pure science with a splash of black cat

Today’s purchases: three books (Monty Python Live!, Monty Python and Philosophy, and David Halberstam’s The Children, the last of which is part of my ongoing habit of buying wonderful books that I am never going to find time to read), two CDs (Mongo Santamaría’s Watermelon Man and Django Reinhardt’s Swing 47), and my very own miniature Bobby Orr.

Can we not compare a group of American college kids beating the Soviets during the Cold War to what’s basically an NHL game with mixed-up rosters between two countries with an amicable relationship?

Really, people, get a sense of history before you go posting things on the Internet that you don’t understand.

In which Brick says Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk have tremendous sex.

You’re welcome.

Hey, Bruins, now you’re just boring me.

I have a queue 21 deep of instant-watch movies and I have The Killing Fields on DVD. Don’t tempt me.

Via Deadspin:

A KHL game was canceled after 3:49 of the first period when a brawl resulted in 691 penalty minutes and not enough players left to finish the game.

Makes the 2008 Stars/Bruins game seem downright polite, eh?

As if I’m going to pick. Look at this display of total BAMFery.

fuckyeahbruins:

Someone’s short.

Brick must be used to this since he works with itty-bitty Jack Edwards.

There was a game last season on Versus where these guys had Commissioner Tiny Bettman in the booth. Brick was sitting down just to fit in the shot with the other two.

One year ago today. And I am not happy that we were deprived of a Carnival this year. Boooo. (Maybe something is in the works for later this year? Please?)