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Midnight Sun Espresso Stout
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The year that I turned forty I celebrated by doing three big things. Two were planned. One was not.Lets go backwards, shall we? Well it was just under two months to my fortieth when I came home from a Capsule victory in which I had played quite well, a two to one victory over our biggest...
I Love Myself Some Colm Meaney
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The truth about life is this. Unless you are independently wealthy or a professional athlete or in some other profession that puts you in a position where big things happen to you a lot, life is not full of big moments. Its the small moments that make life what it is.Sure you have...
Piling On
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A couple of great contributions to the Sphere from Tyler Dellow and Andy Grabia. The comments thread on Ty's post is pure gold, actually the one on the Penner post is as well. A lot of the old guard, so to speak, chiming in. Great to see.The Oilers seem to be emerging from the...
Can You Hear The Drums Fernando?
9 days ago by
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Some frightening news today. Fernando Pisani has been sent home halfway through the roadtrip as his colitis has flared up again.Now I'm no doctor, although I play one on TV, but I would presume that if its serious enough to send him home then its pretty serious. And what this means...
Will Bird
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When Will Bird was twenty three years old, in 1914, war broke out in Europe. His youngest brother, Stephen, enlisted immediately and shipped off to France. A year later he was dead. Will enlisted and took his brother's place in the front lines in Flanders, serving in one of the...
The Mustache Rides, Again. Also Pat Quinn, Fernando Pisani And Other Anachronisms
13 days ago by
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I work from home a couple of days a week. When my wife is working I need to ferry the kids about from school and daycare and all of that good stuff. Luckily I have a job where I can work from home and do this.When my wife's maternity leave ended and school started I began this...
Hey Oldtimer, Shut Up With Your Mustache Stories!
16 days ago by
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Today's thread at LT's features comments from RiversQ, Vic Ferrari and Andy Grabia. It was like old home week almost. All we needed were appearances from Loxy, Alana, the Prez and the Covered in Oil gang and sacamano and Colby Cosh and ... okay, well maybe it wasn't exactly...
Ennui and Malaise Are Not Towns In The South of France
19 days ago by
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November is one of those forgettable months. Along with February I think we could do without it although I hate March most of all because its such a goddamned tease. Then again, at least March has its pleasant moments and warm weather is right around the corner. November is grey and...
Its Scary Out There
22 days ago by
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Work this past week was brutal and vicious and I’d stagger in the door exhausted and worn down to a useless nub. I’m pretty good at leaving the work at work but this week was tougher than most when it came to that. It was Wednesday night though that it all turned for the better...
Jesus Murphy
25 days ago by
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So much for skyrockets in flight and afternoon delights, huh?Back in a far happier time, that is, Saturday afternoon, we were hanging about the house, the junior clansmen and I, the wife being at work for the weekend (two twelve hour shifts - she doesn't even see the kids).I was...
Skyrockets In Flight
29 days ago by
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NHL network is having a free preview this month and so I've gotten the opportunity to watch a lot of Oilers' hockey. Its been a lot of fun and its also become quite clear that its a good thing that I'm not subscribing to CI. Oilers' hockey at my fingertips every night...
A Dublin Man Hits The Ice or How Kevin Dodd Found The Core of The Canadian Onion
October 21, 2009 by
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In June of 2006 just as the Oilers were getting ready to take on the Hurricanes, three young men from Dublin came to Toronto to have training with our company. For two weeks they worked and then for the final week of their stay they hung out in the city.Two of them were in their early...
A Watery Grave
October 19, 2009 by
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We had been back in Canada for a few weeks back in 2001 when I got invited to an old university pal’s place for some drinks. One of the old gang was back in town from BC for a couple of weeks and so a half dozen of us got together for some Thai takeout and some beers. A few of the...
A State Of Bliss
October 15, 2009 by
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My beautiful boy turned four on Tuesday.Like most who are young he is in a hurry to grow up much of the time. For some reason his frame of reference is being nine years old. When he is nine years old he will be tall. When he is nine years old he will be able to stay up. When he is...
After Monday Bruce's Love Has To Be As Deep As An Ocean
October 14, 2009 by
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Its true. Bruce did come to Stortini on a summer's breeze. I believe that he touched Zorg in a raging blizzard though, not the falling rain. I wasn't there but I heard about it one time when I was at this bar. Or did I read about it in Hello! Can't remember.Anyhow, congrats...
A La King, Larry, Not Dennis
October 12, 2009 by
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Thanksgiving Monday and the house is quiet, everyone is asleep. Except the three kids, the dog and me.Tomorrow is going to be awful at work so chances of banging something out (banging, heh) are slim to none, so in the style of Larry King, Mike Lupica, Steve Simmons and Bruce Garrioch...
The Girl From The Valley, Bob Rae and The Road Trip
October 09, 2009 by
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Come September of 1990 I had long settled in to my academic routine. I was an awful student in University, the scholastic Daniel Cleary, pulling extraordinary marks in high school all the while doing little hard work to get them. When I got to Toronto it soon became clear, to me, that...
Miracles Never Seize Or Something About How I'm Enjoying The Moment
October 07, 2009 by
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Sunday afternoon and we're playing a team from Guelph in an old arena in Parkdale. Its Exclaim hockey so music blares during stoppages and they have a P.A. announcer.Attendance has been spotty so far this season and again we have eight skaters out. Poor greying bastards. One of...
Death Of An Optimist, By A Thousand Cuts
October 03, 2009 by
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I left work today and I took a longcut, which I often do, through the Eatons' Centre. I can get to the subway in about a minute from my work but I like to unwind a little some days and so I walk up to Queen Street and then I cut through the mall up to Dundas station, through the...
Going To Bed With An Itchy Bum
October 02, 2009 by
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Sitting around the dinner table the other night.My wife is an excellent cook. Rack of lamb with roasted root vegetables. Pork tenderloin with maple squash. Pasta with asparagus, chicken and zucchini.You get the picture.So imagine sitting down to a wonderful meal, tablecloth, good beer...
The Atlantic Step Dancing Champion
September 30, 2009 by
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I had been in Charlottetown for just a little while when I started getting around with a young fellow who I worked with. I was living at a hotel and didn't know a soul and he took me under his wing, so to speak. We're cut from the same cloth, we enjoy life and get a good laugh...
Now What The Hell Are We Going To Argue About?
September 29, 2009 by
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I kid. There will always be something to argue about.It would have been about a hundred different types of amusing if he had not been picked up but good luck to you, Captain America.I would say we barely knew you but the truth is we knew far too much about you, considering.
The End of Something
September 27, 2009 by
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My father was a heck of a hockey player, scouted by the Wings along with one of his brothers back in the early fifties. He was a center who could skate and stickhandle and pass the puck and he could score a little too, just like his idol growing up, Max Bentley, and his favourite player...
Capsule and Politics
September 26, 2009 by
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Hit the ice for my sixth season with Capsule tomorrow. Looking forward to it, summer season ended in early August, mercifully I might add, and since then I've been doing little but sitting around, er, getting into 'shape'.It will likely be the same story this season as...
Preseason Game Day Live Blog - My God The Excitement!
September 24, 2009 by
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Big game tonight! Big game! Oh my God!Pal commenting over at the Journal on a story there recommended cutting Horcoff, Hemsky, Moreau, Pisani and Penner.There's a good idea.Last night has to put a stop to all of those Lowe Lynchers out there - that trade for Curtis Glencross looks...
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