So the hockey gods, having recently accomplished their purposes – to maximize the suffering and anguish of devoted puck afficionados – have tossed away the Toronto Maple Leafs and their fans like a sullied and broken plaything. Having breathed the breath of false life into the Leafs’ season, fanning the flames of hope into a […]
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You may recall the first annual HiR:tb Saskatchewan Roughriders Poetry Contest. We have a winner. The winning entry was submitted by Roland Taylor, curator of the only known collection of the sonnets of Havingevoofer Trauserkov, the noted Russian composer, renaissance man and jack-of-all trades. Trauserkov’s sonnet, penned long before the founding of the CFL, appears […] I know this is getting comical, but I just don’t have the time to post the Roughrider poetry contest winner tonight. With a little luck, an easterly crosswind and a downhill lie, I’ll get it posted tomorrow night. In the meantime, I need to tell you about my trip to Paris today. Like most people, […] Hey, my ode to another lost season got front paged at Pension Plan Puppets! With apologies to Don McLean – not the guy who sits next to Don Cherry on HNIC, the singer/songwriter – I give you an ode to another lost season: Bye, Bye Mr. Peddie Bye Bye. Not a long, long time ago… I can still remember How that jersey used to make me smile. And […] JUNIORVANIA (AP) – Senior officials in the Juniorvanian Ministry of External Affairs and Department of Homeland Security tonight confirmed rumours running rampant in this tiny hillside country that the nation was nearly overrun earlier this evening by a hostile army of four-legged intruders bent on destroying the natural beauty of the homeland. The aliens in […] Quickly, a few things. Today was the occasion of the first commute to work since the great migration. I have to confess I had some anxiety about this aspect of our move; formerly, we were able to log a twenty minute door-to-door trip to get to work, which definitely had its advantages (I can almost […] …and re-attached itself to the Grid! It lives! In, according to Spouse, disgusting Smell-o-Vision™! I see that during my period of un-connectedness, the spam fairies have paid a visit in the Comments section. Note to self: have senior technicians at the Juniorvanian Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) get on that little problem. The People demand an […] BREAKING NEWS: It’s official, as of 4:25 p.m. All hail the founding of Juniorvania! Spouse and I are headed out to the Kingdom this evening and will be spending the night there on an air mattress and in a sleeping bag. Bliss! |
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My Review: Great Review
I highly recommend e‘s review of Dave Bidini’s Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places.
It seems kind of silly to review a review – how many layers of abstraction can people tolerate, after all – so suffice to say that e managed to put her virtual finger, very eloquently, on […]