Blackhawk Fever hits the Art Institute of Chicago
by Earl Sleek on May 26, 2010 10:17 AM PDT
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PrintAn unexpected post from the road today -- I'm hijacking my dad's laptop while we're visiting Chicago. Today my mom dragged me to the Art Institute of Chicago -- despite the fact that I enjoy cartooning, I sort of hate art. But we were both surprised to see that there was a new addition to the two lion statues in front of the museum -- they'd been hit by a hard case of Cup Finals Fever:
Take that, Bailey.
And while we were getting closer, we saw some TV cameras pointed at a guy I strongly suspect is Bobby Hull, though I did a shitty job on fact-checking that assumption. I guess that's what you get when you skip the entirety of journalism school.
Serious question: That is Bobby Hull, right?
This was of course awesome to see, and it does beg the question: what monument would have been decorated in San Jose had Games 1, 2, 3, and 4 gone differently last round? And who would have shown up to explain it to local reporters?
Two more photos I took, but I have to rush -- my dad wants his laptop back.
Rawr.
RAWR!!!
My mom will disagree, but this was way better than anything I saw inside the museum itself. Suck it, Matisse.
Go hockey priorities.
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This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.
Or maybe I’m just bitter. BUT LIONS DON’T WEAR HOCKEY HELMETS! THEY DON’T EVEN FIT!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed the Art Institute when I was there in November…but then again, I’m a fan of such things.
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by ZeroIndulgence on May 26, 2010 10:52 AM PDT reply actions
The museum actually was OK — I did enjoy some of the nature art and the gallery of old furniture, and per a pre-negotiation with my mom we were in and out within an hour (it was a free pass, so no real $$ wasted).
But I’d go again under similar circumstances.
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by Earl Sleek on May 26, 2010 10:58 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
But I’d go again under similar circumstances.
Circumstances being: It’s free, only an hour, Bobby Hull shows up, and you get to blog about it. I’d take that deal.
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that fits right into the sleek MO
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
It really does. The last place I expected to learn they put Hawks helmets on the Art Institute lions was BoC, and yet once I read it it all made perfect sense.
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o fuck yes…awesome resturant…I went there when I was in the pittsburgh (they got one there..I think hes from that area or somthing)….
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
hehe
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
why are you not in the picture sodimizing the lion…Boc is so disapointed
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 11:06 AM PDT reply actions
Bobby “Alleged” Hull refused to give me a boost. And the silly museum wouldn’t let me take any of their antique ladder-furniture outside.
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by Earl Sleek on May 26, 2010 11:26 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Serious question: That is Bobby Hull, right?
I’m going primarily off of the cheeks and eyes, but I would say that yes, that is the Jet.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on May 26, 2010 11:47 AM PDT reply actions
Yeah, I just saw this photo from an internet image search and I’m way way more convinced — it had to be him.
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And even my mom agrees now, seeing the evidence.
She’s also way impressed that I’m story #1 on Puck Daddy’s Puck Headlines, despite the fact she’s never heard of it before. :)
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Off-Topic – check out the awesomely misleading top story from NHL.com along the right hand margin here →
“Brodeur signs 1-year deal with Senators”
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Haha — also, the NY Rangers acquire Niemi.
Seems a bit shortsighted by the Hawks, but I guess that green lion plays some goaltender.
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Chicagoan here
that is indeed Bobby Hull that you happened to take a picture of. Hope you’re enjoying the city! We like dressing up our statues… there’s the dinosaur in front of the Field Museum with Toews’ jersey, and Daley Plaza’s statue has (I think) a pseudo-helmet.
But when it was suggested to him that Toews v. Kane seems likely to become a sidebar to every future international hockey tournament, he smiled and said: "I'd like us to win something together, too."
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Dude, I’ve had a great time in my fairly short Chicago stay — weather’s been sweet; Hawks fever is abundant; bums have been amusing in their creative attempts to lure my pocket change…
Unfortunately, I’m on a plane back home tomorrow — but I’ll be back at some point. The main reason I’m here is to help my folks move heavy shit into their new alternate-location condo.
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I think your lying..your a wirey..non muscles kinda guy…your there for some battlestar gallacta nerdy convention shit arent you..that or your trying to find out where phalsson stayed when he was in chicago and rent it out or somthing
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
True — the really heavy stuff was professionally brought in. I just carry mirrors and window coverings, and do stuff like assemble televisions and vaccuum cleaners. And I go shop with my mom and shrug at anything she wants to buy.
But it’s largely a true story.
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and shrug at anything she wants to buy.
momma sleek: so earl…what do you think of this of this tea set…?…only 20$…
Sleek: Meh
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions
my fairly short Chicago stay — weather’s been sweet
You have no idea how well you threaded the needle with your timing. Weather there is rarely “sweet.”
But the panhandlers are indeed the most creative I’ve ever encountered. I guess competition is stiff out there.
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No, but there’s a place called Smoque’s or something. Fucking excellent ribs and beans, etc. — unreal. Ate it twice already.
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by Earl Sleek on May 26, 2010 2:25 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Here’s how you tell if it’s Bobby Hull: walk up to the person and say, “Your wife is talking back!” If he instinctively raises his hand then you know it’s Bobby Hull.
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by RudyKelly on May 26, 2010 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Why would you put a big doofy lookin helmet on a lion? That’s retarded. The Blackhawks are famous for their jersey – put that jersey on a statue. Hell, make a modified one for the lion, maybe more like a tube top you can put over his midsection, I don’t know. But damn, that helmet looks retarded. And the Blackhawks logo is small and on the back and pushed up towards the top of the helmet so I’d imagine if you’re standing below it, it’s hard to even see.
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why put a big goofy stupid looking octopus in front an arena..?….how lame is that
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
What about dressing up a Spartan to pump up your audience>
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by Kevin Sellathamby on May 26, 2010 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
as long as his name isnt “spart-ie”..adding that IE is fuckin lame…our mascot might be lame…but its named duckie
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
its not named….dooooooh..ok im lame
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Not lame — just sarcastic. :)
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by Earl Sleek on May 26, 2010 1:46 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
u bastard i just realized you could be at a dodgers-cubs game..but your an angels fan…you bastard…i bet it would be a fun place to watch a game…
all in all..i just hate sharkie..if your gonna use a somthin cool like a shark as your macot…make him look evil and mean looking..not goofy and looking like hell do a magic show or do balloon animals…
as weve discussed previously…since weve divorced disney we cant make our mascot darkwing duck..so were fucked…
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
The Angels were playing the Jays, of course i’d watch the Jays. If you’re wondering, this has everything to do with me being a Jays fan
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by Kevin Sellathamby on May 26, 2010 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I have probably watched fewer than 18 innings of baseball this season. I’m a rotten excuse for an Angels fan.
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by Earl Sleek on May 26, 2010 2:29 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
dooohhh
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I just read somewhere that matsui was gonna eat bench also…salt on the wound tee-hee
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 26, 2010 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Nice! Way to go, swing savant! I told somebody once it’d be a mistake to let Vlad go, but that may have been in a dream.
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by Earl Sleek on May 26, 2010 2:42 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Well at least it makes sense, given the tradition. Do the Blackhawks have some sort of tradition to do with Lions, that I don’t know about?
I think the more accurate parallel would be in Detroit during the playoffs, there’s a statue called the “Spirit of Detroit” (no its not someone trying to get a job), which gets dressed up in the uniform of whoever is making a deep playoff run. I know they’ve done if for the Pistons and the Red Wings. And that looks fine. But a lion with a helmet on his head? I just don’t get it.
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I think it’s just supposed to be for fun. No special meaning or trashtalking intended. The whole city is behind the ’Hawks, is what I think that helmeted lion is telling us.
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by live every week like it's shark week on May 26, 2010 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
It's something they do for all Chicago teams in a championship
Like when the Bears made the Super Bowl
Or when the White Sox and Cubs both made the playoffs in 2008
So yeah, it might be stupid, but it’s not exactly a new thing
And of course I realize I said “championship” and then posted pictures of two teams that won a total of 1 playoff game that year, but you get my drift.
Haha, another excellent example of my lack of journalism! Wooooo!
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I don’t know that “noting what kind of outfits can awkwardly be placed onto statues” is synonymous with “journalism” but to each his own, I suppose.
BTW, I realize I was deceptively dressed today, but if any of you Chicago residents saw a dude in a black Canada shirt and decided go up to him and yell, “Canada fucking sucks! Go Blackhawks!”, you yelled at Sleek today.
And made him and his mom chuckle quite a bit.
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They must not teach geography in that area. Or did they move the Flyers across the border over night?
Let's go Ducks.
Yeah, that occurred to me, but frankly, I liked the guy’s spirit. I’ve yelled at the wrong thing before.
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perhaps hes a rabid Bocer that like most dont know what you really look like….and he hates all candaian teams like we all do here….now why he would be a rabid bocer when hes a hawks fan is strange…but other teams fans seem to like this site…
or maybe he was a racist against asians but was afraid to call u out for being asain..and figured can anything racially bad be said about candians?…i mean I know they say “about” stupid…but does that makes them go home and cry on there pillow?….
again the fact that Toews “Taves” is one of there most important players is not ironic at all
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 5:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, Toews would have been an excellent comeback, but I don’t mind Hawks fans having their fun. I know I had too much fun both times the Ducks made the cup finals.
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by Earl Sleek on May 27, 2010 5:30 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I’m in the habit of calling every half-Korean dude I see ‘Sleek.’ We’ll meet eventually.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on May 26, 2010 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
when I see kim jong on tv..i always say theres sleek in like 30 years
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 5:10 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m wazy. Wet’s say 40 years.
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by Earl Sleek on May 27, 2010 5:32 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
SO WON-WIE
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 5:36 AM PDT up reply actions
when is the final chapter of the shark gonna be written..we eagerly await
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 6:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Not sure yet, flying back to Cali today. We’ll see how energized I am tomorrow — it might wait until the weekend.
And seeing as it’ll be about cup finals, not exactly sure how big a role the Shark will play. Can’t rewrite history here. :)
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by Earl Sleek on May 27, 2010 6:28 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
u can show him crying while watching the finals or somthing…
i guess the breathing apparatus finally gave out
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 6:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Some idiot must have filled it with chlorinated water.
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by Earl Sleek on May 27, 2010 6:38 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
weird things with the chicago blackhawks
It’s not the first weird thing that I see with the chicago blackhawls. This lion with a helmet is nothing compared to the mullet of Patrick Kane!
http://www.hockey30.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=993:coupe-longueuil&Itemid=18
Off topic, but I just read this on THN:
http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/33733-The-Straight-Edge-Were-the-07-Ducks-the-best-Stanley-Cup-champions-of-alltime.html
of course we were the best stanley cup team ever in 07…I didnt post this myself..cuz I thought this was understood by all
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 8:07 AM PDT up reply actions
your theory it was the hurricanes is also laughable
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions
2001 Colorado Avalanche. This guy makes a big deal about having three hall-of-famers on the 07 Ducks…what about having Rob Blake, Ray Bourque, Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, AND Patrick Roy? I hated that fucking Avalanche team, but they were clearly the best team in the past decade. Of all-time is an impossible question to answer.
And Spade, your new signature makes me laugh. I’m asking a serious question of Ducks fans now – are you really happier with finishing 11th in the West then you would have been losing in the conference finals? Yes it stings to be a Sharks fan right now, but seriously?
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am I happy were not the laughing stock of the league?….yes I am
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
If you think nobody was laughing at the Ducks this year you weren’t paying close enough attention.
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ill put it another way..when people talk about the 2009-10 ducks…they say..“they had an off year..niedemeyer might be getting to old”
when they talk about the 2009-10 sharks..they say….same old sharks..they choked again..
so yea…2009-2010 Anaheim Ducks..“Hey at least were not the sharks!!”
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
same old sharks..they choked again..
No one is saying this but you and idiots. But I repeat myself!
(Sorry, I got this Johnny Carson highlight film for my birthday and it has a bunch of old ass jokes. My favorite is a toast by Dean Martin:
*Lifts his glass of scotch:
“I just found the perfect woman, man, I could not ask for more,
She’s deaf, dumb and oversexed, and owns a liquor store!”
I love that guy.)
by RudyKelly on May 27, 2010 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
im starting to think on top of the bet u made with earl bout kings finishing better than the sharks..you also made a secret one with meg…
who would have thought rudy..shark apologist!!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions
He said earlier this season that he was starting to hate the Sharks and Sharks fans more than the Ducks and Ducks fans, so he’s as impartial as it gets. Rudy has spoken!
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When is Rudy impartial about anything? That’s downright ridiculous right there.
Back in CA! Wooooooooooooo!!!
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by Earl Sleek on May 27, 2010 1:42 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
who would have thought rudy..shark apologist!!
My hatred of the concept of clutch supercedes sports allegiance. It supercedes everyhing but my hatred of Patrick Roy, that fucking choker.
wait kirk gibson was clutch..dont deny that!!! dont you daaaare!!!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
welcome back…lets all get a guiness
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on May 27, 2010 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
im sure its one of those oiler teams..but Ill take the cock rub
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