Things I Think About
Posted by jtbourne on July 3, 2009 · 4 Comments
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I’ve been mulling over a little theory on the relationship between how men drink and masculinity.
I’m not talking about the standard “lifted pinky means you’re gay”, I’m talking about the part of the cup a guy chooses to drink from implies how much of a “dude” he thinks he is.
It’s all in the rotation. Imagine a guy drinking out of a Solo cup. The standard action is straight back over the thumb, and into the mouth. Again, standard. Drinking from the cup’s “six o’clock”
Since I’ve been on Long Island, I’ve noticed the real dude-dudes drinking from over around the nine o’clock, in a wrist-pointed-away-from-the-mouth motion. And, inversely, the feminine way to drink would be between the 3 – 6 o’clock part of the cup. Make the motion right now.
In a related story, Sean Avery was just seen at the Vogue company picnic drinking from 2:15. Kinda weird.
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Is there, in our society, a less sincere event then the “Happy Birthday” song at a restaurant? You know, with the claps, and the general degradation of all parties involved? I’ve worked in restaurants, and know how little I cared.
I can’t imagine how little the guy texting from behind the waitress during the song cares that some shmo was born on that day 29 years ago. Can we all agree to stop this madness? We can? Great.
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Good news. I’m starting a non-specific sports team so hesitant players can be happy. We’ll have an unlimited budget to pay them ludicrous sums, and all we’ll do is put the players through rigorous spa days, while giving them tons of press conferences so they can be rich and happy, but also still famous.
Please welcome your SomeWhereWarm Flip-Floppers!
Dany Heatley
Brett Favre (C)
Michael Jordan (A)
Peter Forsberg
Mats Sundin
Substitutes:
Stephon Marbury
Eminem
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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Personal opinion: Tiger Woods is the biggest name is sports. Bigger than A-Rod, or Crosby, and only challenged by Lebron.
He does a two-part interview with Michael Wilbon, and listening to it, I feel like I’ve never heard him speak before. He’s so mysterious and intense, we don’t learn much from him in post (or pre) golf discussions.
This guy is just at such a stupid level of talent its unfair (one stroke back right now). So yeah, this was my blurb to declare him the biggest name in sports.
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Enjoy your weekend!
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."
Tiger is the biggest name in sports and second place isn’t even close too him. I was gonna leave you a message a couple of blogs ago and call you a bitch because you were on heatley’s side but now I’ve seen that you see the light….good job
Just think, without that psych degree you’d probably just be sitting around enjoying your beer like a sucker.
So does the Islanders youth movement start to bear fruit next year or has Snow erred in staying out of the big-name contract talks? I always expect someone big to go the island and end this “prolonged period of stagnation”, why doesn’t anyone big go out there???
Saku Koivu currently negotiating with the Flip-Floppers???
I heard he couldn’t decide whether he was negotiating with them or not. He said he’d know if he’s negotiating with them today… or tomorrow. He wasn’t sure.