I was all set to go on another Today Show tirade about a feature Dennise told me about until I actually watched it. I don’t agree that the 12 year old boy who loves vacuuming has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Watch the segment that aired last Tuesday here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12065856/
This is hardly my area of expertise, but if this kid mindlessly and repetitively vaccumed I would think he had OCD. The way he lovingly and passionately describes these vacuum cleaners makes me think that he has a very strange hobby. I think if he was as passionate and knowledgeable about fighter planes or sportscars no one would think twice. I’m relieved that Today was not exploiting this kid because I didn’t really feel like a tirade “today.”
For a few weeks it seemed like couldn’t get through any of the articles I started to read on Slate. It’s very strange for me to be interested enough to start an article but then bail out. I thought my mind was going soft, but this week there have been a lot of good reads “over there.” So it wasn’t me at all! Here is an interesting piece on maple syrup:
http://www.slate.com/id/2163219/
Another lie they are telling you: That Ryan Miller’s 39 wins this year can be compared to Don Edwards’ 38 wins in 1977-78 without qualification. The fact is that if Miller was playing without the shootout, as Edwards did, he would have 29 wins after regulation or overtime.
I went to my first Sabres game of the season last week. It was a real treat to go and certainly makes me wish I could go more often. Going to a weeknight game takes quite an effort, though. We left Rochester shortly after 5:00 and didn’t get home until around midnight. That’s only slightly less of an obligation than going to a Bills game.
Going to Sabres games at HSBC Arena is a rather strange experience for me in some ways. I was living in New York City when the Arena opened in 1996. When I lived in Buffalo and went to Sabres games often, I went to The Aud. I never lived in Buffalo while the Sabres played at HSBC. I haven’t been to many games there and it doesn’t really feel like “home” to me the way that The Aud did. I think as a child it is easier to bond with things and memories are more vivid, so there may be a lot of people living in Buffalo my age who feel the same way that I do. When I went to watch the Sabres at The Aud, everyone there was older than I am. Now when I go to HSBC, a good deal of the fans are younger than I am. I spend a lot of time sitting there wondering where these people came from. I feel a bit disconnected, and I wish that wasn’t the case. I couldn’t ask for better friends and family to follow the team with me, but I wonder if I shouldn’t be more connected to “Sabres Fans” in general. I don’t have these issues following the Bills. Maybe it’s because the experience of following the Bills has never really changed for me, or because the Sabres are doing so well now and fans seems to have suddenly appeared.
I couldn’t believe the number and variety of truly hideous Sabres jerseys I saw at the game. How does someone put together a Sabres jersey that quite clearly doesn’t look like anything worn by the team and then say to himself, “That’s close enough?” There is no such thing as close enough. The name “Paetsch” on the back of a jersey in lettering twice as fat as it should be is not close enough. Silk-screened numbers on the back aren’t close enough. Wearing the team’s original white jerseys with the small number on the front isn’t close enough, because those jerseys have never existed. And putting your own friggin’ name on the back is so far away from any sort of reality that those types of people should be confronted and shamed. A hockey jersey is not a blank canvas. If you want a blank canvas, go to Build A Bear. It’s an embarrassing reflection on the team and its fans and again leads me to ask “Who are these people and where did they come from?”
Dyngus Day is fast approaching and from the additional events planned in Buffalo and the coverage in The Buffalo News, it sounds like the event is really building. Next year might be the year to head to the Buff and take part in the parade. Nice article today in TBN about east side watering holes. I need to hit the Adam Mickiewicz Library before I die.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12065856/
This is hardly my area of expertise, but if this kid mindlessly and repetitively vaccumed I would think he had OCD. The way he lovingly and passionately describes these vacuum cleaners makes me think that he has a very strange hobby. I think if he was as passionate and knowledgeable about fighter planes or sportscars no one would think twice. I’m relieved that Today was not exploiting this kid because I didn’t really feel like a tirade “today.”
For a few weeks it seemed like couldn’t get through any of the articles I started to read on Slate. It’s very strange for me to be interested enough to start an article but then bail out. I thought my mind was going soft, but this week there have been a lot of good reads “over there.” So it wasn’t me at all! Here is an interesting piece on maple syrup:
http://www.slate.com/id/2163219/
Another lie they are telling you: That Ryan Miller’s 39 wins this year can be compared to Don Edwards’ 38 wins in 1977-78 without qualification. The fact is that if Miller was playing without the shootout, as Edwards did, he would have 29 wins after regulation or overtime.
I went to my first Sabres game of the season last week. It was a real treat to go and certainly makes me wish I could go more often. Going to a weeknight game takes quite an effort, though. We left Rochester shortly after 5:00 and didn’t get home until around midnight. That’s only slightly less of an obligation than going to a Bills game.
Going to Sabres games at HSBC Arena is a rather strange experience for me in some ways. I was living in New York City when the Arena opened in 1996. When I lived in Buffalo and went to Sabres games often, I went to The Aud. I never lived in Buffalo while the Sabres played at HSBC. I haven’t been to many games there and it doesn’t really feel like “home” to me the way that The Aud did. I think as a child it is easier to bond with things and memories are more vivid, so there may be a lot of people living in Buffalo my age who feel the same way that I do. When I went to watch the Sabres at The Aud, everyone there was older than I am. Now when I go to HSBC, a good deal of the fans are younger than I am. I spend a lot of time sitting there wondering where these people came from. I feel a bit disconnected, and I wish that wasn’t the case. I couldn’t ask for better friends and family to follow the team with me, but I wonder if I shouldn’t be more connected to “Sabres Fans” in general. I don’t have these issues following the Bills. Maybe it’s because the experience of following the Bills has never really changed for me, or because the Sabres are doing so well now and fans seems to have suddenly appeared.
I couldn’t believe the number and variety of truly hideous Sabres jerseys I saw at the game. How does someone put together a Sabres jersey that quite clearly doesn’t look like anything worn by the team and then say to himself, “That’s close enough?” There is no such thing as close enough. The name “Paetsch” on the back of a jersey in lettering twice as fat as it should be is not close enough. Silk-screened numbers on the back aren’t close enough. Wearing the team’s original white jerseys with the small number on the front isn’t close enough, because those jerseys have never existed. And putting your own friggin’ name on the back is so far away from any sort of reality that those types of people should be confronted and shamed. A hockey jersey is not a blank canvas. If you want a blank canvas, go to Build A Bear. It’s an embarrassing reflection on the team and its fans and again leads me to ask “Who are these people and where did they come from?”
Dyngus Day is fast approaching and from the additional events planned in Buffalo and the coverage in The Buffalo News, it sounds like the event is really building. Next year might be the year to head to the Buff and take part in the parade. Nice article today in TBN about east side watering holes. I need to hit the Adam Mickiewicz Library before I die.
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