45 years ago yesterday, the most successful solo album by any member of Fleetwood Mac was released. That album was "Bella Donna" by Stevie Nicks (with some help from Tom Petty and Don Henley) and to say it's a legendary one is a grand understatement!
Tonight's showcase game between the MCHL and the NC Autism Hockey League bringing attention to adaptive hockey has a very special playlist...every song played from the Zamboni to the final horn is by an artist/member of band/composer/subject of song that is neurodivergent. That six hour playlist contains some very famous and successful artists that might well surprise even the most dedicated listeners! :)
Imagine you're given a deadline that you comply with about halfway through the time a bank graciously allotted you only to find some AI agent summarily dismissed the case literally hours after you put the "Dispute Form" in the post? Yeah, the evil that "Green Dot Bank" is capable of apparently knows no bounds... :(
It seems truly shocking that someone whose career started in the early 1960's had to wait until this date in 1976 before he finally scored a #1 single topping the UK charts in his home country. That'd be the story behind the 50th anniversary of Sir Elton John's track "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" in a delightful duet with Kiki Dee!
Sometimes the themes can be wildly divergent from one Zamboni to the next. This one was especially so... :)
Who knew paying the web hosting renewal bill from Quickbooks Checking would reveal a so-called "bank" behind it that even Gru's Bank of Evil would be like "dayum gurl...you're way too diabolical and nefarious even for us!" That would be "Green Dot Bank" which answers the question of what would be the result of NTL mating with a financial institution and producing unholy offspring!
Sometimes it takes a little longer than planned to try to work through one's feelings and find the way forward. Let's just say being able to choose and play the music helps more than most people will ever know... :)
Sometimes your head and your gut instinct know when the whistle for full time should blow but it'll take your heart a whole lot longer to catch up them. This is one of those sets of songs we've shared over 12 years together...
When it comes to negotiating for cars, you truly don’t need to be mad to truly enjoy it. I won’t say it doesn’t help to be a bit mad but being significantly Hungarian is often plenty to enjoy the give-and-take of coming to a deal… :)
You know when you have a task that goes amazingly well and then you have the feeling you're probably going to really pay for it the next time you're going to perform that task? Yeah, this story is one of those... :)
Having three great inspirations for the themes to kick off Season XIV in Ironclad only to end up winging it and a rookie mistake that made things really interesting in the second game just goes to show you that it's not necessarily how you start but how you weather the storm to finish strong that truly matters! :)
As the country rightly celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it's well past time people actually read the document and comprehend what the Founding Fathers were trying to tell us!
This is what it's all been building toward during an exciting 13th season of MCHL Ironclad as the season concludes with it all to play for with the Lunara and Solara Cups on the line!
It's a special Thursday night pick-up game and we're going to do something a little different for the music tonight. But first, we celebrate an album that dropped 42 years ago today... :)
In an era where anyone can put their music on the Internet, it's hard to remember the times when the A&R (artists and repertoire) executives were the ones who decided what you'd hear on the radio. And one of the best A&R men ever was Clive Davis who passed away yesterday...
Being terrorised by two labradoodles interspersed with watching Nick play hockey and having lovely meals with Mom, Meghann, Nick, and Katie is not a recipe for a relaxed Father’s Day. But who needs a relaxing day when you can have an awesome Father’s Day? May your Father’s Day be equally as enjoyable! :)
We finish up the MCHL Race for the Cup Divisional Round tonight for the Bendis Division that will crown their divisional champion the way we started it by celebrating the Carolina Hurricanes winning the 2026 Stanley Cup. But as it turns out, they aren't the only champions worth celebrating...tonight's special theme is for a troublemaker of the very best kind who has forgotten more about courage than I could ever hope to know! :)
Only one game tonight on a rare special Thursday edition of MCHL Ironclad so it's an abbreviated set but we've got a couple of new toys to play with and a mini-theme mourning the passing of Walter Parazaider of Chicago! :)
After the Carolina Hurricanes finally reached the summit of the NHL mountain after years of falling in the Eastern Conference Final, there was no way this week's theme could be anything else but the best of the tracks in Lenovo Centre's playlist! Congratulations to the 2026 Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes! :)
The Carolina Hurricanes are the 2026 Stanley Cup champions claiming their second Cup 20 years after the franchise won their first! Whilst the 2006 Cup was the second best thing to happen to me that year, this 2026 Stanley Cup is pretty much topping the podium for this year! :)
It may be a shorter set than usual but what would have been Brad Delp's 75th birthday was certainly an inspiration to play his favourite tracks he loved to sing as lead vocalist for Boston! :)
Today is the 48th birthday for Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards) of Muse who features in tonight's theme which also seemed to work very well with game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final that was in progress in Las Vegas... :)
I knew the themes would be the madness that was Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final and Miss Kristina's favourites. But the actual tracks? Literally picked them as I was starting to spin the tunes before each game! :)
Planned obsolescence that is completely unnecessary is bad enough. Seeing a package take several hours to get delivered isn’t much fun. But customer service that ranged from not so hot to outright disrespectful and appalling at two different company-owned stores makes me wonder if just doing things online from now own is really the right play after all…
There’s nothing quite like running like mad from a Chick Fil-A in Garner to a rink in Wake Forest and coming up with tonight’s playlist on the fly! This ought to be fun… :)
