Rider Pride

Happy March! It sure doesn't seem like spring is supposed to start nineteen days from today. A low of -33 tonight. Ouch.

On Sunday, I attended the Oilers and Bruins game. That may have been the best Oiler game I've ever been to. It had everything hockey is supposed to have! Fights, speed, hits, intensity, an Oiler loss, women. Wait, what? Yeah...Oilers Octane (the cheerleading group) were there dancing throughout the night. I'm not against it and I did notice they helped the commercial breaks go by faster.

I don't know what I was thinking by NOT taking a picture of the cheerleaders.



At sporting events around the world, there has been a relatively new phenomenon. Saskatchewan Roughriders gear has been seen everywhere! Last Sunday at the Heritage Classic in Calgary, there were groups of Rider fans and the day before that, at an LA Clippers/Lakers game, Rider fans made it on the tube too. Other instances include the World Series in San Francisco and the Stanley Cup Final in Philadelphia. Rider fans are like mold, they're everywhere! This isn't an extreme case but I decided to wear my Rider gear to the game in Edmonton to represent Rider Pride. I mean...it's only a matter of time before we suck again.

Look at that awesome beard...oh, and the pretty girl too. She's Brittany.

Foo Fighters - Rope

I gotta say...Dave Grohl is one of the coolest musicians out there. He got famous playing drums in Nirvana but once Kurt Cobain died, he started his own band the Foo Fighters and he's been rocking ever since. More recently, he was part of a supergroup by the name of "Them Crooked Vultures" with John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age.



They've got a new album coming out in April and it has been recorded without the aid of a computer which I find absolutely awesome. Here's the first single from the album!

X-Men: First Class

I guess as a kid I wasn't into reading comic books. I'm not sure why...I guess I was always too busy with wrestling or video games. If I would have known about comic books, I would have definitely read them!

We're now in an era where comic books are hitting the big screen at a rapid pace and I'm loving every minute of it! We've already had four films related to the X-Men but we've got another coming our way in June! Here's the first trailer:

Awesome.

FIGHT!

Generally, Canadians aren't regarded as very violent people but when it comes to hockey...watch out! Many of us love fights when it comes to hockey especially when the goalies go at it.

I'll never forget in the early nineties when the Red Wings and Avalanche had that awesome playoff series full of fights. That was cool. There was a goalie fight in the NHL last night but it wasn't all that impressive or cool.

Brent Johnson (Pittsburgh) vs. Rick DiPietro (New York)

How many years does DiPietro have left on his contract? 43 years?

Diddy Gets Sued

I realize this is a classic rock station and P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Diddy or whatever they call him these days is a rapper but this story is too good to ignore.

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New York, Jan 29 (ANI): A woman from Los Angeles has reportedly filed a 1- trillion-dollar lawsuit against music mogul Diddy, claiming that he is responsible for the September 11 attacks.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks also accused Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter and police brutality victim Rodney King of somehow being responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Center.

After they "knocked down the WTC" she wrote, the three came and "knocked my children down."

Turks also added that Diddy stole a poker chip worth "100 zillions of dollars" that she won in a Mississippi casino and later gave it away to someone else.

She further claimed she once dated Diddy and that the 41-year-old rapper is the father of her 23-year-old son.

She is petitioning for 900 billion dollars in child support. The other 100 billion dollars she is seeking is for "loss of income," reports the New York Post.

A Los Angeles judge denied her request for a restraining order against Diddy, but set a hearing for Jan 31. (ANI)

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I'm not even sure this needs to be dignified with a joke. How do you even pay one trillion dollars? Props to Ms. Turks for giving it a shot.

Why I Don't Ski

This is why I don't ski and I never recommend it to anyone. I think skiing is crazier than goaltending in hockey and that's saying a lot! I'll never forget going on the school ski trip and destroying my knee. Ouch!

The skier in the video is Austrian Hans Grugger and he's skiing at the World Cup on the tough course. It sure seems like they're making courses tougher and tougher...pretty soon we'll be competing on video game systems instead of doing the real thing!

Grugger is still in intensive care.

Death Metal Parrot

If there's one thing I've always wanted in my life...it's a pet that is a fan of heavy metal. Girls naturally don't like heavy music so I'll never meet a normal girl that listens to Slayer over and over. No offense to the girls that do, in fact, do just that.

I do have a couple turtles but I'm not exactly sure if they like heavy metal. They do kind of mosh though which is pretty sweet. If they're walking on the floor, they will not go around the other turtle but they will climb over the other. It's quite comical but I'm not sure if they sit there and listen to Black Sabbath's Master of Reality over and over.

Now it's not Black Sabbath or Megadeth but Drowning Pool is a decent start.