Faxes from Uncle Dale

Category: Everything Else

  • What. Ever.: Yotes 2 – Hawks 2 (Seattle wins Odds n' Evens)

    I have to admit to getting a real joy out of the no-context hockey of the past two nights. There are things I could try and make something out of. But I can’t convince myself that they really matter. Yeah, another attacked-by-bees effort from Crawford. A second night in a row a team with all the offensive punch of a possum on anti-depressants was able to muster a mountain of 3rd period shots. Some very sloppy play from the Hawks all over.

    But it just feels more like a common cold to be shirked than a stronger disease sinking in. I guess we’ll find out more tomorrow night, where it’s probably not possible to treat any game against Vancouver as just another one to be ticked off the schedule.

    But hey, you come for bullets.

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  • Third Period Thread – Coyotes vs Hawks

    Sleep all day, drink your life away, it’s another step closer to the comfort of the grave.

    And you’re more beautiful than you were on the day that we first met, my Angel of The Not-Yet-Buried-Dead.

  • Second Period Thread – Coyotes vs Hawks

    Where the corpses of our motivations hang, on the gallows over-ripe with shit like colostomy bags.

  • First Period Thread – Coyotes vs Hawks

    Catching up on nothing in the basement I call home, dismantling discussions on a piss-soaked telephone.

  • Fix Up, Look Sharp – Coyotes vs Blackhawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Clam Bake

    spacecoyote vs oldschool

    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: WGN Ch. 9, 97.9 The Loop (What?)
    Stevie Nicks’ Fajita Roundup: Five For Howling

    It’s a weird limbo the Hawks find themselves in in this final week of the regular season. For all intents and purposes the games don’t matter, for both the Hawks and their opposition. Though tonight’s opponent in Phoenix does have the slightest sliver of hope, however futile it might be.

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  • You're Never Gonna Stop All the Teenage Leather and Booze: Blackhawks 5, Preds 4

    As the season winds down, the results hold less and less meaning. Particularly when the Hawks are matched up against a team that will not be attending the playoffs. There is pretty much next to nothing to take away from these games. Nothing that happened tonight will change anyone’s feelings about the Hawks and whatever shortcomings they may have.

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  • You’re Never Gonna Stop All the Teenage Leather and Booze: Blackhawks 5, Preds 4

    As the season winds down, the results hold less and less meaning. Particularly when the Hawks are matched up against a team that will not be attending the playoffs. There is pretty much next to nothing to take away from these games. Nothing that happened tonight will change anyone’s feelings about the Hawks and whatever shortcomings they may have.

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  • Preds at Hawks 3rd Period Thread

     One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

    Rich she shall be, that’s certain; wise, or I’ll none; virtuous, or I’ll never cheapen her; fair, or I’ll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what colour it please God.

  • Preds at Hawks 2nd Period Thread

    I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he rather hear the tabour and the pipe:

    I have known when he would have walked ten mile a foot to see a good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes.

    May I be so converted and see with these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not.

  • Preds at Hawks 1st Period Thread

    I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love,

    will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by failing in love:

    and such a man is Claudio.