Quickly, the book edition

I was smothering laughter this morning at Stanley Cup of Chowder's take on the Bruins' power play (powerless play), which has been quite spectacularly useless of late, to the point that announcers are discussing if the Bruins should turn down the opportunity when a penalty is called on the other team:

"Claude Julien says the power play failures are due to the players being too tense right now. Good call. I'm sure it has nothing to do with having their ultra-mobile, ultra-skilled puck moving defenseman stand at the point, fake a slapshot and then pass across to Chara every goddamned time. Maybe the hope is that one of these times, Montreal's penalty killers will double over with laughter at the thought of Tomas Kaberle actually taking a shot, and then Boston will take advantage."

Yes! The PP has been pathetic*, and given that the Bruins gave up quite a lot to get Kaberle back in February, mostly in order to improve the PP, it is better to laugh than cry about how that's turned out.

*The Bruins are the only team in the playoffs who have yet to score on the power play. Ouch.

Anyway, I have a lot to do tonight, and my hands are rather aching (for no particular reason; arthritis is random that way), plus my chest is sore from the vise mammogram experience, so I'm going to throw this out there and leave you to it. Even if you don't have ten minutes to spare, watch the first couple: it's peculiarly fascinating, at least for book people.



If you don't have the time right now, well, here's a quick amazing thing to see:


The perfect bookcase for displaying a very specific group of books ... amazing!