Check out my gym profile in this month’s issue of FIGHT! magazine on the Xtreme Couture Toronto facility. It features the stories of Mark Hominick, Chris Horodecki and Mark Bocek. The deck explains it all, “Fighters and participants train at a world class facility in a province where both amateur and professional MMA competitions are banned.”
FIGHT! magazine is available on newsstands everywhere, [...]
Friendships are a lot like plants. You have to maintain them, otherwise they’ll wither. Under the worst of circumstances, namely total neglect, they die off.
As we move to new places, leave old haunts behind in search of new digs, people get lost in the shuffle. In the here and now, maybe two people just don’t synchoronize [...]
I haven’t seen a single episode, yet the sense of anticipation I feel while looking forward to watching the British series This Life is heavier than the advance lineups for the latest/lamest Star Wars installment/disappointment. The best measure of it’s impact and the way it won audiences hearts over is the uniformly caustic reaction to [...]
In tournament-style competition, players or teams are either seeded, or there is a random draw. Seeding involves ranking the competitors so that the highest ranking or favorites are in opposite brackets rather than eliminating each other early on.
No such fairness exists in real life. For some, the obstacles and challenges in the way are far different compared [...]
Last night was the 10th anniversary of the TFEW freelancer’s group:
“Toronto-area writers, editors and well-wishers crowded into the upstairs room of Big Mamma’s Boy on Parliament St. last night to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Toronto Freelance Editors & Writers collective. Over the past decade, the group, which exists mostly in the digital realm [...]
Lately, I hear stories about people who feel that they made a bad decision somewhere along the line. The exterminator who came by my building a few months back told me, “I started this job to make money, as a short-term thing, and look at me–20 years later, and I’m still doing it!”
I think that all situations [...]