Saturday Night at the Movies

Blog Boy takes time out to go to the movies.

As busy as I am this term, I had to get out for a bit.

There is a funky theatre on Hillside and Quadra that looks like a warehouse. It seats about 450, and it's called the Roxy. How good is that?

It gets better. It has a real Cheapo Tuesday - $2.50 a show.

"Knocked Up" was on at 715 and "Ocean's 13" at 930 but i only stayed for the first one.

Good fun!

I do see the Judd Apatow recipe at work.

Chick Flick at the heart - "he's a slob with a golden heart" who will win over the outstanding girl at the end.

Add lots of swearing and dope, and the guys will sit through the movie until the end(see Talledega, Ron Burgundy, 40-yr old virgin, etc)

Bestest most redeeming quality of the movie - bro in law is a wimp not a cheat. not to give away plot lines but the movie has been out for two months.

Harold Ramis and Kristen Wiig stole every scene.

But I am sorry the entire premise is mucho loco.

No way in the world a spectacularly good looking woman (with a high paying job) is going to take Slobbo the Hut back to her place.

No way.

Doesn't happen, not even in Hollywood.

So there is no movie.

Despite all the great lines and the laughs i couldn't get past that part so it all got filtered a bit at that point.

But Hey - $2.50?

And the company was great; they always are.

A much welcome break.

Two other interesting bits to the day...

1) I got an email from an old friend who gave me good advice

2) I was forced to look down the gun barrel of my own athletic mediocrity

so -

Old friends with advice, 20 years of relative mediocrity and a band that looks like the people in Knocked Up formed a band. Sounds like:

Yo La Tengo: Mr. Tough

sigh

bonus! Yo La Tengo: Spec Bebop

for those times you just need to let the noise become music and morph back into noise again. i love this cut. there, i said it.

William Glasser and me

Word is that William Glasser is a pretty important person in the world of psychotherapy.

In "Glasser World" there are five basic needs, four if you leave off Survival. (as if that were possible).

Count the other four on your fingers like this:

FUN - Crook your index finger, "Come play with me."

POWER - extend your middle finger - a-ha!

LOVE and BELONGING - the ring finger, naturally

FREEDOM - pinky finger went "wee wee wee all the wya home," and apparently took his sweet time doing it.

It is simplistic to break down human need that way.

Not human WANT, however.

That's entirely different.

the Question today was - what do you do when you don't get what you WANT?

The question was phrased in the context of coaching, but it made me think personally nonetheless.

First of all, I would rather be wanted than needed. And if I don't get what I want i pout, big time.

And sulk. and hide. and avoid.

There is so much I want that I know I cannot have. My (almost) Bhuddist friend would tell me that as soon as i give up the wanting I will find joy.

I am not so sure.....

I will let you ponder that one for a while.

Earlier I linked White Stripes' Walking with a Ghost.

Tonight I was "saved" by an angel who kept me from falling into traffic.

No, dear reader, I was completely sober, but miscalculated the slippery slope I was on.

Physiclly and metaphorically, I suppose.

i was in no real danger, but it never hurts to let others feel they are needed and important.

All is well that - well, you know the rest.

If this one ends well, I am forever in debt.

Rolling Stones "You can't always get what you WANT"

a little video of an equally non-bhuddist man

On my walk today I met a cat....

On my walk today I met a cat.
On the sidewalk.

I noticed him about a half block away, lounging, sunning himself, just hanging out.

As soon as he saw me he got up and approached me with his tail in the air.

We chatted for a bit as i rubbed the top of his head and neck with my knuckles.

And then I left,and he went back to lounging.

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I like cats for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that they are so honest.

They want something, they ask.

They want nothing, they leave.

They are perfectly capable of entertaining themselves, but are social all the same.

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This week there is a story in the news about a cat in a New England care home who visits with residents during the last hours of their lives. Staff have come to recognize his ability to predict death.

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And when you get up and leave a cat, unlike a human, they don't harbour resentments or even show sadness, or talk to their therapist about abandonment.

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There is a zen quality of mindfulness that they posses. They live in the moment.

We can learn from cats.

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Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys?

no

Cat Stevens?

probably

Cat Power?

definitely.

Cat Power: Lived in Bars

note to colleagues:

I wish all party videos were this tame.

Judy Blume breaks her routine - can you?

You’re a bit rude and crude
Depraved and lewd
You’re caught in a moral crunch
You’re vexed and perplexed
And way oversexed
So - when can we have lunch?

- with thanks to Judy Blume (believe it or not...)

People don't just react when you change a habit or pattern. They tend to over-react.
Cut your hair. Change jobs. Stop providing free rent to a relative.
The reaction is based on what they view from their perspective, and what self interest is affected.
Judy Blume, famous for her many children's stories about growing up, being a Tween, finding things out without being told, got a lot of grief from her fans for writing an adult novel.
The woman in the story, Sandy, grows tired of the dull routine of her life, and the distance in her relationship, and starts giving in to her impulses, following her fantasies.
I can just imagine the reaction when the suburban mom, who grew up on Judy Blume and is now in her forties, picks up the latest Judy Blume novel for her twelve year old daughter.

Betrayed!
Like seeing a new Darren on "Bewitched" without any explanation.
Like a new Becky Conner replacing Lecy Goranson with Sarah Chalke.
(insert your own TV trivia here....)

I am sure the reaction is the same any time our friends and family see us doing something they didn't expect - or worse, not doing something they've always expected. Especially without checking it out first. The railing and wailing that follows unapproved changes is done merely to convince us that our decison is a wrong one, and to keep peace we must go back and do what is expected of us - by the very people who are wailing and railing. Behaviour modification by lecturing and shunning.

I am fortunate. I exist in a comfortable personal world where innovation and risk are cautiously encouraged. I would not be doing what I am doing if that were not so.

Others around me are not so lucky. Their attempts to be good, to go along, to acquiesce, are followed closely by chest pains and bouts of heavy drinking.

I see them as the pack mules to somebody else's journey.

Now before you go getting any notions about my reading habits, remember i taught Elementary school for eight years. I became well acquainted with Judy Blume as a result. And no, I have not read her adult novel, nor do I have the intention to do so. I do applaud her willingness to step outside and follow her impulse.

"What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams."
Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957), Greek novelist.

The message here, folks, is if you are not laughing, if you've stopped dreaming, you are not really living.
I like this one as well:

"Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training."
Anna Freud, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, 1946.

Music time



Right on theme: A very classy version of "Dreams" by the Corrs, featuring Mick Fleetwood.
Mick is no Carimine Appice, but he is a quality drummer with a distinctive sound.
and....
Steve Earle's "Galway Girl"

her hair was black and her eyes were blue....



later

Even when Michael Jordan won the '98 Finals on what everyone believed was his final shot ever, he famously shoved Utah's Bryon Russell to the ground before launching that jumper. No whistle.

- Bill Simmons, ESPN Page 2

People who know me well know how delighted i am at this very moment.
Well, not delighted, more like righteously justified.
After the NBA ref scandal hit I now wonder how many games are (and have been) fixed.

this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvkKdXLwt0U&mode=related&search=

this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83IQlYGMDZY&mode=related&search=

or this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU5IPnb-C4Q&mode=related&search=

and on and on it goes.

How long until we hear the truth about Michael Jordan's associations with known gamblers and mobsters?
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1635/pg1/index.html

and

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_25_229/ai_n13826661

the point is simple - once one event in the league is suspect it immediately brings into question every other suspicious outcome. and not just for this year.

A fisherman friend of my dad once told me he didn't watch professional sports because every game is fixed.

He watched Wrestling. it was fixed, too, but they didn't pretend it wasn't, and he found that ironic honesty rather refreshing.

go figure

Time for a real man to stand up!
Tom Waits: Goin' Out West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0-KhvrGwCU
You ever listen to lyrics of this tune? Hilarious!

night night

Ain’t no doubt about it

She’s just my kind of girl

Too bad she lives so far away

----John Lyle, musician, songwriter, blogger's cousin

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I walked into class today listening to my mp3 player.

I had been sitting outside on a bench in the warm sunshine listening to a renditon of the Faces doing "Flying".

Great line in there - about being in jail "for being hungry tired and poor."

I have about 1200 songs on my player - all guilty pleasures.

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Jay-Z was playing as I headed into the room.

My "boys in the back" joked that I was listening to Snoop Dogg.

I am not sure they believed me when I told them I was listening to Hova.

"I got 99 problems but a b*tch ain't one - hit me"

Don't much care.

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I listen to my for my pleasure, but it is interesting how much we stereotype.

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I went for a long walk tonight to clear my head.

The walk felt good but my head is still a mess.

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Yo Cuz!..

Check out this site

http://cdbaby.com/cd/lylejohn2

Cousin John Lyle

http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/lylejohn1-01.m3u

My music treat of today. Click the links!

'John's songs are amazing!'

Frazee Ford (The Be Good Tanyas)

'We love John Lyle. We listen to him all the time.'

The Sumner Brothers

'There's lots of nice stuff on there!'

Paul Rodgers (Bad Company; Free; Queen)

‘Magnificent!’ The late Robert Altman’s word for John Lyle’s music

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Click the link above and sing along.

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JUST MY KIND OF GIRL

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I asked her what she did for fun

she said she didn’t know

She said the days seemed shorter now

Love had lost its glow

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She said all her bags were packed

And waiting on the bed

And if I thought I had a chance

I’d better shake my head

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-Ain’t no doubt about it

She’s just my kind of girl

Too bad she lives so far away

She’s half asleep and far too deep

Into this crazy world

Ain’t no doubt about it

She’s just my kind of girl

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She said she’d given up on hope

and all that it implied

She looked at me and said I see

Sadness in your eyes

She said when you stop arguing

With what has to be

You’ll learn the only lesson

You’ll ever learn from me

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nice, huh?

bittersweet, sad, accepting

night nigh

It's sunday morning and there is a terrible droning noise outside that keeps repeating.

It's somewhere between a fog horn and a saw mill.

Sunday Morning!

there ought to be a law....

Three of us took a big yellow taxi van home last night.

We're extraoridinarily smart individuals who collectively get even smarter.

And I got some cool new rugby gear - a hat AND a Shirt!

I got to make some new friends and some old friends I got to know even better.

All in all a grand evening and a welcome relief from the "cell" I presently call "Home".

Music about the ironies of life:

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgMEPk6fvpg

Point Guard meets Point Guard



Now for most people - and by most I mean those mildly familiar with one of the people in the above photo - the above picture is a photo of a nice event where a young basketball playing girl from BC meets a less young basketball playing boy from BC.

But for anybody who knows Lex (the girl in the picture for the sports illiterates) this is much much bigger than that.

This is Billy Preston meets the Beatles; this is Stephen Harper meets Bono; this is Wayne Gretzky meets Gordie Howe; this is Lester Pearson meets Churchill; this is Prince meets Stevie Wonder..... you get the picture.

How many of us ever get to meet our heroes?

Who did you admire at age ten? I had three people (outside of my dad,of course. I knew he was stronger than Popeye and he could speak ten languages and advised the government on important matters).

They were, in no particular order:

George Harrison

John Diefenbaker

Joe Kapp

I only got to meet one of them. I am certain he does not remember it, but I will never forget. In the spring of 1964 I was playing baseball at 10th Avenue Ballpark in Port Alberni when a car rolled up beside the diamond. Out of the car came four men. I had no idea who the other people were, but I knew instantly that Joe Kapp was here to meet us. We stopped the game and I heard Joe say he wanted to meet every one of us.

Both teams got to shake his hand, and he asked lots of good questions like, "What position do you play?", and some insightful ones, too, like "How's your teacher treating you?"

Kapp was a big man, 6'2", about 220 pounds, and he towered over us. Except when he spoke. He took a knee and talked to us at eye level, put his left hand on our shoulders when he shook hands, and made me feel comfortable with my hero and old friend.

I had spent the previous two summers in Courtenay with my grandmother and the Lions practiced just down the hill from where she lived. I rarely took my eyes off him. He was the center of all the action, even when he was watching others.

He assured us that the 1963 season was just a warm up and that the Lions would win the Grey Cup this year - "the Lions will Roar in '64, boys. You count on it." The Lions did win the Cup in 1964. Joe Kapp wouldn't lie to me.

When he was traded to the Boston Patriots he was the highest paid player in the NFL. Sports Illustrated did a cover story on him calling him "The Toughest Chicano."

He taught me that even us little kids were important enough to talk eye to eye with. He taught me that no matter how big you are you never need to talk down to anybody. And "22" is still my favourite number.

The peanut butter he was giving away in little jars was pretty good, too.

I never met the other two of my heroes, but one out of three is good for me. Maybe on a different day i can reflect on why the other two were heroes. I heard somewhere,"An idol is someone you want to be near; a hero is someone you want to be like."

I suspect Lex feels much the same way right now.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death.I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly, Sunday Times (UK)Oct. 4 1981

Today's musical snack - it's a snap
David Bowie - Heroes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjBQKIOb-w

There are just too many darn distractions in this world.
If you're not careful you can forget all about the thing you were really supposed to do and just allow yourself to be distracted.
example here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y643qtpEkqU
Three minutes & forty seconds of sheer distraction.

Blogworld - give me your energy to keep the car running, keep the head down, keep doing the little jobs that add up to the big job.

This weekend is critical.
Do you believe in ghosts?


Here's one for the cohort:
the White Stripes - Walking with a Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYyoU8kKPQ&mode=related&search=

These postings have been getting later and later.

I went to a lacrosse game :

It started way late so it ended way late.

It was a nice evening out, though, and I really appreciated getting out to see a game after so many years away.

My gang is feeling tense, a bit edgy and tired.

We need to sustain the energy we need to complete the tasks at hand.

i am not sure late nights will do the trick...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owMjAbkU1eE

nor will this trick

maybe some music:

the Hold Steady: Your Little Hoodrat Friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP8xL5dbJio

I just think the name of the band is appropriate to what i have to do right now.

It seems pretty clear to me now that no matter what state of mind you are in you are never alone.
No matter how up or down you feel, no matter how alone or crowded, no matter how stressed or relaxed - others around you are in the same state of mind.
it helps to know that others are where you are.
It helps me, at least.
Our "get together" tonight was a valuable insight into the whole issue of togetherness. We spent a whole evening dissecting why we are here. Valuable time spent.
If I don't have a reason to be here then the next thought is a terrifying one, one that I don't want to contemplate.

I'm getting far too existential.
enough.
we are going to a lacrosse game on Wednesday.
does it get more concrete than that?

Keane : Is it any Wonder?
Well actually, yes it is.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_z0rLvNrAI

ni nigh

So ... i was poking around (nicely) on a myspace page of a close relative today and it hit me - there was a reference to my dear relative being his source of "Rod Stewart vinyl".


It was lkely vinyl that was once in my possession and is now in his.
Since I have no interest in listening to Rod Stewart vinyl anymore it felt rather satisfying to be the conduit of his joy.



I guess things happen for a reason. We just don't always know the reason.

Tonight I got some very good news. I've been waiting about a year for somebody neutral to tell me "yes, you are absolutely correct in your position." Tonight I got that. After ten months of putting up with BS, i got the word today that the other guy was 100% wrong.
Goddang it fells good to say "I told you so."
i am going to enjoy the hell out of the contorted apology i am going to slowly drag out of him.

At one point in my life i might have been more forgiving, more understanding.
Not now.
Now it is fair for fair, pain for pain.
Is that understandable?
God knows it is simple philosophy.

It is karmic reality.
I donate some vinyl.
somebody else gets to benefit from it monetarily and a third person gets to listen to it and benefit environmentally (or aesthetically to be more precise).

Tonight I believe in ghosts - some watching over us, some just watching.

Rod Stewart- "Morning Dew"
From the album Jeff Beck Group - Truth
Damned fine vocals - great front man in those days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8OmYL5br0

Does anybody listen to these songs I load up?
just wonderin'
sleep right, dream tight
we have 200 couches.....

I love to travel overseas to visit family and friends.
I have to admit I do not sleep as well in the valley as I do on the coast.
The valley air is stifling and hot and (I am sure) full of nitrogen by-products.

the best part of the weekend away had to be the monster visit with grandson extraodinaire.
Pancakes were really good, too.

Biggest uuups to the new Cosby Connection - even if pops referred to it as Crosby... Chalk it up to nerves.
Talk about a happy couple and a proud circle of friends. What a memory it was just to be a part of it.

Good Luck PG in your upcoming music festival.
I hope it brings fun and Sales to town.


Especially at Meow records - 3rd & Brunswick.


Right?

This massive link will take you to a song by the Cottonweeds : Railroad Bill
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=169733423

Not my kind of stuff, necessarily, but I really dig the honesty of these guys' work.


Back to the grind.
six weeks to go......

Odd Story

Happy Story

Odd First

There is a man who comes to the cafeteria every night about the same time as I do.

He looks like he is auditoning for a role in the "Last Days of Howard Hughes".

Lots of hair, beard, strange collection of items he puts into and removes from his bag while he eats. I put him to be about 40 years old - looks way older, but he isn't.

One of the items in his back is a greasy crumb ridden zip lock baggie that he uses to pick up his food - often fried rice - and shovel into his mouth. when he is done he puts the greasy baggie bag into his bag - I assume to use again.

Now my question is - what gives?

He is a student at the school.

He won't eat with a fork or spoon, but he eats off the dinner plates.

He sits away from people.

But there are thousands of us all around him.

i dunno...

On to the good staory.

We had a draw today for a VIP ticket to see Japan vs Czech Republic at Royal Athletic Park U-20 FIFA match.

the winner was an international student from Japan.

everyone knows the draw was fixed, but it was cool to see the look on his face.....

Japan lost in kicks after leadin 2-0 for a good part of the game.

(I know many of you out there aren't soccer/football types.

In honour of the terrible loss: a classic

The Vapors - Turning Japanese

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsIrxwHtnc

Home tomorrow!

Pancakes with the Jake

It does not get better.

Picture this conversation :

Group of ten - about four girls - all around 16 years old

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Alpha Girl: "Nya nu nay nya nu nuh nuh

Boys : "Hu huh! hu hu huhuh!"

Alpha Girl: "ni ni nuh! (hands spread ten inches apart)

Boys : "Hu huh! hu hu huhuh!"

Alpha Girl: "Ni ni nowaaah"

Boys : "Hu huh! hu hu huhuh!"

Alpha Girl: "Nih"

Boys : "Hu huh! hu hu huhuh!"

Alpha Girl: "Nuninih nuh nih nih" (eyes roll up)

Boys : "Hu huh! hu hu huhuh! huh! hu hu huhuh!"

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Now imagine that conversation over and over while you try and eat dinner.

Welcome to my world.

There are simply aspects of what I do that cannot be defined in words.

sigh.

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Home soon.

Wedding coming up filled with happy people.

Let's have none of this!
Radiohead
Punchup at a Wedding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhjxSBp6huM

No Post last night - I was too distracted.

Noisy noisy noisy

This morning there was a pair of shoes hanging on a tree outside the room that was making so much of the noise.

What is the deal with so many shoes hanging on wires?

Anybody know the "meaning"?

ttyl

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

So there I am watching a clip of Tucker Carlson chat it out with David Shuster on the whole Scooter Libby thing and it hits me - hard!

Tucker is not wearing a bow tie!

How long has this been happening?

I emailed Mike at C&L today and asked him if it didn't seem funny that Tucker wasn't wearing his "signature bow tie" any more. I suggested it might be since the day day John Stewart made fun of it on a CNN interview with Carlson.

Mike at C&L emailed me back! right away!

He said - "You may be right!" (exclamation mark his)

I really like that site - now I dig it even more since they answer my emails and agree with me.

so there is the secret to getting on the Ogtheblogger's good side - answer my emails and agree with me. Simple.

Link leads this post. Check it out.

On another note:

Went to see the ultimate 14yr old boy movie tonight.

B-don will be in Optimus Heaven.

Regardless of his material, spielberg is a genius.

At a time when he could be mailing it in - he isn't.

The best part of the SFX for me was the sound.

John Turturro was good, Jon Voigt was good, but the effects were the star.

Big surprise.

Here's some fun for those of you who have not seen the movie:

Black Lab

Transformer Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6H-TUnw1XE

Plus footage!

Cheers

A three - hour Twin Peaks...called Inland Empire.

Lynch needs some new material.

Unless, of course you like the old stuff enough to watch it for three hours straight.

Laura Dern is a fine actor in her own right, but I could haave done with more Jeremy Irons and a LOT more Harry Dean - one of my all time favorites.

The folks around Yakima Washington refer to their area as the Inland Empire.

The folks around there look kind of odd, too.

Maybe it's the effects of living downwind to the nuclear plant.

Or maybe they have lots of carnies who settled there.

g'night.

From the movie Inland Empire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko08zsqxc2I

Beck: Black Tambourine

Job Well Done

Thank your stars, Leo fans, that Edmonton has the boat anchor as Offensive Coordinator, and he is no longer dragging down the Lions.

I love it when the stars line up and the teams I detest also have the players I hate. In some way it is even better than the players I like on the team I like.

Derek Jeter on the Yankees. Kobe Bryant on the Lakers.

Jacques Chapdelaine is not a player anymore, not since he dropped what would have been a Grey Cup winning pass for BC when he had the chance. But BC won in spite of him, and now that he is at Edmonton, well., it couldn't be better.

On the flip side the Sonics hire PJ Carlesimo

I may never cheer for the Sonics again.

But = Dave Ritchie is a genius.

I'm going to be in a good mood for a week!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3tdHoj_VoE

Celebrate all the Rats in Sports:

The Walkmen: the Rat

Don't you just love the work the drummer does in this vid????

Day 3 of Part Two

"The Reckoning"

I reckon it's going to take a whole heap more work before I am done here.

I reckon I better just get used to it.

Canada 0 - Austria 2

It is really sad how we feature ourselves as a world class sports nation when we really can only compete in ice hockey and curling.

For some strange reason I watched the game tonight feeling a loathing for all things soccer and hockey.

We make such a big deal out of ice hockey when in reality it is an eight team tournament.

But soccer is worse. In communities all over the country it is almost cult like in its status as a youth movement. But what a sell job they do. For what?

We have soccer peeople in our program here and they lament all the same things that basketball and volleyball people do:

No money, poor organization, idiots at the NSO/PSO level making decisions that they are unqualified to make.

And we continue to pour money into the hockey hole.

Hockey is a good game, but Canadians are kidding themselves if they thing anybody else in the entire world gives a crap about it.

At least curling manages to pay its own way.

Sport in Canada needs an overhaul or I don't like where we are headed.

Take high school PE classes for example - did you know that your mark in high school PE is based on three criteria?

1. Proper footwear

2. Proper attire

3. Good behaviour

Imagine if we marked Math class or Reading the same way?

We just don't take physical literacy seriously, and we pay for it with obesity, increased disease and medical bills.

Here's some Canadiana "Hockey Style" for ya:

Tom Cochrane - Big League. Oh so Canadian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDDnOUKDQI

enjoy.

I have decided that naps are now more important than ever.

In the past two days I have had four naps. Not long ones, powerful short ones.

Research on elite athletes

and elite musicians

tells us that the determining factor between "very good" and elite is that the elites tend to take naps in the middle of the day, usually between 2 and 5 pm, and usually for more than twenty minutes but less than two hours. Naps during performance are not considered good for the career regardless of how excellent you may become as a result.

Bingo - that's me. I am now officially "elite".

We can't always get the naps in that we crave. Some of you out there in cyberworld never take naps. It's quite okay to face your own inevitable mediocrity. In fact it is a respectable trait.

Teenagers take naps, too. They call it "sun tanning" to give it a special name. They lie on towels and beach mats, ignore everything, and talk to nobody except for cell phoners. (is that a term? It is now). The rest of their beach time is taken up with naps. See below:

I became an official "cell phoner" today. (The picture above is not me. No IM's PLEASE!)

I joined the modern world and accepted a call on my new cell phone while I was walking up Sinclair Road heading back to the Rez. Confidently, I talked on the phone, while I strode up the hill and into the future. What a multi-tasker I am.

And I owe all my prowess to my propensity to nap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEyQ8lDNOdw

not like this kid. Someone should arrest his mom for not picking him up and cuddling him for two minutes. He could have become an "elite"!

the kid looks like most of my students when they have to listen to me.

I was only encouraging them to be excellent.

Even B-dis recognized the value of a nap.

She would say,"I don't want to go to sleep. I just want to rest my eyes."

And she truly is an elite.

I know it is two days for Arcade fire, but the youtube version of the Walkmen doing their own "Wake Up" is pretty wretched. so here, on topic and in tune, Wake Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKC5pyOKFU

talk to you soon, about two naps from now.

Holy Jumpin' Rabbits!
It's summer again and here I am!




Actually not here:




But here:



In a year:

• Li'l J has learned to walk and talk (we always communicated with signals and ESP but he seems to rely more on the spoken word now. sellout.)
• B-dis has her store up and running and leading the revival of downtown PG
• B-don is Senior Associate and has the ear of the PM (so they say)
• M-got has gone back to paving the way for the new recruits
• More good friends have retired
• I got an MRI in my Slip-n-fall case that says I have the knee of a 75 year old man. Man, I hope he doesn't want it back soon. I'm going to need it for a while yet.
• The Cos is getting hitched.
• 
  Send me your thoughts over the past year
  
  Finally -
  the pros and cons on Day One of Part Two:

pros:

1. The room is painted
2. I got dropped off so I don't have to park the car
3. I had great company all the way here
4. Only one more semester to go
5. No TV

cons:

1. It is essentially the same room as last year with a new BO smell
2. No car ("I know a place where no cars go...") Us kids know.
3. My company left me alone
4. Another semester left to go
5. no TV

The beach at Cadboro was beautiful - as usual.
About two dozen sailboats tacking in the wind. Four chain smoking Granville Island Can drinking 22-25 year olds lurking and ogling three 30ish women in swim suits until the women left. the boys did soon after, but they did at least pick up their cans and put them in the trash. Victoria layabouts are greener than most.
Two seagulls wandering the beach yelling like hell at nobody.
Cell phone works.
Internet works - obviously.
How about Arcade Fire:
"No Cars Go"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJDsm1Y4kUk

sleep tight
Big day tomorrow