The Year I Paid Absolutely No Attention To My Team
This is my passport photo taken when I was 17. If you look closely you can see pimples. I was getting ready to go on a big trip, which ultimately would cause me to miss almost the entire Montreal...
View ArticleBlame The Look Of Hockey Fans On The Beatles
Things were going so well. Rinks in Montreal, New York, Toronto, Boston, Chicago and Detroit were filled with people looking like they were going to church and went in the wrong building by mistake....
View ArticleGreat For Habs Fans…Not So Great Elsewhere
The summer of 1965 was a fine time for Habs fans. The team had captured the Stanley Cup that spring by beating the Chicago Black Hawks four games to three, and Jean Beliveau became the very first...
View ArticleThe Clock Is Ticking
As I sit here at 9:15 a.m. drinking coffee and and eating a chocolate hash brownie (it doesn’t really have hash in it. I’m reading Keith Richard’s book and I’m swept away), I realize there are only 32...
View ArticleCanadiens Magazine Gives Us Emelin
Every so often, Rich the trucker shows up at the ferry terminal and hands me his Canadiens magazine, which I appreciate greatly. He’s a big Habs fan, this fellow, he lives in Vancouver, and when he...
View ArticleMore Tour, More Lunch
Went for lunch at Bar B Barn, a ribs place on Guy St. just below Ste. Catherines that my buddy Mel St. Onge in Orillia recommended. I thought it was important to go because Luci loves ribs and I...
View ArticleThis And That And That
As you can see, when in New York, Bostonians really like to do it up in style. Anyway, really enjoying the Olympics and love to see the personal stories, how these incredibly talented athletes who jump...
View ArticleRockin’ With Claudette
You’ve got yer Zeppelin albums, yer Beatles, Stones, and Springsteen. You’ve got Dylan and Van the Man and Nirvana and the Who. You’ve got Miles Davis and Pete Seeger and the Buffalo Springfield....
View ArticleFree Ticket To Paradise
Aside from being a member of the media, how could you get inside this place FOR FREE? You got a job there and used your pass. Stewart Cummings, whoever he is (or was), worked at the Montreal Forum, at...
View ArticleA Bit of a Weird Find
In November of 1968 my buddy Robin and I sailed to England on the Empress of England, spent part of the winter there, and on January 21, 1969 we went to a small club in London called Klooks Kleek where...
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