Drunk Blogging! Vol. 1

This is a new feature where I write up an article at 2 AM after returning from the bar. Editing will be kept to a minimum.

Tonight was Art's birthday celebration. We went to William's Peanut Pub, or some shit. I love the salted-in-shell peanuts, but if I eat too many, I'll have an epsidode, as Rusty would say.

William's sells their beers by the liter, which is awesome, both because I can say "I would like a liter of beer" and because each liter is more than 2 pints. Whih makes you drunk faster. And you feel like a real man lifting up a 1 liter mug. Unfortunately, they wouldn't sell us pitchers for some reason. Thats the only thing more manly than a 1 liter mug.

There are 2 things I meant to write about this week. The first is Deadliest Catch. This is honestly one of the best shows on television. Its about crabbers in the Bering Sea near Alaska, and its on Discovery Channel. To be honest, it can get slightly redundant at times, due to the nature of the job, but the people on this show are amazing. This show embodies the manliness we try (and fail) to capture with this blog. This seaoson, the captain of one of the boats suffers a stroke during the season, so its all captured on camera. He eventually succumbs to it and dies. Captain Phil is was one of the most likable, but badass people on the show, and since this show is more of a documentary than a reality show, its actually incredibly depressing to see this all happen. Deadliest Catch is in it 6th season, and while the risk has always been there, nothing of this magnitude ahs happened before on the show.The way the producers handle this is respecful and interesting. They literally had video of him taking his last breath, but chose not to air it, which I agree with. They handled it with class and grace, while making for an intereting show, even though people knew he died way back in February. (I just spelled February right on the first try. Just goes to show why I deserved to finish in the top 5 of the 5th grade spelling bee. Fucking "swineherd" knocked me out. I'm still bitter. I'm pretty sure that's not a word.) My point here is, if you haven't been watching Deadliest Catch, you probably should be. If anything, you should at least watch the newest season, though I'm afriad you wouldn't be as attached to the people on the show as if you watched it for the entire run of the series. Full espisodes can be found online.

The second thing to talk about is the Mikko Koivu signing. Soon after the deal was announced, Rusty sent me an email asking my thoughts on the matter:I was excited to say the least at the beginning. But as I thought about it more and read around the interwebs, little doubts began creeping into my head. THe Wild may very well be overpaying here. But then again, they may not. The truth of the matter here is, the Mikko Koivu contract is hard to judge. No one will know whether or not its a fair deal for at least another seaon. The addition of some scoring wings could dratically help, but it doesnt't really look like that will happen this season. The cap space occupied here could fuck us over in the long run when it comes to signed other players. Thats actually the thing I'm most scared of. We need to sign players, and if we have so much tied up in Koivu, especially since theres grumblings that the salary cap will decrease in the coming years, we might be screwed. HOWEVAH, I'm gonna be optimistic here and say this is a good thing. The Wild need a leader, and Koivu can definitely fill that role.

At the very least, it's better than this:I would say moer, but I'm about to pass out. This has been the inagural issue of Drunk Blogging. Sleep tight folks. I know I will.