Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.
Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.
Just wanted a photo to test blogging with flickr. This was from my trip to the Grey Cup last year. The following Monday and Tuesday after the game, my brother and I left Toronto and stopped in Hamilton to check out the CFL Hall of Fame. Since we were already in Hamilton, I wanted to check out Ivor Wynne Stadium as well. No one was there and one set of gates were wide open, so we wandered into one of the endzones and snapped a few photos to prove we were there. Can’t really tell from the photo, but there was a viciously cold wind blowing across the field that day.
No, I haven’t been put down nor have I gone on the lam in some kind of bizarre Logan’s Run-esque death ceremony upon reaching the age of 31. I’ve just been lazy.
A lot’s happened in the last three months (a lot of these will be Rider-related):
- The Riders win their first regular season game in Edmonton since 2000, albeit on a pretty cheesy holding call by the head ref (Proulx) on what would’ve been the game-winning field goal by Sean Fleming in an otherwise meaningless game for the Riders. It killed Edmonton’s slim playoff hopes for the second year of their new streak of play-off misses, but so did Montreal beating Henry Burris and the Stamps that weekend.
- The Riders host their first play-off game since 1988, and win (which they haven’t done since 1976)
- The Riders win the West Division Final, handily beating the favoured B.C. Lions, for the first time in the two teams’ third meeting in four years in the West Final (it was the Riders’ fourth West Final appearance in five years), giving the Riders their first Grey Cup appearance since 1997.
- The Riders win the Grey Cup! Their first time since 1989, ending a 17 year drought of seasons without a Grey Cup. The team now with the longest current drought is Winnipeg (who lost this year’s championship game to the Riders), who haven’t won it since 1990 (the year after the Riders won it in 1989) and are thus currently also sitting in a 17 year drought. Will Stegall beat the odds (which he himself put on his own self) and return in 2008? Will Glenn not fumble the ball and get his arm broken in the process in 2008? Will the Bombers win the Cup in 2008? Will Westwood finally be able to get a haircut in good conscience? Only time will tell.
- All of this with a brand new head coach this year, Kent Austin, who’s also a head coach for the first time, and was the quarterback of the Riders the last time they won the cup in 1989. Also the Riders first full year with general manager, Eric Tillman. What sucks now that they’ve done all this in one year, is what do they do now? The only thing left really is to just keep repeating, something that any team, any where, and at any level, would have difficulty doing (unless they’re the Canadian World Junior Hockey Team, it would seem).
- I survived the birthday season and the holidays here at home without any illnesses (I wish I could say the same for my wallet). I did get a weird head cold kind of thing in mid-December, but I never felt sick or tired, just had a runny nose, like some kind of extreme allergic reaction, and it only lasted a couple days. Sounds like my recent trip to Edmonton allowed me to miss the craziest flu season Regina’s seen for some time. When I got back to work on Tuesday, tons of people were home sick, and today everyone around me is coughing and sniffling. I wonder if asking them to wear masks would be rude?
Sorry ’bout that folks. Bobtober has already begun, and here I am letting it pass by with barely a mention. The Riders went into a bit of a losing slump, and I didn’t feel like connecting to any of my friends out there in the ether. Then I got sick. Then I left the city for 5 days without an Internet connection. The good news is everything is back on the up and up. The Riders are back on a winning streak, and dangerously close to hosting a home playoff game for the first time since before Captain N: The Game Master hit the airwaves (now available on DVD). I’m still busy at work, and have a few other work-related things that I’ve been procrastinating over, so the updates still might be few and far between.
In other news, the new TV season has started, and the venerable favourites such as The Office, Corner Gas, Heroes, House, and Stargate Atlantis, have all started up again. And it wouldn’t be a new TV season if CBS didn’t have a new batch of “reality” TV to share with the masses, and so they have. There’s Survivor: China, but the big news is the new show, Kid Nation, which is basically Survivor meets Lord of the Flies, and I have to say, it’s right up there with Amazing Race as probably the most zany and quotable reality show out there. I never knew I wanted to see a bunch of kids cut the heads off of chickens, but now I’m glad I have. Eat your heart out, Mr. Linkletter. 
And in conclusion, I leave you with this:
YouTube - Futurama Feature Length DVD