022810 Olympic Hockey: Canada vs USA, Gold Medal Game, Vancouver, BC
Here, friends, is my golden ticket…
Tag: Olympics
022010 Olympic Curling: Canada vs Great Britain, Vancouver, BC
As the Vancouver 2010 Olympics approached I did a little wheelin’ and dealin’ with our ticket package (solely through the official Olympic ticket-trading site – I’m no back-alley scalper) and ended up dumping snowboarding tickets and a pair to one of the nightly closing ceremonies (featuring icky Hedley) and ended up with passes to a curling competition…
021810 Neil Young Tribute, Vancouver, BC
This was the first of two nights for this one-off project (oxymoron intended), a congregation of eclecticity under the helm of an equally eclectic record producer best known for directing tribute concerts to an incomparably eclectic string of artists that includes Tim Buckley, Randy Newman, Bill Withers, Walt Disney and the Marquis de Sade…
Skating Lessons
Leading up to the 2010 Olympics The Globe & Mail announced a sports-themed short story contest. This was my entry, which took 4th place.
