Intervention and vacation

Oh my god. I am totally addicted (pun intended) to Intervention on A&E. I have an unhealthy obsession with shows and movies about drug addiction, and Intervention has really stepped it up this season. I caught a great episode on demand last night, featuring Dawn and Fabian. Dawn is waaaaaayyy addicted to meth (those are always the best ones), and her two sons are pretty much sick of it. She is so paranoid that she thinks the show's producers are FBI agents getting ready to arrest her.

Anyhoo, they finally confront her with an intervention. The sons pour their hearts out to her. The interventionist asks her if she is willing to go to rehab. She sits there on the couch thinking about it, face looking very contemplative. Then, she gives her answer:

"Hellllllll Noooo!"


AHAHAHAHAHA. Ooof. It's moments like that that make the show worth watching. That, and watching these people score heroin and shoot it up in the bathroom of the local Taco Bell.

(Apologies to any of y'all out there living with addiction. I just love this show and wanted to share it.)

Man, I can't wait for hockey to come back. TV sucks!

Starting tomorrow, I will be away for a few days, and I'm not sure how reliable my internet connection will be. I'm pretty sure my only posts will be from my iPhone or from the nearest Starbucks. Hopefully there will be some Metal Mania news to report on this weekend, or I will just have to make shit up!

Have a good one y'all!

There's no place like home...

The view from my hotel room. Yeah, it sucked...

Phew. I'm back. I knew the internet connection would be rough in Maine, but I didn't realize I wouldn't even get a cell phone signal! It wasn't that bad, it's just that my hotel was at the top of a cliff overlooking the North Atlantic, and on that side of the building there was no cell phone reception whatsoever.

Anyhow, I am going to get all caught up on the blogs and hockey news, and hopefully I will get some fresh posts up later in the week.

The good news is, I got a tan!

Slow news week...

I got nothing guys, absolutely nothing!

A few weeks back, Adam Proteau of THN wrote a piece about the Flyers rebuilding during the offseason. He wrote "one presumes the Philadelphia Flyers have been pre-approved to hoist the Stanley Cup next spring."

Um, I don't recall anyone from the Flyers organization using the words "Stanley Cup", "playoffs" or even "contender". Every press conference I watched showed guarded words and cautious optimism about next season. Nobody was getting ahead of themselves.

Until le petit Briere spoke.

Let me digress here for one second. I watched the Hartnell, Smith and Briere press conferences. Hartnell was very articulate. Smith was very boring. Briere was very skittish. Of the three, if I were a GM, I would only want Hartnell talking to the press.

I think the press was a little harder on Briere since he is the "prized free agent acquisition". Some of the questions seemed a bit critical. And Briere's answers, and the faces his made when answering, were a little disheartening. He needs to polish up his skills in this area. But the worst part was the answer he gave to this question:

Q: As a player is there any concerns, questions as to how all these new faces are going to fit together?

Briere: “There are going to be a lot of new players next year. You never know how long it is going to take to mesh. We have a lot of good young players that are still going to have a lot of room for improvement. How it’s going to mesh I don’t know. What I expect from this team looking at our roster is to definitely make the playoffs. That is what I expect us to do at least get to.”

Oh no! He used the "p" word! And this was the question where he made the worst face and hesitated a lot when talking about the new players next year. I will try to upload the video later, but if you feel like watching it, you can look here...