Friday links: Partying like its 1985 edition
by averagejoe on Aug 27, 2010 5:01 AM CDT
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PrintToday I "celebrate" a quarter-century of life. Yay? I would call this my Pascal Rheaume birthday, but I don't want it to suck. But enough about me, let's get to the links.
Blues news
- A Blues app is coming from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Roger Hensley predicts it will be a huge success. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
- I miss Eric Brewer and four other reasons I want hockey to start now. [SBNSTL]
- David Spina, who potted eight goals and had six dimes in 18 games against Peoria last season, has been been signed by the organization. You know what they say, if you can beat them, join them. [PJ Star]
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Jeremy Rutherford chatted. [JR Live]
Hockey news
- Donald Fehr isn't offically the guy who will ruin the NHL. [TSN]
- The Penguins have no use for the 39-year-old Bill Guerin. He scored 21 goals last year, but he's old. I'd rather sign a guy who might be on the rise, not on the decline (like a Lee Stempniak). [TSN]
- Ilya Kovalchuk has given the league 48 hours to let them know what contract is acceptable. [TSN]
- The big story among hockey bloggers was this: The NHL wants bloggers banned from visiting teams locker rooms. Basically bloggers are upset because they're super serious now and want to be treated as equals to someone who has spent his/her entire life devoted to journalism. If I feel up to, I may write about this later today. [Puck Daddy]
- Rational Wild bloggers compare hockey bloggers being separated from professional media to the Jim Crow Laws. Seriously. [Hockey Wilderness]
- PPP gets it. [Pension Plan Puppets]
- WIM raises an interesting question: Although agreed upon in the CBA, why does the NHL allow the Blackhawks to stash Cristobal Huet in another league while the Devils can't pay Ilya Kovalchuk for years he may not play. Both are trying to circumvent the cap, no? [Winging It In Motown]
- The Blue Jackets need a first-line center. Desperately. [Jackets Cannon]
Other links
- Maverides passes along the birthday gift I didn't know I wanted: Stay puft marshmallows. [ThinkGeek]
- From CCR: Detroit sucks. [Wallet Pop]
- Ever wondered how to make moonshine? Wonder no more.
[Sloshspot Blog]
Ever wondered how to make moonshine? Wonder no more. - Will Forte, one of my favorites on SNL, is leaving the show. Here are some reason why I enjoyed MacGruber (Seriously, my second-favorite movie this year. Great flick). [Guyism]
Videos
Dan sent me some videos on Tuesday, but I just found them today. Damn spam folder. Anyway this song is perfect for our Friday theme around here. It's catchy and borderline safe for work.
It's my birthday, so I hope I don't have to use my AK today. Maybe I'll go play some basketball and get a triple-double.
That's it for the weekday shift. Poor College Student has the weekend shift. Send him links to gametimelinks(at)gmail.com
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there better be....
an android version of that blues app…..or im gonna be pissed….i just got my X wednesday…..awesome phone….
I still maintain Vladimir Konstantinov got what he deserved...If you can't handle that then kiss my ass......
"I've got a bad feeling about this..."
They're always soooo slow at coming out with Android apps.
Not that I can fit much on my G1 (I haaaaaaaaaaaate that phone) but I would like to have it.
As a shameless plug, my website has an Android app – if you search for my site’s name it should pop up. SLGT should get one so everyone can have profanity on the go. I wonder how you get that going…
Thrashing the Blues
SB Nation Atlanta - home of the Fairest and Weatheriest fans on the net.
Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?
Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.
Breakfast with no hog?
Happy birthday AJ
Baltimore Blast - 6-time MISL/NISL Champions
Let's go Blues!
Foxtrot. Uniform. Charlie. Kilo.
I think MTV ran that video for, like, a week before they (and several radio stations) realized what was going on.
Fucking hell yes, The Bloodhound Gang rules.
St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.
And I can also write things in 140 characters or fewer.
Well, that or they realized that one of the guys was wearing a Flyers jersey
In Lou We Trust: Continuing a saga no one really cares about
If the quality of my posts begin to get better, it's because i'm doing steroids.
by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 27, 2010 7:29 AM CDT up reply actions
Oh snap, was listening to the ballad of chasey lane for no apparent reason last night. Ofcourse the bloodhound gang has atleast 20 good songs so I was flipping through youtube then bam this is what I see first thing in the morning.
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
Just because Jay McClement is the best defensive forward in the NHL doesn't mean he should win the Selke.
Happy birthday Joe
1/4 century.
Oh to be a baby again.
Nice article at STLSBN. It will be an interesting yr to see how Brewer does. Maybe he’s only as good as we’ve seen.
Now, can you please check the little box to open the links in a new tab?
My computer is slow and if it opens in another tab I can continue reading while the other loads.
Sorry, pet peeve of mine.
Eat drink and be merry today.
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
I don't trust The Man.
I always right-click on the links and then choose “open in new tab”.
by BleedBlue42 on Aug 27, 2010 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions
if you hold down the "control" button
and click the links, it opens them in new tabs and doesn’t switch you over to them.
a trick taught to me by one average joe.
Next in the Nate the Great mystery series: Nate the Great searches for a free-agent forward who doesn't blow dicks.
by NateTheGreat. on Aug 27, 2010 1:05 PM CDT up reply actions
thanks guys
you can treat an old dog new tricks
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wow...
The big story among hockey bloggers was this: The NHL wants bloggers banned from visiting teams locker rooms. Basically bloggers are upset because they’re super serious now and want to be treated as equals to someone who has spent his/her entire life devoted to journalism. If I feel up to, I may write about this later today. [Puck Daddy]
So bloggers can’t be serious about wanting to do the best job possible, merely because their financial/family situation was such as a younger man that they had to take a day job where they could make some money, as opposed to being a minimum-wage stringer for a daily paper?
I’ve had to devote my working life to putting food on the table for myself and an ex-wife and two kids… but if you think for a second that I’m not 100% serious about journalism,. and about being as professional and thorough as possible in my writing here, then you’re just dead wrong. Period.
Maybe that makes me a minority among the run of the mill of bloggers, who often seem more interested in entertainment and snark than in serious news, but I can assure you that I’m hardly the only hockey/sports blogger in the world who feels this way.
"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."
-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851
http://futurenotes.blogspot.com
by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 27, 2010 8:08 AM CDT reply actions
nah
paper guys see the tar pit in the road ahead of em, and this is one last effort to escape the tar.
A strong anvil fears no hammer
by Childhood Trauma on Aug 27, 2010 10:58 AM CDT up reply actions
We endured this taint in the hook n bullet profession several year back
As a writer/videographer for the outdoor industry and being a new media called the Internetz the MSM and big corporate owners rejected us or made us jump through so many hoops to get a media credential. They didn’t even have a check box for us for many years on the apps. We were roped off and shunned at the pressers and VIP lounges. We weren’t even allowed in the back of the bus, they tied us on the roof like steerage.
Fast forward 15 years and Madison Ave. is puckering up, we’re the golden chillens now. F em, I don’t forget being one of the unwashed masses and go out of my way to remind the dinosaur owner’s who are sucking air. You own a what? A fucking print magazine? LMAO. Enjoy the soup line azzholes.
Shit, I get so spooled up over this I could work this up into a full on FU Friday bit.
Just a chew toy for the hockey gods
you always ignorz
the new kidz at your future peril. every single paper guy is now a neo-blogger and most can’t wash the jockstrap of the information disperser who has “net” as his language of origin.
and those new kidz on the writers block will be ahead of em if they ain’t already. one wonders if revenge is a dish best served blogged or not?
BUT
the other hand is that anyone and their dog (literally since im sure dogs and cats and probably a roach or too- i’m looking at you ee cummings bloggery dudes) have sports blogz. it was a heck of a lot easier having a list of print media and let them police themselves than actually have to have a guy who decides whose internet space is sponge worthy
A strong anvil fears no hammer
by Childhood Trauma on Aug 27, 2010 12:41 PM CDT up reply actions
By the way, Joe... happy birthday, ya pup.
Even though you’re wrong about Bill Guerin. :)
B.
"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."
-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851
http://futurenotes.blogspot.com
by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 27, 2010 8:09 AM CDT reply actions
Happy birthday, Joe!
Enjoy and hopefully you can remember tonight tomorrow AM.
Thrashing the Blues
SB Nation Atlanta - home of the Fairest and Weatheriest fans on the net.
Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?
Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.
The important thing to remember...
Your insurance rates go down.
by Paperwork Ninja on Aug 27, 2010 8:47 AM CDT reply actions
Salutations to Joe on completing 25 full solar rotations. May your standing in life continue to trend upward at a moderate slope.
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
Just because Jay McClement is the best defensive forward in the NHL doesn't mean he should win the Selke.
25? Dayuum you can barely by booze
j/k AJ. Have a great berfday.
1985? I was working for Uncle Sam’s Flying Circus, dating a girl snake woman who looked like Meg Ryan and recovering from a near fatal head on car crash. The young kid who spun out in the rain and hit me unfortunately never made it.
Where were you in 1985?
Just a chew toy for the hockey gods
These pups just don't know, Spec...
Where were you in 1985?
A two-digit-midget in 3/8 Cav at Coleman Barracks, Mannheim… trying to get an assignment to Alaska, but told that I wasn’t allowed to go directly from one “overseas” duty to another without doing some time in the Lower 48. So I asked for either Fort Drum or Fort Carson, and got stuck with Fort Gotdayum Polk, Lousy-ana…
B.
"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."
-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851
http://futurenotes.blogspot.com
by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 27, 2010 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
By the way, whatever happened to the snake woman...
…who looked like Mmmmmm-Meg Ryan?
B.
"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."
-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851
http://futurenotes.blogspot.com
by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 27, 2010 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Funny you should ask
Like the Exorcist, the spinning head woman recently tracked me down on FB after 20 years and wants to be friends again. FB is a great thing for finding old friends but christ it can also bring back some bad nightmares from your past. She’s still hot looking in her middle age but I’d rather stick lil Joey in a African bee beehive. Less pain I’m sure.
Just a chew toy for the hockey gods
Hell, send her my way, then...
…what’s a little more pain on top of the lifetime of it I’ve dealt with already?
:)
B.
"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."
-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851
http://futurenotes.blogspot.com
by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 27, 2010 2:15 PM CDT up reply actions
On this date in 1985...
… I was preparing to start my sophomore year of high school. I was pretty jazzed up about the local baseball team, who had some rookie named Vince that stole everything in sight and a pitcher named John who had shaken off a bad spring to put together a season that was almost Cy Young-caliber.
I pity the people who are too young to have heard “Go crazy, folks, go crazy!” as it happened.
true story
i was about a month old when ozzie hit the homer. my dad, holding his young son, threw me into the air in celebration. i nearly hit the ceiling. apparently, i didnt cry. ozzie fan for life.
St. Louis Game Time Fact: Morning links are part of a well-balanced meal.
SBNSTL Writing about the Blues in more than one line is tough.
I had graduated
from Northeast Mo State the previous yr, now Truman to the above puppies.
Degree as a veterinary technician and working at Ralston Purina farm doing lots of drawing of blood, surgery and lab work
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Joe!
happy birthday amigo. and ftr, Ice Cube is my favorite rapper of all time, so naturally the vid started my day off well.
"If they don't score, we can't lose." - Gene Briggs
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