Mike Browne’s Blog

CBC Sports: Canucks re-sign Brendan Morrison
Woohoo! Go Canucks Go! That’s all of the big line (that is if they let Big Bert play after the mess last year).

Today I’m 36 and am awake since 3:00 AM. Ugh! Thanks asshole neighbours. A pox upon you. It sounds like they’re moving furniture around again. I’m tired and stressed out. Our landlord and strata council in the building assure us that these people will be continually fined and evicted if the noise doesn’t stop. It hasn’t stopped. Perhaps I need to call professional help in the form of a dark witch and have a hex put on these boobs. NOTE: Upon reading these hexes they do seem pretty harsh. I don’t think I want someone’s soul ripped out and stomped on quite yet but ask me when I’ve gone another month without sleep.

I think they’re up to something criminal (as do the police who we’ve spoken with). Perhaps drugs? Gee, do you think? They have visitors coming and going at all hours. It may also be theft as they always seem to be moving stuff around, in and out of the suite at all hours, which they rented furnished. Heck they got in trouble on day one as they moved in at 1:30 in the morning.

Here’s the noise journal we’ve been keeping to prove we’re not just unreasonable whiners:
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Today I got a package in the mail from my birth-mom, Dianne. Strangely enough I knew who it was from when the postman buzzed to tell me there was a package waiting for me downstairs. Other than the huge gift she gave me in the form of the life I’ve had we have never been able to exchange gifts until now. I wonder what’s in it?
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After all this mess with the lock out and whining from players and team owners about only making millions of dollars a year I thought I might just ditch my Canucks jersey and take up watching professional knitting. “Go Grandma!” I even neatly avoided blogging about the hockey strike the whole time it was on but, now that it’s about 99% sure there’ll be a season this year (I’ll say 100% when the first puck drops) I feel like a hockey fan again. It must be a Canadian thing…

The CBA has already seen players bouncing around the league to stay under the salary cap. Of note Scott Niedermayer, a once proud New Jersey Devil, is going to Disneyland to play with the Mighty Ducks (Does my semi look-alike Emilio Estevez still coach the Ducks? Oh wait, taht was a movie. Nevermind.) and Peter Forsberg is leaving those whinging, Bertuzzi suing, mile high a-holes in Colorado in the lurch and heading to Philadelpia for cheese steak sandwiches. We’d have likeed to have seen Forsberg here in Vancouver to play with Markus, but not for two years at least without a major trade.

Speaking of the Canucks (Go Canucks! Go!) and specifically Nazzy, he has been resigned with the Canucks for another three years that will see the destitute hockey player earn a mere $18 million under the new agreement. On a semi-sad note, sometime lazy ass Canucks defenseman Brent Sopel and his horrific hockey hair were traded to NY Islanders for a conditional 2006 draft pick.

The Canucks roster is still in doubt as according to the NHL’s website, specifically the page on free agents, Vancouver has a number of people as yet unsigned and still free agents a lot of which are players of some stature in our fair city. Here’s the list:

Bryan Allen, Tyler Bouck, Artem Chubarov, Dan Cloutier, Matt Cooke, Jason King, Brendan Morrison, Mattias Ohlund, Jarkko Ruutu, Sami Salo, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Nathan Smith, Brent Sopel (gone already).

Holy crap. Looking at it again it reads like the whole team. I think I just pooed my pants. Come on Canuckleheads let’s get most of these guys signed before the season so we can a little breathe easier. Notice I said most… Cloutier? I’m not a big fan, but I know Calgary’s cocky Finnish netminder Miikka Kiprusoff is up for grabs. The Canucks should snag him and piss off all the folks in Cowtown. That would make the Red Mile turn green.

Yay! Hockey’s back!!

I have a few minutes so now’s the time to post some pictures of my mother’s side of my birth family. We’ll start with her.

This is Dianne my birth mother on the right and her best friend Martina on the left. There’s more photos after you click the link —->
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Hey Ted W,
I tried to email you in response to your note from this morning, but the email bounced back as ‘undeliverable’. To answer, no I have not yet sent in a résumé to X-Men 3’s production office. Have you sent one and heard nothing back? They have just gone ‘to camera’ as of yesterday so if you haven’t sent one, now’s the time. Here’s their info from the BC Film List at ReelWest.com:

X-MEN 3
X3 Canada Productions Ltd.
Prod: Lauren Shuler Donner,
Ralph Winter
Co-Prod: Ross Fanger
Director: Matthew Vaughn
PM: Stewart Bethune
PC: Jena Niquidet
LM: Ann Goobie
ALM: Paul Giordano
PD: Ed Verreaux
Publicist: Gloria Davies
Casting: Coreen Mayrs,
Heike Brandstatter
Cast: Hugh Jackman,
Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry
Sched: Aug 2 – Dec 15/05
3500 Cornett Rd., Bldg. E
Vancouver, BC V5H 2M5
453-4900 fax: 453-4901

Fax your résumé C/O Locations Department ATTN: Paul Giordano who is the ALM (Assistant Locations Manager) on the show. Good Luck! We might see you on the show. It’s going to be a biggy.

I moved from Nova Scotia to British Columbia and have been here ever since. Good move.

What? oh well… I love the quote in the article about the demise of Sir Sean’s acting career from The Movie Blog:

“I’m fed up with the idiots, the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and those who green light them. I don’t say they’re all idiots – I’m just saying there’s a lot of them.”

How very Sean Connery.

Long live King Abdullah
One Saudi King has dies and another is made.