I'm just here for the gifs.
In honor of today’s events, let’s reminisce…
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#brandon saad #husband #im always reminiscing #always #chicago blackhawksme:
my brain: start missing saad
me: but I already did that today
my brain: so?
me: and yesterday
my brain: so?
me: and the day befor-
my brain: miss him
These “spot the difference” games are getting really hard…
are you even a blackhawks fan if you don’t rep on game day? ❣️✨
Brandon Saad, All Star portraits
Me: exc u se me whhAt, ,??? [hurls belongings into suitcase] dON’t WOR R Y [hops out the door in one shoe, arm stuck in jacket] I;M ON My WAY
Players like toews are shut down when they stand up and speak out politically and that’s not how it should be. Silencing players when they have a political voice shows the one-dimensional purpose some fans think athletes play in society.
And that’s not okay.
6/10/15 SCF Game 4 Lightning @ Blackhawks post-game: 2 years later, as one of the top players on the team and looking at a hefty raise come off-season, Brandon Saad still waits for his captain’s nod before speaking [X]
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered
I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”
Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers
Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft
In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.
