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2010.02.06 04.58
A lot has happened in the hockey world since last Sunday. None of it matters as much as the death of Brendan Burke.
He and a passenger were killed in a car accident in Indiana. This is probably the most complete coverage.
Yes, he was the son of the general manager of a sports team that only a certain number of people care about, and he was gay. Neither of these things should make his death more or less meaningful, but they are important. Because he was the son of Brian Burke, when he came out, it was an important moment for prejudice in sports. Pension Plan Puppets has the best write-up, but the important points are these:
-If a prominent sports figure known for his gruff, aggressive attitude and his philosophy of "belligerence, pugnacity, testosterone, and truculence" can accept and embrace his gay son, anyone should be able to. I hate that I have to say "accept and embrace". What I mean is, have his feelings toward his son not change one iota, no matter what.
-Brendan Burke quit playing hockey because of the homophobic culture of the "locker room". He and Brian were trying to change that. DGB's point is especially good: how many athletes quit because they cannot endure the homophobia and the slurs?
If you don't read any of the other links in this entry, please read this one: John Buccigross' article about Brendan Burke. It is mentioned in both other articles.
I can't imagine the pain Burkie is going through, working on deals for the Maple Leafs as well as organizing the USA Olympic team, but my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.
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2010.01.25 20.59
i've been with you such a long time
If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
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2010.01.19 14.57
and cloudy question marks
I'm bored and trying to get into Phonetics and Phonology when it looks like it won't happen. So have a revisitation of the "Post quotes from WIPs without any explanation!" meme.
( Guess the context?! )
Hmm, those are all fanfiction. How about some GASP original shit? I will warn you though, it still has to do with fucking hockey. Sorry.
( Uh, I'm willing to clarify?! )
Hmm, all my Val/Taylor stuff is written but not typed, which is why there is less adorable rival!slash. Eventually that will happen I guess. Am totally in love with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) hockey_prompts so some of that may surface soon! Big fan of wacky hijinks!
Just found a bunch of music that I have NO idea where it came from. Of Montreal? The fuck?
oh yeah, GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED! FOR SOME REASON ALL THE LEAFS FANS ON PPP ARE CITY FANS? FUCK THEM! RED DEVILS! (Oddly this is the sports loyalty I've had for the longest - longer than I've had my LJ!) Now I'm going to be neurotic for the next hour and a half.
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2010.01.14 12.25
photograph my mind
Some lazy macros! The last one is funny because Peyton Manning is on the COLTS.
Completely forgot that last week was the ultimate Metal Gear Matchup. Shameful considering when I first starting watching football with Jon, every time I tried to say the team's name I would say "Ravens" in the growliest voice possible. Same went for the Patriots. And now look at me, my dear boys have kicked Taawmy Brady and Wes Welkah's asses (okay, so Jewlian Edelman but still) out of the playoffs with nary a "La-li-lu-le-lo!?" out of me. What has happened.
Anyway, if we do beat the Colts I will shanghai a Ravens hat from the apartment and then spend the days leading up to the conference championships telling everyone that the Raven on my head thirsts for their blood (or rather the blood of Mark Sanchez/Philip Rivers, depending on who wins). I guess I'll be hurting for MGS references after that: Chargers could go Volgin I guess, and the Jets... a Harrier?
I'll be seriously hurting if the Colts win, though.
So, the Caps. We didn't deserve that win last night, and Michal Neuvirth does not deserve a job even remotely resembling starting goaltender. I mean, I guess he needs to acclimate to the NHL - he was far and away the best goalie in the AHL last year, so there's nowhere to go from there but here (and I don't mind when we're facing crappy (that is, all) SE div teams). And now he's floundering. It must be kind of horrible to be stuck in the middle, especially when you're not really doing your best; you know the "backup" (becuase I do not like calling Jose a backup) is resentful and bitter and then, when you're pulled, he outplays you. Honestly Neuvy (or "Newvy" as Locker likes to call him) reminds me of Jonas Gustavsson - crazy good in his league, middle-of-the-pack decentish in the NHL. I was mindlessly enthusiastic about him when I saw him play on the Bears, and the Leafs thought Monster would be the last piece leading them into the playoffs. Instead Neuvirth and Gustavsson both play acceptably (I'd even say just below acceptably): you can't win a Cup on their backs. Admittedly there are very few goalies you can win a cup solely on their backs (Marty Brodeur comes to mind, and if B-lo picks one up in the next few years it will be thanks to Master Miller (as if I was hurting for MGS references)). And the Caps are in an odd position: our scoring is 30% higher than anyone else in the league, so even with sub-par goaltending we can make up for it outscoring the opposition - which is why I think we could win a cup with Jose, who's in the upper middle class of goalies. In the end though we want to do it with Varly, a member of the nouveau riche.
Of course, with all this talk about goalies I would be remiss if I didn't mention my favourite Finnish catastrophe! Apparently the Vesa is starting against Philly tonight, meaning he probably won't make a special guest appearance at the VC unless Jonas' heart explodes again. It's too bad, because I laaiike him alot.
Edit: Apparently my laptop is bricked, which led to a conversation with my father saying "You've broken every piece of electronics you've ever owned!" followed by him hanging up on me. Does he not know I've realized that and it absolutely kills me? It's having something I love so much utterly detest me.
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2010.01.11 15.56
can't stop staring in those evil eyes
Got a mani-pedi, Assassin's Creed II, and tickets to the Caps-Leafs game. We're on the winning streak, Steckel scored another goal and Backie scored twice, and the Ravens kicked the Patriots' ass. The only thing that could make my life better would be MY FUCKING SKATES COMING IN.
Arizona has a player called Mike Adams. LOL
So yeah basically I fucking love my Ravens, and fuck you haters, we're awesome. Think it's great that we play Indianapolis - funnily enough that was the only game I've been to this year. We refuse to put Indy's name on the scoreboard: instead it just says Ravens and Indy. (Normally it would say Eagles or Redskins.) Peyton Manning is going dooooooooown... and if we lose then I might quit finding his United Way skit on SNL funny. But probably not. More likely I will get angry at him and cry while watching the 30 for 30 documentary on the BALTIMORE Colts band. And yes, I am not nearly old or passionate enough to be bitter about the whole thing... but my grandma is, so FUCK YOU. And by the way, we say Bawlmer and we don't give a fuck! Ray Lewis will fuck you up! He's gonna shank Joseph Addai before the game even begins! WHERE'S MY PURPLE CAMO?!
Really scared that Heap is hurt (and okay, it's mostly because I ♥ him rather than our passing game is so effing good). Also Flacco apparently was having hip problems which is why his rating was, uh, 10. :/ The best part of the game (besides being five minutes late and seeing we had already scored a touchdown) was at the end when an announcer mentioned that Flacco had a poster of Tom Brady in his bedroom at his parents' house in Jersey (JOISY). Lulz abounded, especially in the KSK Liveblog in which aspersions were cast upon Flac's sexuality.
So I'm sure everyone is aware of Battle of the Blades and how ridiculous it is etc, but I just wanted to remind everyone that Claude Lemieux is actually a pretty good singer. I liked his part better than the girl's anyway - her voice wasn't bad, it just wasn't interesting. I enjoyed the heck out of his accent, especially the part where he sings "you don't care FER music, do ya?" Ian thought it was ochen hilarious.
Omg I don't know who I'll be more excited to see, The Monster or The Vesa. It's likely I'll see both, of course, especially if they start The Vesa. I laaiike him alot. Haha this will mean I've seen all the Leafs @ VC. I should get to the Sens game on March 30, so I will have seen the Leafs, Habs, AND Sens in DC. Yay Canada. Ah the game before that (Mar 28) is an 1812 game... you know, when DC was burned during the War of 1812... and the Flames are in town... (Atlanta Flames by the way is one of the coolest names for a pro sports franchise EVER and I'm pissed they moved then got another team anyway.) ANYWAY I can't wait to see the Leafs again yaaaaaaaaaay <3 Thanks to Loser Domi I think of them as a wacky bunch of hijinks-enacters, and the fact that they are... not all that great... make it easier to think of them being... wacky, I guess.
On the other hand if the Caps lose it means I threaten to hang myself again. He ate my heart and then he ate my braaaaaaain...
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2010.01.05 23.09
and the home of the FUCKING AWESOME
USA FUCKIN OWNS! WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPS!
OT WINNER SCORED BY JOHN CARLSON!
So we had a 5-3 lead with about 5 mins left in the third; ref calls somewhat stupid penalty; Canada's Eberle scores at the end of the pp; for some reason USA doesn't seem to realize that they can stop pk; Eberle scores AGAIN; by the way these are the only 2 goals Campbell lets in (we pulled Lee after 3 goals on 7 shots); we go to OT which is 20 mins 4-on-4 knowing that last time we kept OT scoreless and lost in an AWFUL shootout; our Hershey and Caps boy John Carlson throws a gorgeous beautiful no-look laser beam into the net.
Carlson does the classic one knee fist pump celebration; Zucker hits him with a flying tackle; I'm pretty sure some of the guys were kissing; I'm flipping the fuck out; JC is our savior again; the team is very clearly and obviously singing along to their national anthem.
This is the first time I've heard the national anthem sung by the team and fans loudly enough to be heard over the music playing. Extremely heart-warming to see them sing so enthusiastically.
Fuckin love Johnny C. Saw him in the playoffs against Manitoba (Neuvy pitched a shut-out, Carlson was a fucking beast!), saw him in some reg season on the Caps, went down to Dev Camp at KCI and got his autograph on my Bears ticket. :D
Just want to add, was so happy to see Conz get honoured as one of the players of the tourney. Shows that a) my drooling over a goalie wasn't completely asinine, maybe I'm really learning how to discriminate skill at least in net and b) go fuck yourself whoever said his unusual style was not effective.
And apparently the USA U18 won their tourney yesterday. DO I SMELL A UNITED STATES DYNASTY?
Plus Caps stop their losing streak, fucking the Habs 4-2. Wait a second... does that mean that Washington beat a team called the CANADIENS? IT WAS FATE!
And let's hope it's a preview of the Olympics this February. USA! USA!
Oh yeah, and this game was 10000x times better than the Winter Classic. I wish this had been NBC for a large viewing audience... maybe it was a little sloppy and wasn't the highest caliber play, but it was fucking spellbinding, and we can always get behind some North American rivalry.
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2010.01.05 17.51
i don't think they would survive
So word has it that Alexander Ovechkin will be named captain tonight. I know there's a lot of upcry for other guys (Laich especially) to be captain, but I'm okay with this. Sort of.
My point of view was that a) Ovie was probably going to be named captain, so I had to come to terms with it. I don't really think Ovie is exactly the right guy for captain. But I also have no idea who that would be. Which leads to b) Ovie is going to have to figure out what he has to do to be captain and that will determine how well we do.
In the end I thought that Ovie will either figure out what he has to do, and do it, and that will make the team far far better than it was before. Or he will... well, I think crash and burn is too strong a phrase, but there's a chance it could go that far. I'm not exactly sure how to put it. I think Ovie doesn't really have the personality of a captain; a leader, maybe, but not a leader in an official capacity. He's a leader because people follow him.
He already had the A, and even if he didn't there's no way that would stop him from yapping at the officials. He's already a role model on the ice (to some extent) and presumably in the dressing room (if we're to believe what his teammates say... which I guess I do). Not like we have an imploding Flyers sitch here.
Honestly, I think either Ovie will shoulder this burden with aplomb and the Caps will improve (let's be honest, how fucking great was Clark as captain?), or he will fail. And I honestly think the latter is more likely. I also think the possible advantage is enormous and outweighs the risk.
But we like Ovechkin because of how much he's not Crosby, right? And Crosby is a great captain... for many of the reasons that he's not Ovechkin. Look, I hate Crosby, but I'm always willing to admit what a good player he is, and I think he stepped up to become a leader because he had to (also he had Lemieux as his role model for that, whereas Ovie had Clarkie so that's awesome), whereas Ovie I don't think is going to feel the need to be a leader the same way Crosby did.
(WJC: Hey, a 9-1 shellacking is not exciting hockey, douche. Take poor Conz out already. Swedes running away with the bronze medal because Switzerland has ZERO offence. Oh haha two quickies because the Swedish goalie fell asleep.)
HAY GUYZ GUESS WHO IZ IN DA POSTSEASON? THAT'S RIGHT IT'S
(haha Switzerland scored again. Wake the fuck up Markstrom!)
THE BAWLMER RAVENS!!!!!! CHARM CITY BABY!!!!!
Everyone visit the Ravens website right now and watch the video because it's GREAT. A Ray Lewis pep talk, shots of Tom Brady being repeatedly sacked and the Patriots generally being abused under the strains of Dropkick Murphy's Shipping Up to Boston (way overplayed thanks to the Winter Classic
(Sweden scored, this is pathetic)
...which kind of sucked actually blurgh) followed by a sweet fucking John Harbaugh speech that is fucking sweet. I AM SO PUMPED GUYS. (then go to the roster page and check out Joe Flacco's team photo, he's so cute!!)
Plus Wes Welkah is aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwt and Brady's got like some cracked ribs which is fantastic news for us Baltimore faithful. Look I don't care if you think our style is boring, so was New Jersey's and they got 3 cups. Uh yes I just made a hockey metaphor... Baltimore plays basically the football equivalent of the trap style. (Or at least in past years, making them kind of boring to watch... It's changed a little now, but fuck that wouldn't stop me! Living near DC has made me hate the Redskins, of course I'd prefer their blue collar neighbours.)
And there's a giant slate of games today, including a VS match (Minny vs. Chi-town... how exciting...), probably a few on Y! Sports, and one on my local CSN+... Guess what? I DON'T GIVE A FUCK! GOLD MEDAL GAME, USA VS. CANADA BABY! USA! USA! USA!
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2010.01.01 00.07
fallin on my head like a memory
Whee, back from California! Saw a bunch of relatives, went to three different sporting events, took a million cell phone pictures. Will do a big picture post later, hopefully after my uncle sends me the pics of me with Backie, Flash, and King Karl! Yes, I wanted to get my picture with the redheads of the Caps. Swear to God I look like Fleischmann's little sister.
Anyway the Sharks game was an utter fiasco. I had the sign that said "Pass the puck to Joe, he wears really nice aftershave." I was also the girl in the Caps jersey shouting "PUT IN JOSE," who shouted "RED" during the certain part of the national anthem, and cheered really enthusiastically for just about everything the Caps did right... which wasn't all that much. Towards the end I was literally cheering for faceoff wins. "HOLY SHIT BACKSTROM WAY TO NOT FUCK UP." Also during warmups I was shouting "We love you Theo!" and "Jooooo-seeeee!" as well as I could. Apparently he feels like he's not really part of the team anymore, what with the Neuvy getting all the starts with Varly out hurt (and now in Hersey for conditioning). Neuvy hasn't been playing all that hot (though he was wearing a seriously kickin suit) and I would really appreciate a Jose start... and not just for fantasy team purposes.
Congratulations to Aleksandr Ovechkin, Aleksandr Syomin, Semyon Varlamov, Nicklas Bäckström, and Tomáš Fleischmann for making their respective Olympic teams! Goodbye to Juice and Hris Lark (they took away his C), and congrats to Milan for making his Oly team.
So over my Cali jaunt I wrote 4 pieces of Joe Flacco-centric fic. Someone please give me some sort of non-Ravens fanfiction. Uh. I don't know if any of it will ever be posted... I think it's sort of a really really niche interest. And a lot of it (unfortunately) involves Rapistberger.
I also read Bill Simmons' Big Book O' Basketball, all 700 fucking pages of it. I should probably start watching bball now, huh? And read Jeff Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter in basically one sitting.... Puddlejumper to Long Beach, 2 hr layover, 4 hrs to Dulles, plenty of time. It was great, he writes like a combo of James Ellroy and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mentalhygiene, which I knows sounds odd, but-
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Ahem. I really really enjoy and admire mentalhygiene's style of writing. It's fantastic.
Just watched USA choke against Canada in the IIHF WJC. Okay, so choke is a little strong, and Canada played really awfully for the first part of the 3rd period... but wow, both goalies were ghastly in the shoot-out, weren't they?
Winter Classic tomorrow! I don't care who wins... I want a horrific act of violence to ruin it!
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2009.12.21 23.18
i remain a giant and you jeremy shockey
Okay. Everyone go watch this. It's a Christmas video from the San Jose Sharks. Seriously, watch it. It helps if you've seen the adventures of Slappy and Joe Thornton, but it's so goddamn funny. Swear to God. WATCH IT.
That said, what should my sign at the Sharks game say? The first line will be "Pass the puck to Joe!" But the second line:
-He's such a nice young man!
OR
-He wears really nice aftershave!
OR
-His body is like the sculpture David!
OR
-His facial hair reminds me of a young Sean Connery!
The last two are my personal favourites.
"Slappy... he's got it figured oot." Well done Dany Heatley.
( And this stupid thing, stolen from loblolly... )
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2009.12.18 16.34
and truth be told i'm lying
Back in Pville. Comcast decided to beer us a free preview of the NHL Network, so I am currently watching yesterday's Kings-Flames game. Then there's the Caps-Nucks later tonight, plus I think NHL Net is playing a classics - Detroit-Philly in the 97 finals. Also might catch the Hawks-Bs game on NHLN. It's a good thing I'm getting all this hockey in my system now, because I probably won't be seeing a whole lot of it over the break, seeing as how I AM SO FUCKING DUMB I LEFT MY WALLET AT SCHOOL. :<
Yeah so it's in my dorm that is closed until like the 15th of January or something. The only thing in it that really matters is my driving licence, though my military ID, NOVA ID, and Anze Kopitar card are also in it. I've only ever been pulled over once (for a busted tail-light) and I'm actually a very good driver for a woman, but you know that driving when you don't have any access to a licence is the number one opportunity for getting pulled over. I do have my credit card and a photo ID though... and I guess if I didn't have the W&M ID I could bust out my passport. I am going to California after all. Will be there the 23rd to the 31st, so I will definitely see the Winter Classic! Also going to the Sharks-Caps games (as a rival fan!!) and possibly the Emerald Bowl, although I might end up just chillin' chillin' in San Fran.
In other news I just got a bfh. The h stands for haircut. I'd say my hair is about as long as Jagr's in his prime, though I didn't manage to pull off the mullet this time. :/ My hairdresser graduated from Valley the same year I did, which is weird. Never seen her before in my life.
So I have done a dumb thing and am in an NFL RP as Ravens QB Joe Flacco. My sn is wacco5flacco (because Wacco 4 Flacco signs are popular at M&T Bank Stadium, and he's number 5), and it's linked to galaxysong9, so if you are chatting with me and would like to direct questions to Joe, feel free to ping him. I only chat on that name IC, so uh have fun with it. It was so weird to be way involved in sports for like 3 hours and have it not be hockey... so when I was chatting with Dan and he brought up obscure hockey players it felt like going home. Like, they kept namechecking random football players I had never heard of, and it was so good to just hear a familiar name, like Sjostrom. On the other hand I now know how to spell Gostkowski.
And, uh, now I've got a headcanon for Flacco. :< It uh involves Ben Roethlisberger. It does not involve rape, unless you count the damage it's done to my brain. Just learned the hard way that AIMLogger is not set up for wacco5flacco which is a shame because I really want to go back and read some of it again. Luckily the best part got logged when I RT'd it to Dan... poor him.
Man Kipper is good.
CHRIS JERICHO SAYS HIS LEAST FAVOURITE METALLICA SONG IS HERO OF THE DAY. THAT'S IT JERICHO YOU'RE NOT MY FAVOURITE PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER ANYMORE. AAAAARGH. (Seriously that hurts me bad. I fuckin love Y2J.)
Congratulations to DUR-NO! for being called up to the Avs. Double congratulations to Arturs Irbe for being inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame! And triple congrats to ME FOR GETTING AN 85 ON THE ASTRO FINAL THANK GOOOOOOOD WENDEL... That's higher than I scored on any individual exam. :< Got an A in Russian though! :3
Working industriously on my giftmas fic. It's spawned a couple of puck plot bunnies that I am not enthusiastic about writing. On the other hand I'd rather write those than the bunnies I just got about my Ravens...
Yeah umm not doing much of anything, but we're supposed to get 10 inches of snow. Doubtful, but any amount will be exciting. For someone with such a low internal body temp I really enjoy cold weather.
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2009.12.11 04.49
for the lead role in a cage
I have about one more page of German to write and then I can get some goddamn sleep and start stressing about the extracurriculars of my life, such as BOIZ and VIDYA GAMZ and HOKKEI. And DRANK.
So yeah it's 4:30 in the morning and I've been in Miller since 11:45 pm. Miller is fucking gorgeous but the rooms are ochen ochen high-tech and it means I have to get up and do jumping jacks about once every half hour to stop the lights from turning off.
I've got a stupid Philosophy exam at 2 pm tomorrow today that I will be ill-prepared for but fuck it, I fake my way through every other quiz I took in that class, maybe the magic will happen. Anyway the real excitement is what happens afterwards because I am trying über hard to hook up with this guy and I want to make it happen. :P At this point though I am trying to remember the English words because I'm drafting everything auf deutsch. Luckily my next exams after Fri are Weds so I've got time coming out of my eaaaaars.
Uhhh Dan and I and Jon and I have been having major giant heart-to-heart talks and basically the net effect is a) a self-esteem boost (which is nice) but more importantly b) makes me really long for a girl bff. And basically what I want to say is I'm so happy Katherine is here at W&M. This kind of stems from a conversation Jon and I had but I know this is the sort of thing I find comically difficult to say so here I go: man I really and unironically enjoy chilling with you and hanging with you and shootin the shit and makin fun of hockey players and being fake annoyed at how much you like the stupid shittsburgh penisguins and all that. Basically I didn't realize how much I missed you since high school and I love you. Cause I know that I sort of zigzag between being a great friend and being a shit friend and I wanna be the former more often than the latter.
Now if only Ellie would get her stupid butt down here we would really burn down da 'Burg 2012. Can you imagine it? I hafta say college is not like high school even a little bit at all to me even if I do have some of the same elements around.
There's an app called iNietzsche that Dan and I wasted some time with here is my favourite:
"All truths for me are soaked in blood."
NIETZSCHE IS A FUCKIN PIMP
All right back to the fucking paper but I do got one question: how many of you cockknockers have written a paper in a foreign language? Not some pussy-licking essay but a real fucking dicksucking ten page research paper? Because I'm so fucking close to it I can smell it dripping and somehow at no juncture did I say FUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKK I HATE THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. Is that love? That might be love.
(That was me channelling Melt Your Face Off's Sean Avery which I think is like the funniest shit ever and basically exactly how I imagine A-Punk being in real life.)
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2009.12.05 17.38
heard about pittsburgh, pa
Blowout. I almost managed to escape without getting outrageously intoxicated... then Sam Shin invited Dan and I to his party. Cue Jon Lee demanding to know why we're sober, and long story short, I did four tall boy shots of great vodka in probably about 15 minutes. Then tossed back a Keystone Light. WOOO COLLEGE
We were the only two white people there - everyone else was Asian. I ended up talking to this freshman girl in Japanese, although she wanted to know why I kept calling myself 'ore'. Because I'm truculent, bitch!
We got back to the apartment at 3.30ish, I flopped onto the floor and asked Dan if he could name the captain of every team in the NHL. We discovered that I certainly could, and proceeded to do so in alphabetical order by team location... To put this in perspective, I was so drunk that I couldn't walk, I was slapping myself in the face because it was unimaginably fun, and at one point I crawled over to the kitchen, got in the pantry, and shouted "I'm in the closet like Lee Stempniak!" Then I took a shower to sober up and demanded Dan tell me about the mid-90s Capitals until I fell asleep (which wasn't until we covered Bondra, Pivonka, Oates, Juneau, and the Ranford trade). Then I woke up at 9 this morning and demanded we play Hangman until noon when the W&M football game started, WHICH WE WON WOOOOOOOO If New Hampshire beats Villanova then the next round is at home bitches!
Incidentally I felt a lot better this morning than Dan did. I have startlingly good genes. On the other hand I think I'm going to take it easy tonight and not do shots every time someone scores in the Caps-Flyers game. :)
It was against the Flyers that Boudreau coached his first game as our head coach, and now Boudreau will be welcoming Laviolette, hopefully with a big fat L. Yahoo! sports seems to think Theodore is starting, which I suppose is good - he seems to be on one of his hot streaks. On the other hand Philly is a real bugbear to Varly and that's something we probably want to address now rather than, say, during the postseason.
That is, if Philly makes it all. How's 11th taste, everyone-but-Greg-Wyshynski's-pick-for-the-Cup? Of course everyone's big fear is that this will be the Boudrea/Bylsma catalyst that makes the Flyers great this season. He's already got a cup under his belt, and apparently he gave a great presser that included a "classy remark" about John Stevens.
But who cares, we're gonna kick their ass! YEAAAAAAAAAAH
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2009.12.01 19.35
think their silly accent is so cute
So I really like song parodies. I used to write them all the time. Big fan of Weird Al here. Plus I have a very eclectic collection of music: shuffle will jump you from 80s new wave to opera to gangsta rap to 80s new wave again to J-pop to punk to 80s new wave (I'd say it's my favourite) to uh, half hour long podcasts about games that were released two years ago. And 80s new wave.
Anyway, I wrote a song parody based on Miley Cyrus' See You Again. I actually originally heard this story as the Punk Goes Pop version, but the parody works better with the original.
I dedicate this to my favourite goalies with a weakness high glove side. Hopefully I can learn from their mistakes. :) (Playoffs tonight!)
Beat Me Glove Side
Our defence sucks some dick
Got caught in a change
They had to hook a winger
On a breakaway
Now it's a penalty shot
He's skating in range
And here it comes, he beat me glove side
Now I can't see a damn thing
There's such a big screen
That pest is pissing me off
He's small and he's mean
Oh shit here comes their sniper
Shot like a laser beam
And now again, they beat me glove side
I swear it's not my fault
It's just how I've been taught
I close my 7-hole but leave the top shelf opened up
I try to butterfly
Instead I want to cry
My coach Arturs says
"He's just being Varly"
Next time I get a start
I'll play with my whole heart
Too bad it's in three weeks
Because I won't let them, beat me glove side
You can't blame it all on me
Our defence is shit
And we've got no goal-scorers
All they can do is hit
But still everyone hates me
Think there's a hole in my mitt
It's just too easy, to beat me glove side
It was a bouncing puck
I tried to scoop it up
It hit a patch of ice, now everyone thinks I suck
One hundred ninety feet
Looks like I can't compete
My GM Burkie says
That's why we need Gusty
I'm booed off the ice
So I hear Russia's nice
When is my contract up?
All because, it beat me glove side
They've got a breakaway
And I'm trying to save
Don't know what I could do
Ovie and Semin too?
Even Steckel managed to get one through
They all call me the King
Think I'll get them a ring
My teammate Avery says
"That's what we want from Lundy"
Don't think of '94
But my arm's getting sore
I'll just drop it an inch
That's why again, they beat me glove side
And once again they beat me glove side!
Tune in next time for "Please Stay in DC" (You Belong with Me) in which I try to make nice with Alexander Semin!
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2009.11.30 16.02
now the cradle of love don't rock easy, it's true
Just realised the pickle I'm in. If Mike Green has won me over with his mixture of hilarious doofus-ness, sense of style, and chillaxation, and Alex Semin has got a free pass until the Ollies thanks to that intermission interview during the Canadiens game (if anyone can track it down I'd be ochen grateful), then...
Who do I get to poop on?
I mean, besides I have nothing to do during Philosophy now that I can't write "Trade Semin to X" essays, I really need someone to bear the brunt of my annoyance. Backie's so lucky he got an assist and scored the shoot-out winner against the Habs because his slump might have ended up taking it, favourite player or no. Varlamov has never bothered me, though at times he probably should have. And our third/fourth-liners I simply can't blame. I mean, you seen what Matt Bradley has been doing? And Eric Fehr has been, uh, scoring lately. Check out his stats against MTL. I know it's easy to shit on Erskine and Jurcina... but their fuck-uppery is less infuriating than Green's or Semin's. The thing that angers me most about Semin is how much fucking raw talent he has, then he-- NO. NO. BAD GS9. Semin is a good and great man!
I, uh, basically I boiled it down to Knuble and Morrison. And I can't hate them, either! Knuble's been out! Morrison has the cutest little accent! I can't hate our callups, and I can't hate our rookies! And Ovechkin? Pssh. We're not in Pittsburgh here.
So this begs the question (in the descriptivist, not philosophic sense), have I come full circle? Am I back to loving my Washington Capitals unconditionally?
Well, no. Alex Semin and Mike Green have earned themselves grace periods. Right now Semin has two whole months to prove himself, and we'll see if this kindness continues. Now while Greener's grace period is more nebulous, a major breakdown could mean he moves fulltime into Semin's spot.
My father watched that same interview and thinks Semin won't be here next year. I'm going to reserve judgement.
Umm... learned at about 1:30 today I have an exam in a class I know nothing about at 7. Guess I'm missing the first period. And, uh, I have a 10-page paper draft due tomorrow. Guess I'm not getting drunk. Well, not sure about that. Guess I'm not sleeping tonight... Oh shit, playoffs are tomorrow. In summary:
-try to pass exam
-write paper
-not suck as a goalie, after spending an entire day stressing my hair grey, not sleeping, and psosibly drinking
-die
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2009.11.26 01.18
face-to-face and back-to-back
Had Matt Bradley's autograph on my vintage-y looking Caps pennant. To that I have added Tom Poti's, John Erskine's, Brian Pothier's, Brendan Morrison's, Mike Green's, Jose Theodore's, Semyon Varlamov's, Mathieu Perrault's, and Alex Ovechkin's.
It's well-established I have a huge hard-on for goalies. So today at practice I was watching Varly, then when Katherine wanted to change angles for pics, I stuck my peepers on Theo.
What a contrast. Varly was seemed way on his game, stopping almost everything, bantering with Ovie, shaking off soft goals, generally playing great. On the other end of the ice, Theo made almost every routine save, few exceptional ones, and what was really heart-breaking was after every "bad" goal he got more and more depressed. He started with just slumping his shoulders, then hanging his head, and finally he let in one softie and just threw his head back in frustration. Surprisingly both of them came out for autographs, and while both were nice and polite about it, Varly had that cocky Russian air to him and Theo looked... depressed. I felt awful for some reason. I hope he felt kind of gratified by the fact that he was still bum-rushed by people, like he knows we haven't given up on him/jumped off the bandwagon. God knows I've pulled my hair out watching him but he still has his brilliant moments.
It was also really interesting to watch the difference in their styles. It's like 1 o'clock in the morning and since I don't actually know anything it would just be mouthing off but it seemed every third save Theo was spread-eagled facedown on the ice straddling a goalpost. Uh, like this.
Varly, uh, didn't really do that? At all? As far as I can tell he drops to the ice in a butterfly but pops back up again as soon as he can, while Theo is more of a flopper. Maybe I'd be more insightful if it weren't 1 o'clock in the morning but... I was about to use the word sprightly. Just shoot me.
Tried on skates. Am considering the CCM V04 or Bauer X20. I think my feet are the biggest possible size you can have and still be a junior size, heehee. Probably going to try them at Ashburn and buy them there so they can get properly fitted etc. My mother can't seem to understand that you buy small and get them stretched/molded. :/
WOW Hossa did well on his first game back. Like, holy shit well. Like, he's a Tier 1 Primadonna right up there with Dany Heatley and he's going to do for Chicago what Dany Heatley's doing for San Jose. Thank GOD they're Western conference!
In conclusion, check out how great my hair looks. :)
(Photos by stonyglenrider)
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2009.11.25 00.11
move that bitch crazy
So I have a theory: hockey players can be divided into three categories: Doofuses, Primadonnas, and Grizzled Vets (are double colons like that acceptable?). I thought of this while trying to figure out why I like Mike Green but waver madly between liking and hating Alexander Semin, when the main things they do to annoy me are basically the same (laziness, taking dumb penalties, making stupid decisions, that sort of thing). And it came down to, Mike Green is a doofus, while Alexander Semin is a primadonna.
I present to you the sum of my introspection, complete with pictures!
( It was this or an examination of cultural anthropology )
More on this important topic when I don't have my beautiful PS3 calling my name.
Weekend in a nutshell:
-Went to Caps-Habs game. Drunk people shouting "Go Habs go!" outside the VC got Qubecois swears shouted at them. In-game cheers included "Fire Bettman!" and
-Went to W&M-GMU college club hockey game. Just as bad as you think it is. Taunted Mason's goalie. Made fun of the ref. Offered sexual favours to whoever on W&M scored a) first or b) the GWG. No one has taken me up on it. :(
-Went to Ravens-Colts game. John Harbaugh is still a DILF, but he that D might have to be turned into doofus after some of the bone-headed things he did. Joe Flacco is a QBILF. Billy Cundiff has a dirty-sounding name.
Finally back at home... and struck by debilitating cramps. Yay!
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2009.11.17 23.41
so let's sink another drink
Things currently in my bra: cell phone, wallet, zip drive, Manny Fernandez card. That's the closest Manny's ever going to get to my boobs, ohohoho!
Might go to Montreal game. Will bone up on my Quebecois swearing just in case. MAN I hate the fucking Habs. Like, hate them more than I hate the Flyers. I hope we grind them into fucking dust.
Turns out cute nerd in my German class is a FRESHMAN. Argh. Am pretty sure he's kind of in love with me: he laughed way too hard at a story that was only slightly funny, and we've been discussing Orange Box, and he asked for my Steam account. It's nerdy adorable.
But the real reason I'm posting is this meme!
Post a sentence/paragraph/snippet from every* wip you can find. No explanations allowed, just the excerpt.
( Some are sukoshi weird... )
Edit: Enjoyable tweet from наш друг Dmitriy Chesnokov: Hauschka has been waived by the Ravens. About time!
Couldn't have said it better.
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2009.11.16 21.27
but your empty eyes seem to pass me by
Oh my GOD I love being a goalie. Please excuse me fellating myself for a moment.
So yeah yesterday was my first time puckstopping for an entire floor hockey game. And I played really well... okay, except for one Toskala moment when the ball (we use a field hockey ball) bounced over my catching glove and I snapped at it and completely missed. The final score was 3-3 which is our most successful game thus far. :( I made some fantastic kick saves though and apparently I have a good sense for where the ball is. Jon said I moved very little which I guess is because I knew where the ball was and how to best stop it.
Greatest moment though was there was this random dude playing on our team who had never played with us before who was apparently a legit hockey player. He thought our game plan was having a pretty good offenc and an awesome goalie rather than having an awesome offence that meant the goalie never saw a shot. At one point he even told one defenceman to move up and the other one to just cover whatever wing because 'she can stop anything she can see'. He was really patronizing to a bunch of people after the game (giving them unwarranted advice, and taking co-rec floor hockey just a little too seriously) but since all he did was tell me how great I was, I was completely fine with him. Also have a gigantic purple bruise on my upper thigh that looks pretty great. The other goalie almost started a fight with Jon (and called him a faggot... but I think Jon actually started it though he won't admit it), and I was so ready and raring to fight him. Nothing better than a goalie fight!
Managed to go skating on Saturday AND took in a college hockey game: Christopher Newport vs. Liberty. Really terrible, but I got ochen into it and was cheering for CNU and banging on the glass and propositioning the goalie and everything. Practiced skating, have gotten a lot better at it. Getting skates for Xmas :) Like Mats Sundin, I don't believe in rentals.
Please enjoy this. It is currently my wallpaper.
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2009.11.10 13.09
there is time to kill today
I might have the most MONEY schedule next year.
At first I had one class on MWF, then three classes on Tues and four on Thurs, so I looked for something to fill up MWF.
BOOM. DETECTIVE FICTION. DETECTIVE FUCKING FICTION. If I can swing this sched then I am so fucking set.
15 credits, which is basically one fewer class than this semester plus it's all shit that I WANT to do without Astronomy or Philosophy fucking me over. I'm not sure if I can actually swing it, since I don't know how popular Detective Fiction will be, P&P only has a few spots left, and Creative Writing is always a crapshoot. However P&P is the same professor I had for Study of Langauge this year and I'm doing really well, so she might give me an override; I might be able to wheedle my way into Detective Fiction with how fucking much I know about Doyle, Chandler, Christie etc.; and if I can't talk my way into Creative Writing fuck me because there's really nothing I'm better qualified for. "Excuse me professor would you like to read excerpts from my novel?"
All the sophomore level Creative Writings didn't fit my schedule, so instead I'm taking... Beginning Acting. Yes, I've studied drama for 4 years. But there's no objective exam that I can take that would preclude me from taking "Beginning" Acting. Maybe I'll just confuse the fuck out of the teacher when I talk about Fresnel lenses and the Stanislavsky method. Also P&P was filled and my prof just told me it was in huge demand. Fuck. There goes my shot of finishing even a linguistics MINOR. Can't take English linguistics in a country that doesn't speak English.
Honestly the only thing missing from this is Sports Statistics or Hockey History or Shirtless Athletes, all of which I'd ace the fuck out of.
Quote of the day: "But sometimes a gun without bullets can shoot, and that was us." Thank you, Belarus.
Probably going to buy this. Might buy these. Think this is basically the coolest thing ever but far, far too expensive.
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2009.11.09 14.26
i want to shoot the whole day down
Lab got pushed back an hour, so instead of sighing with happiness that I have extra time to work on this shit I have no idea how to do, I'm updating ye old livejournal. Priorities! Work ethic!
I had a complete freakout when I got to floor hockey and some girl had already put the goalie pads on, and was making comments like "how do I put the chest protector on?" and "wait, I'm right-handed, doesn't the catching glove go on my right hand?" Infuriating because a) I'd been told I could goaltend and b) I was a catcher for my entire softball career, the equipment is almost exactly the same, and I can put the gear on and off in like 30 seconds and c) how much of a fucking moron do you have to be to not know which hand you catch with?
But for some crazy fucking reason she didn't want to play the entire game, so I took puckstopping duties for the third period... and it quickly became apparent that she is way better at defence and I am way better at goaltending. So that was fucking dumb. It's not like I'm even good at it, I just know the concepts behind it and, uh, was a catcher for a long time. Which led to the most embarrassing play of the game, when someone went high stick side and I tried to reach over with my catching glove because, uh, that's what you'd do if someone threw a wild pitch over your right shoulder.
Also, still trying to figure out why Jon thinks I have below average agility for a 20 year-old. I have above average ability at sports, and for fuck's sake, I spent 4 years on the top six of the varsity tennis team in high school. I can see why being a good catcher wouldn't have much to do with agility, but fucking tennis? I think Jon's biggest problem is that he never learned why you have to lie to women. He knows you should, and he chooses not to because of meaningless concepts such as integrity but mostly smugness, but I think he just doesn't understand, IT IS THE RIGHT CHOICE TO LIE TO WOMEN.
Have seen Goats twice, and the second time I had this conversation with the concessions guy. ( I was wearing a Caps shirt... )
Just made the snap decision to take a rain check on going to a lecture given by a Russian filmmaker who worked with another Russian filmmaker who I really like and I desperately want to go but I have no time and more importantly no energy. Fuck all I want to do is sit around and watch either the Kings game or this Russian gangster show. I'm so tired..............
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2009.11.06 09.45
situatsiya help, situatsiya SOS
I decided to watch the Caps game and drink this shiny new bottle of vodka. I really hoped that I would come up with something funny or at least entertaining.......... I think I failed. AND the Caps lost. D: It was all bad.
( But it doesn't stop me! )
The end.
Actually, not really. Caps take on Panthers today, which is a much-not watch for anyone not specifically a Caps or Cats fan, because especially Ovechkin-less I can't think of a less intersting matchup. On the other hand tonight the Leafs rearrange... I don't know why I wrote that word, I think I just meant "visit" the Hurricanes. Both teams have 7 points, the Canes with a 2-9-3 and Leafs 1-7-5 which students of Math may notice adds up to 14 and 13, meaning, NO, FUCK YOU, THE LEAFS ARE NOT THE WORST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE. The Canes have an even number of points with one game more. On the other hand yes these are the TWO worst teams so how exciting is that.
And Big Props for my boy Anze and his Kings fucking the shit out of the Penguins on the road. Yeah baby I'm personally in favour of any Penguins loss but tastes even sweeter from the Kings
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2009.10.30 12.12
and if the boys wanna fight you better let em
So I did the hockey friending meme and friended a bunch of people who may or may not notice/read my journal. On the other hand I like to yap so you're getting hit with this.
( Hockey? )
So, uh, that's me.
Thrash game was... well, like to see AO get two goals; Varly played well though he wasn't challenged much and he got a little lazy toward the end, as he is prone to (but not the 19:59 Bogosian goal, that was skill from Atl rather than Varly-suck); clean game, but really, a Kovy-less Atlanta? Not terribly exciting or worrying. Tonight the Isles -- obviously I don't want to let up now that we seem to be getting back in the swing, but it's really not a big deal either way. Hopefully we'll play better than last time @Nassau but since we ended up winning that I'm not really allowed to complain. :/
At bowling yesterday I wandered over to the TVs to check the league scores, arriving just when it said "Malkin out 2-3 weeks with a sprained shoulder." I fist-pumped, said, "Yeah! Suck it!", then realised there was a dude in a Malkin shirt standing right next to me. Well what the fuck is he doing in W'burg? Unfortunately he did not offer to fight me. :(
Quiz bowl tourney at VCU, yaaaaay. Actually it will be exciting because I'll be captain of our team and it's my first of the year and I might be drunk. In celebration I will post a personally written question here! Your bonus:
It's defunct team time! FTPE name these Stanley Cup winners who are no longer with us:
[10] They won the Stanley Cup in 1927, the first time it was awarded in the NHL. The name was brought back but the teams don't share records.
[10] They won the Cup in 1935 but folded in 1938. They were usually overshadowed by the Canadiens with whom they shared the city.
[10] Okay, they're still around, but under this name they only won one Cup, in 1922 – and the current iteration hasn't won since 1967.
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2009.10.28 09.54
it's a typical tuesday night
Huh. It looks like we're doing this thing where we win by playing well rather than the other team sucking. The Atlanta game had Jeff Schultz as the first star. JEFF SCHULTZ. Let me say that again, slowly, so everyone can understand.
JEFF SCHULTZ. FIRST STAR.
Surely that's some sort of rock bottom?
On the other hand, we hit rock bottom and were still winning games. Bodes well, yeah?
The Islanders game left a wretched taste in my mouth. As I mentioned before, I will be disappointed by Gabby (who has a book coming out on (Oct 31, by the way!) if he didn't start the first intermission speech with "YOU PLAYED LIKE DOG SHIT". I can't say it enough. Dog shit. Dog shit. Dog shit. INSTEAD OF FIELDING A HOCKEY TEAM, WE STUCK A DOG ON THE ICE, AND IT STARTED TO SHIT.
Umm. Then we got our head on straight and started playing legitimate hockey about halfway through the second. The Green-Laich OT winner I'd say was the beginning of our Giving A Shit About Hockey again.
Now, the Flyers game. I'd say it's actually better if we let ourselves get down a few goals, then work to catch up. Dangerous, yes. Terrifying, yes. Bad for the viewers' blood pressure, yes. On the other hand it means we play a full 60 minutes... or at least the 45 we do play ends in the third, rather than taking a lead, getting lazy, and losing it. Really what I advocate is the whole "play a full 60 minutes thing" but, whatever. I'm still not pleased in our frequent breakdowns in defence, but major, major glove tap to Theodore for playing a fantastic 60 mins. He is determined not to let Varly steal the number 1 job. Reminded us why he won Hart and Vezina in the same year. Fantastic.
Okay, time to put on a raincoat because I'm going to do some serious gushing. ( I'll even cut it for you )
Also, Kings @ Sharks! That's a Western Conference orgasm for me. Oh God I don't want to stay up for a 10:30 game but I want to watch it..........
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