A Links Course
Posted by jtbourne on October 27, 2009 · 10 Comments
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I’m not quite in the frame of mind necessary to be simultaneously insightful and sarcastic as I usually try to be when I write. Without going too far into detail, and without being too much of a Debbie Downer, I’ll just say that I almost lost my brother last night (who’s also my best friend and best-man-to-be). He’s apparently on the mend though. If you wanna know more about Jeff, here’s his personal site.
So, what you get instead, is Bourne’s Blog’s version of a clip-show. A bunch of links to stuff I’ve written recently, or just feel like linking to. Hope you enjoy:
1) Personal travel stories I gathered in quote form from six current/past NHLers – Dale Hawerchuk, Josh Gorges, Chris Higgins, Brett McLean, Eric Nystrom and Bryan Trottier. Personal Travel Stories
2) For Yahoo! Sports hockey blogger “Puck Daddy”, I contributed Five Reasons I Love Hockey.
3) An email interview I did for Kuklas’s Corner’s Patrick Hoffman a few weeks back – If you can tolerate a couple uninteresting answers to start, it gets a little better. An Interview About Myself… and the NHL
4) An article I wrote a few weeks back about Trevor Smith being a step away from Islanders-ready (and if you ask me, I’d swap him out with a person they think is ready right now). Trevor Smith
I'm a hockey player turned writer. After playing for Alaska Anchorage in the WCHA (NCAA), I carried on with an NHL tryout (New York Islanders in 2007) before spending a couple seasons in the AHL/ECHL (last year was 2008-09). My father, Bob Bourne, won four Stanley Cups with the Islanders in the '80's, as did my fiancee's dad, Clark Gillies. I'm now the web editor for theScore's hockey blog "Backhand Shelf."
Sorry to hear about the bad news JT, glad to hear things are on the upswing
Sorry to hear that man, hope everything works out
Enjoy this, it’s ridiculous and made me laugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6pJ4hNL7Ck&feature=related
Hope things work out with your bro JB. Love the photo op in the “5 Things” piece…uncut, untaped RBK twig I’m sure they handed you and said, “Here, hold it like this”, while you’re thinking “There is no way this picture ends up looking cool”.
Haha, well you’re close. At first I thought “thisissocool thisissocool I’ll do whatever they want” followed momentarily by them asking me to point the stick at the camera and stare down the shaft and me thinking “… ….umm… fuck… I’m sorry I just can’t.” (cut to the exact picture of Tavares doing it – not so cool when a three-leagues-down prospect is doing it)
Hope your brother’s mending continues. Peace.
Sending good thoughts to Jeff and you and the fam. Hope all is well very soon.
I’m praying for your brother, and I’m sure other readers are too. Hope there’s some encouragement in knowing that people you’ve never met are thinking of you and your family.
I hope your brother is doing better.
Sorry to hear about your brother, dude. I hope to hear some good news.
Best wishes for a speedy and successful recovery. I checked out Jeff’s site, it was very inspirational. He is an exceptional human being with great energy. His wonderful smile in the pics says it all.