@KG: Um, no. I mean on the actual channel–ABC for me. I haz no cable so I can no watch hockey. :(
15.
geg6
I’ve been trying to keep quiet because I am very superstitious about sports and the Pens seem to do better when I just shut up. But damn. This has been one hell of a second period.
asiangrrlMN – believe me, I wish I was watching the actual game. I just don’t think I can pull the flat screen off the conference room wall and set it up in my office, though.
20.
Steeplejack
Damn, that was an intense second period. I think I need a cigarette, and I don’t even smoke.
Can definitely see how hockey is much better suited for HDTV (which I don’t have).
@Steeplejack: OK, so…I loaded this CD onto the iPod shuffle having not heard it in forever. This song came on during a walk last week and the first 15 seconds or so had me totally baffled as to what and who it was. And then I figured it out and knew you’d like it.
My most formative “boy across the street” crush (that lasted from age 8 till…um….mid 40s?), who taught me to love Bowie, Alice Cooper, Elton, and numerous other singer/songwriter/musicians in my very impressionable and formative years used to play this for me on his guitar.
Sort of funny. He looked me up a few years back after his very young wife left him for a very young professor at her college. He was sorta hoping I’d be interested in helping him raise four kids, I surmised. In Texas! Ha! Life is SO Funny. Careful what you ask for. You may have to eventually say: “No thanks” to it!
23.
Death By Mosquito Truck
My daughter scored her first boy kiss tonight. Won’t be long before she’s having having on-demand abortions two at a time. Mom wants me to put the fear of god into the boy but I’m in a hot pink arm cast. Sigh.
24.
gbear
It’s fricking JUNE. No hockey.
Death By Mosquito Truck: How do you know about the kiss? Did she run in the house and tell all or did you have them followed?
25.
Krista
Watching the game right now, on HD, no less. Suh-weeet…
(That’s when I really notice the diff between regular and HD, is with televised sports.)
26.
Krista
My daughter scored her first boy kiss tonight.
Awww! I hope it was nice! My first kiss was wretched.
27.
Poopyman
Has anyone else noticed that John’s Pug in a Bukkit has been immortalized as a loldog?
Although a Pgh native, I never got into hockey, so I’ll leave the comments to the true fans here.
@Death By Mosquito Truck: I wrote this really loooong, self-referential, painful, rambling response. And then I deleted it all when I became nauseous. (Because that is such an intense and awkward time of life to be passing through. For all of you!)
Damn. They’re saying there were ten thousand outside the arena for Mario’s screen. Damn NBC for making this the last game that’s an option. This crazy town.
Sorry to be late getting back. Your Joni clip sent me on a rich journey of discovery looking up some of her other stuff that I hadn’t heard in a while. (I always loved the song “Hejira,” for some reason.)
Thanks for that Neil Young clip. As you surmised, it was right in my wheelhouse. In college I used to tune my guitar to “Down by the River”–E, E, E. I still have all three Buffalo Springfield albums loaded on my MP3 player and listen to them regularly.
If you don’t have it, check out Live at Massey Hall, 1971. Neil alone with guitar or alone with piano. They either caught him on the best singing night of his life or spent the intervening 37 years sweetening the mix in the labs. Excellent.
My most formative “boy across the street” crush (that lasted from age 8 till . . . um . . . mid-40s?), who taught me to love Bowie, Alice Cooper, Elton and numerous other singer/songwriter/musicians in my very impressionable and formative years, used to play this for me on his guitar.
Sort of funny. He looked me up a few years back after his very young wife left him for a very young professor at her college. He was sorta hoping I’d be interested in helping him raise four kids, I surmised. In Texas! Ha! Life is SO Funny. Careful what you ask for. You may have to eventually say “No thanks” to it!
I’ve been there. Mine was the intense, on-and-off high-school-to-mid-20s relationship that resurfaced as a recently divorced mid-40s woman now independently wealthy, if not outright rich. Wanted to start up again, but I would have to move to her town and fit into her life. As a friend put it, “You would always be an extra in her movie, but it would be a great movie to be in!” So, yeah, sometimes the “No, thanks” is hard. But necessary.
Finally, here is the clip I was blowharding about last week. Problem: You’re on stage with a bunch of rock gods. Eric Clapton has already done a guitar solo, and Bob fucking Dylan and George fucking Harrison just got done trading verses of “My Back Pages.” That dick guitarist G.E. Smith from Saturday Night Live forces you to take a solo. What do you do? Answer.
Damn it. I thought I had solved the block-quoting-bold problem, but then there were no spaces between the paragraphs. Went back and fixed that, but then it dropped one of the quoted paragraphs out of the block quote and, just to rub salt in the wound, rebolded the quote. Damn you, WordPress!
39.
Death By Mosquito Truck
@Ecks: Stay away from my daughter, you little prick.
Um, no. I mean on the actual channel—ABC for me. I haz no cable so I can no watch hockey. :(
Don’t you have bars where you live?
There really is no sporting experience like the Stanley Cup finals, and this is from someone with a very low tolerance for spectator sports.
tim
Oooh. Two open threads for the Pens game.
Laura W
Great. Now we have to choose between you and Tim?
Divorce sucks. But I choose you because I don’t think Tim has a cat.
But that’s the only reason.
Ked
I hate long shots like that, even when it’s my team scoring on them.
Tim F.
Oh shit. Scored on their damn power play.
Notorious P.A.T.
%@^%*$^&
John Cole
That was an exciting few minutes of play.
Death By Mosquito Truck
The good kind of exciting.
asiangrrlMN
Um, anyone watching basketball?
Ash Can
Wow. Who put a quarter in those Pens?
John Cole
Not sure I get a say in this, but I’ll take this second period version of the Pens for the rest of the series.
KTHXBAI
KG
asiangrrlMN, if by “watching” you mean following on espn’s lame online game tracker while working, then yes, yes, I am watching basketball.
tim
That was one of the prettiest goals I’ve seen in a long time.
Ked
Bleeeaaaagggghh.
Sorry, I don’t have any coherent comments right now.
asiangrrlMN
@KG: Um, no. I mean on the actual channel–ABC for me. I haz no cable so I can no watch hockey. :(
geg6
I’ve been trying to keep quiet because I am very superstitious about sports and the Pens seem to do better when I just shut up. But damn. This has been one hell of a second period.
asiangrrlMN
@geg6: geg6, you just jinxed them!
My teams do better when I don’t watch them.
geg6
@asiangrrlMN: Gawd. I know. That’s my great fear. Shutting up now. Maybe. ;)
The Grand Panjandrum
Eddie O is right, Babcock took Zetterberg off Crosby. Now Crosby is playing better.
KG
asiangrrlMN – believe me, I wish I was watching the actual game. I just don’t think I can pull the flat screen off the conference room wall and set it up in my office, though.
Steeplejack
Damn, that was an intense second period. I think I need a cigarette, and I don’t even smoke.
Can definitely see how hockey is much better suited for HDTV (which I don’t have).
Tim F.
Best. Period. Evah.
Laura W
@Steeplejack: OK, so…I loaded this CD onto the iPod shuffle having not heard it in forever. This song came on during a walk last week and the first 15 seconds or so had me totally baffled as to what and who it was. And then I figured it out and knew you’d like it.
My most formative “boy across the street” crush (that lasted from age 8 till…um….mid 40s?), who taught me to love Bowie, Alice Cooper, Elton, and numerous other singer/songwriter/musicians in my very impressionable and formative years used to play this for me on his guitar.
Sort of funny. He looked me up a few years back after his very young wife left him for a very young professor at her college. He was sorta hoping I’d be interested in helping him raise four kids, I surmised. In Texas! Ha! Life is SO Funny. Careful what you ask for. You may have to eventually say: “No thanks” to it!
Death By Mosquito Truck
My daughter scored her first boy kiss tonight. Won’t be long before she’s having having on-demand abortions two at a time. Mom wants me to put the fear of god into the boy but I’m in a hot pink arm cast. Sigh.
gbear
It’s fricking JUNE. No hockey.
Death By Mosquito Truck: How do you know about the kiss? Did she run in the house and tell all or did you have them followed?
Krista
Watching the game right now, on HD, no less. Suh-weeet…
(That’s when I really notice the diff between regular and HD, is with televised sports.)
Krista
Awww! I hope it was nice! My first kiss was wretched.
Poopyman
Has anyone else noticed that John’s Pug in a Bukkit has been immortalized as a loldog?
Although a Pgh native, I never got into hockey, so I’ll leave the comments to the true fans here.
Death By Mosquito Truck
@gbear: Her friend spilled the beans.
tim
Maltby = poop.
Laura W
@Death By Mosquito Truck: I wrote this really loooong, self-referential, painful, rambling response. And then I deleted it all when I became nauseous. (Because that is such an intense and awkward time of life to be passing through. For all of you!)
BEST!
Laura
gbear
@Death By Mosquito Truck: Ahh, where would we be without our friends.
asiangrrlMN
@Krista: I’m with you, Krista. After my first kiss, I thought, “That’s what I was waiting for?” It got better after that, of course.
I got HD just to watch sports. There is no other option.
Tim F.
Never go empty net against the Pens.
geg6
YEEEEAAAAHHHH! Okay got that out of my system.
geg6
Damn. They’re saying there were ten thousand outside the arena for Mario’s screen. Damn NBC for making this the last game that’s an option. This crazy town.
Steeplejack
@Laura W:
Sorry to be late getting back. Your Joni clip sent me on a rich journey of discovery looking up some of her other stuff that I hadn’t heard in a while. (I always loved the song “Hejira,” for some reason.)
Thanks for that Neil Young clip. As you surmised, it was right in my wheelhouse. In college I used to tune my guitar to “Down by the River”–E, E, E. I still have all three Buffalo Springfield albums loaded on my MP3 player and listen to them regularly.
If you don’t have it, check out Live at Massey Hall, 1971. Neil alone with guitar or alone with piano. They either caught him on the best singing night of his life or spent the intervening 37 years sweetening the mix in the labs. Excellent.
I’ve been there. Mine was the intense, on-and-off high-school-to-mid-20s relationship that resurfaced as a recently divorced mid-40s woman now independently wealthy, if not outright rich. Wanted to start up again, but I would have to move to her town and fit into her life. As a friend put it, “You would always be an extra in her movie, but it would be a great movie to be in!” So, yeah, sometimes the “No, thanks” is hard. But necessary.
Finally, here is the clip I was blowharding about last week. Problem: You’re on stage with a bunch of rock gods. Eric Clapton has already done a guitar solo, and Bob fucking Dylan and George fucking Harrison just got done trading verses of “My Back Pages.” That dick guitarist G.E. Smith from Saturday Night Live forces you to take a solo. What do you do? Answer.
P.S. Good job, Pens.
Ecks
1) if you can’t get hockey on teevee, you can get it over the intertubes: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hockey-live
2) Goooo Pens (I knew marrying a Pittsburgher was a smart move)
3) Yeah, first kisses are teh suck. Helloooo rubber lips and bemused disappointment. But hey, may as well leave room to go up :)
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Damn it. I thought I had solved the block-quoting-bold problem, but then there were no spaces between the paragraphs. Went back and fixed that, but then it dropped one of the quoted paragraphs out of the block quote and, just to rub salt in the wound, rebolded the quote. Damn you, WordPress!
Death By Mosquito Truck
@Ecks: Stay away from my daughter, you little prick.
Death By Mosquito Truck
WordPress 12, Steeplejack 0
Ecks
@Death By Mosquito Truck: I can’t believe her friend told!
Snitches :(
Steeplejack
@Death By Mosquito Truck:
Plus there was high-sticking on the blue line.
Death By Mosquito Truck
@Ecks: lol
Ecks
@Death By Mosquito Truck: ;)
Joe Lisboa
Congrats, John. Your Pens played unequivocally well. I’ll stand by my pre-series prediction of Wings in 6, but your guys earned this one. Bravo.
Wile E. Quixote
@John Cole
Goddamnit. Isn’t basketball season over yet?
canuckistani
Don’t you have bars where you live?
There really is no sporting experience like the Stanley Cup finals, and this is from someone with a very low tolerance for spectator sports.
asiangrrlMN
@canuckistani: That would mean getting off my fat ass and actually leaving the house.
@Ecks: Thanks, Ecks! I will use it for the next non-network game.