Canadians celebrated their Thanksgiving last month and most of them will have almost fully digested their meals as their cutlery-wielding American neighbors now get ready to attack plates as part of their own traditional gorge-fest. There is much to give thanks for on this aptly-named day. First, there is the rich history of the holiday, something pleasantly revisionist that kids can reenact in pageants about how the pilgrims and the natives got along famously. What the founders of the countr... Read Full Story

The bottom feeders of the NHL The Toronto Maple Leafs are easily among the worst franchises in professional sport along with the Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals, Minnesota Twins and LA Clippers. Given the Leafs perennially occupy the NHL basement, we thought we’d do our part and contribute to the public debasement of the so-called Leaf Nation. If this actually was a Nation, we would vote to secede. Anyway, since neither of us is over the age of 42 and we don’t own a time machine,... Read Full Story

The more traditional 'barrel in the mouth' works just as well. by guest columnist Mike Sauve More than anything else I am a Bob Dylan fan.  Nothing gets my blood boiling like an ignorant staff reviewer sent to the local Bob Dylan show.  They Google him.  They make shallow, obvious observations about his voice and his hat.  The hat is always mentioned by the third paragraph.  Last night I found myself in a similar position, sent on assignment by The Shark Guys to a sold-out Jimmy Buffett show... Read Full Story

Fighters perform the pre fight Buddhist ritual, Wai khru ram muay (Thai: ไหว้ครูรำมวย). Photo by C. Lombardo One of us has started training Muay Thai— unfortunately not the one who resides in Bangkok, the sport’s epicenter. That being said, with the explosion of MMA in North America, it’s easier to train Muay Thai on these shores than if, say, the other Shark Guy were to introduce the finer points of Slap Shot and the game of hockey to the Thais. Speaking of emergency dental... Read Full Story

He's just read September's issue of Maxim. Maxim magazine recently published an article in which the writer purports to relive the final days of David Carradine. We really didn’t take much notice of the mag up until now as Maxim is the type of publication that would be found in the waiting room of a dentist who’d compromise you sexually you once the anesthetic kicked in. Besides, when it comes to boobs, we prefer seeing them on a beach and not on a masthead. In Bangkok there is n... Read Full Story

Like Saturday Night Live, Law & Order SVU is completely mirth-free and set in New York City but that’s pretty much where the similarities end (unless someone suddenly greenlights a bunch of horrible movies based on SVU). The perpetually dour, emotionally fragile and combative, i.e., entirely accurately portrayed detectives on SVU were a major source of inspiration for our previous list of the Top 20 Cop Show Cliches and we thought we’d expand on that list somewhat here with ou... Read Full Story

Stay up late and stay tuned here as we promise to bring you the latest on Turbo Jam, Ab Circle Pro, Slap Chop, Flavor Wave Turbo, Dual Action Cleanse and of course, the Power Juicer, unless of course, the prescription isn’t refilled and sleep patterns return to normal. Speaking of normality, next week we’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming here with more fun Top 10 and Top 20 Lists, Best of, Worst of, Most Annoying, etc, etc. Read Full Story

alternative etymology for the term "hangover?" We’ve previously covered the growing movement in the US questioning the logic of why someone who is legally able to ruin their lives in so many ways – ie get married, fight in wars, shoot off firearms, vote, star in a porno and obtain a mortgage – is not allowed the freedom to legally get drunk and bemoan the terrible choices they have made in these areas. We support the lowering of the drinking age in the US even if it means that... Read Full Story

It appears ‘advocacy journalist’ Lou Dobbs has left CNN leaving wind-blown heir to the Vanderbilt fortune Anderson Cooper and the always ridiculous slap-happy Wolf Blitzer to mind the store. Until further notice, Larry King will continue to doze off through an endless procession of psychics, has-beens and never weres. With Dobbs’ depature that false-toothed Harvard maw will be tough to fill. Read Full Story

Aerosmith, like their idols the Rolling Stones, have followed the “pretty much great for the first two decades, appalling for the last two” career trajectory. The cornball soundtrack ballad “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” (a statement never uttered when picking up popcorn during any screening of Armageddon), and the entirely interchangeable “Amazing”, “Cryin’ and “Crazy” had people wondering if the Boston band was ever getting ... Read Full Story