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April 20, 2007
FRIDAY: 4/20 ELIMINATION DAY EDITION
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It's a beautiful spring mornin in Philadelphia: 62 degrees goin up to 67 by noon, sunny, breezy, fresh - and the trees are sprinkled with neon-green dots, lookin like a Seurat a third of the way done.
1a. But of course my heart lies some, oh, 403 miles to the Northwest today. Yessir: the Sabres will battle the Islanders tonight, and a Buffalo win will dispatch the Isles to the fiery gates of hell verdant greens of Long Island's finest golf courses. Elimination day is at hand. As Dusk wrote me this morning: "The footsteps are loud - a stampede of buffalo with rayzor sharp sabres in their frothing maws." Precisely right.
1b. Further, a win will shut up the miserable griping, kvetching, bellyaching, and just plain old whining coming from these downstaters. I've had more than enough of it. To imagine some kind of league-backed conspiracy against a team from one of the biggest media markets in the world is a joke. I'll let the Buffalo News' Bob DiCesare tell it:
You don’t get in the food-stamp line and complain about the dent in your Lexus. You don’t knock on the doors of the City Mission to find a light for your Cuban cigar. And you don’t get into a playoff series with the Buffalo Sabres — with any Buffalo team, for that matter — and start ranting about how you just can’t get a fair shake...
Buffalo is, by decree of a Sports Illustrated headline, the losingest city in sports. I’m not sure if losingest is really a word, but if it is, we’re its rightful owners, although, truth be told, we’re forever hopeful of relinquishing possession...
Here in Buffalo, we’ve never forgotten the taste of champagne because we’ve never sipped it.
Yes it's like that, and that's the way it is.
2. Today's like the Age of Aquarius, except instead of the moon being in the seventh house and Jupiter aligning with Mars, it's Elimination Day AND a sunny spring Friday AND 4/20. Peace will surely rule the planets tonight - and it's in that spirit that I bring to you, for the third straight year, you know him you love him, THE STENCIL 4/20 ALIEN:
I think Nash's commentary last year said it best:
You know I gotta put up the alien weed dude. He comes around every year at this time, and 2006 is no exception. The picture speaks volumes:
1.) We get to see why aliens have actually come to Earth.
2.) His shirt is really on the next level. Although maybe it's just his skin.
3.) He's rolling with major freshies...he's got a leaf in his hand!!!
4.) His spaceship isn't on the ground, he just has it chilling in the air, probably exploring for more weed across those mountains.
5.) It also could be said he's offering this weed to a human who is out of frame, which is a nice gesture.
6.) Look at his eyes, he's the most non-threatening alien ever. One could say this is symbolic of the relaxing nature of "the herb" and be viewed as a subtle yet powerful piece of propaganda for the pro-legalization set.
Posted by caps at April 20, 2007 09:36 AM