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It’s an Old Story

Published on February 4, 2010 By spyderkl

This is old news, but I’m still a little bit pissed off about it anyway. By “a little bit pissed off”, I mean calmed down from the apoplectic rabid crazy ranting that I was doing when I first heard about this story. The Super Bowl is a huge, huge extravagnaza, designed to attract football fans [...]

The Olympics started Saturday

Published on August 11, 2008 By spyderkl

Every four years, right around our Presidential election carnival election season here in the US, we watch the Olympics. To be more accurate, we watch a few events every time: The road cycling races (mens and womens). The mountain biking races. The velodrome races (seeing a pattern yet?) And, occasionally, when nothing else is on…gymnastics. [...]

It’s Stanley Cup Time

Published on April 21, 2008 By spyderkl

Against all odds, the Colorado Avalanche have, thanks to Peter Forsberg, figured out how to score on a power play. They won their series with the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night, with a 2-1 victory. The other official Chez Evil team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, had a 4-game sweep of their first round against the Ottawa [...]

I can hardly believe it myself

Published on February 4, 2008 By spyderkl

Well. We watched the Super Bowl yesterday. One of us watched under protest; to be fair, she hung in there for the whole first half without complaints. Which is more of a chance than she’d given any other football game this year. School Girl lost interest in the whole thing when Tom Petty took the [...]