stannate:

KofC in a warehouse near the Chicago/Blue Island border.

Heh, I haven’t used my account here since 2009, but if there’s photos of me on Tumblr now, I might as well. Thanks for doing the photoshoot! (This also doesn’t have to do with sports, which is what I started the Tumblr for, but I intended to come back and do it as a miscellaneous blog.)

I found this in my vintage book collection recently. from 1975, “Here is the first-hand account of what goes on behind the fluttering eyelashes.” alas, no stories of hockey players, which I feared from the cover. golf players? who the hell thinks GOLFERS are sexier than hockey players?

I’m not really on Tumblr anymore; it’s just not interactive enough and no one I added to follow added me back, so I moved (and moved the old posts) to Blogger:

http://a-little-chippy.blogspot.com/ (also never learned how to do links here)

…where no one I’m following is following me back, either. I honestly have no idea how to promote a sports blog other than blogrolling/following a lot of people and maybe commenting on their blogs and hoping they notice I exist. I have a lot of fans of other stuff I do on the internet, but I’m afraid I bore them with the hockey stuff (hence the separate blog for it). it’s a sports blog by someone who never cared about sports till recently, at least it’s different.

I’ll keep this account up and might post the occasional image, but I’m blogging elsewhere now. today, for example, about the reaction to the Victoria’s Secret “Sexiest Athlete” in Chicago poll that includes the Blackhawks’ Patrick Sharp.

for the Blackhawks fan who has everything (not necessarily including good taste). sports-themed furniture at a market at the 2009 Pierogi Fest in Whiting, Indiana (for non-Chicagoans, that’s a town between Chicago and Hammond, IN, best known for the fest. and the BP refinery). “1988” is why Second City Hockey’s nickname for Toews-Kane is “Daydream Nation,” btw.

WHO OWNS THE FLAMES? well, technically, N. Murray Edwards, Harley N. Hotchkiss, etc.; but colloquially? the BLACKHAWKS. 7-1 win in Calgary. nice start to 6-game road trip, nice 21st birthday for Patrick Kane. (I didn’t get around to posting about that in a timely manner, like to say that in his next drunken altercation, at least he’ll be breaking one fewer law. and that he should drink a few for me, since I was too lazy to walk the extra block to the liquor store today, and only had a bottle of Schlitz to get me through the game tonight.) so much stuff I won’t even try to recap it now.

in other news, the Leafs game was heartbreaking and the Bruins game was agonizingly close (but they won, and Lukic is back). in other other news, I’ve been moving this blog to my new locale on Blogger…it’s too quiet here.

I picked up this 2007 book at the Barnes & Noble in downtown Minneapolis the other day. for the money ($23 paperback) it’s a huge book filled with stories, statistics, history, and photos, including a color section, about the North Stars (1967-1993, till they became the Dallas Stars, of course) and Met Center (1967-1994, till it became a Mall of America parking lot). also, more books should be signed with silver Sharpies:

GODDAMMIT I MISS THE NORRIS DIVISION. except for not knowing what the Norris Division was while it was actually around. (hey, neither did my [slightly older] friend who got me into hockey, either, so I don’t feel so bad…)

well, I’ve avoided this “story,” but this item cracked me up. as well as the comments (posted to People’s Facebook page, all these are from women):

I am glad that there are still some people in this world that have good moral! Way to go Carrie!

Go Carrie! I am not a fan of country music, but I am a fan of you! What a classy lady!

From the very beginning, we have recognized that you are the role model for our children and grandchildren. How special you are!!!

You go girl! Love to see someone who has respect for herself and is willing to stand up for it! That is why people love you so much!

Amen Carrie! She really is a great role model. I appreciate her morality.

That’s great to hear, Carrie. It’s nice to see someone who has great moral character.

Wow! I am so happy to see such a young lady maintaining such great values. You are a great roll model to young women.

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“morality”? I’d say maybe she just doesn’t want to live in Ottawa, but 1) I don’t actually know if he lives there and 2) I’ve never been, and considering I visit places like Detroit, St. Louis, Buffalo, the Quad Cities, and Cleveland for fun, I’m not really the one to mock cities…

I fell behind on this blog because I took a daytrip revolving around my big non-hockey interests, like trains. this is the 4th-ever inbound Metro Transit Northstar commuter train on its first day of service in Minneapolis. I didn’t get to ride it, I just took photos. then I rode the light rail from the new Target Field station that opened two days earlier (it’s a level above the TF Northstar station).

oh, and took photos of Target Field itself, which’ll be open for the next Twins season, of course. it’s come a long way since I last saw it in Dec. 2008. I heard the Twins were debuting their new uniforms at noon Monday, but wasn’t sure where, so I missed that. I also checked up on the Metrodome (especially easy since it’s right by the stop for my Megabus home). some baseball decor remains, but it’s mostly covered in Vikings colors now, and has a big banner declaring it “Mall of America Field” (wait, did I miss that it’d been renamed?). I also spent a while looking at hockey books at a store, so it’s not like I went a day without the addiction (even if I did miss a night of watching NHL games online).

came home from the Hawks-Leafs game and checked on the other scores, saw this typo? joke? Freudian slip? that was still on the NHL site the next morning. one of many high-scoring and/or lopsided NHL games this week (9-1, 7-0, 7-4, 8-2, 6-5). I missed a day here! back to my regular posting frequency here soon…