Scooter Chronicles

I have made a few changes to the blogs listed on my Links page. These are the blogs that I read on a regular basis. I have taken three of them out and replaced them with three. The totals are not on purpose either. Just worked out that way.

The first of the three that I have taken off are FireBettman.Com, mostly because there is not much going on there lately. And as much as I would like to see the NHL get rid of this idiot, he hasn’t done anything really bone-headed as of late, and I have come to the conclusion that he isn’t going anywhere.

The second is my sister-in-law Catherine’s site Bowl of Oatmeal. This is because...

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Saw this and couldn’t help posting it in case others missed it.

Folks, this is sarcasm at it’s finest. You gotta give the man and his administration time. It isn’t going to change overnight. I am getting impatient, too, but I honestly don’t think we will know if things are turning around and working for another two years. Yes, two years.

By the way, this cartoon is from Walt Handelsman and was originally published on February 17th.

Earlier this week I finished reading “King Leary” by Paul Quarrington. This adds to my list of books for the 2nd Canadian Book Challenge, that I am quickly falling further and further behind in.

There are two good descriptions I found, both on Amazon’s Canadian site, and I couldn’t decide which to use. First, more of a review, from Publishers Weekly:

… creating a memorable character in Canadiens’ hockey champion Patrick Leary, “King of the Ice” for most of the first...

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For the first time since Johnny Depp’s nomination for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl”, I actually had some emotionally vested interest in who won an Academy Award. Like probably most, I was very interested in seeing if Heath Ledger would win the Oscar for his role as The Joker in “The Dark Knight”.

I don’t know, but I am sure that I am giving into the hype and emotion that the media played up and that many were joining or not. I wouldn’t say that I was a big fan of Ledger’s work. That’s not to say either that I didn’t see his talent or didn’t like his movies. On the contrary. Even if I was not totally convinced...

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Been a few weeks I believe since I posted any pictures of Nigel. Here is the latest batch taken over the last couple of weeks.

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Like the multitudes that have in recent months, I joined Facebook about a week ago. I received an email from a friend who’s back home in Michigan saying to us recipients to check out her Facebook page. That was when I found you that you needed to join to actually see the contents. Given that it was free I figured what the heck. About a day and a half later I had a few people that I never expected would have a Facebook pages contacting me to be a part of their friends list. During the past week I have run across a good number of people that I would like to stay in touch with. Of course there are many family members that have been added to my friends list, as well as two guys that participate with me in the Aussie rules football...

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Earlier this week I finished reading “The Wake”, the tenth and final collected trade paperback book volume of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic book series for Vertigo. This collection was illustrated by Michael Zulli, Jon J. Muth and Charles Vess, and lettered by Todd Klein.

Just in case anyone wants to read this, and doesn’t want spoilers, I warn thee not to continue reading.

“The Wake” acts mostly like an epilogue for the series. The first three books in the collection are the actual wake and funeral for Morpheus....

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Over the past weekend I finished reading “The Kindly Ones”, the ninth collected trade paperback book volume of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic book series for Vertigo. This collection was illustrated by Marc Hempel, Richard Case, D’Israeli, Teddy Kristiansen, Glyn Dillon, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston and Kevin Nowlan, colored by Danny Vozzo, and lettered by Todd Klein.

“The Kindly Ones” was a very interesting read. It is by far the longest of the collections. It brings a conclusion to many story...

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Last week I finished with listening to the audiobook version of “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. The book was read by Jeremy Irons.

I was alerted to this by my brother-in-law David. He had seen that iTunes was letting you download it for free. Not sure if it was part of a promotion, but seeing that it is so short, yet so famous, it was probably a good one to give away.

Via Amazon, here is the description, coming from the review by Kirkus (which wasn’t a good review):

The story is about...

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As many of you already know, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids and/or HGH back in 2003, and has admitted to doing so. Maybe not to some, but this came as a shock to me. Not that I am naive. Not that I don’t doubt this kind of thing was happening more then we could have imagined. But for some reason I always believed that A-Rod wasn’t “juicing.” I don’t know why, but I did.

The real blow to me though was in my hoping to see A-Rod surpass Barry Bonds as the all-time home run hitter. I figured he would be so much better. Minus the usual stuff off the field that happens to ball players, I liked A-Rod because he came across as a nice guy. Bonds has always been a jerk. It was also very obvious...

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