I paid respects to my grandmother down in South Jersey. She been dead for three years. These are the things that matter to me. Also memorable, but for different reasons, was Kristine Johannes Rauwolf collection. Sophisticated and elegant in the extreme, Johannes once again presented her Plexi evening bag collection in the Parkview Suite at the Grammercy Hotel and she once again hit a home run. The designer took her cue this season from HBO Game of Thrones, which translated to the dragon scale etched Lindworm clutch, the metal studded Elettra grid, antique mirrored oval Sposa bag and the Castellum with 3 D matte pyramids that had me rethinking the fashion possibilities of Legos but were, in fact, inspired by the cabochon cuts in the Met JAR exhibit.

There is a shortage of NHL teams in Canada, based on revenues and markets. While non traditional markets such as Raleigh, Tampa Bay, Anaheim, and Los Angeles have won recent Cups (you could also add Colorado, which has won two Cups) Canada has had just six or seven of the 30 NHL teams with a shot at winning each year. Has a population of 17 million and Boston 6.2 million, it does not make those cities better markets for hockey than, say, Calgary.

What bugs me most about this whole affair is that Lebreton came here and shat on Canadian hospitality as if only Americans have a right to feel patriotic. If we are normally the polite society, the people who say and and you and welcome then does he think we won speak out and object when he makes such inane statements as suggesting we suffer from a Canadian inferiority complex. (And just what does that mean anyway? Classic? As in maple syrup or Canadian bacon?) Likening us to Nazis? What was that you put in your drink? A double dose of Sour me mash?.

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But the week’s highlight was the BBC’s Saturday Special sports show. For two hours we would be exposed to more sport than we get in a week today, from horse racing (flat and steeplechase) to tennis, cricket, rugby and, the icing on the cake, 45 minutes of live second half football commentary. The next afternoon James Alexander Gordon would read the classified football results (always beginning with “League, Division One”) in his soft Scottish burr and with inimitable delivery, often parodied but never matched.

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