Chelesa Challenge Update: Purple Rain Gets Silver
Purple Rain wrapped up the Chelsea Challenge this morning with a second place win in the tourney after being shut out 5-0 by the Royal Tenenbaums. We gave it our all, but they were simply better. In the end, we were trying to just get a point on the scoreboard because after how well we’d [...]
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Chelesa Challenge Update: Purple Rain Into Semis
Purple Rain dominated games two and three in the Chelsea Challenge. In game two we faced Red Dawn and collected 7 of the 8 available points in the game (I don’t remember the score). For game three against the Yellow Submarines we played a shutout (score of 5-0) and collected another 7 points. By the [...]
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A Hockey Debut
This time last year I blogged about meeting Josh K from Josh and Josh Are Rich and Famous (check out “Blogging World meets Real World“) since he was a volunteer at Chelsea Challenge registration.
Over the past year he and I have stayed in touch as he’s been working towards making his hockey debut this summer. [...]
Chelesa Challenge Update: Purple Rain Solid in Game 1
Purple Rain came out strong in its first game in the Cheslea Challenge, winning with a score of 3-0 against the Green Miles. We captured 7 of the available 8 points for the game (each period is a mini-game so there are 8 points available for the game, 2 in each period and 2 for [...]
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Only Want 2 See U In the Purple Rain
Chelsea Challenge 2008 is this coming weekend! It’s hard to believe this is my seventh challenge.
This year I am captaining Purple Rain in the developmental division. The team is a good mix of people I’ve played with, people I’ve played against and a couple people I just don’t know. We’ve got a goalie I know [...]
Chelsea Challenge Gold, Ordinals Beat Wizards
Category: Hockey | tagged Chelsea Challenge, Chelsea Piers Bluestreak, Ordinals
Chelsea Challenge 2007 wrapped up this afternoon with my team, the Purple Panthers, taking the Gold in the Developmental Division! The team was great with a mix of people I’ve played with before, some people I knew but hadn’t played with, and others that I had not met. It was a small reunion of some [...]
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Blogging World meets Real World
Category: Hockey, Life in General | tagged blogging, Chelsea Challenge
The Internet is an odd place, especially the blogging thing. Lots of people you don’t know can know a lot about you and you can read a lot about people you don’t know. I’ve been reading Josh & Josh Are Rich and Famous for a few months now. I think I initially found the link [...]
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Hockey, Submission & Maupin, Oh My
Category: Books, Hockey, Life in General, Writing | tagged Chelsea Challenge, Chelsea Piers Bluestreak, fiction, Tales of the City
A couple weeks ago I mentioned how there were so many conflicting priorities going around, and this week is no different, but at least it should be a fun week with this stuff going on:
There is lots of hockey this week. I’ve got two days of Bluestreak training ahead, and only five sessions left overall [...]
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Conflicting Priorities
Category: Hockey, Life in General, Writing | tagged Chelsea Challenge, Chelsea Piers Bluestreak, fiction, us
Wow. There is too much stuff going on, and it is of my own doing too.
I managed to get the first draft of a story I want to submit to Touched done this morning. Touched, from Haworth Press, “a queer-themed fantasy anthology of spells and magic, focuses on the mysteries of spells and gives readers [...]
“Straight Acting”
Category: Hockey | tagged Chelsea Challenge, New York City Gay Hockey Association
Two years ago, during Chelsea Challenge 04, I did an interview with Spencer Windes for a documentary he was doing about gays and lesbians playing rough sports. He was talking to hockey players, rodeo riders and rugby players. The interview became part of Windes’ film Straight Acting, which made its world premiere at NewFest (the [...]
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