Now changed from “In all thy sons command” to “In all of us command” to make it more inclusive. The last bill of an MP who is very swiftly dying from ALS.

In a conversation on a friend’s Facebook wall yesterday, another of her friends noted that years ago she was at a breast cancer fundraiser when a bunch of men (she didn’t say, but I am willing to bet large sums they were as pasty-looking as me) barged in and started yelling about prostate cancer. A woman there yelled…

I was a trumpet player in a concert band, and in 1980 went with our All City Band to Japan for a tour. Little did we know our conductor had booked us to play in a baseball stadium in a marching band fest. (Actually, I don’t know if HE knew.) Four hours of rehearsal the day before, about 30 minutes of drills the…

I wasn’t a big sports fan when I was a kid for some reason, even though I played plenty. Probably arguing in the schoolyard during recess over who was the better goalie, Ken Dryden or Bernie Parent. Fights almost broke out.

Yeah, they forced Wales to play their game. I wondered if Carvalho being suspended might cause some balance issues, but no. In the meantime, I count a total of three (3) 0-0 games. There were seven (7) in the last World Cup.

Mad, I tell you, mad!

Everyone ignore the old timer.

No argument from me. The way I feel, I’m not even close to immortal.

Always nice to find someone older than me. Worried you might be a vampire, though.

We were living in the US at the time for my wife’s job and I wasn’t allowed to work, so I trundled downstairs where the boys have been watching a cartoon and they told me it had been interrupted. I looked, saw the hole and the smoke and heard someone on the news say “small plane in the World Trade Center,” and wanted…

Ha! Me too. Papers and some stuff from Rice Krispies and a couple of other things. I’ll have to go dig those out and bathe in memories for awhile.

You made me do the math, and while I thought it was when the year was warmer, it has to be Apollo 14 landing on the Moon, Jan 31-Feb 5 1971. I was in grade 2, Mrs. Margel’s class at Afton Elementary in Edmonton, and our class was in a portable a good 200 feet from the school. She brought in a tiny little B&W TV (black…

Don’t forget his stint on Dancing With the Stars. He’s clearly still in the highest echelons.

I for one am looking forward to Zlatan bringing some Berbatovian speed and effort to Old Trafford. And Rashford doing lots of sitting.

Lots of people calling the game “dire” or “mostly-uninspired.” I’m chatting with my kid via FB (he’s in Romania right now) and told him about some of the thoughts here as we talked about today’s game. His response:

Y’know, I’m Canadian and therefore, by default, a hockey fan. But hockey players put in 20-30 seconds for a shift. In soccer, you get 3 subs in a game, max. Once that’s done, you dance with what brung ya. They go to penalties because the other option is to possibly kill one or more players, people who already run…

If you’re trashing Edmonton the City, then them’s fighting words. If you’re trashing Edmonton the Oilers, then carry on.

This makes me cry tears of joy. MONSTER tears.

It’s because we’re all socialists up here. Both teams have to be on the left side of the field.

I vote for performance art on an epic level. Don’t play poker with this guy.