A classic barbecue place. And a Blue Jays Spring Training baseball game. 🙂
I actually sent an audio review on Eli’s to the Rockin’ Ronnie. Still waiting on that to be published on one of his audiocasts.
Category: barbecue
podcast – Barbecue Secrets – Ron Shewchuk
Rockin’ Ronnie has done it. Posted his first audio podcast: interviews with barbecue experts, answers to listener questions, great recipes and useful tips and tricks.
You can find it in the Podcasts section of the iTunes music store. It’s free. You can subscribe to get future episodes.
But first check out his Barbecue Secrets podcast homepage. 
Want to become a podcaster?
Rockin’ Ronnie dreams of becoming a podcaster. Perhaps even a video podcaster. Always ahead of the trends, Ron posted a video clip last spring — called BSTV (Barbecue Secrets TV)
As another example, Ron bragged on AMANDA CONGDON, the anchor of a mock TV news report shot on a camcorder, edited on a laptop and posted on a blog called ROCKETBOOM, which now reaches more than 100,000 fans a day. Yowser!
I subscribed to her video podcast (vlog — video weblog) from the iTunes store immediately. Quite good, I thought.
One day everyone will have a blog. Everyone will be able to publish photos, music, video as easily as we can download them now.
Personalized content will be king.
TV Stardom on $20 a Day – New York Times
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photos – Barbecue party in Vancouver
A Rockin’ Ronnie Shewchuk fundraiser to help send his Barbecue team to the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational 2005.
To see all annotated photos, jump to the permanent webpage in Rick’s photo archive.
photos – Barbecue party in Calgary
A tasty BBQ fund-raiser helps Rockin’ Ronnie’s barbeque team — the Butt Shredders — compete in the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational 2004.
To see annotated photos jump to the permanent webpage in Rick’s photo archive.
photos – Jack Daniels BBQ championships 2003
Ian Baird’s photos of the Jack Daniel‘s World Championships Barbecue, in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
To see Ian’s photos jump to the permanent webpage in Rick’s photo archive.
Peter Finlay’s photos of the same trip.
photos – BBQ party 2003
Rockin’ Ronnie’s Butt Shredders, Canada’s most decorated barbecue champions — and blues legend Amos Garrett put on a party in Calgary June 8th.
To see the photos jump to the permanent webpage in Rick’s photo archive.
Happy Holidays! – Canada
Dec 24, 2001
You know those infrequent mass e-mails veiled behind the Blind Carbon Copy feature feigning intimacy while delivering a self-serving update on Rick’s recent doings?
This is one.
(Disclosure: I stole this introduction from Dean Kalyan)
Fall in Saskatoon is a wonderful season. Beautiful. Unfortunately — it’s winter.
I’m living near the University again. I love the buzz and energy of the U of S. There’s always something happening.
I’ve been working a bit for Keith at Kinesiology. It’s rumoured that my office is Browser’s Internet Café at U of S.
I was impressed that the E-plant came off again this year. It’s symbolic of the glorious chaos that is the University phase of life. In this annual frosh ritual the Engineering students kidnap one of the Agricultural students; lock him up for a week, feed him only beer and pizza, then crucify him on a gigantic E in the centre of the University.
The Agros rally to rescue the captive. A sprawling melee ensues where the painted combatants (red agros and blue engineers) grapple, ripping each other’s clothes off. (Warriors duct tape their clothes as armour.)
This year, for the first time, the kidnap victim was a woman. At U of S, I run noon hours with Bill and Doug. We were hitting the shower post-run along with dozens of blue-painted naked engineers. In walked one lone red naked Agro student … I’ve got to admit, that guy had balls.
I’m coaching at Taiso — but not too many hours / week. It’s been nice after my burnout last season.
It may be time to find a paying job in 2002. Let me know if you have any suggestions for me.
Earlier this Fall I stayed up late to watch the Leonid meteor shower — amazing.
Good on Canada for honouring our hero Nelson Mandela with Canadian citizenship. (Which Alliance MP hinted that Mandela was a terrorist and refused to return his phone call?) There are some true freedom fighters … Mandela, Gandhi & the Dali Lama.
I took a trip to Kansas City in October to help document the Kansas City Royal Barbeque Championships. Attracting 50,000 people, this is the biggest barbeque competition in the world. Huge prize money.
My friend Ron’s team had qualified for KC by winning US$1000 in Oregon.
Barbeque competition is weird and wonderful. But why do people take a perfectly tasty activity — scorching dead beast — and obfuscate it with rules, alcohol and the most subjective judging scheme conceivable?
Odd.
The only thing odder would be to reward little girls for doing difficult stunts high on a narrow beam.
All the best to you and yours in 2002!
Rick
p.s.
Last time I asked for intelligent, left-wing spokespeople who might responsibly balance all the (high-paid!) right wing types. I got some suggestions:
Billy Bragg
Rick Salutin (Globe and Mail)
Rex Murphy
CBC radio
Peter Gzowski
Happy New Year!
photos – Kansas City Royal barbecue
I joined Rockin’ Ronnie Shewchuk’s barbecue team as videographer to document the predicted victory at the Royal American competition. Great grub!
To see annotated competition photos jump to the permanent webpage in Rick’s photo archive.
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