Gord's Comic/Graphic Novel Blog

Reviews of graphic novels and comics

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Movie Review: sort of.. Keep Your Head Up , Kid - Don Cherry Story

The movie was good considering it was a CBC made for tv feature. 2 parter , 4 hours total.. probably 2 3/4 hours overall without commercials. Very entertaining. I was glued to the show.

I want to comment on some the stuff they portrayed that I didnt know or just forgot.

- Don Cherry blew his chance at an NHL career with a tragic yet bonehead baseball injury in the offseason. He was a bright prospect for the Bruins , dislocated his shoulder and showed up to camp hurt. In those days there is zero sympathy for injuries. His second chance with the LEads blown caz he went after Ron Ellis , the Leafs golden boy.

- Don Cherry coached the Vancouver's AHL affiliate team in Rochester. A) I didnt know the he coached for the Canucks technically and the Canucks gave him his pro coaching break with the Americans. But i now know why he has a disdain ill feeling towards the franchise , they treated him like crap. Tried hard to make him the scape goat and handle him like a puppeteer. Firing him despite doing a good job.

- I didnt know Cherry was also the GM of the Rochester Americans along with being coach the next season as an indepedant AHL team. Meaning no prospects from NHL clubs , he had to recruit the entire roster going camp to camp asking for cast offs. He turned a journeymen tough guy Battleship Kelly into a serviceable NHLer and from a business point of view , signed him for 7500 bucks and sold him to St.Louis for 50K.

- HIs personal work with JOhn Weinsink and making him a personal project and turned him into a respectable NHL name. The guy scored 27 goals in one season for the Bruins.

- Overall his personal life was always private so seeing anything to do with Rose and his kids was new.

In the end I see Cherry with a slightly different light , Im not suprised with anything I was merely enlightened.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

PC down ..again

I have no idea why it went down now. I dont overclock anymore , I dont mess around with anything anymore , I strictly just use it. I went through the long haul of trouble shoots , including tring different Ram , CPU , Video cards , audo cards , Hard drives , ...EVERYTHING. I figure it must be the chipset on the motherboard? I dont know. Im reinstalling my old motherbaord which I prefer anyways considering I paid almost $300 for it. Now this mother fucker wont install for some fucking reason.. the SATA drives that worked before now gets errors..

Now , Im installing XP HOme on a old IDE drive jst so I can install the drives onto a floppy and try installing PRO on my SATA.

Maybe its a blessing caz I was planning on getting a Win7 PC anyways. Lets see how this goes first.. its going to take all night , I wont finish until tomorrow at the earliest. I dont even know if this will work.

Plus if it does.. I have to reinstall EVERYTHING AGAIN!!! its such a kick in the nards. Just installing the Service Pack is a acidy leak out of the anus.

This is when I wish I lived in Texas and owned a semi automatic caz I would like to destroy some old junk right now in the backyard with some scorching bullets.

*UPDATE

its 48 hours later almost..monday and I finally got windows installed and everything seems to be ok.

I admittingly majorily fucked up on the install in that I totally forgot i had a faulty PCIE slot and was suppose to use slot 2.. I wasted a good 6 hours+ on that alone. Kicked myself in the nards.

But the originally Hard drive problem? I dont know , Im speculating I might've got the D-Dos Worm and destroyed my harddrive (not permanently) but I really dont know what went wrong.

Monday, March 15, 2010

My anti church blog

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/15/church.abuse/index.html

HAHAHAHAHHA fuck you morons. Not laughing at the innocent kids who are getting raped , Im laughing at the church and its arogance to its own ignorance. Creepiest people on earth.

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My name is Gord and I blog comic and graphic novel reviews for Horror Happy Hour. Im just a passionate fanboy since the glorious 80s. Im not a writer as you can tell with my butchering of the engrish language just love geeking it up with comics. Horror Happy Hour is a devoted group of horror enthusiasts started on Facebook , website to come.. and I do the comics commentary. Woot woot