This is the 38th in our summer series in which we are drawing hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them.
We’re not going to lie to you — we were really hoping to get through the summer without see any Rangers (Jagr doesn’t count), and yet here’s Michal Rozsival leaping out of the PBS box to ruin our blissful Blueshirt-free existence. In honor of this clank!-ful event, here’s a list of 10 more things we don’t want to see between now and the start of the hockey season.
1. We’d rather not see the Olympics turn out to be completely devoid of jaw-dropping displays of athletic acheivment, tear-jerking stories of authentic heart-warming triumph over adversity, and extraordinary examples of underdoggery and greatness. OK, fine, all we really care about is that the swimmers are hot. We don’t want to see un-hot swimmers.
2. We don’t want to see Bobby Holik. There will be plenty of that once the season starts.
3. If a toolish contestant wins American Gladiators we’re going to be irrationally upset thanks to the lack of acceptable “real” sports during the summer months.
4. A summer devoid of incessant news coverage of Mats Sundin: Free Agent At Large would be nice. Oh, crap.
5. We would like to get through this summer without buying a single grocery store tomato. Prognosis: unknown. Thanks, hailstorm. Sheesh!
6. We would like to get through this summer without seeing a single movie in the movie theater. Prognosis: excellent.
7. We would like to get through this summer without seeing a single television series created after 1986. Prognosis: even better!
8. It would be delightful if we could go until the hockey season starts without losing a limb in a lawnmower-related mishap. Not as nice as going a summer without seeing anything Rangers-related, but still nice.
9. If our liquor cabinet never runs dry this summer, we’ll be very happy campers.
10. A full four months of not having to answer to 7:00 start times would be heavenly.
I’m glad that card got the proper treatment, although each piece could have been ripped in half again. I probably would have gone all Pollock on it and taped it back together in the wrong order. read: with his head up his ass.
Good news on the iPod front. There are now only 33 songs that will not work and I’ve emailed tech support since I don’t think that’s been effected by my 263 day lapse in warranty coverage.
Oh, I’m glad the iPod problem is working out! As for tearing up the card, it was surprisingly satisfying. I might need to keep a stack of Rangers cards by the sofa during Devils-Rangers games.
I love swimmers! Holy shit…Abs everywhere!
4. A summer devoid of incessant news coverage of Brett Favre: Retiree At Large would be nice. Oh, crap.
Fixed.
Chaz, ripping it up more would have been nice, but we had to keep the card recognizable for the picture. :D (I love the taping-it-back-together idea.) (And I’m so glad to hear that things are going well with the iPod!)
Pam, you make two very good points. Although we have a cat named after Favre, so I can’t hate on him too much. :P
A summer devoid of incessant news coverage of Mats Sundin: Free Agent At Large would be nice.
I’ll bet after all the hullabaloo about Sundin’s status, that he just ends up back in Toronto.
We would like to get through this summer without seeing a single television series created after 1986.
There’s actually some pretty decent stuff out there now. Project Runway is back and new Mythbusters episodes start Wednesday.
Project Runway is back and new Mythbusters episodes start Wednesday.
Oh, well, we are watching PR, and we’re catching up on a lot of “Dirty Jobs”, and I’m super excited about new “Mythbusters”! But I feel like the combined powers of “MacGyver” and “Murder, She Wrote” averages our television veiweing to the early 90′s.
But I feel like the combined powers of “MacGyver” and “Murder, She Wrote” averages our television veiweing to the early 90’s.
I haven’t watched any TV at all lately. My movie schedule has gotten pretty locked down in the past couple of weeks.
I need to pick up something though. I’ve found TV is very helpful late at night, when I’m polishing off the last of whatever I’m doing for the night – laundry, stitching, whatever.
Half.com to the rescue! Heh.
And I’m so glad to see this card ripped up. It thrills me almost as much as if it had been a Red Wing. :p
Amy, why are you trying to undermine our Blast To The ’80s Summer with all this talk of newfangled good shows? :P
Caitlin, we’re the exact opposite of you — no movies, all TV!
It was surprisingly delightful to rip up this hockey card. It felt really, really nice. I might root through the PBS dispenser to see if we can find even more Rangers! :P
And good morning, everyone!!
why are you trying to undermine our Blast To The ’80s Summer with all this talk of newfangled good shows?
Hee. Sorry! It could be worse, I could be reminding you about newfangled BAD shows.
Caitlin, we’re the exact opposite of you — no movies, all TV!
I know! At least I’m moving along at a quick clip on the movies.
I really need to catch up on Boston Legal. I’m like…four seasons behind. That’s depressing.
It could be worse, I could be reminding you about newfangled BAD shows.
Right! Well, carry on then. :D
I really need to catch up on Boston Legal. I’m like…four seasons behind. That’s depressing.
Well, as it turned out, I was 12 seasons behind on Murder, She Wrote, so I think you’re doing okay.
Well, as it turned out, I was 12 seasons behind on Murder, She Wrote, so I think you’re doing okay.
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Man, summer is unendurable! This is crazy. There’s like…nothing going on.
I wish my seeds would hurry up and get here!
I have to say, this has been perhaps the most enjoyable summer I can remember as a hockey fan. Maybe it was a GOOD thing that I hated hockey so much by the end of the season and playoffs. :P
That said, it makes for slow, boring days on the interwebs, this “having no hockey news”. And it’s not like the Olympics are going to make it any better, because I try to stay as unspoiled as possible during them, and thus can’t go online much so as not to inadvertently find out who won what before I get to see it all on tape delay. (It is all on tape delay this year, right?)
Waiting for seeds to arrive is THE WORST! You need to get your fall crops in the ground — hurry up, mailman! (Okay, I might still be enjoying summer [have I mentioned how glad I am that I don't have to be settled in front of the TV by 7 every night?], but my Autumnlonging is reaching critical mass. I’m going CRAZY with anticipation for Fall.)
It is all on tape delay this year, right?
Pretty much. According to what I’ve been reading, the live events will not be shown until after 10pm EST. While the IOC did allow the finals of most of the bigger events (swimming, gymnastics, track & field, etc) to be moved to the morning in Beijing (as to allow for prime viewing in the States), the networks conceded the 10pm time so that athletes who needed to digest food before an event could do so safely.
Thanks, Amy! I’m still going to avoid the Olympics on the interwebs, though, just to be safe. :D
I have to say, this has been perhaps the most enjoyable summer I can remember as a hockey fan.
I haven’t been missing hockey (it was pretty draining this year) but I don’t know that I’ve been enjoying summer either. The latest is that it turns out Pyramus doesn’t have ringworm . . . the cleaning, the bleaching, the baths, the endless laundry, all for nothing. Of course, now they don’t know what he does have so we’re treating him for mites while waiting to hear back on thyroid tests. If those tests are negative and the mite treatment doesn’t work the next possibility is an auto-immune disease which would be painfully ironic given the fact that he’s supposed to be immuno-suppressed.
I’m so looking forward to the Olympics, although this tape delay thing is going to complicate everything. Stupid Beijing.
I too am enjoying the summer but I hate reaching the end of the Internet! It’s so depressing.
You need to get your fall crops in the ground — hurry up, mailman! (
No kidding! My garlic and blackberries won’t even ship – at the minimum – until the 22nd of August, so I’ll feel better once at least the cucumbers and beets get here.
I’ve just resigned myself to fate that I’m going to miss an awful lot of the Olympics this year, but at least most of the stuff I’ll want to watch will be on prime-time, right?
Meg, that is awful, just awful about Pyramus. Seriously, that makes me want to cry for you. I hope the poor little kitty and you are going to be okay – because between the ringworm treatments and now the uncertainty, I’d be a wreck.
The latest is that it turns out Pyramus doesn’t have ringworm . . . the cleaning, the bleaching, the baths, the endless laundry, all for nothing.
Oh NO! That’s TERRIBLE! I am SO sorry, Meg! For you and for poor Pyramus! I hope that everything turns out well for the little guy, and at least now you can enjoy a life free of sulphur baths. What a complete disaster!
I too am enjoying the summer but I hate reaching the end of the Internet! It’s so depressing.
Word. It’s so pathetic the way I spend my afternoon listlessly reloading all my regular round of blogs and news sites, muttering, “How about now? How about now?” as no new content appears. Life is so hard.
And yeah, there is too much Olympics for anyone who isn’t on vacation for the next month (::cough::KATEBITS::cough::) to see, but I’m just in it for the primetime coverage. So I’ll be right there with you, Caitlin!
And did you order blackberry plants or are you starting them from seed? We impulse-bought a couple of raspberry canes two years ago and they’ve been AWESOME for us. What a great idea to do blackberries. (And don’t worry about the garlic — it’s pretty forgiving. I’m sure you won’t hurt it by getting it into the ground kind of late. Bulbs are easy that way.)
Meg, that’s awful about Pyramus. At least he doesn’t need the baths anymore. But here’s to hoping they find out quickly what’s wrong with him.
there is too much Olympics for anyone who isn’t on vacation for the next month (::cough::KATEBITS::cough::) to see, but I’m just in it for the primetime coverage.
Same here. Except on the weekends, where I’ll probably break my remote flipping between the 47 NBC channels and CBC.
And did you order blackberry plants or are you starting them from seed?
I actually bought the plants! I myself prefer raspberry, but at the moment, I don’t think we have the room for the canes.
It’s so pathetic the way I spend my afternoon listlessly reloading all my regular round of blogs and news sites, muttering, “How about now? How about now?” as no new content appears. Life is so hard.
I know, right? And all this web-recipe-inventorying that I’m doing is really making me hungry. All the time.
As far as the Olympics, I’m looking forward to the swimmers and the gymnastics. Track and field just bores me (that’s awful, but it’s true).
at least now you can enjoy a life free of sulphur baths.
This is very true. Also, because mites aren’t fungal and spore-y. They don’t fall (or jump) off the cat and infect the house. And they’re species specific. So once Bonnie heads off with my roommate on Tuesday he’ll have the run of the apartment again (and if it’s his thyroid he can have the run of the apartment immediately). Also, if it’s mites then the treatment is super-easy. All we have to do is give him Revolution as if he had fleas. And now that my apartment is sparkling clean both my allergies and his asthma are doing well. So there are all kinds of potential bright sides.
And, as our vet was joking with us, there are people who pay a lot of money for a Sphinx cat and I’m well on my way to having one for free. If you ignore the vet bills anyway.
As far as the Olympics, I’m looking forward to the swimmers and the gymnastics. Track and field just bores me (that’s awful, but it’s true).
Same here. Although I love the diving and beach volleyball and also all the weird sports they barely show like water polo.
Except on the weekends, where I’ll probably break my remote flipping between the 47 NBC channels and CBC.
Absolutely! I can’t wait for this weekend!
Caitlin, I am SUPER excited for your blackberry plants! Our raspberries quickly grew out of control, so I fully support erring on the side of caution before adding too many! :D
Web-recipe-inventorying is exhausting, hungrying work. I like to log into epicurious and search for some really vague ingredient, then pore over all 8,000 hits it pulls up. My recipe box over there is brimming with totally random things I’ll probably never cook. And I also love finding garden blogs with great photography. I will wile away days reading the entire archives of new blogs when I stumble on them.
Oh, and I also find track & field really boring. I’m glad I’m not alone in this. Generally I totally lose interest during the second half of the summer Olympics.
And, as our vet was joking with us, there are people who pay a lot of money for a Sphinx cat and I’m well on my way to having one for free.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Poor, poor Pyramus. I hope he’s not feeling too humiliated by his patchiness. (Rollie frequently gets little patchy spots in her fur when she gets bitten by her siblings [she's low man on the totem pole], and we like to call them her “mange holes”. Maybe Pyramus just has mange! :P)
Although I love the diving and beach volleyball and also all the weird sports they barely show like water polo.
I agree! I especially love rowing. Rowing is good, good stuff.
Although I love the diving and beach volleyball and also all the weird sports they barely show like water polo.
Heh! Rhythmic gymnastics, where you can medal in ribbon twirling or whatever!
My recipe box over there is brimming with totally random things I’ll probably never cook. And I also love finding garden blogs with great photography. I will wile away days reading the entire archives of new blogs when I stumble on them.
Oh, I am so excited to start a recipe box. So. Excited. That and I keep salivating over cookbooks. I keep looking at garden/stitching blogs, but I should probably branch out a bit to keep myself from burning out. I do enjoy the Daring Bakers, but those people make some insane-o crazy things that I don’t think I could even remotely make.
I’m excited to see what the US is going to be wearing for the opening ceremonies. Ralph Lauren is supposedly designing all of the team’s non-competition apparel, and some of the stuff that has leaked already makes the team look like their running late for cocktails with Muffy and Biff at the club.
I especially love rowing. Rowing is good, good stuff.
Rowing is good. So is the canoeing and the kayaking.
Poor, poor Pyramus. I hope he’s not feeling too humiliated by his patchiness.
I think he’s feeling generally sorry for himself but not too humiliated about the hair loss. He spent a lot of last night in hiding, but I suspect it was more “you took me to the bad place” hiding.
I forgot about rowing. Rowing is awesome!
I do enjoy the Daring Bakers, but those people make some insane-o crazy things that I don’t think I could even remotely make.
Yeah, I was overwhelmed by the Daring Bakers. Although there’s a lot of awesome photography on a lot of those blogs. I’m becoming obsessed with garden and food photography (um, not that you could notice), so that’s more what I pay attention to nowadays on garden and food blogs. (Oh, and don’t be put off by those fancy-pantsy bakers. You’d be surprised how simple a lot of elaborate-looking stuff really is!)
Rhythmic gymnastics is the most marvelously hilarious sport on the planet! LOVE IT!
Ralph Lauren is supposedly designing all of the team’s non-competition apparel, and some of the stuff that has leaked already makes the team look like their running late for cocktails with Muffy and Biff at the club.
I really like the Ralph Lauren designs but I think it’s because I love that classic, rather British, Chariots of Fire look.
and some of the stuff that has leaked already makes the team look like their running late for cocktails with Muffy and Biff at the club.
Excellent! You can never look too preppy for me! :D
I suspect it was more “you took me to the bad place” hiding.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Aw, poor, poor little guy. Someday he’ll look back on all this and laugh, though. Right? Right?
I enjoy the Olympics, tape delay or not.
Someone said it before, but I agree the swimming and gymnastics is the best.
I also really enjoy the soccer and softball.
Oh, and I would nominate the trampoline as the funniest type of gymnastics!
Oooh, Pam, I forgot trampoline! That is just CRAAAAAZY.
Rhythmic gymnastics is the most marvelously hilarious sport on the planet! LOVE IT!
I will always associate rhythmic gymnastics with a mental image of Will Ferrell in Old School, twirling around with one of those ribbon streamers being overly dramatic. :D
Yeah, I was overwhelmed by the Daring Bakers. Although there’s a lot of awesome photography on a lot of those blogs.
I’m shocked by how amazing people’s photos are. Seriously, blows me away. It just makes food look yummier!
Let’s see, what did I miss here…
1. Meg, I am so sorry all that ringworm stuff was for naught! I hope Pyramus gets better soon!
2. The Daring Bakers are kind of insane, as are the Tuesdays with Dorie people, but I, too, just like to look at the photos.
3. Don’t forget synchronized diving! That stuff’s crazy, too!
I hear that Mario and Sidney are representing Canada in men’s synchronized diving this year.
I love synchronized diving. Just as an aside.
THERE’S SYNCHRONIZED DIVING?!!
Wow, Meg, I am so sorry about Pyramus and you having to go through that. I’m glad you don’t have to go through the sulfur treatments anymore though.
I love the field events like long jump and triple jump and Hub always watches the track events to relive his glory days because he was a “track star” in high school.
I find anything synchronized kinda creepy but I would watch Mario and Sidney. :)
THERE’S SYNCHRONIZED DIVING?!!
There sure as hell is! It’s INCREDIBLE! They do synchronized springboard and platform. It’s like regular diving, only the three-second-long blur on your screen has two blobs instead of one. It’s like my new favorite Olympic sport.
The other thing that’s great about synchronized diving is that they have that TOTALLY witchy woman who does the commentary and who just RIPS into the divers all the time. Only when there are TWO divers, she gets to praise one for being awesome while berating the other for being a complete and total failure. Like, “[Diver A] was just so good on that dive — look at that entry with almost zero splash — but his scores are going to be TERRIBLE because [Diver B] didn’t have his feet in perfect alignment going into the water and there was a GROTESQUE amount of splash from him. He overrotated on that flip, and couldn’t keep it together. He’s a waste of a human being.”
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I’d forgotten about that commentator! I can’t wait to hear from her again!
Man, rough crowd…I laughed hysterically 1st time I heard the mario/sid diving joke!
I hear that Mario and Sidney are representing Canada in men’s synchronized diving this year.
They’ll only win if synchronized bitching at officials becomes an Olympic event.
Amy, so true!
They’ll only win if synchronized bitching at officials becomes an Olympic event.
I dunno… There’s a pretty crowded field in that one.
I dunno… There’s a pretty crowded field in that one.
Yeah. Big style. Also, I loves me some Sid, so he gets a free pass on that one. :D
When I think of NHLers on the Olympic diving team, all I can think of is that Travis would wake up this weekend and suddenly find himself in Beijing, on the end of a platform, going, “Wha-HUH?!?” Poor Travis.
Travis can’t do diving, Pookie, because he can’t swim!
Listen, I saw that game. I saw that official call him for diving.
He overrotated on that flip, and couldn’t keep it together. He’s a waste of a human being
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Yeah, I had no idea they had synchronized diving, either! Jeez, count me in for that, for sure!
When I think of NHLers on the Olympic diving team, all I can think of is that Travis would wake up this weekend and suddenly find himself in Beijing, on the end of a platform, going, “Wha-HUH?!?”
I think of Crunchy, trying to be the best possible Olympic diver he can be.
I can’t even imagine Crunchy in a little diver’s speedo! :D
I can’t even imagine Crunchy in a little diver’s speedo! :D
I don’t want to imagine Crunchy in a little diver’s speedo. He would be parading around, flaunting his thinness at everyone. It would be sickening. :D
I can’t even imagine Crunchy in a little diver’s speedo! :D
Yeah, I’ll just stick to Despatie, thanks.
He would be parading around, flaunting his thinness at everyone. It would be sickening.
It’s true! And all those divers already have enough eating disorders without Crunchy getting involved by telling them all how fat they are! (Imagine if someone let him loose with the gymnasts. That would be TERRIBLE.)
And all those divers already have enough eating disorders without Crunchy getting involved by telling them all how fat they are! (Imagine if someone let him loose with the gymnasts. That would be TERRIBLE.)
Why can I imagine him throwing almonds or toasted soybeans at gymnasts, now, for some odd reason?
Oh, Crunchy. :D
I can’t even imagine Crunchy in a little diver’s speedo!
I never thought about that portion of it. Sorry to have inflicted images of his angularity on the rest of you.
Sorry to have inflicted images of his angularity on the rest of you.
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Why can I imagine him throwing almonds or toasted soybeans at gymnasts, now, for some odd reason?
Yup! All while screaming about how fat they are!
never thought about that portion of it. Sorry to have inflicted images of his angularity on the rest of you.
Hee, it doesn’t bother me! I just got an image of an emaciated looking Crunchy, sulking by the poolside about how fat everyone is compared to him. And then loudly proclaiming his BMI numbers and so on and so forth. :D
Great, now I’m imagining an all NHL goalie Olympics where Marty lounges next to Crunchy mocking him by popping honey’d dormice left and right.
(Psst, everyone — I’ve reached the end of the internet again. But today I made it all the way to 3:16! I’m proud of myself! :P)
Ummm…my boss just gave me a book of Sudoku… Heeelllllooooo, you do realize what I’m going to spend the rest of the afternoon “working” on, right?
Chaz, can you have your boss send me a book of sudoku? (That’s totally awesome, by the way.)
Apparently, it came from one of our vendors in some sort of gift package. Still, she should have waited to give it to me. I can feel it burning a hole in the back of my head. “You know you want to do one more, just one more and then you can put me away” This is like Chinese water torture, except that I don’t want to have to work at home tonight.
They’re also the super easy ones, so I’ve done 10 in the last half hour.
“You know you want to do one more, just one more and then you can put me away” This is like Chinese water torture
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I am in a FIHT with the United States Postal Service now. See, USPS! This is why you and I, we can’t have nice things! Because you screw everything up!
Chaz, you have my awe for doing Sudoku. Saying I suck at Sudoku is a serious understatement.
Oh no, Caitlin! What happened?
(I can only do Sudokus online. Where, when I finish, my mistakes can be pointed out to me.)
Great, now I’m imagining an all NHL goalie Olympics where Marty lounges next to Crunchy mocking him by popping honey’d dormice left and right.
I’m sorry, but really, as much as I LOVE Marty, do we really want him on a diving board in a Speedo? Our wonderful goalie with three chins and love handles (who still wins the Vezina…an inspiration to all of us who eat like real people).
Oh no, Caitlin! What happened?
The post office is just not doing their job. I think they lost of a bunch of my personal mail today, and I think they broke our mailbox. Greaaat.