OOP’S OUCH DAMNIT!I wonder why it is that some people are and some people aren’t.  How can one person do something and come away better for doing it, while another person can do that same thing but pay a much higher price for identical results?      I’m referring to those of us who are known as “accident prone”! Or like I like to call us, members of the Shleprock club! Remember old Shleprock? He was Pebbles and Bamm Bamm, friend whose mire presence could cause disaster at any moment. Things would fall and crash to the ground, blow up, fall apart, or for the individual cursed with being near the Shlepster there was some form of bodily harm just moments away.  Other than Comedian Tim Allen in his role as the bungling handy man Tim Taylor on the show Home Improvement I believe I might be a close second on the list of longtime members to the Shleprock club!This blog space is just too small to list all the stupid Freak accidents that have resulted in a wide variety of injuries for me. From being electrocuted more than a dozen times, burned,  cut, scrapped, bruised, and broken (as in bones) to numerous concussions, gouges, and sprains of all kinds, I have reached gold member status among my fellow Schlep a ters!       Within my family I have become a source of entertainment with my  vast collection of stories recounting the long history of oop’s in my life. There’s the rolling on the log that ended in a broken wrist and hand that happened just days after having a cast removed from my leg after breaking that weeks earlier at a Michigan/Ohio State game. Or the back injury suffered while mocking the dance moves of the male dancers in that famous scene with Dom De Louis in the movie “Blazing Saddles” resulting in long term back problems! It’s these stories that have brought friends and family especially my beautiful mother to tears of laughter after hearing me recount these tales.      So it is after doing some handy man work around my girl friend’s home this past weekend that left me with a large blood blister on my index finger after pinching the end of it with a pair of pliers, that I have decide to ask the membership committee of Club Shleprock to please remove my name from the roster of Members. Wait; hold on just a second here. I’ve just been informed that if I maintain my membership for the next several months, that I could very likely receive a nomination into the “Accident Prone “Hall of Fame! Ok so look how many times do any of us do something enough to get a nomination to some kind of “hall of fame”? I mean, I can take a few more whacks, bruises and even a cut here and there in order to reach such a great honor as that. I just draw the line at electric shocks. I’ve just had enough of those to last 2 life times, but…

Through out the course of human history we’ve all watched as the power of Karma repeatdly makes you believe in it’s power.We all have examples in our lives of how karma has cut not only our way but right back in our own faces as well. Karma can ruin a persons day,or make it wonderful, it can turn a sports teams fortunes around in a single moment, heck it can even destroy whole cultures.

     I have observed a couple of examples of how Karma appears out of nowhere to change the tone and a scope of an individuals life recently and it’s just amazing how it can change so much for that person who’s been effected by it’s mysterious power. This sweet and wonderful person deserved the positive dose of the “big K” she just recieved. Then take the case of one Cody McCleod the left winger for the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche. He dared to roll the dice on the old karma magic. See Cody thought he’d just mess around with a old Detroit hockey tradition. For years now during the Stanley cup playoffs, it’s not unusual to see a Octopus appear on the ice at “the Joe”. It has a story behind it but i won’t bore you folks into spring football and racing with the details of the tradition of the Pie on ice! So lets get back to Cody. See he decided to not allow the detroit tradition of someone from the biulding crew come out and pick the fleshy mass off the ice and wave it to the fans like it always has been for years. No he skated over and scooped up the glob with his stick and the whipped it into the stands almost hitting a security guy in the head with it. And as old Cody was skating around taunting more Red wings fans and laughing,well you just new something was coming. Yes things didn’t go to well for Cody and his Av’s team mates. The Detroit Red Wings went on to pound them into the ice with a 5-1 victory on Saturday.  So if you are one to believe in this thing called Karma, I just wanted to give you something to always keep in mind Don’t ever go skating over to a dead goowee Cephalopod, pick it up with your stick and fling it toward someone without expecting  that someday…SOMEWAY you will end up with said Cephalopod, coming back at you and hitting you right in the face!

Well my daily attitude these recent weeks has been greatly affected in a positive way by a certain wonderful individual and by the weather finally warming up too. But I’m about to blow my peaceful happy domineer because of certain pro Hockey team from a certain town will just call Hockey town to protect the innocent. This is that certain team (the red wings ooop’s, I just reveled them to you, oh well I’ll just go on from here.)  That I annually obsess over come play off time is coming off yet another banner regular season leading the league with the best record and the #1 seed in the Stanley cup playoffs. They have had alot of injuries this season but as healthy as they could be as the go into the playoff. They are matched up with the # 8 Nashville, (yeah I said Nashville, it makes me laugh to think of a hockey team in Nashville) and despite the name and city of the team doesn’t exactly scream Hockey, they are a very good team. Saying that the red wings quickly took a 2-0 lead in the series and then headed to NNNNNashville to play games 3 and 4. Well now after loosing 2 games to the Preds (short for Predators, why they shorten it to the preds is beyond me but I’ll go with it) the wings find themselves tied at 2 games a piece and if not for the fact they are going back to Detroit for game five and have been given a chance to get back on track at home, I believe I would have ground all my teeth to the gums these past few days. Yes we Wings fans are a tad spoiled and some would say a little on the pompice side but is it asking to much as a fan to expect your team when they are the best in the league to at least make it through the first round of the playoffs so we can enjoy the season for at least a few more weeks. Yes I do enjoy hockey and you’d think that even if for some bizarre reason my beloved Wings are knocked out of the playoffs I could at leaset watch the other teams in those playoffs just because it is the run for the cup. But let me ask you this, could you just cheer for another team in a bowl game that knocked your team out of that same bowl game? Could you just start cheering for another driver in a NASCAR races when your favorite just got grinded right off the track for the rest of the race? Could you just drive up and pay 3.25 a gallon for gas in the afternoon, when it was just 3.17 when you went by the station that morning but you didn’t stop cause you were running late for work and then after getting off work realizing you just cost yourself money by not stopping in the morning and now you feel like you should be able to charge your employers? Wait maybe its not really the wings that are getting me all worked up here. Yeah I love the game and the team, but is just sports and not real life. So it must be these gas prices that have got so damned upset. Look we can all argue till the cows come home as to who to blame for all this but let’s get real here. The next president needs to be the one who can go to OPEC and say knock the F off with this limiting production crap. Then we, as the American public, need to not just start driving cars that get better gas mileage, we need to nut up and understand that we can make a difference by not buying gas at these prices, by understanding that we can’t lower our dependence on oil from the middle east and south America unless we drill more places in our own country, build more refineries and develop better sources of fuel. And when it comes to that, let’s make this point clear. Ethanol is made from corn, it’s not cost effective and those who are producing it are getting government money to survive. So you and I are paying for that twice. So I can live with a wings collapse in the Stanley cup playoff, but I’ve just about had enough of the lack of effort by we the public, the government, and activists who are so blinded by they’re personal agenda’s that they are actually support positions that are making things even worse for the economy. I wish we could do it another way. But in time, if we as America start to really take all this seriously, we will probably will find a better way to feed our need to drive. But until that something we can see, feel, and touch (which means not B.S. but for real) we need to make some tough choices… And to quote Bluto in Animal house… WHO’S WITH ME? LET’S GO AAAAAAAAAAAGH!

It’s the only time of year where I start to wish i was back in the Great lake state.Back in Hockeytown back where the Biscuit has nothing to do with gravy or breakfast. It’s playoff time for both college and professional hockey. I know it just doesn’t register with most of you but when you’re favorite college team and your favorite Pro team in any sport are the top teams and favorites to win it all. Well you kind of grasp why i’d almost like to sit in the snow during April again!

Tar heel fans, why the ugliness towards Basketball coach Roy Williams? Ok so he didn’t have the team ready 4 the final 4 ,they got blown out by the team he coached for 15 years before coming to Carolina, and on monday night he was sitting in the stands with a Kansas Jayhawk button on cheering for the eventual national champs. You know he did coach that team for 15 years and his daughter attends the school right now too. Can you give the guy a break and see what he was doing wasn’t a big insult to you? IT WAS A BIG INSULT TO HIS PLAYERS. So let the players get mad and you, well just be glad you have one of the countries best coaches, who occasionally has bad judgement when it comes to using time out and who’s team button he wears at games!

When is it going to finally get hot around these parts? Not complaining about the rain, but when can we expect to enjoy a 78-80 average temp? I think this weather is effecting bird migration.We’ve had to Canadian Geese walking around the WROQ compound eating atll the fresh growing grass and while many employee’s thought this was so cute and a chnace to see these long necks up close. I wonder how many still appreciate thes geese now that the whole grass area here at the station is covered in well lets just say it’s like a mine field now. A mine field with an aroma.

Anybody else just about had it with the gas prices. If we could all just get together on this thing and stop being the slaves we are to the fuel  of gold,we just might be able to get this turned around. I just can’t see putting another dime in the pockets of the poeple responsible for this profitering. What do you think?

Enough for now got someone to go see about a scooter that runs on goose crap!!!

It’s always been fascinating to me to how one little thing can have such a huge impact on a person’s life.  One little thing can enter your life and it can change everything in that life.  You get a bill in the mail and bam!  You’re whole day goes to hell, work sucks, people suck, traffic sucks, even the service at the drive thru sucks, well that does pretty much suck everyday!

Anyway I think you all know what I’m talking about and I would prefer at this juncture to not talk about negative effects, but positive effects! I just had one of those positive things happen to me, and it’s stunning how different things can be in your daily life when a little positive comes one’s way.

Ok so now you’re thinking “there goes blades doing his Chris Farley does Matt Foley, motivational speaker thing”! Well Lot T frickin Da and you don’t know JACK SQUAT! I’m talking about how wonderful it can be to have that little positive thing drop into your life when you least expected it but needed it the most. Some call that good timing, but after the extended negative streak I’ve had, I kind of wish she had come along a little sooner. But i’m not complaining.

Did i say she? well lets just call this positive thing a she for the sake of this one sided conversation!. You see she’s something I didn’t know exsisted up until a few weeks ago. She’s something I didn’t see coming or had any way of actually bringing into my life on my own. And with the thick negative shades I’ve been looking at life through I’m suprised I saw her when I did. I believe that old thing that we humans have a internal antenna. And if we are in tune with these antenni helps us be aware of good things and bad things that are about to come our way.

So when I say I thought my antenna was not operating very well you know what I mean. I thought I might take it in and have worked on. But even after having it re-tuned it seemed to be picking up nothing but alot of negative vibrations. Thats when I decided to just turn the damn thing off for a while. The problem then is you don’t pick up anything but static, and thats all I seemed to be able to recieve day after day of static. Then I decided static was at least better and maybe I should at least keep the thing on.

And all of the sudden like a thunderclap, a massive positive vibration started hitting my antenna! She was coming in like a tidal wave! And that’s when those positive changes started to click through every part of my life. I mean every single thing in my world suddenly is better. So I just want to say thanks to her, that wonderful positive that just appeared out of nowhere while I was sitting there rolling hot dogs on a grill, and i might add, not feeling like even being where I was at the time. My point is this, damn it, remember to keep that antenna in tune and on full power, don’t let it start to get all out of whack! Cause just when you think it’s worthless, it will connect you to that she, that amazing positive! Just like it did for me!

I’m floating on a little island of ice and I’m all alone! As everyone jumps into what they consider “March Madness” I set sail on my own for the greatest time of year for me as well. The NCAA College Hockey playoffs and “Frozen Four” followed by the NHL Stanley cup playoffs. You see my favorite college team is number one in the country in hockey and my favorite NHL team number one in the league too! It would be a great time for me expect…

I can’t see hardly any of the games of both teams as they go for their respective championships. I don’t have the fox package or the NHL package on my TV anymore (thanks to a certain person who’s made it impossible for me to afford it call “the X”.) So what do I do as a lonely hockey fanatic living just an exit or 2 off the sacred basketball grounds called “tobacco road”? With nothing on my TV but round ball I’ve tried to get back into the fun of the tournament and if Duke had lost to the college named after a horse race last night I just might have started to enjoy some of it. But lets face it, this DJ’s heart is frozen, as in frozen from years of being along side a giant sheet of ice where men with sticks chase this little rubber biscuit while on skates and occasionally have to push a member of the other team out of the way so they can get that stick on that puck and send it whistling past the goal keeper and into the net.

Believe me, I grew up in a place rich in basketball history. I can’t even name all the great basketball players who’ve come out of Michigan, but when you grow up playing ball in the same area, and at the same time, as Magic Johnson and Jay Vincent, well basketball was and still is mighty big in the state that has the city known as “Hockeytown” too.

So don’t get me wrong, I do get the game and enjoy it on occasion. But I miss my hockey and I feel like this town owes me some way to be able to see my hockey games after you took away the GRRROWL, from me a few years ago. So tell me, which one of you people is inviting me over for the college hockey playoffs, or for the first few rounds of the Stanley cup playoffs? I mean you can come and watch basketball at my house anytime, if you can help a poor brotha out with a little puck age this year eh?