With the way Alex Burrows has been playing for the Vancouver Canucks, we think he needs a nickname. So we wrote a song about it – “The Burricane” by A Sheep at the Wheel. Here is your chance to contribute to yet another Canucks nickname. Please download it, share it with your friends and get the word out, so we can get the nickname to stick. Yes, it is corny. That is sort of the point.

We did a quick recording of the song and have it here for you to enjoy. You can also download it for free from our reverbnation widget. You can find this on our homepage (click on the “songs” link in the widget).

The Burricane - A Sheep at the Wheel

Here are some of the lyrics (more to come):

Batten the hatches

Board up the goal

There’s a storm front coming in off the West Coast

It’s the Burricane.

I think everyone in the band felt really good about our first show after the summer break on Saturday. I realize though that I must be out of show shape. Two days later and my neck is still super stiff. I must have been really bopping around with my head or something. Anybody know any good neck-strengthening exercises?

For the last few days, if I wasn’t outside donating blood to mosquitoes or walking into cobwebs (ha! good one, spidey! you got me AGAIN! Now if you’d stop scurrying away, you can meet my sneaker), you would have probably found me flicking through a combination of CBC, “SayBaySay”, NBC, and TSN in order to watch a bunch of finely-tuned athletes doing (or failing to do) their thing.

The Olympics. I didn’t think I’d be hooked…but I have succumbed to the storylines, the displays of sheer dominance over a particular skill (How is it that amongst the “best of the best”, there can still be one (or a team) who is significantly better than the others?), and the ever-unpredictable “still-human” factor. There’s no drama like life itself.

I’m also starting to think that cheerleading should be an olympic sport…oui?

So…what have you been watching?

Rubes, by Leigh Rubin
November 26, 2007