But where did they get the idea to crash an amateur hockey league and give them the ‘big show’ treatment?

As it turns out, the idea came from another video that you may have seen if you have been visiting my website for any length of time.  Remember this goodie from my ‘year of daily vlogging’?

A lot of the marketing and PR companies in Canada are based in Toronto. I know that a lot of PR people watch my videos and count on me to know what’s happening in the streets, so I always love it when some video or song or comic book of mine sparked an idea that ends up on a billboard or in a commercial.

Remember this 2010 Olympic billboard?

Where do you think the Toronto-based marketing people got the idea for the slogan from?

I’m not claiming it’s a rip off or anything.  I just know that a lot of people in these kinds of marketing & PR positions watch my stuff on the regular and I keep seeing so many of these ‘coincidences’ that at some point I have to stop wondering about it and just enjoy that my work is that impactful.

Love to everyone who ever saw any thing I made and thought that it was hot material.

“In the streets, my inspiration’s profound
You see my style copped all over town
I go to the club, the DJ’s dressed like me
I even heard some jokes I wrote spoken on TV”
- True stories as found in the lyrics to Intergalactavida by The Wizard of Rock featuring MC Sean Ward

Check out the trailer for the new movie ROUGHRIDER!  This is awesome!

Remember my friend Rand Shuler, AKA Rando Calrissian (to my Sean Solo)?  This is my friend who got married in October and brought me down to MC and perform at the wedding in Austin, Texas. I got to party with pretty much everyone he worked on this movie with, including the film’s star/writer/producer/director Will Martin.

We need your help! Vote this thing up on Reddit to build heat in advance of the January 10 world premiere!

You’ve seen me collaborate with these guys on a variety of projects but their new series of videos has Andrew from Biz Media making custom videos for people who donate to his Movember campaign.

These are hilarious.  Check out his progress:

Week 1, kicking off the whole thing

His video for the ladies of Pixel Dreams (the firm who designed the HarthFEST poster)

In Kensington Market with Adam Garone, CEO & Co-Founder of Movember

Andrew is coming up very close to his fundraising goal, but we’re running out of month! Click here to donate to Andrew’s Movember campaign

Yo, you know my friend Alice Quinn who runs the website T-Dot Comics?  Well she has just launched the first-ever Toronto & GTA Comic Shop Awards.  The best comics shop in the city (and Toronto is pretty spoiled with a bunch of great comics stores) will be awarded in a bunch of categories by your votes.

Here’s the scoop on the event from Alice herself:

This August, Toronto comic fans are invited to participate in TdotComics’s The BEST Comic Shop Awards! We’re getting a little friendly competition going between the comic shops of the GTA, and YOU are the judge.

Throughout the month, TdotComics readers will vote for their favourite GTA comic shops in 8 different categories: Customer Service, Membership Package/Deals, Toys/Statues and Gadgets, Selection of Books/Issues, Wearable Merchandise, Events, Website, and In Store Atmosphere. 13 of Toronto’s most well-known comic shops are participating in the contest: Atomic Age, The Beguiling, BMV Books, Comics & More, Cyber City Comix, Dragon Lady Comics, Hairy Tarantula, Labyrinth Comics & Games, One Million Comix, Paradise Comics, Planet X, Red Nails II, and Silver Snail Comics.

The awards will be capped off by an awards ceremony around September 9th at a location to be determined, with more details to follow. We are still trying to tie down a venue at this point, so feel free to contact us if you know of anywhere that may be willing to host.

To coincide with the awards, TdotComics has also created a map of all participating comic shops in the GTA, so readers can take the opportunity to visit more and expand their comic culture!
Voting for TdotComics’s The BEST Comic Shop Awards is open at http://www.tdotcomics.ca/thebest/. We welcome you to make your voice heard by voting, blogging about TdotComics’s the BEST, or posting your comments at http://www.tdotcomics.ca/tdotcomics’s-the-best/. Of course, the best way to participate is by taking a group of friends to do a comic shop crawl and checking out some comic shops you don’t often visit.

Contact Alice Quinn at tdotcomics@gmail.com with any questions or private comments. Good Luck to all the contenders may the BEST comic shops win!

Visit TDotComics.com to take part in T-Dot Comics’ THE BEST Comics Shop Awards

Holy shit, this is going to be amazing.  No Direction Home, Scorsese’s documentary about Bob Dylan, was rewatchably good to the tune of dozens of viewings and new meanings revealed each time.

I’ve heard about Scorsese working on this for years now so I can only dream about the kinds of people he was able to reach about appearing in the movie and talking about George Harrison and The Beatles.

If you hear anything about it coming out or a release date, make sure you tell me first!!!

And check out full details on the website georgeharrison.com

ZZZZzzzzzzz…. whatever, bud.  Nice fonts.

Yay, you made a logo. This doesn’t satisfy anything!  This doesn’t answer any questions, like “What the hell are you doing to Spider-Man’s costume and why are you messing with the best costume in all of superhero land??”  Marc Webb: You are seriously lucky 500 Days of Summer was so good.  I still have faith that this is going to be awesome!

Randy “Macho Man” Savage is one of your role models whether you meant for it or not.

Watch as the Macho Man unravels the secrets of the universe before your very eyes when he starts talking about outer space and reincarnation…

Where’s my Tokyo Police Club fans?  I’ve got something really special for you.

I’ve got a pair of tickets to this Saturday’s concert at Kool Haus in Toronto, including access to Smirnoff‘s pre-show sound check party, but I’m on a top secret spy mission and can’t make it.  They wanted to know if there are any members of The Sean Ward Underground who would like to go?

If you want tickets to the concert and sound check, just leave a comment on this blog post or on my Facebook wall telling me your favorite Tokyo Police Club song.

I’ll draw the winner tomorrow.  Keep your eyes peeled because once I announce the winner, I’m going to need to get your phone number really quick so someone from the concert’s staff can contact you.

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I went to see Chromeo in 2008 and I was amazed at how great they are on stage.  Their fans gave them one of the most enthusiastic responses I’ve ever seen in Toronto (a city with a notorious reputation as an apathetic concert audience).

That concert wasn’t so fun for me though because I was on a date with a girl who did not want to go down and join the party at the front of the stage.  Needless to say, there was no second date, and now Sidewalk Hustle has given me another chance to get the full Chromeo experience.

I’ve won tickets to the Chromeo concert in Toronto at the Opera House on January 23, from Sidewalk Hustle!

Thanks so much to Mr. Banning and Hawley, but extra special thanks to random.org for the hook up on this one.  I’m beyond excited for this.

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Chromeo’s latest video is one of my favorites ever…

…but their Night By Night video knocked me on my ass as a stylized depiction of my daily routine.