My recent trip to Grenoble, France had Andre the Giant on my mind (figuratively, of course). The linkage wasn’t due to Andre’s origins in the Alpine region, instead, it was a gentle reminder that Andre the Giant has a posse, as evidenced by de facto street art in the form [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2007
Cup of MOCCA
Two weeks ago I stopped by the Museum of Comic and Creative Arts (MOCCA) show in SoHo, primarily on a tip from R.Stevens’ blog that discusses the robot romance, creative Internet uses and T-shirt monetization of his Diesel Sweeties comic strip. MOCCA is a great show because it provides an instantaneous [...]
Nashville, Nexus For Jewish Hockey
Nashville has signed Dov Grumet-Morris to a two-way contract (meaning he gets paid to play in the NHL and the minors, although with a zero dropping off the paycheck as he moves down a level). Grumet-Morris wins the hockey player minority hat trick: he’s a Harvard grad, he’s a goalie, and he’s Jewish. [...]
Chris Young, Baseball All-Star
How cool is it that Chris Young was voted to the MLB All-Star Game? Not only does it demonstrate the power of the fan’s voice (MLB received about a million votes an hour down the home stretch), but it shows how the right mix of real world (in-ballpark prompts to vote for [...]
Pair of Tiger Tales
It’s been a great month if you follow the exploits of former Princeton Tigers in professional sports. George Parros, former captain of Princeton’s ice hockey team (and NJ high school standout) became the first Princetonian to win the Stanley Cup. He joins a reasonable list of Ivy Leaguers on Lord [...]
Asia in New York
That’s not Simon Phipps addressing an open source conference — rather it’s John Wetton, bass player and front man for Asia, the “original” supergroup of the mid-80s formed from the remainders of Yes, King Crimson, UK, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and the Buggles (unless you count them as part of Yes). Wetton is [...]
Free Agency and the Price of Beer
I’m about two weeks behind in blogging various trips, adventures and random technology thoughts, so I’ll probably start with the most recent and work backwards.
Scott Gomez’ departure across the Hudson River was not the way I wanted to start my summer vacation. At some level; I knew he was leaving the Devils because [...]
Gomez Is The Next A-Rod
First the strong words: Forget the comparisons to Bobby Holik. Scott Gomez is the next Alex Rodriguez, in the eyes of the fans, the league, the press, sports agents and possibly youth hockey players. Tough call? Absolutely, and not one I’ll make in publicly lightly, because as a person I [...]
Gomez The Goomer
Boy am I torn. I adore Scott Gomez. He’s partially responsible for the “snowman” nickname. I was reminded of that again tonight when I packed up my golf clubs and noticed the NHL Charity Event 2003 bag tag, the time and place at which Gomez remarked on my [...]
Rafalski To Mo-Town
Goodbye, Brian Rafalski. I have no idea what Lou has in mind for his blue line corps, but losing Rafalski on the first day of free agency probably wasn’t his Plan A. That said, I’m hoping Plan B is really, really exciting, because one of the leading names I wanted to [...]
