Play Dead > Play Crashed Ice

Andy, Sameer & I scored tickets to see The Dead in April in Albany. We wanted to do a Friday in Albany and Saturday in Worcester, MA. Alas, the scalpers jumped all over the MA tickets for the Saturday night. Boy do they have a surprise coming. At the prices The Dead are charging for this tour ($100 WTF) I can't see many people forking over $150+ to see a band who hasn't played a lot together and is without one Jerry Garcia. So we will be in Worcester, MA on the Saturday ready to grab those extras on the cheap. There is a Buffalo show on April 18th. From Toronto it's the closest, but being during the week we would actually have to take more time off work for it than to travel. So it's a trip down the I-90 for us.

Phish tickets go on sale next Friday and I am really wanting to score some Jones Beach seats. They are going to be tough and may cost a bit extra, but I would like to take my girl to NYC and tie it all in. Since they are dealing with Live Nation and not TicketBastard (no link sorry), I have found out that Blockbuster Video Stores are now ticket outlets. I am hoping this is not just an American thing, but that tickets can also be purchased for US shows here in Canada at out Blockbuster Video stores. We'll see. Check out my Phish 2009 Tour Blog.

REDBULL CRASHED ICE

Have you heard of this? It's on TSN tonight starting at 8 or 830pm. Not sure which. Basically races are done in groups of four. Each racer is dressed in full hockey gear and a track has been created through Old Quebec City.





There's twists and turns, drops and jumps with about 100,000 people there to party and watch the races. It looks absolutely crazy. This year is also the first year that women will be involved. So it's four person heats (20 runners for the women, 64 runners for the men) with the top two from each heat advancing until a winner is declared.

Here is last year's final, also from Quebec City, Canada:



I had a nice run on Party Poker last night taking 2 first place finishes and 1 second place finish in the three events I entered. A nice bankroll boost that hopefully I can use to my advantage. Time will tell, but I am feeling very confident right now about my game and the decisions I am making. That's three solid positive sessions in a row for me so hopefully this is just the start of a nice little run. I have really made an effort to protect my final chip while focusing on small pot poker, striking when I am the dominant hand on pots I have then been able to build.

It's -17C here in Toronto at this very moment. I'm really wishing I had bought more beer last night so I wouldn't need to re-stock before CRASHED ICE starts. Oh well. Don't forget about the NHL Skills Competition. I don't know when it starts. It's nowhere to be found on the NHL's home page, where it should be, along with network info for both Canada and the US. More NHL Marketing 101. How's that going?

Later.