After approximately a six month layoff, I've gone back to my hockey project. I'm making myself start from scratch, since I got so cluttered up when I was doing this earlier. I have a basic timeline that I'm going to stick to, with a minimum of sidetracks. That said, there will be sidetracks because it's me we're talking about--I'd started a back ( Read more... )

THANKSGIVING PLANS:
Thursday-Friday AM: Fairmont
Friday PM-Saturday: Sandusky

Depending on things re: work, I will be leaving Sandusky either Saturday early evening or Sunday morning. Christmas will be similar, only with an extra day tacked on in all likelihood. Will be back in town before the 31st.

OTHER TRIPS:
--Mountain Stage w/ They Might Be Giants ( Read more... )

So I decided to dig back into the hockey stuff a few weeks back, and started looking before the start of the Blizzard franchise, around when the owners and the city were first making plans to put ice in the Civic Center. I stumbled upon a bit in one of Ernie Salvatore's columns mentioning--oh-so-briefly--a team called the Huntington Stars, playing ( Read more... )

Went to Holderby's Landing last night out of moderate boredom; I must say the view and the breeze is fantastic. That was also my first night eating D.P. Dough and my last boozefest for some time, as I'm finally going to put an actual effort into limiting my spending.

I'm also going to get back on the ball with the hockey thing. I had been in contact ( Read more... )

After a consultation with Dr. Bailey and station manager (and narrator!) Alex Reed, I have determined that I have OVERsucceeded. I did in fact cram the history of ice hockey in Huntington into a half-hour, and that half-hour is incredibly cluttered. Somehow, I did not anticipate this, even though this was essentially the desired effect; maybe it's ( Read more... )

1W Detroit v 8W Calgary
                                                          Detroit v San Jose
4W Nashville v 5W San Jose
2W Anaheim v 7W Minnesota
                                                          Anaheim v Vancouver
3W Vancouver v 6W Dallas
1E Buffalo v 8E NY Islanders
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It dawned upon me that--especially as of this moment, with the last-minute bits cut and transcribed, etc., the only thing keeping me from having the whole damn thing done is that my main voiceover guy is up to his neck in comps--grad student, dontchaknow ( Read more... )

The rough cut is 40:31. Script is 22 pages, being dissected by Dr. Bailey. Listening to that whole thing at half-speed, I found various bits that needed to be excised, and that will be done after I get the rough script back.

Voiceover will be done by Alex Reed, who has a much better hockey voice than I do.

Notable bit--a week late, but Todd ( Read more... )

The intro to their Formula 1 broadcasts on the Fuji TV network. You'd think these were on Saturday mornings over there or something.


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Upon receiving an unexpected bonus from one of my paychecks, I spent part of the proceeds on a chord book. I'm realizing I know a lot more chords than I thought. I also realized that, because I play left-handed on a right-handed guitar, I'm able to create many bar chords that wouldn't otherwise be bar chords. I find this to be very kick ass.

I ( Read more... )