Oh, I had a New York girlfriend
And she couldn’t understand how I could
Still love my parents and still love the old world
So I told her “I want to keep my place in the old world”
Well the old world may be dead
Our parents can’t understand
But I still love my parents
And I still love the old world.
vs 
Game Time: 7:00PM Central
TV/Radio: The Channel Formerly Known As Versus, CBC (Anglo), RDS (Franco), WGN-AM 720
Some People Try To Pick Up Girls And Get Called Assholes: Cup of Chowder, Days of Y’Orr
Well now, has everyone stocked up on caffeine and other crucial supplies? Ready for another 5 hour hockey game? No? Well me either. If there’s one thing to take away from Wednesday’s game, it’s that there aren’t going to be any easy victories for either team in this series. The Hawks started the game as the team looking like they had a message to send. I don’t think we’ve seen them be quite so physical right from the drop of the puck in a while. Everyone knows the Bruins are the bigger team with the nastier reputation, so the Hawks clearly wanted to send a message that they would not be intimidated. Interesting strategy…
Tom Petty is proof that not everything that comes from Florida is terrible. Or maybe he’s just the exception that proves the rule. Petty had minor success with a few bands before forming The Heartbreakers and started to gain popularity with a few small albums. It would be their third album Damn The Torpedos though that broke everything open for Tom Petty and his band. This is one of the albums that’s so good it almost counts as a Greatest Hits collection.
Petty would enjoy strong success for a decade after and toured extensively and decided to form a new side project with a few friends he met along the way… Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison and Roy Orbison. You know, no big deal.
Anyways, if 2010 never happened, I’d feel slightly uncomfortable posting this song. But the dream came true a few summers ago. And we’re on our way again.
And, as our Ombudsman says “Hockey is like Tom Petty. Life is just better when that’s in it.” Indeed.
I suppose time will tell if there was something in the Hawks game that got to Jonathan Quick, or if the star goalie simply had a string of bad games at the worst possible time for LA. There seemingly wasn’t a lot the Hawks did to rattle Quick other than find ways to beat him. And Duncan Keith’s goal to open the scoring on Saturday is still pretty baffling to me. Either way, the Blackhawks were facing perhaps the best goalie in the league coming in at damn near the top of his game and they found a way to beat him.
They’ll need to find whatever charm they used in the WCF and bottle it to save over the next few games because it looks like they’re going to have to do it all over again as they face the young Finn Tuukka Rask.
If you were going to be one of the leaders among the Free Folk north of The Wall, it probably helps to have one gigantic kickass beard. And while in the books, I believe Tormund Giantsbane is supposed to be older with a large white beard, I give all the credit in the world to Benioff and Weiss for casting the Norwegian actor Kristofer Hivju in the role of Tormund. I know that some of you haven’t seen all of the episodes yet (shame on you) and probably more haven’t read all the books (That I can understand… I’m still on the 5th book anyway) so I won’t go into the full details of Tormund’s story.
Hivju himself seems to have adopted this impressive beard as a lifelong companion. My guess is he was probably to grow this thing around the age of 5. I’ve only ever seen Hivju in one role outside of Game of Thrones, in the 2011 remake of The Thing. (It’s OK. The original is better and one of my favorite horror movies of all time. The remake does have Mary Elizabeth Winstead in it though… so that alone makes it instantly watchable). My guess is after his role in Game Of Thrones we’ll start to see him in far more roles… at least I hope so.
You didn’t think we’d forget to make a beard post today, did you?
The drama and stress from last night’s game probably took several years off my life. And if the game didn’t, the whiskey afterwards certainly did. How could we combat that and the stress that will certainly come when the Hawks take on the Bruins in the first Original 6 Finals since 1979.
Well the Fountain of Youth would certainly help. And if there’s one person who knows all about the Fountain, it’s Jaromir Jagr… but he’s not going to help us so we’ll have to go with Juan here instead.
In actuality, Ponce De Leon was most likely never actually looking for the Fountain of Youth. Most people didn’t associate him with that story until after his death, perhaps to discredit him and make him look foolish. He was likely just after gold but instead found himself getting an arrow in the thigh.
And, I learned today that Ponce De Leon was actually on board Christopher Columbus’ second voyage to the Americas as a “gentleman volunteer”.
Fear of death is so close
Crimes on our heads
Are we ignorant, blind?
Afraid to swallow our pride
The people are battlefields
East and West
The lines are drawn
How are you to live?
Has it been 40 years?
Still a hostage
New kind of fascist
There in West Germany
