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Speaking of cool...

My new favorite band of the week is the Distillers. They are cool.

And their lead singer Brody Armstrong is the coolest
http://www.thedistillers.net/april_brody5.jpg

The band just switched from playing the Warped Tour [a/k/a the 14-18 year old crowd] to Headlining Stage 2 at Lollapalooza [a/k/a the 17 to 22 year old crowd].

Apparently, she just separated from her husband Tim, lead singer of Rancid, which happens to be headlining Warped, and now shacking with Josh of QOTSA, who happens to be playing Lollapalooza. Very, very cool.

The NHL version of "Joltin Joe has left, and gone away."
 

This is a no-brainer -- the Thrashers, of course. Two of the most exciting young players in the sport today (Heatley and Kovalchuk), a goalie "this" close to being a superstar (Nurminen) and some great scrapping (Exelby, natch, laid waste with one punch to the Habs tough-guy in his first big-league game -- awww, what's his nuts, I don't remember now). We have great guys in the system and I think a full season with Coach Hartley will be the difference next season ---- they can store the Cup at my house. Second place you ask? Watch the Sabres because, well, because I must love the Sabres by virtue of genetics.

Best course of action? Order the NHL Center Ice package on your dish and watch them all. I mean, do people really do anything except watch hockey between October and May?

The NHL version of "Joltin Joe has left, and gone away."
 

The neutral-zone trap: Basically the defense blocks passing lanes in the neutral zone so the offense has to dump in the puck. It's awful, an abomination and renders the game so boring that you are tempted to switch the channel to (gasp) basketball. The Ducks and the Devils both play some version of the trap. It stinks. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.

I hate the Devils because they tend to beat the Leafs. That drives me nuts. I just hate them as a team though, not individually. For example, I hate Brodeur when he is a Devil, but not when he is winning the Olympics for my country. It's like the Flyers. Simon Gagne is hateful when he is a Flyer, but not when he's playing for Canada. It's irrational but there you go. Basically I hate all teams that are not the Leafs.

I think I've now used the word hate so much it's rendered meaningless. And I'm actually having a pretty good day.

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To each his own.

Hoops and Movie Rec
 

The movie is fascinating.

I spent an evening at the theater a couple of years ago listening to Tibetan sacred music. Their throat-singing is just extraordinary. The singing in The Fast Runner reminded me of the Tibetans.

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OMG. She is wearing a Warzone t-shirt. From their tour supporting the album "Don't Forget the Struggle, Don't Forget the Streets." I saw them in like 1986. Lower East Side Crew -- yeah baby. Their lead singer had a "thing" for me and sent me signed copies of everything. His name was Ray-Beez. Skin-head band. Oh shit, that brings back memories. I used to look like this chick only my 'hawk was a true one and it rawked. :cool:

Fuck, was that outable?

The NHL version of "Joltin Joe has left, and gone away."
 

A mediocre Panthers team perfected it and rode it all the way to the Finals. Since then, its become a widespread annoyance throughout the League.

The Devils sit right in the heart of the Rangers suburbs and have no substantial fan base. They are a winning franchise, yet they can only sell out at home when the Rangers come to town [i.e. drive through the tunnel and 10 minutes into Jersey]. These Finals are the first games sold out in advance.

Their fans don't even fucking cheer. They barely booed Holik for chrissakes.

not7yS

The NHL version of "Joltin Joe has left, and gone away."
 

Indeed. I remember when the Devils played the Leafs a few years ago in the playoffs. I went to a few games and it was the Toronto fans making the most noise in the Meadowlands. Very sad. I think they are moving to Newark? Or maybe that is just a rumor.

Greg Smith, boy genius
 

I'm afraid your memory is fading, old man. I spent that time back at your apartment with your mom.

The NHL version of "Joltin Joe has left, and gone away."
 

Yeah, Toronto fans can be counted on for that --:rolleyes:

I remember going to Sabres games with my uncle in the early eighties and we used to go up to the oranges and dump cups of assorted "stuff" on Toronto fans below. I was young, my uncle was fucking weird and the Toronto fans were assholes.

But I :love: GWNC

The NHL version of "Joltin Joe has left, and gone away."
 

He's really one of the ones that I know I'm going to tell my kids and grandkids about seeing. But how can you convey through words the sight of Roy shrugging his shoulders and bobbing his head back and forth with that crazy look in his eye? You can't.

Roy's defining moment came not on the ice, but at a press conference where he was asked, during a Phoenix/Colorado series, about Jeremy Roenick's comments that Roy was very beatable. Patrick's response: "I can't really hear what Jeremy says because I've got two Stanley Cup rings plugging my ears."

We'll miss ya Patty. You were the best.

Paige versus Alex
 

Only history can judge, but I say Alex sucked. Her reveals were terrible. "Look at your new armoir! Look at your new lamp! Look at the rug!" Blech.

Paige, by comparison, does pretty good reveals --- she asks questions, for example. She comports herself relatively well in very awkward or painful reveals, like the infamous Seattle fireplace episode. She is like Carol of Changing Rooms in this regard. I don't agree with her decision to pretend that she's actually some kind of authority figure. "Doug, you're over budget again!" "Vern, it's four o'clock on day 2! Tick-tock!" Spare me. But the rest of her designer interviews are far superior to Alex's. She flirts especially well with Doug, which is funny because while Paige has a sweet, sweet ass, he'd probably rather watch a reveal of Ty's pooper. NTTAWWT.

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It occurs to me that my firm does not have a hairstyle policy. At least I don't know about it if we do. So, theoretically, I could come into work tomorrow with a three foot tall mohawk and it would be aaiiight.

Out of curiousity, how did you grow out your mohawk? Did you have to shave your head and let it all grow back together?

The NHL version of "Joltin Joe has left, and gone away."
 

Most Jersey-ites that I grew up with were Islander fans. But this is back when there were still helmet-less players in the league, so that may have changed.

You're right, the fans don't cheer.

Paige versus Alex
 

1. The second sweet was gratuitous and it made me feel less hot.

2. Pooper strikes me as a better word for toilet than for ass. It's like a less crass version of crapper. It's a decidedly unsexy way to describe Ty's decidedly sexy, sexy, ass.

(When I saw Roger Dodger it took me a second to realize that he was not saying that Isabella Rossellini liked to do it in the bathroom.)