Neo

Too cool in a season with too few highlights. Komiserik talking tough and making the "flinch fake" before the face off. Komiserik falling and losing his composure while the rookie goes to the net. Phaneuf sitting on his butt for endless seconds before grabbing Stafford's stick, helplessly. Foligno finding Komiserik with choice words while first leaving the ice and then when settling on the bench. All at a critical time in a critical game.

I never scroll through old posts to "neg" anyone. I just write John Hinckley and tell him they're dating Jodie Foster.

After reading GoDD's analysis of Gilmore's fluidity, I may bet him even if Cordy Glenn's the jockey.

"please say it in your normal voice"

for those who've mentioned history and war, i suggest Dan Carlin's Hardcore history podcasts. Fantastic and human. His four part series on Germany and the USSR in WWII is amazing.

Anyone else remember Ray Bourque taking his number 7 Bruins jersey off, and handing it to Phil Esposito? OT, I'm sorry, but the "new star, old star" conversation had me reminiscing. Powerful moment.

" ... enlighten the populace ..." Back at ya, my brother, NS.

... Kassian never was.

I'm laughing! I didn't see the movie. The book thrilled me.

It's a movie now, too.

Anthem ... Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged ... Ayn Rand The Road to Surfdom ... Friedrich Hayak The Federalist Papers ... Hamilton and Madison Das Kapital ... Karl Marx 1984 ... George Orwell When you've read those, you can join me in bed.

"My extension is longer and less deserved than yours!"

I don't see any Flyer fans trolling THIS thread!

Forget the Sabres. I want to "book club" with you cats. Neo, on 16 February 2012 - 10:13 PM, said: I have notes and the web. It is an experience. Every paragraph drives me to research. I was hooked at: That passage cost me a week. i've read that book three times in my life. it provides more insight into the human condition than any other thing i have ever read, or, frankly, experienced. sizzlemeister, on 17 February 2012 - 01:46 AM, said: Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake ultimately have no meaning. Joyce is just using highly stylized word-smything to put pedestrian ideas into your brain. I was so disappointed when I realized that. Of course, it was during my second expedition into Ulysses. Wholehearted. I used the phrase "cost me a week." I should have added "and worth every penny."

I have notes and the web. It is an experience. Every paragraph drives me to research. I was hooked at: INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see. Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space. Five, six: the nacheinander. Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible. Open your eyes. No. Jesus! If I fell over a cliff that beetles o'er his base, fell through the nebeneinander ineluctably. I am getting on nicely in the dark. My ash sword hangs at my side. Tap with it: they do. My two feet in his boots are at the end of his legs, nebeneinander. Sounds solid: made by the mallet of Los Demiurgos. Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand? Crush, crack, crick, crick. Wild sea money. Dominie Deasy kens them a'. That passage cost me a week.

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol Ulysses, James Joyce (in it for a year; every sentence is an adventure) Last finished ... Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (maybe the best novel I've ever read) You folks are all interesting reads. The multi quote's confusing me .. Hayak ... niiiice ... The Art of War ... I have The Odyssey .... assignment or pleasure or both?

Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca Sophia Loren in anything .. or nothing Ok, those are human beings ... ooops.

I've read a few comments about who was on the ice in various reports and posts. Find "Youtube Maguire Yzerman". Yzerman is a Hall of Famer with three rings. Imagine his smirk if someone suggested "he might get hurt" when he went looking for Maguire. As an aside, it's especially interesting to watch Phil Hously look busy during the scrums while avoiding anything menacing. I don't understand Goose and Myers, most of all. For reasons you'll all guess, I understand Vanek, Pominville and Sekera. I would rather not excuse them, but I have a feel for their roles. Goose and Myers, no. The worst part is the postgame commentary. Boston papers responded to Miller's comments by calling our TEAM gutless. Lucic continues to smirk and roll his eyes. Analysys are astonished and call the Sabres "soft" in polite television talk. Imagine the words they use when the cameras pause. Lastly, Goose's post game "it's on me" comment. He mentioned there's no reason to be scared. Well, true enough. However, can you even imagine the word "scared" entering the head of Yzerman or Maguire? He sounds like a city councilman or an accountant (apologies in advance to both professions; my point is that we don't rely on either of you to defend turf in a violent athletic contest). Goose is the NHL's most imposing face off specialist, an important role, to be sure. Has there been a worse character moment in forty years? Probably, but I don't remember one. The game's changed, certainly. Too bad the guys with the rings don't realize it.