Mike Browne’s Blog

Check out this message from Al regarding all the well wishes he has recieved since his parents’ untimely deaths. Again, we hope you get through this okay Al.

CBC is looking for us, the public, to vote for The Greatest Canadian. They’ve given lots of examples of great Canadians, but all are either artists, politicians, sports stars or people who have gained celebrity and noteriety through other means.

There are no average shmoes in the running. That is why I am offering to be the sacrificial lamb for you folks. I am a ‘Great Canadian’ example of mediocrity and banality. What more could you ask for? I’ll take one for the team. You can nominate me, Mike Browne, with a write in vote by filling in the form on this page if you like.

Or you could browse the historically boring list of regulars like Laura Secord, Louis Riel, Emily Carr and choose one of them with the other sheep.

Paul Anka? Interesting singer but come on…

I’m not sure we’ll find the ‘Greatest Canadian’ at all this way. It will be interesting to see who gets chosen.

Why is no one laughing? *cricket sound* (80kb Wav)

I watched the game in which Ribeiro took his dive at centre ice, flopping around doing the funky chicken. What a ham.

The game’s momento was in Boston’s favour at the time and after getting lightly tapped in a hit by Boston forward Mike Knuble Ribeiro ‘took one for the team’. What a jerk. The whistle blew, play came to a halt and this assbag lay on the ice in apparent agony. The trainer rushed out to assist him and in moments he was on his feet and back on the bench smirking at the Boston bench. He did everything but stick out his tongue.

Montreal hung on to win and the Bruins are still fuming at Ribeiro. He’d better watch out next game. My bet is that retribution is on the way. Of course Montreal’s website says he’s not a sure thing for tonight’s game stating he has an ‘upper body’ injury. Yeah, his head no doubt. My bet is that keeping him out of the line up might save him from a real injury. Pretty cowardly stuff.

No Canuck would ever do anything like that. We’ve seen well known Canucks shit disturber Jarko Ruutu take his little dives but nothing nearly as flamboyant as this slime bucket, idiot Ribeiro. I predict some really hard hits on this turkey next game and once a player gets that kind of rep, like Ruutu, they rarely get a call in their favor short of being beheaded.

Carol just loves spiders. Every now and again I’ll a squeal from another room as though there’s a rapist in the house. I come running only to find my wife, hair on end, pointing at a spider. Seeing as she grew up in Saudi Arabia she has most likely seen a Camel Spider (thanks to Matt for the link), if they really do exist.

They’re a hell of a lot bigger than the Brown Recluse Spider a.k.a. Hobo Spider. But apparently the Hobo Spider’s bite can be nasty. There are lots of Hobo Spider stories around the web. Yikes!

Now she’ll be really afraid.

CBC Sports Online: NHL Playoffs 2004

The Canucks and Flames both fought hard last in Calgary night. Vancouver came out on top with one more goal. The only one they allowed all night was on a defensive miscue; not the goaltender’s fault at all.

However, it looks as though Dan Cloutier, Vancouver’s netminder, may be out for the rest of the play-offs as he left with a knee injury late in the first period. Johan Hedberg stepped in giving the Canucks what they needed between the pipes. People (myself included) had some misgivings about Cloutier. I guess our wishes have come true in a way. I do hope Clouts is okay though. You never know when he’ll be back. I hope this injury isn’t too costly for the Canucks.

The Canucks now lead the series 2 – 1 with the next game in Calgary on Tuesday night at 6:30pm Pacific.

GO CANUCKS GO!

Heres’ the official Canucks.com – Game Recap

As many of you know I collect movies. I thought it would be cool (and prudent for insurance purposes) to create a database of my movies. Also, it’s kind of fun to share with you folks as well. So I uploaded the list to dvds.mikebrowne.com. Holy snappin’ crap! What a huge list!

I’m not a lender, but if you’re ever on popping over here to watch a flick or two let me know which one you want to see and I’ll dig it out. 🙂

Sorry to you folks on dial up. The index.html file is 141kb. That’s without the over 200 thumbnail images!

And, before you ask, none are rips. Here are photos of the cases. Even though I have a DVD burner I believe in buying the movies I collect. Seeing as I want to be in the movie biz, ripping is not the kind of karma I’d like to have following me around.

Easter is tomorrow. I hope the Easter Bunny is good to you. He’s happy rappin’.

Parody star’s parents die in Fallbrook.

Cause of death: Carbon Monoxide poisoning.

Sympathies to Al.