I haven’t listened to any sports radio since Mojo730 went off the air but I did tune into Team1040 last week a couple times and I gotta say it was nice to hear the fans call in a be positive for once.

The fan base here are very fickle, they hate you when you lose and they make it very clear about it, and they love you when you win.

Even though the team is only something like 1-2 games above .500, people are calling in praising the work ethic of the team which is really something because we probably had the laziest team last year.  If we won, it was probably because of one of our more talented players won the game for us.  Now all the players are working and it’s showing.  I’ve even witnessed this from the the couple of games I’ve seen so far, it really is a nice change.  I’m going to tonights game VS the Nashville Predators, hopefully the hard work pays off again.

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I’m not a big TV watcher, It’s not because of commercials but mostly because of the content. I don’t find any of the shows to be interesting at all. In fact there isn’t one show I religiously watch, except for the Sopranos. My TV is normally on Discovery, National Geographic etc. I watch the informational programs along with local news, a bit of reality TV and of course sports and movies. The only reason I got a new 37″ LCD was for sports and movies. Take the TV show friends, I hate this show. Everyone is white and they are unbelievably fake, tell corny jokes, oh and they’ve all slept with each other. Who really relates to this? This leads me to the subject of my post – CTV New sucks.

I’ve caught CTV news a few times within the last week. I’ve been checking out the local news TV scene since CityTV dropped their local evening news show and replaced it with the Toronto based national coverage. CTV is like watching U.S news, with the over the top news anchors who probably have had cosmetic surgery, big houses and not much sense of reality for people other then themselves. Pamela Martin should just retire, Bill Good has to be the most boring guy on earth. The sports guy – Perry Solkowski is the absolute worst. He tries to deliver these witty stories on sports and just flatly fails, I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone look as uncomfortable on TV then Perry, weatherman Mark Dreischen who just joined CTV from CityTV is also pretty bad. Can’t forget to mention Tamara Taggart, the most annoying lady on local TV. I’m sure Tamara smells like bubble-gum and dreams of unicorns being that she’s the most overly cheerful person in the world. She use to do Canucks games on Sportsnet, I couldn’t stand her then and shes still awful.

You might think I’m being harsh but I enjoy eating a meal and watching the 6 o’clock news if I’m home and the news scene in Vancouver sucks bad. CityTV had REAL people with REAL personalities reporting. Now I have to watch GlobalTV, with shitty Tony Parsons and that fake n’ baking, ultra overly-tanned weatherman Wayne Cox.

Madrid: It’s the world’s most expensive cigar – $ 440 each and it only comes in boxes of 40 – but is it the best?

Nobody knows because no one has smoked one. The Cuban havanas from the Cohiba brand are so precious that no one has actually lit one yet.

Although the blend was tested by a group of tasters before the cigar went into hand-made production, according to the “torcedora” or cigar-roller from the El Laguito factory in Havana, Norma Fernandez.

The cigar was launched in Spain on Thursday by Altadis, the exclusive importer of Cuban cigars into Spain.

When they say “hand-made”, they mean it. In this case there were only two hands involved and they both belong to Norma – she rolled all 4,000 cigars in the strictly limited edition – a labour of love.

“I’ve been doing this for 39 years but I still love it,” said Norma who admits to smoking cigarettes and the odd Cohiba panatella and was selected from the senior rollers for this special task.

Norma also had the honour of deciding on the tobacco blend to be used which was designed to honour 40 years of the Cohiba brand, being true to the house style but giving this cigar a special touch.

“But I’m not going to reveal the formula,” she said.

The Cohiba “Behike”, named after a tribal chief of Cuba’s indigenous Taino tribe, can only be bought in special humidors – ,860 for the 40 cigars.

A lot of money but maybe not for someone who can appreciate this delicate blend of the world’s most selected tobacco leaves. Either way, just like the cheapest old stogie, it’ll be up in smoke.

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