This is my life: Creating videos, living with 2 border collies, living with Collette, watching too many movies, not reading enough books, and constantly baffled by how they get the caramel in the Caramilk bar
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
THE REAL WINTER GAMES
OK, now that the 25 hr Commercial Games .. I mean the Olympic Games ... are over with, we can concentrate on the true great winter Canadian Game ... The Border Collie Bowl This is a full contact, no holds barred game of speed, dexterity and mouth to paw coordination. The object is simple .. catch the ball before your sister does. Or bite her while the ref's head is turned. This is a championship match, between the new up and comer, Terra "The Prodigy" and the current champ, the wily veteran Hayley. No love lost between these two. The trash talk has been flying. Comments have been flying about "mud puddle licker" and "butt sniffer" and accusations of a certain athlete tampering with the ball The pre-game intensity was evident at the weigh ins, where the reigning champ engaged the rookie in an intense stare down The game was certainly exciting, back and forth, give and take, bark and sniff the whole way. An official protest was lodged against Terra for carrying the ball until it was pointed out, how the heck else was she getting it back to Dad? But all in all it was an honourable affair, no was bitten, no one was peed on and although the word "bitch" was bandied about, it could barely be considered a technical foul
Still, no medals were handed out for this historic athletic event, but Milk Bones seemed to suffice. And thankfully, I've captured the entire event for posterity. You know, for when you go into your post Border Collie Bowl funk
Sometimes I am a video editor who sleeps in the hull of an old U-Matic deck and subsists on lightly buttered B-rolls
Sometimes I am a writer and poet who would rather think it than write it
Mostly I am a barely reformed hippie, co-owner of a border collie and lucky enough to have lived for over twenty years with someone who has a good enough sense of humour to know that I think I have one too
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