Face it: The Devils look nervous out there. Tuesday night’s fiasco against the Penguins was the first game I’ve watched in about two weeks, and I was sorry that I did. When you’re listening to the radio, you hear about the puck being “spirited out” or “scaled back up” and you [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2008
Reading Your Own Headlines
Last weekend our youth hockey team had a 4-0 lead and then stopped playing midway through the game. Our opponents out-played us, 2-0, down the stretch, leaving us with a 4-2 win but one that we honestly didn’t earn with a solid effort. Watching the Devils game last night, I [...]
Memetics in Action
Two months ago a cousin forwarded an email asking me to sign an e-petition requesting Google to edit search results. The heart of the matter was that googling for the single word “jew” returned, as the first sorted result, a link to a site full of outright anti-Semitism. Conspiracy theory, moral outrage [...]
Mike Mottau Uncovered
Mike Mottau gives me hope at the blue line. He’s emblematic of the path taken by a number of Devils players: a Massachusetts native, played for Boston College (at the same time Gionta was there), and I (for one) had never heard of him. On the surface, [...]
Muscle Memory
Writing takes practice, just like hockey, baseball, or public speaking. And like hockey, baseball, and public speaking, I’m way out of shape. First blog post since the beginning of December, nearly six weeks without putting keyboard and brain together, and it gets progressively harder to crank out coherent (let alone amusing) thoughts [...]
Art Rocking The House
Chalk up another transitive closure to amazon.com’s suggestion engine. While hunting for Yes “Live at Montreaux” on CD, I was presented with the concert mash-up of the last Genesis jaunt across Europe, appropriately titled “Live Over Europe 2007.” I ended up throwing a nice Rick Wakeman compliation (”Sixty Minutes With…”) [...]
The 2007 List
Presenting the fourth installment in a continuing series dating back to 2004: the 2007 list.
Best Parenting Moment: Son Benjamin’s Bar Mitzvah, celebrated with lots of friends and family. He made us cry, he made his hockey coaches cry (something I hadn’t seen before) and he played a mean guitar solo with [...]
