Thursday, September 6, 2012
this is the best reason yet
If there is a lockout there won't be any actual hockey for me to pay attention to, at least not right away, and then I'll spend all of this extra brain power thinking about epically dumb things like what if the Oilers tried to market their team like a boy band? They'd get a totally different demographic, and it would work too! But hopefully the lockout won't be a thing, or at least just a small thing, because I really do want to use my brain in more useful ways.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
reasonable
I am really terrified of becoming a real hockey fan. I've spent a fair chunk of the last hour looking at statistics about things like Jordan Eberle's shooting percentages, which I kind of don't care about, only maybe I do? I don't know what I'm doing with my life. Next week I'll have school to distract myself and romance and my birthday and things that I actually really do care about, but until then, I don't know what's happening.
For a while I was really into comic books. I had a serious habit. I buying about three books a week and getting tons of trades from the library. Comics weren't really why I flunked the second semester of Algebra Two, but they were what I was paying attention to instead. I don't buy comics any more b/c reasons that don't matter right now, but I still know a lot of pointless stuff. The second Black Canary's middle name is Laurel. There used to only be one Black Canary but then they realized that didn't make sense and retconned it to be a mother-daughter situation.
I didn't just retain the trivia, but the feels as well. I am emotionally invested in Connor Hawke, even though I'm pretty sure he doesn't exist anymore because of New 52. I've read like three New 52 trades but I already don't like it because it erased Connor Hawke and Lian Harper and ended Secret Six, which was the last book I was reading.
Years from now am I going to go on Wikipedia and look up stats for Eberle and Hall to see how the new contracts they signed turn out for the Oilers? I would be fine with that. I'm not sure how fine I am with actually observing the next six years in real time to see how those deals look. I don't know if I want to be invested in this situation. I'm worried that it's already to late.
For a while I was really into comic books. I had a serious habit. I buying about three books a week and getting tons of trades from the library. Comics weren't really why I flunked the second semester of Algebra Two, but they were what I was paying attention to instead. I don't buy comics any more b/c reasons that don't matter right now, but I still know a lot of pointless stuff. The second Black Canary's middle name is Laurel. There used to only be one Black Canary but then they realized that didn't make sense and retconned it to be a mother-daughter situation.
I didn't just retain the trivia, but the feels as well. I am emotionally invested in Connor Hawke, even though I'm pretty sure he doesn't exist anymore because of New 52. I've read like three New 52 trades but I already don't like it because it erased Connor Hawke and Lian Harper and ended Secret Six, which was the last book I was reading.
Years from now am I going to go on Wikipedia and look up stats for Eberle and Hall to see how the new contracts they signed turn out for the Oilers? I would be fine with that. I'm not sure how fine I am with actually observing the next six years in real time to see how those deals look. I don't know if I want to be invested in this situation. I'm worried that it's already to late.
here, have some happy smiling bb oilers, as a reminder of why I like hockey to begin with.
oh so many feels (((((((
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