when one of the only two pro hockey players (neither NHL-level) who have come out, who now spends his career *trying* to change hockey culture, said that he loves the show but that it isn’t going to change the conformity & toxic hypermasculinity in hockey, fans acted offended or like he attacked it

There are people doing the long, hard, unglamorous work of trying to shift things for the better in male sports cultures, particularly in hockey. It is a disservice to their efforts to pretend that real systemic problems can/have been solved by a six-episode TV show.

Day 20: Thin Lizzy - Roisin Dubh www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUwK...

number of things on the ireland trip I knew mostly from this song was...not zero. Including mom's 2nd cousin's grandson being named Chulainn or a variation. M was DELIGHTED when I said I mostly knew it from the song.

I thought i'd be done with the mucinex by now. alas

Day 19: Spitalfield - The Only Thing That Matters youtu.be/_lkIDWZEHzg?...

Physically incapable of not doing a dumb shoulder shimmy to “closer, closer”

So we’re taking down AI?

I was debating what to do for S and was like “well T will post The Scenic for me” but I did think it would be Mr Bones

Titanic…so here’s hoping a bunch of rich men die???

Day 18: Rory Gallagher - Shin Kicker www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rtg...

(I had to!) honestly could have done an entire advent just of Rory songs, this is being posted so late because I couldn't pick one. Listening to his catalogue while touring Ireland this year ruled.

“When necessary”

Great, it’s already necessary and you’re already in the midst of a work stoppage no matter what the PR spin says at the end. The offseason is on hold. The expansion draft probably shoud’ve happened weeks ago and doesn’t even have rules in place yet. Work has stopped.