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  • I Guess You Have To Have A Problem If You Want To Invent A Contraption: Hawks 1 – Scum 3 (Scum lead 2-1)

    I Guess You Have To Have A Problem If You Want To Invent A Contraption: Hawks 1 – Scum 3 (Scum lead 2-1)

    Well isn’t this fun?

    Let’s get some things out of the way first, because they probably need to be addressed. It’s not over. It’s not fucked. Quite simply, and maybe it’s just my opinion, but the Hawks are where or very close to where they need to be. There will be a lot of panic these next two days, they will be Chinese water torture, but if you can find a reasonable Wings fan they will tell you that nothing is cinched up here.

    Will Thursday be fun? Oh god no. By the time puck drop hits you’ll be in cold sweats and Johnny Walker Blue won’t even get you out of it. Will you sleep between now and then? No, probably not. But we’ve been here before. I thought it was over down 2-1 to the Preds in 2010. They answered. They’ll answer again. Not even that much has to change.

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  • Hawks at Wings Game 3 3rd Period Thread

    I tried a subtle suggestion

    A more direct approach

    A can’t make a connection

    You’re beyond reproach

  • Hawks at Wings Game 3 2nd Period Thread

    You’re very pleased with yourself I see,

    It’s like a walk in the park

    You aren’t enlightened by anybody else,

    cause You can see in the dark

  • Hawks at Wings Game 3 1st Period Thread

    Now that you have my attention,

    What are you gonna do?

    You might have good intentions

    But they’re not coming through…

  • Making Love In A Firefight: Hawks at Wings Game 3 Preview/Pregame Thread/Brake Pad Replacing

    Hawk Wrestler vs. chevy-volt-destroyed-crash-no-fire-628

    FACEOFF: 6:30pm Central

    TV/RADIO: NBCSN, CBC for the hosers, WGN 720am

    REVERSE METATRON: Winging It In Motown

    For the first time in this playoff run, the sphincters are tightening just a bit. The Hawks face some actual adversity. While this isn’t a must-win game for them — any of the two in Bailout Town will do, really — you wouldn’t want to be around if the Hawks actually trail in this series. Combined with a bounce back needed from the condor egg the Hawks laid on Saturday afternoon, and we all could use a fiery effort tonight.

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  • Beard Of The Day – May 21st – Paul Rudd


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    Though often clean-shaven and seeming un-aging, Paul Rudd is more than capable of rocking a fantastic beard when the time is right. Rudd got his first break in the movie Clueless, playing a dopey college student. He used that fame to get other minor roles in dramas and TV but really seemed to find a place when he fell into the role of Andy in The State’s Wet Hot American Summer, which still remains one of my favorite comedies.

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  • Morning Links 5/20/13

    Morning Links 5/20/13

    Rattlehead is playing in Game 3: Chicago Tribune

    Dream a little dream: Daily Herald

    Time to get excited: Comcast Autoplay

    Pace: Blackhawk Up

    Prove it: ESPN

    Convergence? NHL

  • Beard Of The Day – May 18th – David Foster Wallace

    david-foster-wallace-2d7939a867950051042d8032609ff97d55b73b19-s6-c10If you’ve never attempted to read Infinite Jest, doing so during the playoffs is probably not a good time to start. Wait until after the finals are over and you may just finish up before the playoffs begin again in 2014. The book clocks in at just over 1,000 pages and is filled with topics ranging from tennis, substance abuse, film theory and like any good novel –  Quebecois terrorists. Infinite Jest isn’t going to be something that you’re able to fly through (it’s got more characters than Game Of Thrones and more footnotes than your senior thesis) but if you can make your way through it, it’s pretty incredible.

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  • If You Can Hear A Piano Fall: Scum 4 – Hawks 1 (Series Tied 1-1)

    If You Can Hear A Piano Fall: Scum 4 – Hawks 1 (Series Tied 1-1)

    After Game 1 Mike Babcock declared that the 4-1 scoreline was perfectly justified to represent how the game went. After Game 2, Joel Quenneville was just as assured that this 4-1 scoreline was indicative of what went on. Both were perfectly correct.

    While it’s hardly cause for panic or tearing one’s hair out (if you’re unlike me and have any), Detroit was the far better team today. At times, it felt as if the Hawks felt as if it would be as easy as it was in Game 1 for the final 40 minutes. However, that completely discounts that they’re playing the DETROIT RED WINGS. While it’s something you can’t quantify, no matter the talent or speed deficit, the players on that team do come with a bathtub of pride and are not simply going to let anyone have their way.

    Yeah, I know. That speaks to a “flatness.” But that’s a component today. The Hawks were just simply not working as hard as Detroit, who made it clear they knew they had to have this game (which they did). The Hawks didn’t match that. That’s not the whole reason they lost today, but it’s definitely part of it.

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  • Scum At Blackhawks – Game 2 – Third Period Thread

    The way they pull you over it’s suspicious
    Yeah, for something that just ain’t your fault
    If you complain they’re gonna get vicious
    Kick in your teeth and charge you with assault