Flooding the Troughs
The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Futility of Caring about NHL Hockey ~ 1 ~ I grew up in southern Ontario back when we used to get winters. In those Januaries when the cold of the season had really...
View ArticleGeorge Bowering Reads About Baseball at Real Vancouver BookThug
On Thursday September 27, 2012 at the W2 Media Cafe in basement of the renovated Woodwards building in Vancouver’s downtown eastside a group of BookThugs gathered to honour the great gods of poetry and...
View ArticleLanguage of Denial: Fehr vs Bettman in the News
THEY’VE TORCHED training camps and the preseason exhibition schedule. They’ve started to burn the earliest games of the regular season. Players are working out in small groups together at arenas across...
View ArticleLeafs Fan in Vancouver: The Shadow of Roberto Luongo
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View ArticleThe Path to a Leafs vs Canucks Stanley Cup Final, Vol. 01
The sun is out in Lotusland and there’s cold bite in the air. Snow is still on the mountains and the float planes are defiant as bumblebees in the morning sky. Container ships are lowing in English...
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