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The week went by fast since I only got back into town Monday night. I was flooded with email about finding cheap tickets to watch the Canucks (or at the very least the Flames) play San Jose. For some reason we used to get super cheap like $25 tickets to watch games here. Now Canucks seats are no less than $60. What the hell happened? I know it's not because the lockout stirred a sudden interest in hockey in this country. I don't know if you Canadian folks know but there is ZERO hockey coverage on network news here. Nothing, nada, zip. Can you believe that? Someone mentioned that the only network covering a little bit of hockey is OLN. I didn't even know the pre-season ended already. Reading the scores and plays is not quite the same as seeing them for yourself. Now I don't know if you Americans know, but hockey is such an obsession that during the NHL lock out, Canadian news talked about every other hockey league they could find - junior hockey, European league, Pee Wees ANYTHING just to make sure Canadians got their fill. I am so sad there is no hockey here. I hate baseball.

On an unrelated note, I was at the school's media access lab today to preview a video called Masters of the Pillow that I want to show for my Race and Representation in the Media lecture that I'm delivering in 2 weeks. It's a documentary about a UC Davis prof who made the first Asian American p0rn. It's a pretty good documentary, you should check it out. The problem with watching this at the lab though was that they assigned me to viewing carrel #4 which is only a half cubicle with my back open to people walking by. It was really hmmmm uncomfortable to watch a video with intermittent sex scenes - yes with full nudity and penetration - knowing someone might walk by. I have to admit I had my finger on the channel button to change it in case someone were to stroll past. I used it several times. Most memorable line from the video came from the male star who had never done anything like this before and had no other film experience. He asked, "uh so where did you want me to do the so-called money shot?"