Well, now that everything we cared about in hockey is gone — so long, Devils. Au revoir, Ducks. Godspeed, Trannies — it’s time to face the summer head-on. And what better way to do that than with a full tank of gas and a wide-open highway? Speed, freedom, the wind in our hair! It’s vacation, baby!
Ugh. Or not. We’re as bad at vacation as we were this year at the playoffs.
Heh. That traffic looks super fun.
Ugh to the bridge! Well, at least the upper level is more picturesque than the lower level!
Where are you guys going?
The major problem here is definition. That’s the GW Bridge which (unless you are hitting it at about 2am) can almost never be called a wide-open highway.
Wow that’s a lot of cars! Thanks for reminding me of one of the good things about living in Idaho :) Have fun on your vacation (if you ever get there).
That’s the GW Bridge which (unless you are hitting it at about 2am) can almost never be called a wide-open highway.
Heh. Yeah, that came as a bit of a shock to us. Our usual road trips are to, like, Buffalo and Columbus, so now our default mode for hitting the road is “WOOOO! Nothing can stop us now!” Turns out the GW Bridge can stop us. :D
We’re in Brimfield, MA for the big antique show. We shopped the vintage textile show this morning and then were super-duper dorky and spent the afternoon at Old Sturbridge Village. Tomorrow the antique show proper starts, so we’ve got to rest up. And, more importantly, rest our cameras up. We’re so cool! :P
The Vintage Textile Show? Totes dreamy!
What’s so dorky about Old Sturbridge Village? I just googled it. Did you ride the Stagecoach? Too bad you’re too early for the tomato plant giveaway and Wool Days. DARN!
I’m sure you guys will have fun. More fun than me. Guess what I’m doing?
Cold Calling.
Yay me! I’m a telemarketer now! BLECH. Same job, new “job duties” suddenly. :-(
Feel sorry for me.
Thanks.
I’m sure you guys will have fun. More fun than me. Guess what I’m doing?
Cold Calling.
Oh man, that is ROUGH. I’m so sorry! Are people being nice to you when you call? I’m so mean to telemarketers. Should I be kinder now, out of concern that it might be you on the other end of the line?
Old Sturbridge Village is TOTALLY dorky! If it’s a place where the only other visitors are old people and school groups, you know you’re not being very cool. :P That said, it’s a glorious day, and it was really, really pretty there. All the apple trees are in bloom!
Cold calling?! Carol, I’m so sorry. You should start by asking the answerers “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” That’ll get them to listen to you!
I love Old Sturbridge Village. So, I guess that makes me dorky, too.
I think there’s a picture of me when I was little in the stocks there. And, when one of my friends from Oxford came to visit, I took him there, we got caught talking in the schoolhouse and the schoolmaster rapped our knuckles. Maybe they need to try that on kids today.
There wasn’t quite as much dorky authenticity as there was at Plimouth Plantation (notice I used Ye Olde Spelling). But, that was pretty interesting, they hired actors to play the colonists and they would stay in part as the tourists in their 21st century clothes w/their 21st century technology trooped in and out. I’m still amazed that people with up to 6-8 children lived (successfully) in 2-room shacks. I realize that people do it elsewhere but you just don’t realize that they were really living that way in Plymouth until you go and look at it.
There wasn’t quite as much dorky authenticity as there was at Plimouth Plantation (notice I used Ye Olde Spelling).
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I love the spelling! I was very, very afraid to talk to any of the costumed historians (we were warned of their presence on the way into Sturbridge Village), because I wasn’t sure how insistent they’d be on keeping character. (As it turned out, they were not very insistent. The only person we talked to was telling us all about how much it rained after she got home from work yesterday. Heh.)
And I think it’s the mark of a true IPB Irregular if you’d love a place like Sturbridge Village. We might all like different hockey teams, but none of us can deny being dorky, right? :P
We might all like different hockey teams, but none of us can deny being dorky, right? :P
Amen!
I also just googled and I think it looks fun! But hey, I thought Lowell, MA was an interesting place too!
Good news! Canucks are on to the 3rd round. Huzzah! Now we have to wait and see if it’s against Detroit (my Tranny Bride team) or The Sharks (please, God, NOOOOO!)
Prince Albert in a Can, here I come! Crank calls, now why didn’t I think of that? You guys are full of great suggestions!
Sounds like you guys should visit Salem if you haven’t already. Me and the Mrs. had fun there (and there are stocks too for all the local witches).
We might all like different hockey teams, but none of us can deny being dorky, right? :P
And so it goes. Interchangeable Dorkiness?
BTW, you are maybe 45-50 miles from where I grew up.
Count me and Dave in on the dorky road trips. We rarely go anywhere that is not considered more of a “senior” destination. We went to Natchez, Mississppi for our honeymoon where we were great entertainment for the geriatric crowd there.
We may actually have a closing date for the house in KC. They are telling us May 20th. I’ll believe it when I’m actually there signing the papers though.
One of the reasons I love going to England is that it’s basically one big dorky road trip. Or, as my Dad once said after he’d been there a while on one trip, “ABC, another bloody castle, another bloody cathedral”.
Sigh. No money. I have to limit my dorky road trips to local stuff. I think the next one is Hyde Park (FDR’s house).
I love dorky trips.
Also, while you enjoyed a massive antique show I had an 8-hour exam on Constitutional Law. I just wrote 12 pages on equal protection, due process, the separation of powers, and the spending power. So color me jealous of your summer vacation. :)
Oooh, a closing date! How exciting, Myra! I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’s the first house closing in history that goes without a hitch.
Sue, I loved Hyde Park! FDR and Eleanor are two of my favorite historical figures, though, so I was predisposed to like it. The rose gardens are really pretty. And the FDR library is cool. I bet Valkill (or whatever it’s called) is also really cool, but we didn’t get out there.
Meg, that sounds like… um… fun? :D
Myra, I loved Natchez. I went there back in the 80s and had a great time just taking pictures of houses. As is my wont.
I’d love to see Old Sturbridge Village, someday, too. And really ANY of Massachusetts.
As much as the Brimfield antiques fair needed more than the one morning we gave it, so did Old Sturbridge Village. I honestly can’t believe that this sort of throwaway roadtrip of ours turned out to be something we could have spent three or four times as much time on than we did. Good thing it’s close enough for us to visit again!
I’ll be back in MA in early June when I go up to Wellesley for the reunion. It really is a pretty state, and I’ve seen most of it, from the Berkshires, to Boston, to the Cape. Some of the smaller cities need some help because of what’s happened to their industrial base, but that’s the case anywhere, I think.
Well, those of you who were worried that you just couldn’t deal with a world where the Sharks weren’t chokers seem to be on your way to feeling warm and fuzzy again.
I know! I’m feeling like all is right in the world with the Sharks! Sure, there’s still a chance they advance, which would suck, but I bet they’re completely freaking out right now. Heh.
Sure, there’s still a chance they advance, which would suck, but I bet they’re completely freaking out right now.
Yeah, this would be a pretty excellent choking episode. Totally worse than just losing to begin with.
Aww, I miss talking to y’all, IPB! Stupid life, getting in the way.
Talk about coincidence. I was just reading about Sturbridge village today. Someone wanted to know how to make a bonnet, and their website came up.
Hope you’re having a good time!
I feel like I should know better, because – Sharks – but WTF? I can’t believe they’re letting themselves get Flyered by a bunch of geriatrics. I just keep telling myself that if they end up duffing it, a huge shake-up of the organIzation will be in order and when the dust finally settles, Saint Joe Pavelski will be ours. I’m sure of it
I feel like I should know better, because – Sharks – but WTF? I can’t believe they’re letting themselves get Flyered by a bunch of geriatrics.
They didn’t look like a bunch of geriatrics, especially in the 3rd period, especially Datsyuk, who was skating around at will while the Sharks seemed to be just standing there as if they were watching him doing an ice dancing exhibition.
I have two theories:
1. Wings management has created a youth serum, injected their players between games 3 and 4 and this is the result, or
2. The Sharks suck and are doing their usual choke job.
I’m going with 2.
I’m going with 2.
I’m joining you. Of course, this is going to mean the Sharks win it after all, and then Vancouver beats them (they’d trade games, because they’re both chokejobs, but then Saint Kesler would come up big in game 7 or something), and then they win the Cup and I’ve got to live with my disgusting new-hockey-fan-and-Canucks-bandwagoner housemate gloating at me all summer long.
Why do we watch hockey again?
It’s going to be fine, Mags. No matter what happens in the West, Vinny & The Blots are going to save us.
Vinny & The Blots are going to save us.
Vinny & the Blots sounds like an unsuccessful boy band from the 70s. I can almost imagine Vinny in the role of Leif Garrett. Ugh.
Vinny & The Blots are going to save us.
You think so? I’ve got this nasty feeling they’re going to fall to Sonny-boy Campbell, Tim “I shoot bears AND don’t believe in climate change” Thomas and the Boo-ruins.
Tim “I shoot bears AND don’t believe in climate change” Thomas
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Yeah, it seems like the Bruins winning would be just the sort of crappy thing that would happen.
Tim “I shoot bears AND don’t believe in climate change” Thomas
There’s a bear on the loose in the Buffalo suburbs. Do you think TimTom would come and help us get rid of him?
Gotta love that Zach Parise is doing the Versus studio show with Matt Loughlin for the World Championships.
Zach is cracking my shit up with his studio work. He’s just so eager to please!
Zach is cracking my shit up with his studio work. He’s just so eager to please!
Is there some way he could be the 1st line left wing for NJ net season and double as the replacement for Chico? I mean, just mic him up and have him take over from on the ice.
Of course, once he actually commits the sin of saying that a goal is Marty’s fault, I can see trouble starting…
Is there some way he could be the 1st line left wing for NJ net season and double as the replacement for Chico? I mean, just mic him up and have him take over from on the ice.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: That would be awesome. He could do color commentary while furiously tapping his stick to make it clear to everyone in the arena that he’s open, even though the guy with the puck has no way to pass to him.
And WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Go BOLTS!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Come on, BOLTS!!
Go BOLTS! Get your ass in the net, Tim! We’re all waiting!
Patty, he’s a geezer. He needs his rest. Speaking as an even older geezer, I feel his (joint) pain. And Recchi’s. And Roloson’s.
he’s a geezer. He needs his rest.
Pish posh! He’s full of excuses! :P
Pookie and I were trying to guess what Guy Boucher was going to do to psych out Claude Julien as well as he did Bruce Boudreau (that series was TOTALLY a case of Boucher being all, “Oh my god, the Caps are unbeatable!” and Boudreau being all, “That asshole! How dare he say that? We’re UTTERLY beatable, and I can prove it!”). We can only hope that he’s shooting pucks at him during Bruins practice.
We can only hope that he’s shooting pucks at him during Bruins practice.
That’s beneath Guy. He’d hire John Madden, who has experience.
He’d hire John Madden, who has experience.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Like any good Bond villain, he knows how to outsource the dirty work.
I see the Bruins have perfected the NJ PP’s style of shooting directly into either a defender or the goalie’s chest protector. I believe NJ loaned Oates to Boston for the playoffs to coach them.
And Madden fills the “slow-moving” requirement for all Bond villain henchmen.
If he got any slower, he’d be moving backward in time.
And Madden fills the “slow-moving” requirement for all Bond villain henchmen.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: He’s even slower than the Thunderball underwater henchmen!
I believe NJ loaned Oates to Boston for the playoffs to coach them.
Please please please please please let them keep him.
Sounds like Pierre has suddenly noticed how handsome Steven Stamkos is. Stamkos should get some security, probably. :P
I see the Bruins have perfected the NJ PP’s style of shooting directly into either a defender or the goalie’s chest protector.
The Stars have had this problem for a long time. I thought it was because of that defensive coach we had, whose name I’ve already forgotten. He wore a rug. That’s all I remember.
WOOO BOLTS!
I thought it was because of that defensive coach we had, whose name I’ve already forgotten. He wore a rug. That’s all I remember.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: That really narrows it down. :D
And Pierre TOTALLY wants to wear a Stamkosskin suit.
And Pierre TOTALLY wants to wear a Stamkosskin suit.
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I take it Boston isn’t one of your Trannies any more?
No, Boston never had any of that tranny flair this season. Tranny isn’t supposed to be a forever thing, after all. :D
That’s good. I figured they weren’t the long-term types. :P
They’re not orange enough for that. :P
Guy Boucher is so cool. The question was: Did you sense any frustration from the Bruins? Boucher’s answer: We don’t care about the other team’s emotions.
Heh heh
They’re not orange enough for that. :P
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Guy Boucher is the bomb.
Hi guys. Just watching the Canucks VS. The Sharks. And holding by breath! Go Canucks!
Good luck, Carol! I have to confess — we’re not watching. Sorry. Our east coast bias is showing. :P (We’ve got Star Trek TNG on instead. It’s WAAAAY more exciting! Heh.)
No problem…but I’m sure when it gets our your way, you’ll all be watching with bells on.
Full disclosure: I OFTEN blow off the playoffs until the very end.
I’ve been watching but I’ll be switching to Game of Thrones at 9pm. I’ve decided Sean Bean was born wearing armor (and possibly riding a horse). It looks like leisure-wear for him in this series.
We’ll be taping Game of Thrones, SueNJ97 – love that show. That show needs more incest and raping, I think. Wow. And still, that little IMP cracks me up.
There’s no doubt that Peter Dinklage has stolen the series so far, Carol.
“Oh..you’re an angry little elf!” – Buddy the Elf in Elf to Peter Dinklage. HILARiOUS!
Full disclosure: I OFTEN blow off the playoffs until the very end.
You’re the opposite of me. I normally fall off as the field gets whittled down. :D
I’ve decided Sean Bean was born wearing armor (and possibly riding a horse). It looks like leisure-wear for him in this series.
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And in this one:
Brann, “I’m not a cripple”
Tyrian, “Then I’m not a dwarf. I’ll tell my father, he’ll be delighted”.
“Tyrian, “Then I’m not a dwarf. I’ll tell my father, he’ll be delighted”.” :^:::::::::::::::
Also, isn’t this the show where they called that one large man “Prince Porkchop”? Heh. I keep getting that show mixed up with The Borgias. Also pretty great.
Yes. It’s not exactly politically correct. I haven’t seen The Borgias because I don’t get Showtime.