Showing posts with label birthdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthdays. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2012

Happy (Goalless) Anniversary!

Okay, admit it.  You saw this one coming.  No, this is not a piece bashing the Montreal Canadiens (again), although you can make an argument to the contrary.  As a matter of fact, I'm not going to bash Scott Gomez and his ability to go one whole year without scoring a goal.  That would be too easy, and some folks in Montreal beat me to it, so rather, I will say to Mr. Gomez: Congratulations!  You are Montreal's problem for the next two years, and the other 29 teams are happy.

I said I wasn't going to bash Gomez on this special day, though it almost ended yesterday in a 3-0 win over Winnipeg.  Trust me, this is as close as Gomez has gotten to scoring a goal, but I will leave it to a few folks from the band The Insomniacs to put it in words:


Saturday, February 5, 2011

Out of the Snow

Fresh from digging out of the blizzard that put everything to a standstill on Tuesday, it dawned on me that the one year anniversary of this blog is fast approaching.  So, what is it that I should do for the next week?  Well, there is a movie that I have seen that I have yet to write about, and a book that I'm nearing the finish and I hope to finish it in time to start reading another book (a toss-up between World War Z, which I've started on a few pages, and Ashes in Her Eyes, the third Alan Spencer novel that was released not too long ago).  Decisions, decisions...