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May. 27th, 2011 03:09 amInteresting things in Winnipeg:
-Not one, but all three of the cabs I have taken lately have drivers that traded dirty jokes with me for the entire ride.
-Pride Festival starts soon, and Pride and a local microbrewery have hooked up, and now you can buy Queer Beer in multiple Liquor Marts in cans, and it'll be sold at Pride Week on tap. Actually, the cans are currently sold out, which I find depressing, as I desperately need to own a can of Queer Beer.
-(This one requires a bit of history) So from the 70's to 1996, Winnipeg had a hockey team, the Winnipeg Jets. It was really, really big here. Like, REALLY. My parents hooked up and eventually married because they were part of a booster club that rented a bus and followed the team when they played (lol my parents were sports groupies). In 1996 they were bought by Phoenix. People freaked out, there were protests. The fans during the games did this thing called the White Out, where every Jets fan wore white. Fifteen years later people still wear all white to Manitoba Moose games, and still scream out GO JETS when a player scores. When higher ups claimed we could never get the team back because we didn't have an arena good enough, we literally knocked it down and built another one in about a year. Like, mayors have won votes because they say one of the things they'll do is bring the Jets back.
And then... last weekend, it got slipped that we're buying the Atlanta Thrashers. There was a riot. I mean, maybe not a soccer play off level riot, but hundreds of people showed up (in jerseys, of course, they never stopped selling them) in front of the arena and just started drinking and partying. Wikipedia said there were only fifty people, this is a lie. It was massive. My cousins won't shut the fuck up. My parents (and keep in mind we're living hand to mouth) were all WE SHOULD GET SEASON TICKETS. I've gotten like a dozen emails of macro's of Gary Bettman (the league commissioner) in various Winnipeg locations.
So, hockey, gay beer, and hilarious cabbies. All I need now is MCR and I'm set *glares at the HCT that has Blink and Rancid coming, but MCR is for some reason skipping that date*
-Not one, but all three of the cabs I have taken lately have drivers that traded dirty jokes with me for the entire ride.
-Pride Festival starts soon, and Pride and a local microbrewery have hooked up, and now you can buy Queer Beer in multiple Liquor Marts in cans, and it'll be sold at Pride Week on tap. Actually, the cans are currently sold out, which I find depressing, as I desperately need to own a can of Queer Beer.
-(This one requires a bit of history) So from the 70's to 1996, Winnipeg had a hockey team, the Winnipeg Jets. It was really, really big here. Like, REALLY. My parents hooked up and eventually married because they were part of a booster club that rented a bus and followed the team when they played (lol my parents were sports groupies). In 1996 they were bought by Phoenix. People freaked out, there were protests. The fans during the games did this thing called the White Out, where every Jets fan wore white. Fifteen years later people still wear all white to Manitoba Moose games, and still scream out GO JETS when a player scores. When higher ups claimed we could never get the team back because we didn't have an arena good enough, we literally knocked it down and built another one in about a year. Like, mayors have won votes because they say one of the things they'll do is bring the Jets back.
And then... last weekend, it got slipped that we're buying the Atlanta Thrashers. There was a riot. I mean, maybe not a soccer play off level riot, but hundreds of people showed up (in jerseys, of course, they never stopped selling them) in front of the arena and just started drinking and partying. Wikipedia said there were only fifty people, this is a lie. It was massive. My cousins won't shut the fuck up. My parents (and keep in mind we're living hand to mouth) were all WE SHOULD GET SEASON TICKETS. I've gotten like a dozen emails of macro's of Gary Bettman (the league commissioner) in various Winnipeg locations.
So, hockey, gay beer, and hilarious cabbies. All I need now is MCR and I'm set *glares at the HCT that has Blink and Rancid coming, but MCR is for some reason skipping that date*