Plus/Minus is the oft imitated, oft ripped off, best hockey blog in town that re-purposes the NHL's most useless stat for the common good.
PLUS: The Coyotes are getting back a few of their injured players soon (Demers, Grabner and Dvorak) and may well in fact take a run at that eighth seed that no one seems interested in claiming.
PLUS: Jarome Igninla! Just randomly remembering that he was awesome and probably still is.
MINUS: The NHL three points for some games but not for others standings are obviously stupid, but they're at least supposed to artificially create some playoff drama, but there really isn't any in the East.
In the east, Buffalo is four points back. Carolina is nine. So basically there are nine teams fighting for eight spots. And the Leafs have known they'll be playing Boston since about November 15th.
PLUS: David Bowie, Lodger. Embarrassingly, this masterpiece was missing from my record collection up until two weeks ago. Bowie has a huge discography and I've been slowly buying them all for years, but somehow I managed to go 36.5 years without ever hearing the song "Fantastic Voyage" which is currently my favorite song in the world.
PLUS: Mrs. Tanner bought be a Playstation 4 for Christmas and it's awesome. I only got a PS3 a couple years ago, and the graphics blew me away on that, so this thing is crazy. I guess I haven't been much of a vids player over the last decade, but this Spiderman game is insane.
If anyone's bought the VR set you gotta tell me if it's worth it. Also tell me what game I should get next cause I'm about 60% through spider-man.
MINUS: Talking about Spiderman reminds me that I recently watched Venom and I thought it was sweet, but Eminem does the song over the end credits, and I realize his career has bottomed out, but I didn't know it was this bad.
His song, "Venom" is sub-Vanilla Ice doing the Ninja Turtles rap. Eminem is the audio equivalent of eating garbage, and he's not much more than the Fred Durst of rap, but that is a song so bad that hearing it is like finding out your parents are getting a divorce.
PLUS: It's still better than Greta von Fleet.
PLUS: The NHL Player Safety Dept. I am going to defend them for their decision to not give Ryan Johansson more than two games. That looked like an accident to me, even though Johansson is a pretty dirty player. Slow motion makes things look way worse.
PLUS: My book has now sold about 50 copies. That's a lot when you can't really get anyone to share it because its NSFW. Still, the reviews have been much kinder than the comments sections on my hockey blogs, so that's a plus. I would like to sell 50 more, so hit me up on DM or on Twitter. I'll even send a couple free copies if you really don't want to spend $2.99 to support local artists!
PLUS: The Jack Reacher Books.
These nonsensicle beefcake fantasies should be unreadable. The character, is a 6’5 robotically perfect killing machine who is smarter and tougher than everyone, expect when you figure out the mystery first, proving you, the reader, should quit your job and join the FBI.
The only time you can’t figure out the ending are when they are absurd, such as that one time the killer was making victims swallow their tongues with hypnotism. Often, Reacher goes days without changing his underwear and just washing them in a hotel sink when he remembers, cause his big “quirk” is that he is a drifter who just buys clothes when he can and throws them away when he needs new ones.
Despite this, he bangs one super-model level lady every book.
A lot of times instead of the reader figuring out what the detective knows along with the protagonist, as is standard in virtually all detective fiction, Reacher learns what’s going on and then just refuses to tell anyone and we (the reader) are treated to a long chapter where he just teases the ending with his partner and says “You can figure it out, it’s all right there.”
Anyways, beyond all reason, these books work. They should suck. I know they do suck. They are Twilight level writing skill with the believably of Dean Koontz and the complete lack of commercial pretension of a James Patterson. And yet, somehow they are awesome and I can’t stop reading them. I read five of them since December and I’ll probably read five more before the end of the winter.
PLUS: My ice rink is back for the third straight year. This time its the best ever, but it hasn't been that cold this winter so far, excepting today, so it took me way longer to get it skatable than it did in the past.
Still, if you have the room and the time, few things are as fun as making your own hockey rink.
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