Playoff hockey works exceptionally well on television: it’s extremely fast, psychotically violent and, especially in a tight game, every possession is terrifying and exhilarating. Mad Jon and I just watched “Lisa on Ice” to get ourselves in the proper mindset. Now, it’s game time. Go Red Wings. Update: Wings win 3-1. No tie games, no need to tear this place apart.
Day: May 30, 2009
Quote of the Day
“Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we’ve just lost the picture, but, uh, what we’ve seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over – ‘conquered,’ if you will, by a master race of giant space ants. It’s difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.”…