I love jeans. I remember taking the bus down to downtown Helsinki with one of my best friends – a.k.a. The Coolest Guy in the Class – to go to that Mic Mac store to get our first Levi’s 501s.
Only, they didn’t have them in my size, so I had to buy another kind. No idea what the type was, but I do know that the label on the butt was not red, but orange. And if you had asked me in school the day after, it was a flaming orange label that could be seen blocks away.
It was supposed to be red.
My son is working on a magazine of his own, and you know what? I made the cover! We had the photo shoot last night. Here’s the cover shot:
Having seen that, I must say that I am a little curious to see what he did with the interview.
No, no, no, no, against the advice of my manager, I haven’t founded World Wrestling League.
No, that title is just something out of a story I wrote for the International Ice Hockey Federation this week.
This is what the season looks like for MODO: w, l, l, w, w, l, w, l, w, l, l, l, w, w, w, w, w, l, l, l, l, w, l, l, w, w, l, l, l, w, w, w, w, w, w, w, l, l.
You can see the story here. And here are the week’s columns on the Finnish Elite League’s site, if you like to read Finnish or want to print out a photo of me and stick into your wallet. Don’t like that photo? Here’s another hockey blog, still in Finnish. And, here… Well, you’re already here.
What do you do when your father-in-law sends you a meme and challenges you to tell Seven Truths about yourself?
That’s right. Keep reading.
My daughter keeps referring to herself in the third person. At what age is that just annoying? Risto wants to know.
Modo published an interview with Peter Forsberg, who’s practicing with the club’s junior team his old team. He says that…
There’s no such thing as free lunch? Maybe. But there sure are free breakfasts, I just came back to the office from one. Not only did I get breakfast, I also got material for Scanorama’s Web & Tech, a soccer ball for my kids, and a calculator for my wife.
Gotta love Canon and their wonderful EOS 450D camera, recommended price of just 900 euro, including the 18-55 mm IS lens!
(There, now we’re all happy).
I’m off to play another game of rink bandy. Missed our last game, due to “scheduling problems.” I came there an hour too late.
Anyway, below you’ll find an nhl.com column about the sport and the team. And if you like that one, I’ve got a whole book – Off The Post – of columns for you.
My cousins are wizards with cars, just like their father, my uncle, who shares the name with a famous Finnish rally driver. When I was out shooting pucks and throwing a ball, my cousins were in the garage, fixing their mopeds and helping their dad.
So I was surprised when the younger one of them told me, years ago, that he was going to be a chef.
This just out: “The Finnish journalist calls for a more civilized version of hockey where goons have no part in the game.”
When I was ten years old, I had a classmate who was a little hyperactive. He was an annoying little guy, always teasing others. Me, as well, although we were pretty good of friends.
Once, he banged my head against a brick wall.