You Gotta Know When To Hold 'Em, Know When To Implode 'Em

Sometimes you just do something to say that you did it, which is what I did this morning. Today was then day when, finally, the old Winnipeg Arena, which has been so admirably replaced by the newfangled MTS Center was to be demolished...with DYNAMITE!!! It had been mostly disassembled by this point already, looking like a bombed-out building somewhere in Eastern Europe with its skeleton clearly visible and mounds of rubble surrounding; a shell of its former self. In any case this event was to take place at 7:15 on a Sunday morning, so I went along with my roommate Jon, better known as The Dizz.
To make a long story short the dynamite, though impressively loud, failed to take down the steel super-structure, simply collapsing the remaining concrete parts. Dissappointing, yes, and an engineering failure, but somehow appropriate for a two-bit city like Winnipeg (you just know they would have done it right in say, New York, or somewhere. Though, to be fair, Americans in general have significantly more experience blowing things up than we do). Secondly, it was fitting because like the memories of Teemu Selanne's record-breaking rookie season and the Jets themselves the building simply did not want to go away.

Check out Dizz's blog for a video of the debacle and another take on the proceedings

Looking forward this week to: Supper and Scrabble with my former roommates, Heather and Karin; Payday; um....Friday.