don't shoot the pianist
he is doing the best he can

I’m beginning to see why reporters love Brian Burke. See if you can follow this:

1. Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke made some comments regarding a trade rumour that (inadvertently, we are led to believe) became public, and the Vancouver Canucks alleged tampering on the part of the Leafs. The NHL addressed the complaint and ordered both sides to “refrain from further public comment”.

2. On Friday, Burke commented on the feud with the Canucks in an address to the Vancouver Board of Trade, saying that the Canucks should not have complained to the league but should instead have taken up their concerns with him directly.

3. Burke then commented on his address to the Board of Trade, explaining why those comments in his address didn’t violate the NHL’s gag order.

In other words, Burke commented that the comments on the comments he made didn’t violate the NHL gag order on commenting on the comments on the original trade rumour.

Confused yet?

I have to say, this is an interesting take on the floor piano idea.

I only wish it was capable of something more than the F-sharp major scale. (Actually, those of you with perfect pitch will notice that the fellow who starts walking up the stairs at 0:41 is accompanied by the right notes. I wonder why everybody else gets F-sharp major?)

The other thing the staircase needs, of course, is a bit of order to prevent it from descending (ha ha, get it?) into a giant cacophony. To that end, I’d like to propose the following rule: “You must maintain a distance of exactly two, five, or seven steps behind the person in front of you. If you follow exactly four steps behind, you will be asked to navigate the Prok 2 finale.”

There’s an amusing story in the Toronto Star from yesterday suggesting that three Liberals are considering crossing the floor to join the governing Conservatives. As speculation goes, one of them may be Brampton—Springdale MP Ruby Dhalla, bringing the number of Dhalla-joins-Tories rumours to about forty-seven over the last five years.

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