A Post To Break Up The Sadness And Kinda Sorta Wish A Friend Good Luck

I disappeared for a few days and then came back with two posts full of sadness. Sadness is part of life, but we can’t be sad all the time. So to lighten the mood, here’s a video of Levon Helm being awesome. I would also like to take a moment to wish Ro and her …

Do Not Use Borat For Research

Ya know, in my old story about the blunder in the Croatian national anthem where an opera singer belted out a line about having a penis that was a mountain, I said that if something laughable happens during the singing of the national anthem, we should just laugh it off. Well, in the case of …

More Thoughts On The Leafs And Goaltenders

In my last post, I talked a bit about the Leafs and their goaltender issues. I said I wasn’t quite sure what the problem is, but I think Mike Brophy nailed a good part of it in this piece. It’s partly coaching, but my biggest problem has been with consistency, which I suppose makes it …

When Being A Baby Isn’t Really Being A Baby

Kerry Fraser might be the enemy of Leafs fans everywhere for blowing that call in 1993 and costing the team a trip to the Cup final, but I’ll give credit where it’s due. Guy writes some pretty informative stuff for TSN these days. I just came across this one while catching up on some reading …

It’s The Occupy VC Cast

Well, it is here. The Occupy VC Cast, the Occucast, whatever you want to call it, it’s here…and it’s about to occupy about 2 hours of your time. It would be awesome if you found it 99% funny. We divided it into 4 parts. It would have been only 3, but well, ya see, I’m …

An Unwritten Rule Of Hockey

I doubt this comes up in many training camps, so here’s a good tip for all you kids out there. If you’re gonna play hockey, always, always! remember which team you’re on. It might just save you a punch in the face during a goal celebration one day. Here’s a description of what’s going on …

Weekend Audio: Lunchless Lunches, Shattered Bowls And Talking Beer Koozies

At longish last, audio is back! This piece should have gone up last week, but due to the small matter of it not being recorded until right now, that didn’t happen. On this here 18.5 minute adventure into something or other, we touch on such topics as the good and bad of the #LunchUpGuelph event …