Mike Browne’s Blog

20 seconds ago… Booooooooooooooooooooo! Gray Bettman apologized to the fans and said it was his ‘sad duty’ to cancel the 2004-2005 season. F%$k you Gary! Shoot him? Nah. I want to blow up and drive over the messenger with a steamroller or maybe this. Perhaps the most hated man in Canada right now.

CBC link
Yahoo! link

Check out GQ’s 100 Funniest Jokes of All Time list. I haven’t read them all but comment as to the numbers you think are the funniest.

CBC Sports: NHL delivers final offer to players What’s that sound? Oh yeah, that’s a toilet flushing as this hockey season circles the bowl like so much waste.

Apple – Trailers – Kung Fu Hustle. OMG! I am so in! It’s like Bruce Lee meets Airplane meets Chicago meets Evil Dead. Hell yeah! Thanks to Corey for the scoop on this gem. Here’s the official movie website for Kung Fu Hustle.

fuckvday.com: fuck valentine’s day! And some more…
I detect a slight amount of hostility.

Electric Chicken presents the Apple iToilet. Thanks Matt!

Had I been born a few years earlier, there’s no doubt I’d have been a beatnik, poetry aside for the weird assed dark sweaters and propensity for heavy smoking. So it’s needless to say that all of the Jack Kerouac I’ve read I like.

I have a copy of Kerouac’s “On the Road” but it waits in line with a whack of other books that I have to read. However this article about Kerouac’s original manuscript got me interested again. I’d love to see the scroll but it’s not touring anywhere close to here but it’s going to be in Vegas from March until May so maybe there’s another reason to head that way… hmmmm. Time to bump this book up on the reading ladder.

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…”
…“On The Road”

RedNova News – Can This Black Box See Into the Future?
All I want are Wednesday’s lottery numbers or the next great stock symbol (of course I could ask Martha Stewart for that) … get on it little box.

Carol and I have decided that Valentines Day in the tradtional sense is far too much to bear. On both sides of the coin are people a) who expect great things from their mates on February 14 (and are often disappointed) and b) feel hugely pressured to perform. The stakes are too frickin’ high. How many people have broken up with somebody around Valentines Day? The stats are high. And most likely for just these afore mentioned reasons (as part of it). Hell, it was a year ago today my sister announced her split with her husband of only two years. UGH.

As we were frsutratedly looking for someplace nice to spend too much money on Saturday for dinner and faced with hour long waits no matter where we went we had a thought. Why not buck the norm and call it Crappy Valentines Day and celebrate it as such. Dinner at a not-so-great restaurant (this year Red Robin won, but we’ll go even lower next year) perhaps a really crummy asian buffet with far too much MSG for my poor head to take. After dinner we must either rent or go to a movie that’s getting absolutely terrible reviews. The capper to a perfect evening would be an optional homemade card. This way we get to stick it to ‘the man’ and not be mindless consumers for yet another made up holiday. I like Carol everyday, not just on Valentines.

I made my card in word this year… Carol you can download it by right clicking and choosing ‘save as’ and print it out right here: <%media(valentine.doc|valentine.doc" /> … I’m not doing it for you 😉

Remember this gem given to Ralph by Lisa on the Simpsons?

If you are really lazy and want a couple of cool cards to print out, Simpsons style, you can get them here at this link: deconcept > I Choo Choo Choose You
Thanks Graham and Jackson.