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But it's true! Harrison Ford, unfortunately known as somewhat of a paycheque player (have we liked anything he's done in the last decade or so?) lets his guard down and does this pretty funny skit on Jimmy Kimmel. Just one minute long so enjoy!

Oddly enough, as I made a reference to Traffic on my last post, Harrison Ford was originally offered Michael Douglas' role as the government "Drug Czar", but turned it down because he wouldn't get his usual $20 million payday. A horrible decision: With the accolades that film received, he would of without question have won the best actor Academy award to round out a fabled career. I think the film community would love to give him an Oscar, but his recent work doesn't really deserve anything. Maybe Cowboys & Aliens will be okay though.

Now THAT is an awesome movie poster. Plus the cast, director, subject matter...there haven't been too many films lately that I have labelled a "must" see, but Contagion definitely falls under that list.

The biohazard sticker on the yellow and black coloured one-sheet, with a simple rhyming off of major cities in the world (slightly uncool there's no Canadian city mentioned) brings instant tension to the film. You know there's a huge crisis at hand. You know it's worldwide. Plus there are awesome actors lined up to perform: Matt Damon, Kate Winslett, Jude Law, Lawrence Fishburne...plus directing is Steven Soderbergh, who did Traffic amongst other films (and by coincidence, a blu-ray that I'm currently watching on the laptop).


Hmmm...I see some similarities here. Hopefully, the goods will be delivered.

Can you have your cake and eat it, too? Lot of people were worried the new NHL Winnipeg team would not bring back the old "Jets" name, but they did not disappoint and kept the name that originated from the WHA franchise from the 1970's.

From there, it's probably no surprise they still decided to change their logo. With the number of people that seemed to still own original Jets jerseys even though they moved back in 1996, they had new merchandise they had to sell, and what better way than with a new look? Although it might look a little too much like something out of the Royal Canadian Air Force, I'm willing to give it a passing grade. The red maple leaf is definitely a plus in my books.

Walking a mere 15 minutes from my work to my car was a suffocating experience in this 47C with-the-humidex-heat. I was thinking to myself I'm sure as hell glad that my Ultimate game scheduled today was cancelled. Not by the league, but by mutual agreement through the two team captains.

Our Ultimate league just has a "humidex advisory" rule, where an extra timeout can be used each half and timeouts last from 70 seconds to 120. Who cares? Especially when it feels like a hot hair dryer is blowing directly in your face and kicking your ass.

I guess I'm ranting because I find it ridiculous there's not a "max temperature" rule to cancel games and prevent the ER being overloaded with disc throwers with heat exhaustion.

But that's just me.

I recently won an online auction and picked up this original Ottawa Senators program from a 1927 Christmas Eve game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. It is quite a fascinating article: Only 16 pages, printed in black and white and contains mostly adverts from businesses that were running at the time. Ottawa was about 1/10th the population it is now, and all the companies advertising themselves were all located in the central core on Sparks, Bank, Metcalfe, etc. The list of both the Ottawa team and Toronto's players can be read, with Hall of Famers including Frank Nighbor, Cy Denneny and Conn (listed as "Conny") Smythe. The early hockey era's charm is readily apparent, as a local fishing company proudly boasts of its fine fishing rods, with one to be awarded to the most popular Senators player at the end of the season, based on fan votes. At the time, the Senators were defending Stanley Cup champions, and Ottawa is still waiting for the next Senators team to bring Lord Stanley back home to its birthplace.

We can't go back and revisit the past (in a literal sense) but for me, having a possession like this certainly can connect you to it in a small way. Thinking about who originally bought the program, where they were in the arena, how many hands went through these 16 pages in the 84 years it has been in existence, and how it is still intact and in terrific shape after all this time...I'm rather lucky to have it.