Hurried hard yesterday

January 26, 2014 - 9:28pm - by admin

Which is curling speak for "frantically sweeping the ice in front of the 40lb granite stone sliding down the ice so it gets to where you want it to go while your friend, the skip, yells at you".

It's ridiculous and a ton of fun, as I discovered when Tyrone, John, Bree and myself went to the Granite Curling Club to practice for the Manitoba Music Rocks Charity Bonspiel next weekend.

Because we decided to sign up to curl in a bonspiel without ever having curled before.

Naturally.

Luckily everyone involved with the sport is kind and amazing and the manager of the club let us use the ice and equipment for free, and the three older guys who had been curling for 40+ years and were there to practice for their badass team took time out of their day to teach us how to properly play the sport and not just mess around stupidly like we had been doing previously.



Even though curling is a Scottish sport it feels so Canadian.

Before you play you shake hands with the opposing team and say yr name, so now everyone's friends.

You don't yell or jeer at the other team to break their concentration.

Or otherwise be a sportsing asshole.

You drink before the game

during the game

and then after the game the winning team pays for drinks for both teams.



It's basically polite people being polite playing a nice game of sliding heavy rocks down some ice and one person on each team yelling stuff like

HURRY HARD!
DIE!
EASY!
OFF!
RIGHT OFF!

and others that I don't remember while getting outrageously drunk

It might be the best sport ever.

Big thanks to the Granite Curling Club and the fabulous gentlemen who made my introduction to the game such a fantastic one!

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Les Jupes did a killer Loft Session with Manitoba Music that you should

September 17, 2013 - 5:27pm - by admin

Your eyes and ears will thank you.

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Playing hooky on a school night

December 1, 2011 - 5:08am - by admin

okay not really because my classes are finished for this term and I have a day off tomorrow, but still

was feeling antsy after spending so much time hunched over my desk writing papers yesterday that we hit up the now-infamous Pop Soda's for some of the good stuff

namely this:


and this:


the best part of the night was getting to hear Smoky Tiger aka The Manitobanditz, who honestly I'd never heard before. I love weird quirky music (#Winnipeg is great for this) and managed to Keek some of their cover of Nirvana's "Come As You Are"


Keek.com

we didn't stay to hear all of Jicah's set afterwards, but if you aren't already listening to them I highly recommend their stuff. Solid prairie music.

now we're home and I'm drinking hot chocolate that Tyrone made from scratch and we're listening to this:



nightnight! xo

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