Expectations were high tonight for Devils fans: Briere was going under the knife, Marty was in net, they hadn’t lost to the Flyers at home since 2004 and well, the Flyers haven’t won since last season. After a first period of weird bounces, the Devils were nursing a lead, but then it came unglued. [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2008
Newt Gingrich, Light Bulbs and Market Disruption
I was digging through old paper files this weekend and found a note I had scribbled on a hotel phone message notepad that read simply “Newt Gingrich and candles.” Truth be told, I was doing a periodic office purge and happened to find a manilla folder of clippings, notes and sketches [...]
Elias Fandemonium
I’ll admit it: bloggers tend to read each other’s blogs, and probably some large percent of my readership comes from John, the -ookies, Josh/Patty/crew, and my parents. Actually, once you subtract out the usual suspects, I think the Snowman gets more views from random Google searches than from a dedicated and loyal base. [...]
Beauty, A?
According to the Devils team website, Elias is wearing the “A” again this season, along with John Madden. I can’t remember seeing a formal announcement of this, so perhaps it’s a subtle entree to a season in which predictions of the Devils’ demise are so frequent they go past the point of Clemensy. [...]
The New Me, In Time for Opening Night
Richard Stevens’ Diesel Sweeties is a laugh riot. I read it religiously, daily (and even on religious days, like today) and always get a good laugh. Any good artist makes you fill in the visual gaps, whether it’s leaving out every shingle or brick in a painting or forcing an appreciation for pixel [...]
Going For Joe
I find myself in a strange position this first week of October: There’s baseball on TV, and I am only counting the days until hockey coverage begins. In every fall since I’ve been able to carve out sports-watching time (read: after the great sleeplessness of having two toddlers), I’ve been able to cheer for [...]
