Musings from Mandy

ROLL TIDE

First, this is fun. I'm always House Stark even if I'm running out of Starks. Thoughts on the first episode of Season 4 (Spoiler Alert). I loved the Mountain and Arya in the book and I love them on the show.  Arya's murderous streak was fun to see.  She just had her mother and brother killed at the Twins so eventually a girl's going to snap. Every time they mention Robb's head sewn onto Grey Wind's body I have the same punched-in-the-gut reaction that I had when I read it in the book.  Although when I read it in the book, I threw the book across the room and refused to read it for a month. I love the change of Jamie from the beginning of the book as the "Kingslayer" to the rescuer of Brienne to the voice of reason in House Lannister. Tyrion was awesome as always and I was excited to finally meet Oberin from House Martell.  Oberyn has even more swagger than I thought he would.  He also has the best nickname, perhaps ever, with The Red Vip...

I've read a lot about toughness over the past few days in the wake of Rich Peverley's scary incident on Monday night.  Many have lauded Peverley for his toughness of asking to leave the ambulance and return to the game.  You've probably seen this: Personally, I'm a huge fan of anything that makes fun of Lebron so I did giggle when I saw this, but I also really liked Bruce Arthur's take on toughness in sports ( Found here ).  He brings up that while Peverley was asking to go back in, rookie line mate Alex Chaisson stayed home in Dallas as well, too shaken up from seeing Peverley's incident to travel with the team.  In the wake of the Game 6 seventeen second loss, it was almost comforting in a way to hear about Bergeron playing through his myriad of injuries.  A way to know through the disappointment, the players we root for want it as bad as we do.  Should players be playing with injuries that require multiple nerve blocking injections be taking the ic...

This is from earlier in the night....All the teams did tweet some #thoughtsandprayers

So last night Josh and I were watching the Wire: Season 1 (which, I'm slowly starting to get into) and saw on Twitter that Rich Peverley had collapsed on the bench in Dallas.  We switched to Center Ice and watched the eerie silence from the fans and the announcing while we waited for an update.  I was, like most, relieved to hear he was conscious, especially after it looked like you could see what looked like them doing chest compressions in the hallway and knowing that he had issues earlier that year. What happened next is I think the best and worst of twitter.  First, we get a tweet from the CBJ's rink side reporter tweet that Coach Lindy Ruff said he was going to be okay.  Then, you have the plethora of #prayersforpeverley which I just find tacky.  First, I don't think Peverley is going to be checking twitter from the back of the ambulance.  Second, how many of these people are actually dropping to their knees to actually offer up a prayer. As more t...

F for the fact that my Jefferson Memorial pencil sharpeners doesn't sharpen pencils. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We're a few days into the Olympics and I'm loving every minute.  I'm super excited for the men's hockey to start tomorrow.  Here are my rambling thoughts. *I thought that the opening ceremonies were great.  I also thought that NBC's color commentary was disgraceful.  The Russian history section glossed over the gulag?  You don't say.  I'm sure that when USA hosts the Olympics again we will skip over the less than stellar moments of our history as well.  Every country has flaws.  The goal of the Olympics should be to put aside embargoes, treaties, and old hatred to come together as one community on the world stage. *I haven't watched nearly enough events but the ones I have seen have been awesome.  My favorite so far has been the moguls.  Mainly because NBC made me fall in love with Alex Bilodeau shortly before he competed (an won gold).  Alex Bilodeau and Brother *I would kindly like every reporter that has complained about th...