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Who the F%#% is Tim Brent?

By junior on October 11, 2010, at 6:20 pm

Questions Will Become Answers: Tim Brent Edition ('shop lifted from a comment by loserdomi on PPP)

Who the fuck is Tim Brent? It’s a question that has circulated in the Barilkosphere – sometimes semi-seriously, mostly in jest – since some time after he signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization as a free agent […]

October 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: NHL, Tim Brent, Toronto Maple Leafs | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Them Blades at Mitzi’s Sister

By junior on March 21, 2010, at 4:25 pm

Met up with a few of the folks from Pension Plan Puppets last night for the very first time in person. Thanks to the organiz-y efforts of @kidkawartha, Spouse and I were able to meet him and @kimjorn for dinner at Mitzi’s Sister on Queen St. W. in Toronto before Them Blades took the stage […]

March 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: HiR:tb | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Blog Interrupted: Explanatory Explanation Dept.

By junior on February 27, 2009, at 11:39 pm

Yes, yes, I know. I’ve been neglecting you for a few days. Aside from the occasional tale of nocturnal chaos, it’s been pretty slim pickin’s around here.

As usual, it’s been busy , but I’m not going to rely on that old excuse for my postFAILage. I’ve been doing quite a bit of writing over […]

February 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Hockey, New York Islanders, NHL, Toronto Maple Leafs | Comments are closed

Bower, Avery and Honky the Christmas Goose: Invective Dept.

By junior on December 6, 2008, at 4:11 am

After many years of searching, last night I managed to find (thanks to the glory that is teh Intarwebs) not one but TWO copies of Johnny Bower’s vocal masterpiece, Honky the Christmas Goose. Recorded for charity in 1965, the tune gave the Beatles a battle on the CHUM charts in Toronto for a while that […]

December 6th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Hockey, Music, Toronto Maple Leafs | Comments are closed

Birds, Louts, and Losing

By junior on April 19, 2008, at 12:45 pm

A couple of days ago, I congratulated myself for sticking with this blog project fairly consistently. I then promptly disappeared for a couple of days. So it goes.

A few things:

As I type this post, I am seated out back of the family estate here in Juniorvania on a Muskoka chair that needs a […]

April 19th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Hockey, Juniorvania, NHL, Philadelphia Flyers, Theories Dept., Washington Capitals | Comments are closed

Shameless Self Promotion Dept.

By junior on March 28, 2008, at 11:41 am

Hey, my ode to another lost season got front paged at Pension Plan Puppets!

March 28th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: HiR:tb, Toronto Maple Leafs | Comments are closed