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The Mustache As Metaphor or Sam Gagner Is Just A Boy
By the time you read this it may have been confirmed that Ales Hemsky is done for the season. And so the depth on RW - O'Sullivan, Stortini, Nilsson um ... - is now about the same as LW - Penner, Moreau, Jacques, um ... Of course considering the majority of comments at the Journal that ...
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This Is Getting Old. So Are We.
This is a picture of the boy just before the Oilers last made the playoffs. He is in school now.
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Midnight Sun Espresso Stout
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 ...
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I Love Myself Some Colm Meaney
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 your ...
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Piling On
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 mess that ...
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Can You Hear The Drums Fernando?
Can You Hear The Drums Fernando?
blackdoghatesskunks.com — 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 ... (more) Can You Hear The Drums Fernando?
Will Bird
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 most famous ...
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The Mustache Rides, Again. Also Pat Quinn, Fernando Pisani And Other Anachronisms
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 new ...
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Hey Oldtimer, Shut Up With Your Mustache Stories!
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 like old times. ...
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Ennui and Malaise Are Not Towns In The South of France
Ennui and Malaise Are Not Towns In The South of France
blackdoghatesskunks.com — 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 ... (more) Ennui and Malaise Are Not Towns In The South of France
Its Scary Out There
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 as the boy ...
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