The Truth...

... or several truths 

about current Celtics! 

They're always ready to give it their all

Marcus Smart 

has cracked a very elite top ten... 

He's surpassed no. 9 DANNY AINGE already... 

ENTIRE... ENTRY? 

That must be it! 

New Revolutionary!

BRING ON THOSE COMPARISONS: 

Cristhian Machado = NERevs, New England USA and Bolivia! 

Cristiano Ronaldo = Juventus, Italia and Portugal!

Well... as long as Machado doesn't turn out like 

crybaby Neymar there... 

We can dream - right?

What Bostonians Dream Of, Right Now...

...well, all we need is... 

and some more luck!

.

Dreaming Of The Spirit Of America

''The Spirit of America'' 

is BOSTON - 

it is Massachusetts. 

It is the motto, the apophthegm, 

the official slogan of the state 

that, in many ways, started it all 

for the U.S. of A. 

and without which 

there would have been nothing: 

no tea party, 

no American Revolution, 

no sovereign nation there! 

YET... 

*all* of the U.S. of A lay claim 

to this ''spirit'' - as evidenced here: 

GEE --- HOW MANY SPIRITS ARE THERE 

COMPRISED WITHIN 

''AMERICA''... ?!?

... JUST LET IT BE KNOWN 

THAT THE SPIRIT 

OF MASSACHUSETTS 

- THE SPIRIT OF '76 - 

IS THAT OF 

THE TRUE 

AMERICA:

Dream Bostonians...!

Dream On... Rusev!

Cena... Cena... CENA!

Not only did John Cena link up our very own Bostonian Dreams and Bulgarian Dreams blogs here in very much the wrongest way possible - he did so by adding insult to injury and passing off dishwater as something ''better'' than our own personal favorite... Samuel Adams!

How dare you, Cena - how dare you???

Okay, first things first: we don't really give a damn about ''anything WWE'' - what they do, what they say, what they imply... It is all hogwash to us!  "Kayfabe" - right? Hogwash, in the common man's lingo! Fair enough, purist Ric Flair? Wooooo! Also, it may be good to point out now that we care not much at all about the ''people's favorite way to get drunk'' - in other words, ''ale, beer, lager - it's all the same crap to us too!''  We prefer a good bottle of vinho here, in Luminousland - wine! Da! Hence, we joyously lump them all together: all the rabble, in one heap pile! Isn't it what the one who caters to these masses does in the first place - huh? (Talking about Vinnie Mac now - the vile Vincent Kennedy McMahon! Everybody hates Vincent - he's no Raymond! But that's another story...) And so... To make it short... if you don't like it - bite it? And if that's not the rightest thing to do, either, do not even bother pointing it out - not to us! Do it with someone who gives a damn...! Like The Rock or some jabroni from Tinseltown, land of make-believe... REAL thespians, though; not like all of these more-than-mediocre talents so *desperate* to be recognized as ''artists'' that they joined the Titan Sports Circus in order to get a crack at being on television, maybe making a straight-to-DVD movie or two, perhaps even being somewhat considered to be a part of the entertainment industry... but barely!

Having stated all that, however, we must stress the point here, if it isn't evident yet: we care about what messages are sent the massholes' way! Not the knuckleheads, not the slapnuts - the massholes! Massachusetts-born... a-holes? Yeah - those! Hence, when we see one of their favorite sons, John freakin' Cena, who hails from Boston, MASS alright, saying such atrocities as ''I have been drinking Miller - because it is the champagne of American beers'' - we have to cough, belch and vomit with the utmost disapproval. Especially when he is selling that piss-poor crap to a Bulgarian - someone who hails from my second or third adopted land (I lost track - sue me, willya?)

But we're getting sidetracked here...

Back on track - NOW:

MILLER SUCKS, CENA 

AND BUDWEISER TOO! 

SAMUEL ADAMS IS THE BEST 

THE BEST!!! 

REMEMBER THAT, CENA?!?

  

And it freaking looks like a championship belt, 

this Boston Ale label...!!! Wow! Woooo! 

We didn't want to believe it, 

but the fans were right on this one: 

CENA SUCKS!!!

And that is the saddest aspect 

of the whole darn thing here...

We might as well stick with Old Man Flair after all...

AND

Reminds us of yet another grappler... 

What was her name again... in-ring name, duh... 

ah yes - Beth Phoenix! Is that her? 

Never Mind!!!

Dreaming of Persuading...?

Do it like it's 1899...!

A 2007 film production (for television, truly - 

hence the involvement of WGBH Boston - and 

its inclusion in this very blog, as well!)

this adaptation of Jane Austen's famed novel 

is clearly the best - ever.

A fine, underwhelming cast 

delivers with delicate care 

all the nuances of the source material; 

among them, you'll recognize some familiar faces 

atoning for past sins - 

such as the former mentor of one ''Buffy''... 

And the actress most remember, alas, 

for her turn in the most atrocious 

Stephen King adaptation of all...

But enough about those!

For this is here 

due to 

WGBH

Boston

:-)

Persuasion: 

Royal Navy captain Wentworth 

was haughtily turned down eight years ago 

as suitor of pompous baronet 

Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, 

despite true love. 

Now he visits their former seaside country estate, 

rented by his brother-in-law, admiral Croft, 

so the financially stressed baronet can afford 

a fashionable, cheaper residence in trendy Bath. 

First the former lovers meet again on the estate, 

where they feel vibes again, 

but neither dares admit them until it seems too late. 

Yet the truth becomes clear, 

both have moved, but meet again in Bath.

Enjoy it while you can...!

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From World Series Champions To A July 31st Fire Sale

Really - she is that good!

The only John left in town 

will be glad you did... Ben!

(Bye Bye Lester...

Lackey...

Gomes...

And may we re-sign one of you

as a free agent 

soon!)

A Taste-Testing Simulpost - Just For Fun's Sake...

You DARE and poke the BEAR - 
you're gonna get poked right in the eye now, 
HABS!!! 

Oh, they're so proud now, 

those Canadiens - 

they're so proud! 

And yet - they've accomplished absolutely nothing.

But that's another story...

Yeah, really...

Because, here, today,
courtesy of our ever-popular

ever-reliable

and ever-amusing 

taste-testing blog

we aim only to assess 

what the true nature of being Canadian

(or a Canadien - same thing, right?) 

is aaaaaaaaall about...! 

In order to do so, 

we have got to watch some more 

videographical evidence...

The one truly telling song-and-video
about this sorry misbegotten bunch of Habitants 
HAS GOT to be this first one here,
courtesy of my pals
Dominic & Martin...

Perhaps even more telling, however,
this one right here: 

Or is it all about ''poor taste - less filling''

as we may paraphrase 

from that old beer commercial time has forgotten 

here revamped and rebooted 

for the new beer consuming age...

One cannot omit the Loco trio from this,
surely...

Some bimbos, tarts and floozies, now;
for that is what all the CH female fans truly are...



And a fourth line trio now...
(Ils ne savent même pas conjuguer
''meilleures'' avec ''chansons'' -
au pluriel, svp, parce qu'il y en a trois...!)



and how about this pathetic attempt
both at singing as at being funny...
One that reeks of envy of a better team and greater city!



You may - may - want to buy into this propaganda
even now that it is so obviously,
so painfully (for them)
NOT TRUE...



Or this sorry excuse for rapping
-seriously, even Pitbull is better than this-
that invokes the only real CHance to win they have got:
les fantômes du Forum...
which has now been turned into a Cineplex;
but that's another story!
(Oh, there are cameos in here
by the very few celebrities that actually
love that CH: that guy from LOTR
and some local actress who gets bit parts...
Well, Boston has Michael J. Fox
Ben Affleck and Izabella Scorupco!
So, there...!)



As a bonus choice here,
we include the following:
the pre-game ''show'' that preceded
the pivotal game 3 in that series
opposing the Presidents Trophy Champion Boston Bruins
and the lowly Montreal Canadiens,
who last won anything at all 21 years ago
- and counting...!
The pre-game show was supposed to inspire,
to awe the crowds and TV viewers alike,
as well as all the players involved:
it sure as hell was specifically geared towards
motivating the Canadiens players,
especially with that ''passing the torch'' thing
- having a kid come out on skates carrying it... !
Let's watch now...



All that bogus (nearly-paganistic) crap failed miserably in the end
as the Canadiens might have taken that game, 4-2,
but they failed to score a single goal in the very next one,
game 4 -again ''at home'' where that torch is, pourtant-
and the Boston Bruins scored the lone goal then,
within the first ten minutes of overtime,
to win game 4 by a 1-0 score.
And then game 5 was all Bruins,
ending 4-2 (however, all experts agreed  that
it could have easily ended 7-2...)
and a 3-2 series lead for Boston!
The Canadiens were suddenly facing elimination!
What was the Canadiens' true motivation then?
Hatred and unbridled jealousy!
That and only that motivated and inspired
that sorry rag-tag bunch of mercenaries
to impede the Boston Bruins machine
from accessing the next round
in game 6 (the only game
that anyone could rightfully assess
that the Bruins were not ''in it''... for the Bruins
made the mistake of underestimating
the acrimonious hatred of their rivals,
evident in everything the Habs coach
would ever have to say, in-between games...
nothing like the B's coach.)
and that very same rancorous hatred,
that hateful will to topple the true champion
and ruin the worthier team's run,
carried these hateful Habs
to a 2-1 (not counting a lucky bounce)
steal in game 7...

Afterwards, they failed to muster anything at all
lacking both the motivation and physical stamina,
and they fell in the next round
to an opponent Boston would have owned...

The damn, pathetic, envious Habs
complained that the Boston Bruins didn't respect them;
it is not the Bruins' fault that you have trouble
mounting any sort of combativité 
against any given opponent:
whilst the Boston Bruins
play with the same emotion/aggression
against all comers!
The Boston Bruins' work ethic
is the same against ALL:
it is not a lack of respect, you fools:
it is legitimate, genuine, raw
will to win.
Something the Habitants lack
whenever they do not have that
typical, pernicious
mischievous Montreal motivation
to go and ruin the party of thy immediate
superior neighbour to the south: Boston!
You always had it against Boston
because of a definite sentiment
of inferiority -
which is totally legitimate, mind you...
Boston is a better town,
more prosperous than Montreal,
far less polluted,
more in harmony with both
the economic reality of the day
as well as the environmental concerns
of our times...
Boston has always one-upped Montreal
in any and all areas:
which is why it is so important for the latter
to topple the former in one lone area:
ice hockey.
And yet:
Boston is still known
as the Hub of Hockey.
What is Montreal known as?
The town that has nothing else
going for it BUT hockey!
There is nothing else going on there;
while Boston has everything else.
And more!

Yes, folks - Montreal has serious Boston envy!


Don't believe the Dobermann of the newsworld about this -
believe Luminous!

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Celtic Pride Never Dies

(Photo: Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images)

CELTICS IMPROVE TO 5-0 
WITHOUT RONDO 
IN WIN OVER CLIPPERS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2/3/2013 4:17:18 PM

(Article actually found here.)

Jason Terry and Jeff Green and Leandro Barbosa - those are the Boston Celtics of 2013.

There's also Jason Collins and  Jared Sullinger and Avery Bradley who supply the storied franchise with a nucleus far beyond just Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett.  Coach Doc Rivers must be elated to have such an armada, such a stack-filled battalion of magnificent hoop-shooters whose legerdemain might be unproven, yes, but whose lionhearts already roar throughout the fabled land of NBA spectacle!

These are young warriors who marked the cut from tired old veterans who have departed from the team, be it Shaq or whatsisname who left for the Heat... Defector, by any other name, we heat thee!  These have been replaced by the likes of Fab Melo, the Brazilian Bostonian Celtic, Courtney Lee (a boy, not the first ever female Boston Celtic guard - no) and Chris Wilcox in sheer character, style and flamboyance coming off from the bench-warming that he does so stupendously well...!

These Boston Celtics are something else and very much the legitimate as also very worthy and proud successors of the Celtic Magic (no relation to anything coming from Orlando, Florida - capisce?) that surrounded the likes of Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, K.C. Jones, John 'Hondo' Havlicek, Tom Heinsohn, Frank Ramsey, Bill Sharman, Don Nelson, Tom 'Satch' Sanders, Chuck Connors, John McCarthy, Bailey Howell, Chris Ford, Earl Williams, Ron Mercer, Rick Fox, Popeye Jones, Roy Rogers Jr., Mike 'Red' Wallace, Bill Walton, Jo Jo White, Xavier McDaniel, Pervis Ellison, Cedric Maxwell, Eric Williams, Paul Westphal, Lucian Whitaker, Dominique Wilkins, Brian Shaw, Reggie Lewis, Sam Jones, Flash Gordon, Larry Bird, Robert Parrish, Kevin McHale, Dennis 'D.J.' Johnson, Danny Ainge, Antoine Walker, Delonte West, Eddie House, Kendrick Perkins, Leon Powe - and Red Auerbach himself, of course!  (The only name missing here would be Chuck Norris himself, methinks!)

Instilled by Red (the one true 'Red' of the Green here: Auerbach! No offense to Mike The 'Red' there - Wallace!) the tradition got greater and greater and this team, officially originated only after the war ended, in 1946, became the single most successful team in all of sports because it knew how to replace its winning components so very well.  That was all Auerbach's doing, of course, and, ever since he departed his functions with the team (and, most recently this world as well) the team succeeded so well only a handful of times, most notably when Danny Ainge sold off most of the team in order to form the New 'Big Three' (Pierce, Garnett and whatsisname) that were supposed to reignite an era of greatness akin to the days when Bird, Parish and McHale played together - and it worked; they won the championship!  Rondo coming in and becoming as important to the Celtics team as Hondo was, say, for the aging Celts back in 1969 - that's another great coup, one that was mostly provided by destiny, but, hey, we'll take it, right?  Most other times, though, the substitutions were not nearly as successful nor grandiose - most notably when a certain Rasheed came to town, to succeed fellow Wallace, Mike The 'Red'...?  And he'd wear a baseball cap of the team battling another Boston team in the simultaneous playoff season...?  Great Celtic Tradition? We don't think so...!  But that was the black sheep in an otherwise storybook Boston franchise for the Ages...!

However, this year, after the injury to all-star Rajon Rondo, the Celtics saw a legion of naysayers come forth, from all sides and all fronts, denying their legitimacy as a contender and their right to even rate themselves up there, as worthy successors of these Boston greats of yesteryear...
And these accursed detractors are not even leprechauns - we assume...

"A lot of people say that we don't have a chance of even reaching the playoffs, that we can't do this, we can't do that," starting Celtics guard Avery Bradley was quoted saying, after the huge victory over that other upstart team in the NBA, the Los Angeles Clippers, not Lakers. "We know we have each other and we're going to go out there and fight for each other, no matter what, every single night."

May the Boston Celtics of today carry on the battle - and win the war!
Not only on NBA basketball courts; but also, and most of all, in the court of their fans' hearts! Everybody loves Jason Terry (pictured below) for instance...!
The jury is out on the team, deliberating - while the Celts just make baskets!

(Photo Credits Go To: UNKNOWN/NBAE/Getty Images I assume/Help me out here!)

!Celtic ♣ Pride!

Oh yes - the Ancient Celts would be sooooooo proud - 

indubitably! 

Burly Ironing...?

Warning:

This just exposes the dirty bruins
- SportsVids33

Yep, a comedian from comedy central who obviously knows as much about hockey as he thinks he knows about government (hint; not much). I am sure the Bruins organization has never been dealt such a blow by such a credible source before! I hope the organization and their fans learn a lesson from all this, or they may never be taken seriously by the comedic community ever again!
- Bruinology in reply to SportsVids33

What is THAT all about?
Just a little video found on YouTube - again.
The battle rages on, especially as the playoffs approach once again, and the rather dim chances of a rematch between Boston and Vancouver are there - no matter how unlikely it can be, in truth.
(I mean, Vancouver has so many opponents that can oust them before they make it anywhere close to a Final again: St-Louis, Nashville, Los Angeles, San Jose, Detroit and Chicago to name but those likelier to make the playoffs, at blogging time. Boston has a tough challenger in the NY Rangers - but they are not afraid of them nor of Pittsburgh. New Jersey, Washington, Buffalo and likely first-round opponent Ottawa shouldn't be that difficult for Boston to take apart in five or six games. The Bruins' true toughest opponents in the playoffs last year (Tampa Bay and Montreal) are not even going to make it to the playoffs, this year! (That'll teach them to try soooooo hard to stand in the way of the Champions!) And as for Philadelphia - their Flyers were defeated by Boston last year and the Bruins can do it again, if ever they meet the representatives from the so-called city of brotherly love on their path once more. Vancouver, defeating Chicago once again? Not a chance. But enough about all that...!)

This video that we were talking about - it's here (well, for now it is, at any rate!) and it is but an uncategorizable tasteless bit of vitriol against the Boston Bruins organization - as if this team, the championship team in defence of its title right now, was guilty of all the sins of the league...! Jon Stewart leads the charge here with a barrage of charges made with so-called ''evidence'' - all taken out of context. Great job, Jon!

The video was titled ''The Ironing Is Delicious'' to make use of the form of humor called malapropism which is nothing more, nothing less than the artform of misusing similar sounding words or outright replacing the proper word with a homophone, usually with hilarious results indeed. An example given by the guy who did this was attributed to the one and only (but no Bruin) Yogi Berra and his infamous statement about Texas: "Texas has a lot of electrical votes," he reputedly said, rather than saying "electoral votes". "The Ironing Is Delicious" is actually ripped off from The Simpsons though (how dishearteningly disappointing to see our opponents stoop so low) and therefore cannot be given much praise whatsoever. The video's uploader, the machiavelian MAKAVELI719696, really should have gone for something more original, with a double does of malapropism then, if he likes it so much...? Something like what I just did here, perhaps...? I've got a better one: how about ''The Ironing Is Delirious'' eh? That would have been GRAND. Too bad, MAKAVELI719696 - too bad that you're not me. But you're a Jon Stewart fan - quite obviously.

Let's have a look at this video, then - and we'll come right back after that, with Jon and friends...



So, Jon, you found contentment with taking things from left and right, plastering them all together into a nice montage that supposedly ''proves'' the Bruins' double-face policy (and that is simply not true: for, coach Julien said certain things and they were true when he said them. It was only afterwards that his players, fueled by a sense of retribution and justice, started those ''bite my finger'' shenanigans in the Stanley Cup Finals. As for GM Chiarelli's statement that ''our players are generally clean'' - that is true. The two incidents displayed after that are absolutely not evidence of the contrary: as Chara's much-maligned hit on Pacioretty was a routine play gone wrong due to the presence of a certain stanchion. The hit on Miller by Lucic came afterwards - much later on, in fact - and a goalie who knows not his place shouldn't complain after being touched. Do you even know of these aspects of the story, Jon? Perhaps your team does not research as thoroughly whenever the topic is not as much ''hard news'' material as political or economical stories, because you usually are as factual as CNN and Fox News, right, Jon? Just not on sports. But let's get back to that montage right now...
For then there is this ''un-self-awareness'' thing that you talk about, Jon, in an effort to be volubile - takes one to know one, Jon? Fact is, Brad Marchand plays smart, that is all there is to that - and, yes, it is smart to hurt instead of being hurt. Don't play innocent because any other field is as ruthless and cut-throat as hockey can be, and you know it, Jon! Coach Julien's comment was neither ''stupid'' as the sore loser Vigneault so distastefully labeled it, nor was it, again, untrue at all. Coach Julien was talking about hits in general, not so specifically the Salo hit or attempt to mash Marchand up against the boards that went horribly wrong for himself. And about Dan Carcillo being bitten - if he was, he, unlike Patrice Bergeron, totally deserves it! I don't expect you to know these details, Jon - nobody really does, because you're just a whimsical guy, not to be taken seriously.)

The most infuriating moment though is when you edit out Shawn Thornton's retort and replace it with an expletive delivered by Mike Tyson himself. For your information, Thornton is ten times more articulate than Tyson - and he could match wits with you, Jon, despite all the blows to the head that he has taken over the years. (By the way... When's the last time that you were boinked on the head, Jon? Back in kindergarten? Or just last week, when she found you watching porn? No need to answer that - ever.)

Shawn Thornton just took a split second to clear his throat and make sure that he really was on the air (don't Comedy Central give you any heads up on it, too, Jon? You are simply far more used to it than Shawn - but you would be just like a deer caught up in the headlights on the ice, if was open season on your skinny frame: you would never see that coming, would you, Jon? No - you wouldn't. Not even if you had one, two or ten full seconds to react! But that is purely theoretical now...)

Well, anyways, here is what Shawn Thornton really sounds like when he actually starts talking after that nano-second of a pause, Jon:



Like, you never had to collect your thoughts before speaking, Jon? It never happened to you? Maybe that would explain the crazy things uttered over the years, both by you and Colbert there, but that is another story, really - so let's not get into that foolishness here and now!

If anybody is to blast Thornton, it should be me - me or Don Cherry! Leave it to the experts and to each their field of expertise, okay? And to illustrate this so well, here is a video of one of the true hockey experts blasting Thornton, at first, as he analyses the proceedings as the Boston Bruins are about to even the series at three games apiece:



Don ''Grapes'' Cherry gave you a lesson of fairplay there, Jon! One you would do well to take into much consideration now... For, when you are part of mainstream media (even if it be cable clods land) you always have to give equal chances to both sides of the story - capisce, Jon? Cherry did just that - so much so that this video was posted by a Vancouver fan, actually! And labeled as something lambasting ''Thornton's douchery'' - not that Cherry calls it that, but he does address something Shawn Thornton did during the warm-up skate before the game. It was something many have done before though, over the decades, which is somewhat criticized by Cherry as something not to do. Later on, he condemns a dirty hit from behind by a Vancouver player on an icing call. No bias.

Got that lesson, Jon?

To finish in style, though, let's go back to the question of expertise for a second: for I wonder what is, exactly, your expertise, Jon? Is it politics? Not quite. Is it comedy? Well, just because you host something on Comedy Central since whenever it was, does not truly make a comedian out of you, by any definition of the word found in either Old English or current American slang. You would be a sports expert, Jon? You? Not possible.

Oh, and about the distasteful comments and classless statements - maybe that is your field of expertise indeed then? It certainly is your forté, apparently for you said it so yourself and I quote:
''I said it before and I'll say it again - go f*** yourselves''
Really, Jon? A TV host should say such things? I say no - a TV host shouldn't say such things, ever. Nor should he show montages that purposefully edit out the counterpoints in order to make fools out of people that you simply do not like.
What happened, Jon? Sports is not worth the same fair play treatment politics get or your TV pundit buddies get, even when it's obnoxious loudmouths such as Bill O'Reilly (he's no Terry) or Rush Limbaugh?

You can go f*** yourself, Jon!
(And, no, I am not contradicting myself here - acting all righteous and then stooping down to their level? No. This is totally within what I have defined to be normal behaviour for a luminous pundit blogger such as moi! Dishing out what they have had coming their way for a long, long time - in some cases.
Well... Case closed.)