during his weekly appearance on a Washington radio show, Rob Ford said he planned to give his wife “just money.”

“Women love money,” the mayor said to the hosts of Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan. “You give them a couple of thousand bucks and they’re happy.”

Ford added that while he planned to get his wife “some treats on the side,” his big gift to her would be “a nice cheque.”


Analyze this

Dreamed that Son Three and me were driving a Land Rover at some seaside resort – on the water. It did okay for a while, but then eventually sunk. Scarlett Johansson comforted us, on terra firma, as we watched the recovery effort. I told her that driving on the water was explicitly okayed in the driver’s manual.

It was a ridiculous dream, of course. Me, driving a Land Rover? Don’t make me laugh.

Share your own dreams in comments, Canada. Did Scarlett pop by?


PS Score

Gave the PS4 to Son Two at his birthday get-together last night.  Also in attendance: Sons One and Three, Daughter, Son Two’s BFF.

It was a big, big hit.  Many thanks to all of you who helped me find it.


Seniors need exercise

Get ready to be hearing that line quite a bit in the next couple years. This Harper appointee has just put the Conservatives in mortal peril. In two sentences.

Oh, and here’s what he deserves.

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No digital device was harmed in the making of this post

For years, I have had two devices – a Blackberry and an iPhone.

I was always a Blackberry guy, right from their first pager-style model (that beauty up above). I loved it because I could write on it. I write about 1,000 words every day, so it was just what the doctor ordered.

I got the iPhone because I stepped on my old Motorola at an SFH gig. I wanted something that was a good phone, and that had iTunes. So I got the iPhone, very reluctantly (Apple people always seemed like religious fanatics to me). But the camera and camcorder impressed me, so I kept it.

I kept the Blackberry too, however. It had a keyboard, the iPhone didn’t. Typing on an iPhone is a joke.

For the past year, I’ve had the Blackberry Q10 or Z10 or whatever it is. I hated it. It was awful. It’s biggest problem, I think, was that it was a Blackberry that was trying to be an iPhone.

Yesterday, I got rid of it. Traded it in for an old Blackberry 9900, on which I’m writing this post.

My iPhone? It’s a 5, but I refuse to get the 5S or 5C or whatever. They, like the Blackberry 10 series, offer nothing that I (and perhaps you) really need.

They keep changing these devices to pick our pockets. Not for any other reason, I think.

Am I right? Am I wrong? Comment away. And tell us what device you’re using to do so!