New York Islanders Rookie Camp Fight

Watch out world; I just learnt how to embed a video directly on the blog. Now i don't have to rely on Big Brother's Youtube with their annoying pre-video advertisements.  So for my 1st post-advertising linked video, I give you this adorable little bit of poor sportsmanship from what must be the New York Islanders family appreciation skate day.  I am guessing that this is a young John Tavares taking on a petulant Matt Moulson over who gets to use the hockey stick first today.  As you can see, a confused Michael Grabner tries to intervene to no avail and then comes the cute chase to see who can get to the team trainer first to declare an upper-body injury.




fer pete's sake, another commercial?  Internet where have you gone wrong???

Have picture, need story...

There seems to be so much to say about this picture, but then again, maybe not.  The Goalie in question looks like a statue from some mythic hockey/LOTR video game and the camera guy looks like he's about to shoot something out of his mechanical rocket penis gadget thing but is kinda ashamed about it.  

The goalie must be thinking 'what the fuck, dude?' 

It's late, i'm tired...maybe i will write something better later...

Artists Against Bowling...

So, back to that previous article where i discussed that i was wanting to write about something but had forgotten it....  it finally came to me tonight while lying down for my nap before bedtime.  Only 22 hours after it had originally crossed my mind but finally my brain went 'ahhhh...' and went on holiday, seeing as how it has only had 4 hours sleep in the last 4o.

So, what was missing from my last night recollections. While listening to the radio on the way to work i heard a cover of Cyndi Lauper's True Colours. My first reaction was 'man, that's bad' and then my second was 'i miss Cyndi Lauper. She has a great unique voice and such awesome 80's hair.'  This cover was a duet, with a woman who sounded suspiciously like Sarah McLaughlin and a guy who sounded like nobody I could place. I have no idea who he could have been and still don't.

So the song ends and the announcer describe the song as coming from 'Artists Against Bowling' and at first I thought I must have heard that wrong.  What would Artists have against bowling?  Then, having just taken my 3 year old daughter bowling, i realized it made perfect sense.

I don't even really want to google this to find out if it's not true.  If there is anyplace that music can not be heard as general ambiance, it's in a bowling alley so no wonder musical artists would hate bowling lanes. The loud rumbling of the bowling balls down the lane, the TOCK! of balls rolling back and hitting other balls, the CRASH of balls hitting lanes; it's bedlam on the eardrums. How am i supposed to hear the latest hit single from Pro Tools in all that noise? My daughter, bless her heart, also couldn't take all that aural stimuli and requested to go have a break in the back room three times, where it was so much quieter.

this isn't a picture, this is video...

She would then return and in one momentous roll, captured forever on video, proceeded to Fred Flintstone the slowest bowl ever. I was wanting to place bets if the ball would actually completely stop before getting to the end. I could have gone out for a coffee and came back and the ball still wouldn't have made it to the end. When i finally took out my phone camera and started filming it it took another 30 seconds for it to FINALLLLLLY crawl to the end.  To give you an idea how slow it was going, it actually tapped a pin but failed to knock it over, and bowling pins are notoriously easy to make topple, like a African government with anti-American leanings.

But I digress.. Artists Against Bowling.  Watch for it, support it.  Unless you are a bowler.


addendum...curse you google. Curiosity got the better of me and I had to fact-check, hoping against hope that there were a lot of pissed off anti-bowling musical artists out there. There's not.

Here's the video;

Bullying.  NOT Bowling.  Man, do i feel stupid...sorta, but not really.

How and How Not to Have a Hockey Fight

First; let's start with these two guys who will go down in history as 'those two guys who had a great fight not-fight'.

One of these guys apparently represents the Cornwall River Kings, which is so close to Corn hole that it's too easy.  I don't know who the other team is.  A google search tells me that they are both tough guys and are playing in the NAHL, which is basically a french (you can tell by their names) semi-pro league (you can tell by the ice).  Plus, NAHL stands for Nord America Hockey League.  Nord is french for North. I think.

So let's see how to have a real hockey fight;

I am sure it's just a coincidence that at the top are two french guys, at the bottom there are two not french guys.  I think Don Cherry is calling me to go out for some pops now.

But in all fairness, it's not just because they are in different leagues.  Here's another classic not-fight between two guys that aren't french.  One of them is actually Irish, which makes this slightly more embarrassing as he went on to become quite the punching bag in later tilts with Mark Messier and Wendell Clark, to name a few.

Rambling thoughts Dad...chuggachuggachugga

So, driving on my way to work tonight and i thought of something profound, which i thought i could write about that tonight.  i can't remember what it is now, so i'm just going to randomly write down my thoughts that i remember to see if it comes to me....

My wife doesn't 'like' a free dining room table and chairs i got, which i find annoying. I don't 'like' the table either, I'm not expecting to go out in public with it or anything. I just expect it to hold my food, which i think it will do a good job at.  Maybe, just maybe, i will put other things on it and i will expect it to just as well.  I don't need to 'like' it; it's a table.

lame and annoying

cool and retro-hip

My wife also doesn't like that i exchanged her large utensil holder for my large utensil holder, which is basically a ketchup can but also came with 2.5 bottles of ketchup. I think it's supercool.  My wife prefers her wirey contraption which is basically a skeleton framed square can which barely holds the utensils in it and probably cost 2x as much. I think most guys would agree that mine is better.  i remember thinking that this may be a good article for dumbwhitehusband.com. She has since tried to put my supercool large utensil holder in the recycling but i rescued it and put it up on a top shelf where she can't reach it because she's short.


I started thinking about the saying 'Study like you've never studied before' which to me is a pretty stupid saying.  Should be something like 'Study like you are super smart' or something would be better. I wondered briefly if i should attempt stand-up comedy but then the light changed and I drove on.

oh yah, there was something about that novel; i needed to write a quick mention of Norman, perhaps in the cafe at the start where the two guys are describing other secret agents that have wandered through town in their various disguises, like a telephone repairman and whatever else spies pretend to be. hey, did i just write a teaser?

i promised that i would go for at least 90 minutes studying tonight, which i did.  yay me.

Some thoughts on the other 'evil' disney villains that are overlooked.  No big thing there.  Yet...I still feel that i am forgetting something...