Mike's Bloggity Blog

Is it that time of year again already?

Screw the Oscars, Emmys and Junos, it’s all about the bathrooms.

Cintas is currently on the search for Canada’s Best Bathroom. This is actually, their second year looking for the top stall, after awarding the prize to Vancouver’s Cactus Club last year.

So if you have a favourite bathroom, make sure you nominate them.

Seriously though, whenever my therapist says it’s okay to talk about, I really want to tell you about how much I HATE public bathrooms. Someday, I’m going to have a book, in which three chapters will be dedicated to the things I’ve done to avoid having to go number one in public. You will be disgusted and elated all at the same moment.

But back to the point, if you have a bathroom that you’ve gone great lengths to relieve yourself in, then now’s your chance to make sure that they get recognized.

I have a select list of bathrooms in a different cities that I enjoy, but I’m not going to share them with you because then other people will start using them, then I’ll have to move and start building a whole new life, I can’t afford to do that.

Nominations are open until October 24th.

Quick, name the most beautiful natural wonder in Canada!  (No, I don’t count.)

I bet you all came up with different answers, but according to a new campaign to elect the  new 7 natural wonders of the world, there’s only one in Canada that may be worthy of the top honour: The Bay of Fundy!

The New7Wonders of Nature campaign actually started back in 2007 and after four years of narrowing down the list,a panel of experts have finally picked the top 28 Official Finalist Candidates.

Now that they have the list done, it’s up to the public to pick the new Top Seven and while, there’s lots of great things about Canada, only the high tides of the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick made the cut!  Actually, only two locations in all of North America made the Top 28.

Voting for the New7Wonders of Nature ends on 11.11.11.

And this is something that the Bay of Fundy is taking very seriously, check out the video they made, in an effort to get your vote!

If you’ve never been to the east coast, then you must know that there really is nothing like seeing the Bay of Fundy.  Growing up, it was one of my favourite places to go and now that I live in the prairies of Alberta, I often think about how lucky I was to live right beside the ocean for so long.

Oh New Brunswick, why did your career choices all revolve around call centres!

If you think that the Bay of Fundy is deserving of this amazing honour, then make sure to a moment to vote, it really takes about a minute and since it’s the only Canadian option, everyone in Canada should make sure that our country is on the list!

Wow!  Another day, another Canadian reality show!  Sadly…it (still) isn’t a Cancuck edition of Survivor or The Amazing Race, but we’ll take what we can get.

CBC just announced a brand new show called Cover Me Canada and auditions for aspiring and unsigned musicians opened today!  The network is asking anyone that thinks they have the singing chops to submit their original versions of classic Canadian songs, with the eventual winner taking home $100,000 and a single that will be released by Universal Record.

Bloody hell I wish I could sing…or dance…or grow hair.

Ambitious Canadian musicians and groups aged 12 and up who are not signed to a recording contract are invited to submit video performances of their cover versions of one of the following Canadian classics: Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot), Run To You (Bryan Adams), Life is a Highway (Tom Cochrane) and Black Velvet (Alannah Myles).

Sadly, songs by The Moffatts, Snow, B4-4 and Sugar Jones didn’t make the cut.  Who runs these contests anyway?!

Auditions are open now until July 8th!  Click here to apply.

If I had a dime for every time Stephen Harper asked me to named his cat…

The master of the new majority government has turned to Canadians to make a very important decision. No, no it has nothing to do with the senate, why would we ever have a say in that? Nope, Harper took to his facebook page today to ask Canada to help name his new kitten. The kitten is a a grey tabby. They are asking canadians to vote for their favourite, with the poll closing Jun 6.

Truth: I actually thought that now famous photo of Stephen Harper cuddling a cat was photo-shopped. You’re telling me that he actually cares for animals…if you consider cats to be animals. Wow. My world has been rocked.

So what’s my vote for a cuddly cat name?

Lucien Bouchard….of course.

Have you seen this ad yet?  Apparantly Ke$ha and Peta have a problem with Canada’s little hobby of clubbing seals to death.  Which, for the record, I think is horrendous and incredibly embarrasing, but I’m just not sure that Ke$ha is exactly the person that should be telling us what we should or shouldn’t be doing in our country.  Yes, I get that she knows clubs, but this is a whole other kind.  (See what I did there?)

Given Ke$ha’s rise to fame, her track record for what is best for Canada, seems a big dodgy.

Lets’ take a look at some of her lyrics shall we:

Blah, Blah, Blah:
“I dont really care where you live at just turn around boy and let me hit that
Dont be a little bitch with your chit chat just show me where your dick’s at.”

Ki$$ ‘n Tell:
“You’re looking like a tool not a baller
You’re acting like a chick, why bother?
I can find someone way hotter
With a bigger… ”

Sleazy:
“And get sleazy. Sick of all your lines, so cheesy
Sorry daddy, but I’m not that easy
I’m not gonna sit here while you circle jerk it and work it
I’mma take it back to where my man and my girls is”

Yes folks, this is the person that Peta has designated to direct our moral compass. I’m guessing the given the choice of Ke$ha representing them, or dying a horrible death, the seals might just club themselves.

If you could have one conversation with anyone in the world? Who would it be?

If I could talk to one person in the world, I definitely think it would have to be Ricky Gervais. Actually, I did have the opportunity to talk to him once but I was only allowed one single question and he was still hilarious. I can’t imagine what a whole conversation would be like! Coming in a close second would be Rick Mercer with Jeff Probst holding steady in third!

So why am I asking this random question?  Well WIND Mobile just announced a great new contest that will give five Canadians the opportunity to talk to anyone they want in the world.

To make these conversations happen, WIND Mobile will donate over a half a million dollars to Canadian charities. Once WIND confirms the winners, WIND will donate $100,000 on behalf of the chosen personalities for having the conversations. An additional $100,000 will also be donated to the six most popular charities as voted for online at www.BestConversationEver.ca.

The best part about the whole contest?  I’m a judge! Yes!  The guy that couldn’t get a single person to call him during high school is now helping choose the five winners of this potentially life-changing contest!  So what I am I going to do with my new found power?  Besides abuse it in an attempt to get free things at Arby’s, I’m beyond thrilled to help charities rack up some serious cash!!!

So how do you and your charities get to win?  Well, head on over to the website for all the details.  (Let’s just say that if you’re creative and well spoken, you should have this contest in the bag.) The competition kicked off on January 24th and runs until March 7, 2011.  The winners will be selected by a panel of WIND judges and industry leading bloggers.

It’s the age old adage, if you wanna win, you gotta send me bribes….I mean, enter.

Good luck!  I’m already rooting for you!

So I was wondering if could borrow $20,000?  Wait…before you say no, let me explain.

Everyone knows I’m a proud maritimer and an early edition of the beloved childhood classic Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, is being auctioned off in New York this Friday.  Great news, right?  Definitely.  The bad news is that it is is expected to be sold for more than $20,000!  That is a lot of Cow’s Ice Cream!

The Canadian Press is saying that the book was printed in 1909, only a year after the novel was originally published.

So…..how about that $20,000?  Talk about a fantastic stocking stuffer!

We don’t give Canadian cutie Elisha Cuthbert (@CuthbertElisha) enough credit.  Sometimes, when you least expect it, she shows shades of being a secret genius.

Take for example her lastest tweet about the Teen Choice awards late on Monday night:

“Awww Justin Bieber… she’s so adorable”

Hey, don’t get mad at me Bieber fans. She said it.

Further down her feed, Elisha gets a little political when she tweeted:
“Prop 8 was struck down! Amazing news and it’s about time! Congrats to everyone! #NoH8″

And when a fan voiced his concerns and said he was going to unfollow her, she simply stated:
“Probably for the best. Your ignorance isn’t welcome here anyway RT @JM1321 wow u just lost a fan”

Love.It.

So can we get Elisha working again soon.  I can totally see her as Penny’s sister on The Big Bang Theory or sipping some wine with the gang on Cougar Town.
Or at the very least a Popular Mechanics For Kids movie?  Surely there is a Transformers-type mystery that her and  Jay Baruchel can solve together.

Either way Elisha, you are really doing it for me!  Thanks!

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Some people just can’t get enough of dancing reality shows!

So You Think You Can Dance Canada Season 1 finalist Vincent Noiseux and Season 2 finalist Nicolas Begin have made it to the finals of Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew.

Their crew, called Blueprint Cru, hail from Montreal and have already made history as the first-ever foreign crew to compete on RJPABDC!

The finale airs tonight and the Canadian dancers will now face-off with fellow finalists Poreotix to find out if they will take the $100,000 grand prize back to Canada.

Vincent Noiseux advanced to the Season 1 Top 8 on So You Think You Can Dance Canada, while Begin made it to Season 2′s Top 16.

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Sad day for Canadian television. Earlier this morning, CITY TV announced they were doing restructuring. In more honest terms, a lot of good people got laid off today.