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OK pardon my testosterone but what’s going on out there men. It seems everywhere I turn these days men are crying… out loud on all forms of media.  I was working out the other day…bending rebar with my bare hands….while watching Oprah, OK I’m exaggerating…..my wife was watching Oprah I just happened to be in the same room. Anyway it was one of those shows when the family isn’t spending quality time together because they’re all texting or tweeting or checking Facebook and e-mails and some Australian dude comes to the rescue by taking all their phones and Blackberry’s and computers away and teaches them to be together. So the Dad gets interviewed first and like ten seconds in he starts crying about “Oh I’m such a bad guy cuz I check my Blackberry before showing little Billy how to catch a fly ball”….puuuhleeeeze! If John Wayne was here he’d slap the whimpering puss and tell him to “Cowboy UP”  I miss John Wayne. So what’s the deal? why the need for the public display of  wimpiness.?  I blame it on all the psychologist’s  telling us guys that it’s OK to cry. Sure I buy into that there nothing wrong with crying…but not out in the street, or at the store or in front of a TV camera, do it in your room at home.  I blame Mark Messier too, remember when he retired? He was bawlin like a baby with diaper rash. So a lot guys thought well if Mess, who’s a big strong hockey player, can cry in public surely I can too. So now every athlete who retires feels he has to cry..to show how much he loves the team and the sport and the fans and his family and the dam mascot and I’m sick of it! The guys on American Idol cry, the guys on The Biggest Loser cry, and American Senator’s cry when they get caught cheating on their wives and I say enough! Crying in public is only OK when your child is born or if the Leafs win the Stanley Cup…OK so only when your child is born…now gentlemen like the Duke says “Cowboy Up!”

Well the holidays are winding down, the marathon of visitors, family, food and drink is thankfully coming to an end, and I say thankfully only because I don't think my body can take much more. It's going to take me two weeks just to regain some muscle control in my belly.  But all in all it is a great time of year and there have been some notable changes this year. On Christmas morning for example My wife and I were up, the dog had been taken out and I was on my second cup of coffee before the first of the children came out from their winter slumber. The orgy of present opening was similar although my daughter commented halfway through that we should feel blessed to be warm and well fed and able to give presents to one another. I realized that maybe I'm getting older because the present I was most excited about getting was a state of the art......toaster, ya  a toaster, but It's a beauty. 4 slicer with the bagel seting and all kinds of bells and whistles, I spent 2 days toasting everything I could find. Coming in a close second was the Sham-Wow.  I am happy to report it does everything it's suppose to and I even accidentally on purpose forgot to take the dog out just to see if it would clean up "the family pet's accident" it does and,... if you stick pieces of the sham-wow in your ear you can't hear your wife tell everyone how pathetic you are to be excited about a toaster. Some other observations, Egg Nog without alcohol makes no sense, it's like lite beer, I mean whats the point, and what about having an NFL game played on Christmas night, I'm thinking the guy who scheduled that game must have been payed off by a group of divorce lawyers who wanted business to pick up in the new year, I didn't even try to put it on, in fact I was still toasting things for our dinner guests. Oh well it is a great time of year and I've loved every minute of it. Happy New Year!

Boy what a busy month December has turned out to be, radio-thon’s a major snowfall or two and Christmas on top of that. I have been lax in my blogging and for those of you who have been waiting my apologies (sorry Mom). Speaking of snow, what a dump we had over 100 cm’s in a 48 hour period. I’ve lived up here for 20 plus years and I’ve never seen anything like it, but like the hardy Canadians we are we shrugged it off. The plow drivers, who by the way are the very best on the entire planet, had the roads clear in a matter of hours and we were back in business.  The snow is good for business, the ski hills are open the snowmobile trails are getting close to opening and the stores are busy with Christmas shoppers and my kids are home from the big city. I am ready for some Christmas celebrating! So from all of us here at 93.5 The Moose, we wish you and your families all the best during the holiday season and a safe and prosperous New Year!

So my wife was trying to show me how to work her new cell phone the other day, it’s one of those fancy jobs with the pull out keyboard and the screen that changes depending on how you hold it. But no matter how many times she told me I just didn’t get it. I couldn’t even unlock it to answer a text… I thought what the heck is wrong with me. Then it occurred to me there are a whole lot of things “I don’t get” Right on the top of the list in big bold letters. Woman, I’ve been married a long time and am still madly in love with my wife and we spend a lot of time together, but every time I think I’ve finally got her figured out, you know what I mean guys, rhythms, hormones, emotions, logic, she will do something that completely throws me. I was sitting down to watch the Leaf game the other night, and she is a passive fan, usually reads her book while I watch the game, so she says “who are the Leafs playing?” I said the Devils, she says “oh I hate watching  New Jersey games, their so boring playing the left wing lock”….Ya I have no idea where that came from, and I wasn’t going to ask. Some other things I don’t get, Isabella Rossellini, sure she’s a good actress but she’s always described as..the very beautiful Isabella Rossellini, beautiful? Really I don’t get that. I don’t get Sex and the City, sorry 4 girls that look like that, that can get sex anywhere is a surprise to me.  Remember the old show Bewitched? I never got it that Darrin, Samantha’s husband didn’t want her to use her powers to make his life easier..c’mon Derwood, money, exotic trips, and Samantha….well use your imagination, I just never got that. Elvis impersonators? Listen what is the deal with those guys, even the best ones pale in comparison to the original and most of them are pathetic, I don’t know how they go through everyday life with those sideburns and  if Elvis was alive I’m sure he’d say “listen Cous…get a life.”  I never got the rock band The Who, when I was a kid everyone pretended to like the Who, I saw them in concert 3 times and owned most of their albums but truth be told I never really liked them, I thought something was wrong with me, but then  sometime in the early 90’s at a party a group of my High School buddies finally confessed that none of them really liked the Who that much either. I don’t get smokers, I used to be one but now-a-days every knows the dangers of smoking and the deceit of the tobacco companies so how can you smoke knowing that it is killing you. I saw a woman with a cigarette struggling to put on her seatbelt in a car and I thought, lady why bother what’s the point.  Finally on a serious note, I don’t get it when our political leaders say we are fighting the war in Afghanistan to protect our freedom. Really? I know that according to what I read the Taliban are bad, but I don’t think they have an air force or a navy so how is my freedom at risk? I don’t get it.