From The Branches

Rather than dive into an overly drawn out diatribe about this past weekend in Toronto, I thought I'd take you all on a chronological tour of my inner monologue throughout the trip. Enjoy. Why am I up so early?  Scranton, PA smells like ass.  Did you go to

Well it's back to the routine of everyday life for everyone today.  For some, that'll be really sucky, as it seems everyone who managed to make it to Toronto for the big meetup was very reluctant to leave (note: more pictures are required.  I'm

Well last night was a great game for the PPPers to meetup and attend.  Jared's drunken posts were remarkably similar to his sober ones (typos and all) and BTD supplied us with this awesome picture of Kessticle, who appears to be Phil Kessel's long lost twin

Yesterday was an absolutely gorgeous day in Vancouver.  The kind of day that makes you realize spring really is here, and summer is just around the corner.  It seems the NHL was on the same wavelength as me - releasing new NHL bikinis on the NHL.com store!  It'

Well, with Chemmy and Skinnyfish heading to Toronto today, you guys are stuck with me for the next few days.  My posting the FTB for three consecutive days comes at an interesting time - just as Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail touched off a storm about bloggers "

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of you reading this are suffering from hangovers. That's why I'm not going to give you much to read today, just some links to click on. Phil Kessel is awesome [BoO] Looking

I had hoped the Orr-Carkner V would go down last night so I could have posted the fight video here, but alas, no fisticuffs last night. I guess I'll just have to drown the sorrow I have from not seeing a fight with some green beer and Irish

This season has been like a long, painful car ride where your parents changed the destination once they got you all excited and into the car. Yup, this summer we were all a-flutter with great defensive signings, the promise of youth, and a new, hot goalie and the promise of

* Well strangely, I totally forgot that the Leafs existed this weekend.  Well, not totally.  Saturday afternoon I went to a spice party (and spent way too much money) and the hubby was coming over after the party, so he apparently  watched the Leafs game for me, and informed me of

This is the worst morning of the year. We all lose one hour of sleep but that's not even the worst part. The next two days will feature forgotten appointments, dangerously sleepy people using dangerous machinery (including cars), and messed up PVRs. That last one is the worst.

Sometimes you decide to watch more TV Friday nights and you forget that SkinnyFish told you that he would be coaching some degenerates on the weekend. I also think he took their King, Chemmy, so this might be the preview too. Basically, two terrible teams that their fans hope have

Why seven? Because 10 is too much for me to think of at 11 o'clock at night, and 5 would make it seem like I were lazy. 1) Nikolai Kulemin is no longer a 3rd line plugger; he's a legitimate 2nd line scoring threat. In the

So this week has been pretty hectic for me at work. We're on a deadline with what was supposed to be a "simple" building. Only, on Tuesday when we were supposed to be done, the structural engineer decided to make a whole bunch of last minute

That's right; a shrimp taco. Not just any shrimp taco, a Taco Bell shrimp taco. I don't know when it began, but apparently in America you can now buy of of these at your local Taco Bell.  Who in the Taco Bell hierarchy thought this was

Yesterday, my illustrious, hard-working partner found something quite intriguing on Passive Agressive notes.  The letter pictured above was written by a young girl who shares my name.  In it, she apologizes for calling her mom a "pice of poo".  Frankly, I still haven't stopped laughing at

If you don't have a Twitter account, I have two things to tell you: 1) Get a Twitter account. All the cool kids are doing it, and it's great for breaking news. 2) You missed out on dead raccoon movie quotes yesterday; the #1 trending topic

Know it sounds funny, But you just can't stand the pain MattBlack you're leaving us tomorrow Seems to me MattBlack, I know you've done all you can I see you begged, stole, And you borrowed Ooh, that's why you're easy

Saturday mornings are a great time to lounge around and what better way to pass the time than to read about hockey. Also, as a sidenote, our friend across the Atlantic, Mattblack, will have to take another sabbatical from his role. He is a very important person in London and

No words, just links. Tomas Kaberle happy with deadline outcome. Yeah I bet you are jerkstore [Globe and Mail] I don't care if you want to emulate Tyler Kennedy; do not lick your hockey stick [The Hockey News] Burke on why he goes Luca Caputi over picks for

The picture says it all. You know what happened yesterday. In case you forgot take the jump to a plethora of links. Starting off, the Battle of Cali has a quick rundown of all the trades made yesterday [Battle of Cali] Another quick trade wrap up [Suite 101] A look

So last night saw Alexei Ponikarovsky shipped off to Pittsburgh for prospect Luca Caputi (sweet name) and defenseman Martin Skoula (salary dump). First it was Pittsburgh, then it wasn't, then it was LA, but maybe someone else, then Pittsburgh again, repeat ad naseum. I can only imagine the

With the Olympics over, Vancouver seems empty.  And, well, it's gone back to being kind've boring.  Nobody in my office took the day off or came in hungover, which I found boring.  As for the players and coaches, so much for revelling in that Olympic Gold

Well the whirlwind of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics is over.  It's been a blast.  The party is still going on down on Robson street - it's so packed that you can't even move.  What an incredible two weeks.  I'd do a review

North America was collectively pissed when the Riddler owned the podium. Well, I don't think this mother needs any more building up from the likes of me. Whatever happens, we're going to be talking and chewing on this for a long, long time. The FTB has

Hail, Hail Robonia, A land I didn't make up...... This is it, the big one. Aside from that trifling matter of little or no importance tomorrow of course. Tonight will decide both the men's bronze medal in ice hockey and European bragging rights until the next