Remember Ryan Smyth...

It's quite sad. All I've ever known for the Oilers is Ryan Smyth, he's played for them since I was two. He's my Smyth homeboy!
After hearing the news last night I made a button in his honour (please don't mind the poor picture quality)...
And I must admit, when he said that he wanted to win the Stanley cup and bring back to Edmonton, because "that's where his heart is", I got a bit teary eyed.
Funny how I get so worked up over hockey... but it really is a big part of our city. We don't have the greatest team, we'll admit it, but it's still a large part of the city's identity. We've had Gretzky and Messier, and now Smyth, get traded at their prime. All of them have expressed how much they love our city (not to mention Claire Martin :P). It just makes you thankful in a way that you can stay in your much-loved home. I might leave someday, but until then I'll just be happy that I can keep on living here, even if all the good hockey players can't.

A new generation of politics

I hate to be political on this blog, but I find the prospect of Justin Trudeau in politics quite exciting. I've been a fan for a while now, I really love the work he does with giving youth a voice (only 3 more years until I can be a part of Katimavik!). He also does a lot of great work involving the environment and Darfur.
If he does win the Papineau riding (the smallest and poorest riding in Canada) I look forward to his fresh look at politics. We have a lot of aged men representing Canada, hopefully Trudeau could breathe new life into Parliament Hill. Now if we could only get more women who wouldn't end up being called dogs and becoming centerfolds in 'Scoop Weekly'.

Rebel, rebel

Friday at lunch I skipped (with permission, sadly) Art to see Rae Spoon at the SUB stage on the U of A campus. It was a free show, and seeing as my sisters and I love his music, a must.

It was a lot of fun! He has a beautiful voice and was very sweet. I think my sister and I's favorite part was when he sang 'Oil Rigs', our fave song of his. All in all good times!



Not much else happening in other news... tis very snowy here, but at the same time warm and beautiful. At times it seems too warm, which is disconcerning. I suppose we'll all do our part in minimizing our footprint and hope/push the government to do the same.

My Heroes

Now I'll have to make a "Beware Of The Milky Pirate" button :P

The beauty of the internet

It was one year ago today that I went down to Calgary and met George while he was on the road with The Hour. It doesn't feel like that long at all! It feels like it was last month... anyway, we all know how I feel about the show now, although tonight they had a really good interview with Chris Hedges, about the Christian right's similarities to 20th Century fascism. He's very articulate and it's definitely worth watching here!

I haven't been able to watch as much Colbert and Stewart as I would like lately, due to the TV schedule on Comedy Network, but thankfully my sister sent me this. I laughed so hard :D Colbert owned O'Reilly!
Good times, good times.