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  • Beard Of The Day – May 4th – Robert Kirkman

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    What do you do when you’ve created one of the most popular comic series going these days? You clearly turn it into one of the highest watched television series as well. Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead comic series and Executive Producer of the television show, is probably doing pretty well for himself these days based on the success of these two ventures.

    Since starting the comic in 2003, he’s produced more than 100 issues and continues to get a lot of milage out of something as simple as a zombie presence. As people who are only watching the show may be starting to realize, it’s not always (and these days rarely ever) the zombies that are the true threat. It’s also great to see that show and the books have become pretty drastically different entities while maintaining the same overall feel. There are different characters, different story lines and quite a few surprising deaths.

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  • It's Just A Walk In The Park: Wild 2 – Hawks 5 (Hawks take 2-0 lead)

    It's Just A Walk In The Park: Wild 2 – Hawks 5 (Hawks take 2-0 lead)

    I know we only post a video in a wrap for a very certain occasion, but this felt apt. Whereas the Wild caused a few half-heart flutters in Game 1, this one very much felt like a boat race. Once Michael Frolik — and perhaps from here on out he should be referred to by his full name, “Playoff Dynamo Michael Frolik” — put the Hawks ahead in the first, there was never a moment where it felt like the Wild would catch them. And that’s how it played out.

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  • It’s Just A Walk In The Park: Wild 2 – Hawks 5 (Hawks take 2-0 lead)

    It’s Just A Walk In The Park: Wild 2 – Hawks 5 (Hawks take 2-0 lead)

    I know we only post a video in a wrap for a very certain occasion, but this felt apt. Whereas the Wild caused a few half-heart flutters in Game 1, this one very much felt like a boat race. Once Michael Frolik — and perhaps from here on out he should be referred to by his full name, “Playoff Dynamo Michael Frolik” — put the Hawks ahead in the first, there was never a moment where it felt like the Wild would catch them. And that’s how it played out.

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  • Game 2 Post Game Thread

    He’s got the ponytail, I’ve got the rabbit ears. He’s fly and I’m fly, that’s why they call us…

  • Game 2 – Third Period Thread – Wild vs Hawks

    This crossroad lies before us now, and the world watches our every move. While we choose which way to go, we still have so much left to lose.

  • Game 2 – Second Period Thread – Wild vs Hawks

    But there’s a change coming on, we gotta right these fucking wrongs. They can cover their ears, but we won’t stop screaming.

  • Game 2 – First Period Thread – Wild vs Hawks

    These obvious manipulations, predicated on the basis of morals. The unseen eyes, so careless in their calculations, forever washing the blood from their hands with an appetite insatiable.

  • Pour Me Another – Game 2 Wild vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, All Ages Show

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    Game Time: 8:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN, CBC (Anglo), RDS2 (Franco), WGN-AM 720
    File Under: Easy Listening: Hockey Wilderness

    In the two days since the Hawks came out flat, taking far longer to dispatch the Wild than many were expecting or would have liked, the Blues and Penguins have already won the Stanley Cup a couple of times over, so tonight’s Game 2 between the Hawks and Wild is more than likely an exercise in futility. But in spite of all of that, the two teams are going to play anyway.

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  • Beard Of The Day – May 3 – Jarvis Cocker

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    For about ten minutes in the mid-90s (an entirely different era than the early 90s),  BritPop made its way stateside. Oasis’ Gallagher brothers were busy drunkenly beating the piss out of each other literally and verbally, and Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon of Blur became the unwitting writers of the biggest hockey arena anthem ever, despite the rest of their catalog sounding nothing like “Song 2” (which was a piss-take on the Pixies’ “Tame” anyway).  But under the radar, Jarvis Cocker’s Pulp was releasing consistently fantastic albums.

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  • Morning Links 5/3/13

    Morning Links 5/3/13

    Zeus adds chemistry: (Comcast Chicago)

    Cooler heads must prevail: (Daily Herald)

    Backstrom doubtful: (Twincities.com)

    Emery and Bolland out: (ESPN)

    Ticket prices to rise 30 percent: (Chicago Tribune)

    Needless to say, I hope Lars Eller is ok: (TSN)

    Don Cherry is still old and needs to go away: (Toronto Sun)

    Hmmmm:(Chicago Tribune)