1) Well, I know it's a bit late for a recap of the Blue Jacket's final game - but what a game it was to go out on. A 6-5 loss to Detroit because of a (cheap?) too many men on the ice penalty called with less than 2 minutes in regulation. Detroit then scored on the power play inside of a minute left to win. Great intensity to the game, espeically the third period, which was scoreless until the final goal. Got to see both sides play at their best on the offensive side, at least. The goaltending was shaky - disappointed in Mason, our goalie; I'm sure the Wings still have lingering concerns about Osgood. All in all, a great game in a great atmosphere.
2) It is a bit awkward and weird to be sitting on the bathroom toilet in the arena when the horn goes off. Yes, I cheered - is that the correct thing to do while on the throne?
3) At the 2nd intermission, Steve and I got hungry (even though we had a nice dinner at 5:30) and saw...Skyline Chili! Out to the concourse we go, and wjhile standing out there, we consumed two cheese coneys (cheese, chili, hot dogs and mustard) each. After 10 minutes, the floor around us looked like a four year old came through throwing shredded cheese around. We non-chalantly moved away and waited for someone to clean the evidence. It took a while......I wish I would have taken a pciture of the mess we made. Oh well, they were damn good.
4) Very happy with the Browns draft. Mack should be our center for several years (with Thomas and Steinbach, that's 3/5ths of a very good line) and we hope at least one of the receivers will pan out. And -according to Layup, and Ken Norton Jr., we got a steal in the "fourth" USC Linebacker, Maiava. Norton is quoted as saying Maiava is a better pro prospect than Cushing, Matthews, or that punk Maualuga.
( I have to hate him now that he is in our division. Yes, I wanted him with our 1st and 2nd round pick.)
5) Poll question for the blog: (I hope this doesn't get lost):
Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare?
(Not a trick question. I promise).
3 comments:
Not a very literary crowd . . . Mr. Z asked a question – Who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Your answer reveals more about you than you might realize.
I seem to remember there being some speculation regarding the fact that Shakespeare himself may not have written them, but I thought it was still an open question.
Yes - a controversy over the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays has endured for a couple of centuries. One side of the controversy suggests that the man from Stratford – a commoner in Elizabethan England and a man whose will detailed the disposition of many home furnishings but did not contain a reference to a single book or manuscript - crawled from under a shrubbery and without education or having traveled beyond merry olde England possessed a vocabulary of over 50,000 words (as evidenced by his plays and other writings) wrote extensively about courtly life in Italy and other exotic locales, the details of which he had no way of knowing. The other side of the controversy suggests that Shakespeare was a pen name for a nobleman (or possibly noblemen) whose connection with the Court prevented him from writing under his own name. The 17th Earl of Oxford is often cited as The Man. He was a lawyer and member of Queen Elizabeth’s Court who was an extensive traveler and owned an estate in Italy. This controversy has endured because those of a certain political and ideological stripe noisily rise to the defense of the man from Stratford whenever anyone challenges his authorship. And you believe . . .
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