“Even if I don’t get in, it’s just great to have all these people signing it, behind it, behind me. Their support is my Hockey Hall of Fame.” — Reggie Leach in the Manitoulin Expositor, February 14, 2012.
I am really pleased that my song/petition to induct the great Reggie Leach into the Hockey Hall of Fame—www.ipetitions.com/petition/rivertonrifle/—now has more than 1000 signatures. I’d like to submit the petition to the Hall at the end of 2012 in the hopes that they will consider Reggie for induction in 2013. Please sign the petition and ask others to do so. (Oh, ipeitions.com will ask you to donate to their site, but please do not feel obliged. Your signature will be registered either way.)
A fellow named Aaron Hymes made a video for Longitudinal Centre. It uses footage my friend Erika took on a day we spent driving up to Riverton, Manitoba late last year:
February has called for a strange mix of library choices, from remarkable novels (The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, by Jonathan Coe, Mean Boy, by Lynn Coady), to some self-help ( Calming Your Anxious Mind—How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You From Anxiety, Fear, and Panic, by Jeffrey Brantley and Jon Kabat-Zinn), along with the Manning Marable Malcolm X biography. Oh, and Satan is Real—The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers may be the best and weirdest music biography I have ever read. Better even than my former favourite, Wunnerful Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk. Which is an incredible read, by the way.
Hope winter is treating you well.