Jacques Plante, Homemade Toques, and Being Old in Edmonton

Jacques Plante played professional hockey until he was 58 years old. Actually, that’s a huge fucking lie. He didn’t. I like to tell little fibs sometimes. But to see him wearing an Oilers jersey as quite an elderly gentleman, I might have had you thinking there for a second. Plante was actually 46 years old […]

Mike Krushelnyski, Cartoon Airbrushing, and a Simpler Time

Cards like this beauty of Mike Krushelnyski bring me back to a simpler time. A time when we knew which photos were altered and which ones weren’t. Things are a lot more complicated, photo-wise, now. Just go on the Internet and look for anything, you’ll understand. In 1988, there was no Photoshop, and I think the […]

Petr Klima’s Mullet Was All About the Party

They say “business in the front, party in the back.” Petr Klima’s hair met the criteria, but from the sounds of things, he was all about the party – the one in the front and the one in the back. I guess I was too young to realize it at the time, but Klima got […]