Race Review: 2014 Avengers Super Heroes Half Marathon (11/16/2014), or: “But now I’m safe in the eye of the tornado…”

You can’t PR at a Run Disney race! That’s what they keep drilling into your head, right? As you dish out your hard-earned shekels to pay the premium registration fees, make travel arrangements, buy all kinds of overpriced merchandise and extra race add-ons like “Chear Squads” and “Race Retreats” and RIDICULOUSLY overpriced photographs, deep down…

Greetings from 30,000 ft. over the Salton Sea, or: “It’s time I was king now, not just one more pawn…”

Well, it’s not like you didn’t know this was coming. Unless you’re new here, in which case: welcome! Anyway we’re on our way back from yet another visit to Disneyland, this time for the Avengers Super Heroes Half Marathon Weekend. A great time was had by all, even if it was just a super brief trip to the…

Race Review: Mickey’s Jingle Jungle 5k (11/8/2014) or: “Get on your bikes and ride…”

Say, gang! Hokeydude here. In our awesome first of hopefully many cross-blogging promotions, today’s race review is courtesy of our good friend Sarah from Sparkly Runner. Sarah is not only great people, she’s an avid blogger and Disney Runner, as well as a good friend of all of us over here at Hokeyblog — if she…

And we’re outta here to Wine and Dine, or: “I’m-a chewin’ on a honeysuckle vine…”

Freakin’ November? ALREADY? Wasn’t I just bitching about the South Florida summer blues, like, roughly four seconds ago? Man… Well enough of that claptrap. It’s that magical time once again, where we’re heading into the holiday season and the weather has been cooling off nicely. No kidding, either. The last two weeks in South Florida…

Album Review: “Music From ‘The Elder'” — Kiss (1981)

In a lot of ways, you have to admire the sheer chutzpah that Kiss exhibited by dubbing their 1981 concept album Music From “The Elder” with that moniker. Almost immediately that title elevates the material to something of a new plateau; I mean, it’s not just another dopey album or anything like that. It’s the…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “The Hell Of It” — Paul Williams (1974)

Another year, another round of Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs. But alas, Halloween 2014 draws to a close, so I hope you’ve had half as much fun with this year’s collection of tunes as I had putting it together. Until next year, my friends. Have an awesomely spooky and utterly buttkickin’ Halloween. One more from the inimitable…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Megalomania” — Black Sabbath (1976)

I hide myself inside the shadows of shame The silent symphonies were playing their game My body echoed to the dreams of my soul This God is something that I could not control… Told you I’d be back with some Sabbath 🙂 Black Sabbath’s 1976 album Sabotage is probably their greatest album with the WORST…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Stargazer” — Rainbow (1976)

We build a tower of stone With our flesh and bone Just to see him fly… I, like many of my ilk, have absolutely zero problem flourishing under the belief that Ronnie James Dio didn’t pass away from stomach cancer in 2010, but rather perished heroically while saving our planet from being devoured by a…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Maybe” — The Ink Spots (1940)

Maybe you’ll think of me when you are all aloneMaybe the one who is waiting for you will prove untrueThen what will you do? Maybe you might think that The Ink Spots classic 1940 tune Maybe, strictly speaking, isn’t a “Halloween” song. Maybe you’re right, but play the video below, listen to the music, close…