Yes, yes, I know.\u00a0 I’ve been neglecting you for a few days.\u00a0 Aside from the occasional tale of nocturnal chaos, it’s been pretty slim pickin’s around here.<\/p>\n
As usual, it’s been busy , but I’m not going to rely on that old excuse for my postFAILage.\u00a0 I’ve been doing quite a bit of writing over the last week or so, just not for this site.\u00a0 For starters, I have finally completed the script I mentioned <\/a>some time ago.\u00a0 Tough slogging for me;\u00a0 not the kind of writing I’m used to doing at all – it needed to be informative and authentic, but youthful, was based primarily around dialog and I was pretty much completely unable to use any profanity – so I found it very difficult.\u00a0 Anyway, that’s one project finished (sort of*) which is something I am going to choose to be proud of, seeing as I am still laughably “working” away\u00a0at NaNoReMo 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition, I’ve been working on a piece about the NHL trade deadline and the reasonable expectations that Toronto Maple Leaf fans should have of their angry Irish overlord Mr. Burke over the next few days as the rebuild begins in earnest and – perhaps – various pieces of the team are dispersed across the continent in an effort to re-stock the MLSE cupboards.\u00a0 It’s not finished yet;\u00a0 I am hoping that a good night’s sleep, a hearty breakfast and a nice pot of tea will do the trick in that regard early tomorrow morning.\u00a0 I will post that as soon as I am finished;\u00a0 hopefully BEFORE the trade deadline actually passes…<\/p>\n I’ve also been moved to put virtual pen to paper on a few occasions over at Leaf-fan uber-site Pension Plan Puppets<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s been a busy week over there;\u00a0 first, there was the return of Mats Sundin to the Air Canada Centre last Saturday night, an emotional evening for all Leafs fans and an event that\u00a0had us\u00a0strangely and bitterly\u00a0divided<\/a> about how to receive our former Captain.\u00a0 I spent quite a bit of time defending Sundin and encouraging anyone who would listen to take the longer view and give Mats his due when he stepped on the ice (and I’m pleased to report that Leafs fans chose to\u00a0do exactly that when Sundin\u00a0was feted with a tribute video at the first TV timeout during that game.\u00a0 Then there was the whole\u00a0\u00a0“Brian Burke” controversy<\/a>,\u00a0during which Down Goes Brown<\/a> nearly broke the Internets by continuing to tweet as “Brian Burke”<\/a>, making humourous and insulting observations about various people around the NHL in a tour de force<\/em> of parody;\u00a0 the problem was that some people didn’t get the point of the joke<\/a> and couldn’t find their ass with a map and a flashlight, never mind grasp the nature of DGB’s jest.\u00a0 There were also three game threads to enjoy in the virtual company of my homies the Triple P peeps.\u00a0 The last of these games – versus the Islanders on Thursday night – also produced the outrageous Brendan Witt elbow to Niklas Hagman’s head<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I wrote a quick piece last night (posted at PPP) about the usefulness of the Tie Domi\/Scott Niedermayer\u00a0incident<\/a> in the 2001 playoffs as a useful comparator for measuring the appropriate suspension that Leafs fans were sure had to inevitably be coming.<\/p>\n