Quote of the Day
Jul. 1st, 2003 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgyldenIn honor of Canada Day, from Matt Rogers of PopMatters, in this amusing CD review:
"I owe my ability to sing the Canadian National Anthem to the advent of cable television, specifically to ESPN when in 1985 they brought the NHL into my California living room. As one might surmise, hockey didn't rank high on the outdoor sports list where the water never froze except in those towns in the mountains where people skied anyway. So as a teenage boy, the discovery of a sport where tooth-gapped men wearing funny shorts over long underwear chased each other on metal blades, whacking each other with wooden sticks while slapping around a seriously solid piece of rubber on a seriously solid piece of ice, well, that was hella cool. And so were those guys with the funny accents, who had their own song to sing before the opening face-off. And so it was this song I learned while I fantasized about one day being that lucky silent hero whose job was to smooth the crystal-like surface with his trustworthy zamboni."
"I owe my ability to sing the Canadian National Anthem to the advent of cable television, specifically to ESPN when in 1985 they brought the NHL into my California living room. As one might surmise, hockey didn't rank high on the outdoor sports list where the water never froze except in those towns in the mountains where people skied anyway. So as a teenage boy, the discovery of a sport where tooth-gapped men wearing funny shorts over long underwear chased each other on metal blades, whacking each other with wooden sticks while slapping around a seriously solid piece of rubber on a seriously solid piece of ice, well, that was hella cool. And so were those guys with the funny accents, who had their own song to sing before the opening face-off. And so it was this song I learned while I fantasized about one day being that lucky silent hero whose job was to smooth the crystal-like surface with his trustworthy zamboni."
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LOL!
Date: 2003-07-01 01:47 pm (UTC)A toast to all the delicious Canadian imports, from Nick Lea to Nathan Fillion, plus Owen Nolan of course, for all he's returned to the Maple Leaf.
Re: LOL!
Date: 2003-07-01 10:08 pm (UTC)I like it!
Date: 2003-07-02 06:57 am (UTC)Or one could also say that life is so boring in much of Canada that they had to become attractive and/or interesting people or be unable to get OUT of Canada. I feel a bit like that about the small northern border town where I went to high school.