It’s been one friggin’ weird summer, or should I say, Spring.. errr… Fall…. errr…. It’s been one hell of a June, July & August here in Halifax. Stupid rain, mixed with stupid power outages. The latter directly affected the Morning Mob today. The power went out at the station and our operating system crapped the bed. The only things working were our mic’s & our phones. So we let Halifax fill up our air time.
The LIVE 105 Morning Mob are raising money for the Canadian Red Cross by doing all kinds of dirty jobs around town, last month, Floyd & I cleaned windows down at Durty Nelly’s!
Do you have any chores or dirty jobs you need done? For a donation of $105, we could help you out. Send your emails to: Cub@live105.ca, or Floyd@live105.ca and make sure to check out http://thevolunteermarket.ca/
Where the F**K are you????? Seriously? We’ve had what, SIX days of sun so far this month? This is an outrage! Why does May feel like November? Mind you, my back yard is as green as an Irish meadow. Which is fantastic if I lived in Dublin, or in Limerick or in fair Cork. But NOT in Halifax!!! Almost one year ago, May 23rd 2011, it was sunny and 30. Global warming can kiss my ass and so can all you acorn loving hippies with your outrageous t shirts, hemp shorts and open toed sandals. Al Gore, you friggin’ liar, screw you too.
Halifax is a city with a crap load of hills, bring on the rising water, we’re good. Besides, if the damn sun will finally come out, it’ll dry things up a little! I think the whole city is coming down with Seasonal Affective Disorder. I hear they have a lamp for something like that.
I want to see some God damned sunshine so I can officially kick off summer in style!
In closing, I defer to the good lads from the Creaky Boards? Asking the musical question, Where’s the Sunshine?
PS *I know bitching about the weather on some blog online isn’t actually going to change anything, so save the smart ass comments…
It was a gorgeous spring day in Halifax yesterday. Mrs. Cubby and I are loving the fact that we can grab the dog, jump in the car and within 30 minuutes we’re walking in the sand along a stretch of one of the most beautiful coastlines you’ll ever seen. We discovered Rainbow Haven beach back in March and have been back quite a few times. I mean, how can you NOT love a sight like this?
The thing is, Mother Nature can be a bit of a bugger. Folks out here will remember Hurricane Earl & Juan ripping shit up in the HRM. More so Juan, but then again, those latinos can be quite feisty can’t they?
So we’re walking along the beach and all of a sudden, we see what at first glance, kinda looks like some tangled up seaweed. Upon closer inspection, this “seaweed” as the locals call it, was actually a FISH! One of the ugliest fish I’ve ever seen and I’ve lived near the Ottawa river, where a majority of fish look like this:
I grabbed a piece of wood, flipped the bugger over and got a good look at him:
I know, shitty picture, but as a grown man who ISN’T a fisherman, I don’t own rubber boots, so DC skate shoes may not have been the best footwear choice for going all Steve Zissou on the beach. But WTF is this??? So far, people on twitter seem to think it’s either a Rock Bass or a Sculpin. I think it’s a demon myself.
Thoughts?
It’s been a while since we visitied Planet Sheen. A natural disaster will do that I hear. Charlie kicked off his Violent Torpedo of Truth tour in Detroit recently. He bombed. But he bombed in Detroit, have you seen that city lately? There are parts of Gatineau, Quebec that are better looking than Detroit (sorry Enema Man). Charlie bounced back in Chicago and killed it last night in Cleveland. Here’s a clip that’s been making the rounds on the interwebs lately:
So we’ve been in a wee bit of a dog fight with the classic rock guys since we fired up this pig back in October. I’m cool with it, competition is good, the winners end up being the listeners because there’s more choice out there. I’m not a strictly “modern rock” snob, I do have some love for the classics, but the thing is about the classics is that they’ve been played over and over and over and over again. I love being at LIVE 105 because we’re constantly busting out the new shit, mixed in with some awesome essentials. I know some people have a preference, they’re either on the modern side of things, or on the classic side of things. But before you make that final choice, think about this. If you’re a fan of modern rock, chances are you’ll NEVER see something like this on youtube:
Up until this past Sept, I had never been to Halifax before. Always wanted to visit, but up until I started to work at LIVE 105, I had never set foot in Canada’s Ocean Playground.
One thing I kept hearing about was how amazing the food was here in the Maritimes, BOY, THEY WEREN’T KIDDING!!! I’ve had the chance to hit quite a few of some of the best restaurants in Halifax and over the course of the next few weeks, I’ll review them right here on this blog. Right out of the gates, I’ve had no formal food training. I’m no fancy schmancy smarty pants when it comes to eating, I’m just a slightly overweight dude with a decent appetite.
Recently, Mrs. Cubby and I had the chance to try out one of Metro’s BEST places to eat, Chives Canadian Bistro. Consistently ranked as one of the top restaurants in Halifax, it’s easy to see why. It’s not a snobby, exclusive kind of restaurant, it’s got a more laid back feel to it. Outstanding service! You never feel like you’re being rushed, have you ever felt like that in certain restaurants? Not the case at Chives. I like a menu that has a variety of choices. I LOVE this part of the country, fresh seafood, terrific pork, chicken and beef. We decided to share an appetizer, Bourbon Barbequed Braised Bacon. How can you NOT love that? It’s basically bacon wrapped with bacon!!
One of the main reasons we moved out here was to dive into the world of seafood and I was happy to see that Chives offered a wide selection of seafood. I decided to go with the pan seared sea bass. The fish was tender packed with flavour and was served on a potato puree with winter leeks:
Mrs. Cubby opted for the P.E.I beef duo, beef tenderloin, braised beef short rib, handmade potato gnocchi with wild mushrooms:
Paired it up with a nice bottle of wine, a Jackson Triggs Reisling from Niagara Falls, and that’s it baby, no room for desert! But if we did go for it, I would’ve grabbed the warm caramel banana eclair. Can’t wait to try out the menu for this spring! OUTSTANDING!
Don’t know about your neck o’ the woods, but in the past three weeks around the Metro Halifax, we’ve had about 40-60 cm’s of snow. That’s at least the size of one young unicorn, easily. That’s science, that’s a FACT. Normally, the site of all this snow would send more lower back into hibernation, but thanks to a fun night out @ Martock last Friday, all this snow has jump started something that I hadn’t done in a long time. Snowboarding.
I’ll admit it, I was a kid of the 80′s, waking up early Saturday mornings to watch GI. JOE:
He-man:
and from time to time, when the cable was out, the Littlest Hobo:
When we weren’t watching Michael J. Fox on Family Ties, or playing on a wacky invention called a “computer”, we were being bombarded by tons of television commercials. I know, it must be hard for kids today to imagine, but sadly, this part of human history is indeed true. One of these “commercials” was for a snowboard you could buy at Zellers, or Canadian tire. The earliest models didn’t even have metal edges, just hard plastic bindings that fit your Cougar boots! All my buds had one, this was well before you were allowed to ride on actual ski hills. This was thumb a lift out-of-town, back country, hop the fence semi-legal snowboarding. Local ski hills banned snowboarding back then. Man, that changed!
A few years later, I tried it again. I don’t know why, maybe too many little snot nosed jerks ruined it, but it didn’t take the second time, a little older, a little stiffer than I was at 14, but the third time? Third time’s the charm, rode a Burton for the first time in a looooong time, fell in love again with the feeling of carving down a hill and this time, I’d say the boards outweighed the skis. It wasn’t pretty on Friday night, but for a guy who hasn’t been on a board in 5 years, I think I did pretty damn good! Even as I sit here with an ice pack on my left wrist (final run too that night go figure!), frig it, I’m doing the very same thing tomorrow @ Martock! Hopefully without all the falling down and the pain and stuff..
We’ve got 10-20 cm’s of fresh powder and temps around zero, hookey anyone?
Thanks to everyone for the messages & emails. And by everyone I mean three people, one confused parrot and a very amorous dolphin in the Bedford basin. With recent developments, I thought I would weigh in on a few things. I know there have been some very important events that have happened recently. Issues that could have consequences that far outreach our own imaginations. It’s impossible to get away from. It’s a massive elephant in the room. You can’t deny it, people are talking, tongues are wagging.
Some would even say why Cubby? We even bother addressing these issues? Why not just look forward? Enough time has passed? Why Cubby, why?? Well, I’ve never been one to hide my feelings, I wear slippers at work, wear comfy pants while at home and I sleep with a stuffed white polar bear that is named Beary White. True Story. So while this may get in some sort of trouble, frig it. Here goes:
One: Egypt. That’s some pretty serious shit going on right there.
Two: The rumours are true, I will be going back to the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission to buy more wine very soon.
Three: Did you know that I now live and work at LIVE 105 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada’s Ocean Playground, the Capital of the Maritimes?
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S0 you may have noticed a recent infatuation I’ve had with Regis Philbin. A man who I believe to be my real grandfather, or great grandfather if you’re sitting at home with a calculator splitting hairs… He’s not retiring, which is awesome, cause I’d be sh*t out of luck with my Reege impersonation. I’m glad he’s sticking around, hopefully he won’t die on me and I eventually get a chance to meet him. I trucked out my Regis impression for my friends Jeff & Nikki @ Z103 in Halifax:
What a month! Mrs. Cubby & the fur kids have finally made it out east. Trust me, you haven’t lived until you’ve driven 1435 km’s with two cats who DO NOT travel and a hound dog mix. I would like to thank Red Bull for making the drive possible, I would also like to blame them if I end up not being able to have children, or, god forbid, make me pee flousrescently like some sort of minotaur. (ed. note. Not even sure if flousrescently’s a word.)
One thing is for sure, Halifax is one of the most AWESOME places in Canada! Great food:
(ed. note. I ate this last night, for real!)
Great people:
And great amounts of rain. Jeesus, enough already!
(ed note. I actually saw this at the corner of Cogswell & Gottingen)
HOCKEY is back brothers and sisters!! You know you’re a fan if you actually sat down to watch Thursdays NHL kickoff in Finland between Carolina and Minnesota. I always love this time of year, mostly because Leaf fans are so cute when they try to tell you how this year is the year for them. Reality check. If you can’t score goals, you can’t win games. Until that happens, you will NOT make the playoffs, AGAIN. As a Sens fan, that just brings a smile to my heart.
I may call Hali my new home, but my hockey heart will always be in the Nations Capital! How can you not love them? I mean, did people in Toronto see a Leaf driving a Zamboni down Younge St.? NOPE! But it happened Thursday in Ottawa, thanks to Jarkko Ruutu! How Canadian is THAT?
Check out the pic:
Go Sens Go!!
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