Andrew Shaw (aka Shawzer/Shawsy/Sauce/Mutt) is a tiny adorable fighty forward for the Chicago Blackhawks. Getting to the Blackhawks took him a while. It took him three rounds in the draft to get picked; he was passed over completely in his first two years and on his third go, the Blackhawks didn't take him until the fifth round.


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As much fun as it is going to Melbourne Ice games and meeting players and everything else jamethiel_bane and I have been getting up to, sometimes I just want to flail like a fangirl. And that's hard to do at the Harbourtown after a game when you can't say "OMG I LOVE JASON BACLIG" without a fair risk of Jason Baclig overhearing you. So this is kind of an ( Read more... )

Hi there! Thanks so much for offering to write for one of my not-primetime fandoms! Whatever fandom we matched on, I hope you have fun writing it. I know my fandoms look like a weird grab-bag of stuff, so I hope you don't get too stumped. Rest assured, my tastes are really, really varied, and I'll be delighted just to have something written for me ( Read more... )

I have been in Adelaide this weekend! Among other things, I went to a Melbourne Ice vs Adelaide Adrenaline game with masterpenguin82 yesterday, and it was one of the best days of LOL AIHL yet. There were some impressive antics in the other games this week too (bitter Ice Dogs fans, Mustangs/Knights water bottle shenanigans, Knights/Thunder goalie fight rematch ( Read more... )

I love that line from Fight Club about how you have to work for perfection and you can't expect it to last for more than a moment ( Read more... )

Well that was amazing. Also, paaaaaain. I wish I could get away with NOT MOVING ALL DAY, wow ( Read more... )

I don't think it's exactly the ideal time to be making a primer on Short Stack. It's 1am and I can't sleep and I'm drinking chamomile tea with a hefty slug of whisky in it to try to compensate and it's still not working. But Shaun Diviney is tweeting about MCR (omg his background is Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtles) and it seems as good a time as any ( Read more... )

It's Australia Day! Which means lots of things to lots of different people and is kind of a weird holiday no matter what, which I guess is why we have the Triple J Hottest 100, so that there's something to celebrate today other than our messy colonial past. I don't know if it's better or worse to kind of forget the reasons behind the holiday to ( Read more... )

These days, I look around fandom and see lots of well-planned, well-thought out, carefully edited fic. Which is great! I like that we all hold ourselves to high standards. But sometimes I just want to post something that I wrote in a quick, silly rush and maybe add more chapters later if I feel like it, just because ( Read more... )

It's exactly nine months since I started working at Parliament, and while it's basically the best thing that's ever happened to me, I have to admit that it's significantly detracted from my ability to write LJ posts. There are heaps of things I want to post about (the true love of Ray Toro and James Dewees, for example, or the fact that I went to ( Read more... )