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velvetdestroya · 2 years ago

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Owning the stage so hang on for the ride. Day 2 at TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, September 8, 2022.

[photo credit; emme gray]

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on-this-day-mcr · 1 year ago

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On this day, September 7

In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their 34th show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. At this show, an unreleased song (titled "Eagles" on the paper setlist) was performed for the fifth time ever, with new lyrics. Gerard Way wore a black bodysuit with black swan facepaint and slicked back hair, and ""SPooKy"" was written on the drums. (🖤)

Watch the show here!

Brittany Queen

#september 7 #2022 #swarm era #tour date #mcr boston

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loudenver · 1 year ago

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june 3rd, 2022.

The sun beat down on Washington Square park, on a day that was both sufficiently ordinary and satifactory for Louis Denver. Stretched out with his arm behind his head and the sun on his face, he held a paperback aloft to block out the overhead glare. His morning had been spent in lazy contentment, heading down to his favorite breakfast nook long after the rise of the sun. The waitress there had smiled her sweetest smile and fetched him his coffee, an assortment of sugary syrups Louis had found he actually liked after years of drinking black coffee. Sure, it wasn't very tortured artist of him, but for the sake of coffee that didn't taste like dirt, he was willing to leave a little pretension behind.

Now, all he was looking forward to for the rest of the day was scribbling in the margins of his copy of Young Mungo and having his heart ripped out of his chest in a controlled environment. Maybe he'd swing by his local bar at the end of his night and get a drink, chat amicably with a handsome stranger in the smoking area. The world was his fucking oyster. He'd always wanted to live in California.

Uncapping his biro between his teeth, Louis clumsily underlined a particularly poignant sentence in his novel. He tucked the pen back behind his ear after doing so, absently thinking that perhaps his hair was getting a little too long. Last time he'd facetimed his Maman she'd despaired at the way it was curling just under his chin, tutting with a small smile on her face.

As Louis found himself thinking fondly of his family, he was suddenly ripped out of his reverie by the sound of his phone ringing. Planting the paperback face down atop his chest, uncaring about the already-cracking spine, Louis fished his phone from the pocket of his jeans, squinting at the string of unknown numbers suddenly lighting up his phone.

As a rule, Louis generally didn’t answer unknown numbers. He did, however, recognise the area code. Lowell, Massachusetts.

A lump as hard as a rock gathered uncomfortably in his throat as he merely stared at the phone, waiting for the number to ring through. Whoever was on the other line, he didn’t want them to know he’d hung up on them. There were only two people in his hometown that knew his number, and they’d both been sworn to secrecy. And Louis had his number blocked.

When the phone mercifully stopped ringing, Louis navigated with shaky hands to his list of contacts, scrolling for only a second or two before he reached the C’s. After Louis had left home, he’d quickly dumped his phone and replaced it with the oldest, still-working model of iPhone. There were few people whose numbers it was important for him to save, now.

Pressing his phone to his ear, it rang for mere moments before the woman on the other end picked up.

“Caro? Did you give Ger my number?” Louis launched into the conversation, not pausing to wait for the chirpy, ‘Lou!’ his big sister usually picked up the phone with. Instead of a response, however, he only heard ragged, shallow breaths on the other end of the phone, the unmistakeable sound of his only sister sniffing.

“Carolina? Qu'est-ce qui ne va pas?” Louis asked, his voice wobbling with concern in his rusty French. He white-knuckled his phone as Carolina’s sobs increased in volume.

“I - I, oh, Lou. I didn’t want you to hear it like this.” she sniffed.

Louis sat up, his book tumbling into the grass.

“What’s so important that you needed Gerard to call me? That you or Mom couldn’t?” he asked, his fingers anxiously tugging at the loose threads in his jeans. It wasn’t often in his phone calls with his big sister or his Mom that they brought up his older brother. After the first few attempts, they’d noticed the visible change in Louis’ tone and simply stopped trying.

“It’s Dad, Lou. He’s - oh God, he’s gone.”

Whatever Carolina said next dulled to static sound. It was so goddamn cliche, but everything - the kids running circles around each other, the bible basher he could hear faintly across the way, the busker playing Fix You by Coldplay - was muted as Louis contemplated that his Father was gone.

It was a hard fact to reckon with. Leonard Denver, the man who cheered at his football games, the man he was named for, was lying dead somewhere, in a hospital morgue or a funeral home, Louis wasn't sure. At the same time, Leonard Denver, the man who told him he'd rather Louis never marry at all if he was going to marry a man, who spent most of his childhood calling him a 'priss' as well as some of the more creative slurs, was dead.

Vaguely, Louis was aware of the fact Carolina was still talking. Between choked sobs and muffled words, he thought he made out the word 'home'.

"What's that, Caro? I can't understand you."

"You've got to come home. To Lowell. We have to plan the funeral, we have to - we're gonna have to get you on a flight, hon. Are you working right now? Hold on, Ger's texting me now, he says he'll pay for your flight."

Louis' blood ran cold.

"I ain't coming home. I'm not coming back to Lowell ever again." Louis said, so quietly it was possible Carolina might miss it. When she didn't respond, he thought for a second she had. A tinny scoff could be heard through the speakers of Louis' phone.

"For Chrissakes, he's our Dad. Of course you have to come home. We should all be together right now. All Denvers together. Maman is sick over this, and she's always liked you best, anyway."

Running a hand through his too-long dark locks, Louis winced. Of course Louis loved his sister, but if there was anyone Louis loved irrevocably, without conditions, it was his Maman. Aurelie Denver has always shielded and protected him to the best of her ability, smuggled him tawdry paperbacks and put his poetry up on the refrigerator with pride. It killed him to think of her suffering alone, lamenting the death of the husband she'd loved for over forty years. And yet, if she knew, Louis knew without a doubt she'd tell him to run and ever look back.

"I can't, sis. I'll call Mom, I'll explain everything - but I'm not going to that man's funeral."

Carolina's tears had made way for exasperation.

"He can't hurt you. Didn't you hear, he's dead! He's gone! My Dad is dead, Louis!"

"Yeah, Caro. My Dad is dead, too. My Dad, who hated his strange, queer kid and never came to a single one of my open mics. He never wanted to meet my boyfriend but loved Edie, and Stella, and Joan. Never the one fuckin' person I was serious about. I'm not going. I'm not standing in a room with that man, dead or alive, and I sure as hell don't want to see my dear big brother."

Louis held the phone away from his ear for a mere moment, gathering his courage back up after his little outburst. He realised in that moment he'd been shouting, and that multiple people were now staring at him, screaming down the phone at his grieving sister.

"Jesus, what is it with you and Gerard? What the fuck kind of argument did you guys have that you won't even be in the same room as him? He loves you. He talks about how much he wishes you'd call, all the time. Why are you doing this?"

Louis' pinched the bridge of his nose, his sunny day suddenly turned sour. Times like this he found it hard to reckon with the sneaking suspicion that he was the fuck up, he was the one tearing his family apart because of his inability to stand in the same room as Gerard Denver. No, not Gerard Denver. His abuser. It had taken him so long and years of therapy to even think of the man as such. Louis had tried anything and everything to cope. Drinking, leaving his whole life in New York behind. Just last year, Louis had been on a date with an older man and ended the night in a full-fledged panic attack. He would not undo years of progress just to placate his sister, even if it stopped his Mom's heart from breaking.

"Ask him." Louis spat down the phone, the words bitter-tasting in his mouth. "I'm sorry, I love you and I love Mom, but I fuckin' can't. I'm sorry he's gone, but I'm not gonna stand around and cry and pretend he was a good Dad. Goodbye, Carolina."

#oneshot1 #oneshots;#(this has been sitting in my brain for a while and is entirely self indulgent so)

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mitchbeck · 3 years ago

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CANTLON: OFF-SEASON HOCKEY VOLUME 11

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - The 2021-2022 hockey season is inching closer with each passing moment, and more and more activity is happening as teams look to complete their rosters. The AHL released the playoff format for this coming season, and 23 of the 31 teams will make the chase for the Calder Cup. Making the playoffs until recently was the benefit to a team's and a player's hard work. Now, it's being handed out to just about everyone. Also, the three-game playoff series makes its return allowing for more playoff revenue by trying to attract the marginal hockey fan but at the same time further dilutes the AHL product and makes the regular season meaningless. Read more about it HERE. RANGERS AND WOLF PACK NEWS The Hartford Wolf Pack search for a new assistant coach to replace Gord Murphy, elevated to the New York Rangers staff as an assistant to new coach Gerard Gallant last month, has been sourced and selected. However, an announcement should be coming shortly, according to head coach Kris Knoblauch. He declined to name the chosen candidate. Meanwhile, up in the Big Apple, the Rangers announced the hiring of John Lilly as the new Director of Amateur Scouting and Player Development. Lilley went to Boston University for a season-and-a-half in the early 1990s. He played in the NHL and spent the last 14 years in the same role with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Lilley, a Massachusetts native, played on the 1994 US Olympic Team with current Rangers President/GM and Wolf Pack GM, Chris Drury’s older brother, ex-Hartford Whaler, Ted Drury. How this hire affects Jed Ortmeyer and Tanner Glass remains to be seen in the new organizational scheme. Forwards Tim Gettinger, Ty Ronning, and goaltender Adam Huska all received new contracts. The trio each get one-year, two-way deals. Huska will make $750K in the NHL and $80K for his season in the AHL. Gettinger and Ronning will earn the same $750K as Huska in the NHL but will get $75K in the AHL. Ex-Wolf Pack Sean Day re-signs with the Tampa Bay Lightning on a one-year, two-way deal at $750K for playing in the NHL and $100K to play in the AHL. The Rangers' new Double AA affiliate, the Jacksonville Icemen (ECHL), lost their head coach, Jason Christie. He is no on the Buffalo Sabres' coaching staff as an Assistant Coach. Christie is the only coach in the team's franchise history and is the all-time winningest coach in ECHL history. Jacksonville team president, former CT Whale front office executive Bob Ohrablo, said a search for a new bench boss has begun. According to various reports, a new coach should be announced in about three weeks. MOVEMENT Six more AHL’ers are packing for Europe with their training camps starting in the next two weeks. Ben Street leaves the Binghamton Senators and signs with EHC Munich (Germany-DEL). Adam Mascherin departs the Texas Stars for Skellefteå AIK (Sweden-SHL). Theodor Lennestrom no longer flies with the Bakersfield Condors. He will join the Torpedo Novgorod (Russia-KHL). Skyler McKenzie of the Manitoba Moose signs with Västerviks IK (Sweden-Allsvenskan). Nathanael Halbert who played two games for the Laval Rocket goes to the Coventry Blaze (England-EIHL) and Keegan Kanzig, who played eight games for the San Diego Gulls, heads to EC Salzburg (Austria-IceHL). That makes 63 total players heading overseas. Six are off to Austria, while eleven go to Germany, which is second to Russia at 17, and nine go to Sweden. Former QU Bobcat Chase Priskie signs a one-year, two-way deal with the Florida Panthers. He'll earn $750K in the NHL and$70K for play in the AHL. Greg Printz (Selects Academy at South Kent Prep) signs the same deal with San Diego, and ex-Bridgeport Sound Tiger, Mason Jobst, signs an AHL deal with the Rochester Americans. KOWALSKY JOINS BRIDGEPORT ISLANDERS The New York Islanders have named Rick Kowalsky the new assistant coach for the AHL’s Bridgeport Islanders and their tenured head coach, ex-Wolf Pack, Brent Thompson (Milford). Kowalsky had been with the New Jersey Devils coaching staff the past three seasons, following eight years as head coach of the Devils’ AHL affiliates in Albany and Binghamton. He guided the AHL Devils to three Calder Cup Playoff appearances in 2014, 2016, and 2017. In 2015-16, Kowalsky earned the Louis A.R. Pieri Award as the AHL’s outstanding coach. He replaces the assistant coach of the last ten years, Eric Boguniecki (West Haven/Gunnery Prep-Westminster Prep). Boguniecki played for Bridgeport. Matt Carkner was the assistant for five years. Kowalsky served four seasons as Head Coach of New Jersey’s ECHL affiliate, the Trenton Devils and Trenton Titans. He received the 2009 John Brophy Award as the league's top coach. The Simcoe, ON native, was inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame in January 2017. The Bridgeport Islanders signed their first minor league free agent. He is the sharp-shooting, swift-skating Chris Terry, who comes back from Torpedo Novgorod (Russia-KHL). He has 552 career AHL points under his belt and led the AHL in scoring with 71 points in 2017-18 in Laval’s first season at Place Bell. In addition, the Islanders re-signed five other players from last year’s squad. They include; Jeff Kubiak, Erik Brown, Felix Bibeau, Cole Coskey, and Kyle MacLean. DINEEN IN THE NEWS Former Whalers great Kevin Dineen was named the new head coach for the Utica Comets, now the New Jersey Devils affiliate. Dinneen’s contract wasn’t renewed by the Anaheim Ducks in San Diego, coaching the Gulls. The irony is that Utica is now the new ECHL affiliate of the Adirondack Thunder. Dineen played for the Binghamton Whalers for half a season. The Dineen family has been a part of Glens Falls AHL hockey and upstate New York hockey history. As a head coach, Bill Dineen, Kevin's father, won two Calder Cups in seven years with the Adirondack Red Wings, the second coming over the New Haven Nighthawks. He was the last WHA New England Whalers head coach and a scout for two years for the NHL Whalers. Gord Dineen, Kevin's brother, coached in Rochester and was a volunteer assistant at D3 Hobart College last year. A pair of ex-Nighthawks, Peter and Shawn Dineen, played in Adirondack, and Kevin's brother Jerry was the Rangers video coach for 17 years. He was let go this summer. In his playing days, he played at SUNY-Plattsburgh, a Division III school. MORE MOVEMENT Larry Pleau, the New England Whalers (WHA) great and a one-time Hartford Whalers head coach, was also a Rangers assistant GM/Director of Player Personnel in the mid-1990s and a senior advisor to the St. Louis Blues for the last 23 years, becomes a 76-year-old “free agent” and takes a job as the new senior advisor for the Arizona Coyotes. Former Rangers head coach and New Haven Nighthawks assistant coach John Tortorella signs to be a part of ESPN's new NHL coverage team as an in-studio analyst. Ex-Wolf Pack captain/Sound Tiger Greg Moore, the current head coach with the Toronto Marlies, has added a new assistant coach, in former head coach from the Newfoundland Growlers (ECHL), John Snowden. This leaves Newfoundland-native and current resident, former New Haven Nighthawk, and Rangers assistant coach Darryl Williams, the team's assistant coach, as the only staff member left. The new AHL coaching parade sees long-time AHL assistant for eight teams, Scott Allen, named the Hershey Bears' new head coach. The Iowa Wild names Nate Dicasmirro and Nolan Yonkman as the team’s new assistant coaches. Andy Chiodo was hired as the goalie coach for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. AND THE CHANGES KEEP POURING IN Former Ranger Rick St. Croix, the father of two ex-Wolf Pack in Chris and Michael St. Croix, retired from the Manitoba Moose. The Moose is also in the news for hiring recently retired goalie Drew MacIntyre as the new goaltending coach and scout. He finished his career last season, winning the Japanese Hockey title with the Oji Eagles. Ex-Pack and Ranger Gordie Dwyer was hired as the new head coach of the Saint John Seadogs (QMJHL). Ex-Wolf Pack Dave MacIsaac comes back to Danbury for the third time. He was named the new head coach of Danbury Hat Tricks (FPHL). He played for the infamous UHL Trashers from 2004-2006 and was head coach of the Danbury Mad Hatters (EPHL) in 2008-09. He has coached in Louisiana (ECHL), Björninn in Iceland for two years, and was the GM of St. Jerome (LNAH). His assistant coach Adam Blanchette (Berlin/CT Clippers-MetJHL/Danbury Titans-FPHL), was hired last week. Hamden’s Mike Lee (Gunnery/Sacred Heart University) re-signs with the Indy Fuel (ECHL). Former UCONN captain Miles Gendron signs a one-year AHL two-way deal (AHL-ECHL) with the Colorado Eagles-AHL/Utah Grizzlies-ECHL for the 21-22 season. Ex-CT Whale Mike Pelech, who split last season between the Wheeling Nailers (ECHL) and Indy (ECHL), signed a one-year deal with the Atlanta Gladiators (ECHL) for the 2021-22 season. Ex-Sound Tiger Justin Taylor returns to the Kalamazoo Wings (ECHL) after playing last season for the Tulsa Oilers (ECHL). Nick Hutchison (Avon Old Farms) goes from Indy (ECHL) to Adirondack (ECHL). AND THE SIGNING JUST KEEP COMING Greg Harney (East Haven/ND-WH) signs with Port Huron (MI) Prowlers (FPHL) after playing for four years at Framingham State (MASCAC). Ex-Pack Eric Selleck will play Canadian senior hockey for Gananoque Islanders (EOSHL) Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League. Ex-Sound Tiger David Quenneville leaves the Rapid City Rush (ECHL) for IK Oskarshmamn (Sweden-AHL). Former Whaler/Ranger Dave Barr leaves the Canada U-18 hockey program and becomes the head coach with the Vienna Capitals (Austria-IceHL). Brandon Whistle, the nephew of former Nighthawk Rob Whistle, returns to play after a year off with the Leeds Knights (England-NIHL), whose Head Coach/GM is his father, David. Brother Jackson is playing for Belfast (Northern Ireland-EIHL) this season. UCONN hockey released their full 2021-22 schedule. The first two games will be at home at the XL Center on October 2nd against Sacred Heart University (AHA), a non-conference matchup. The school's first Hockey East contest is October 8th against Boston University. Read more HERE. Jason Fortier, a long-time Junior-A coach who was head coach/GM of the Odessa (TX) Jackalopes (NAHL) last year, was named the new assistant coach with the University Maine Black Bears (HE), replacing ex-Sound Tiger Ben Guité. Guité was named the new head coach of the ECHL Maine Mariners as Riley Armstrong is heading to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms to be an assistant coach. Guide’s, father Pierre, played in all seven years of the WHA. Ex-Wolf Pack Daniel Paille was upgraded from a volunteer assistant coach to a full-time assistant coach with Canisius College Golden Griffins (AHA). MORE SIGNINGS? J.D. Greenway completed his four years at Maine after transferring from Wisconsin. He signs with the Providence Bruins. After four years at Denver University (NCHC), Jack Doremus signs with the Tulsa Oilers (ECHL), and Quin Foreman Dartmouth College (ECACHL) signs with Indy (ECHL). These signings make 26 players from Hockey East schools who signed a pro deal and 16 from the NCHC. The breakdown for the other conferences is; Big 10 has 21, AHA and ECACHL seven each, WCHA (CCHA) four, and Division I Independent Arizona State two. Ludwig Stenlund of Niagara University (AHA) heads home to play for HC Vita Hasten (Sweden-Allenesque). Ashton Stockier from Mercyhurst University (AHA) and Division III Adrian College's (NCHA) Mike Finger are both going to HCB Ticino (Switzerland-LNB). Now 82 college players have signed in North America, 33 in Europe. 118 total college players from Division I and Division III are signed to pro deals in Europe and North America. 34 underclassmen have left school early. TRANSFERS 10 more college transfers for a hectic college hockey off-season. Grant Hebert transfers from the Robert Morris University (AHA) program canceled to the University of Maine (HE). Minnesota-Mankato (CCHA) gets David Silye from Clarkson University (ECACHL) and Josh Groll from Michigan (Big 10). Tyler Ghirardosi of Quinnipiac University (ECACHL) heads to Worcester and Holy Cross (AHA). Then after his freshmen year at Bentley University (AHA), Christian Felton heads up I-90 to Merrimack College (HE). Canisius College (AHA) gets Jake Witkowski from Boston University (HE) and Randy Hernández from Robert Morris University (AHA). Miami (OH) (NCHC) gets Thomas Daskas from the Air Force Academy (AHA) and Michael Regush of Cornell University (ECACHL). Garrett Clegg goes from Robert Morris heads to D3 SUNY-Oswego (SUNYAC). 76 players have transferred this off-season. There are also 51 grad transfers for an amazing 127 players moving this collegiate off-season. RICHTERS MAKING MOVES William “Beanie” Richter, the youngest son of former Ranger goalie great Mike Richter of Greenwich, has committed to New Haven's Yale University (ECACHL) for 2023-24. The 16-year-old is currently enrolled in Brunswick School in Greenwich. Last year, Richter played just one game with the Penticton Vees (BCHL). He was also a 2020 QMJHL US Draftee by the Cape Breton (Nova Scotia) Eagles. Richter's oldest son, Tom (Greenwich/Brunswick School), also a forward, played at Penticton (BCHL) last year and will be a freshman at Union College (ECACHL) in the fall. Goalie Edvard Nordlund of the Danbury Jr Hat Tricks (NAHL) commits to UMASS-Lowell (HE). Ryan Colwell (Taft School) from the Connecticut Jr. Rangers (NCDC) commits to Albertus Magnus College (NCAA Division III Independent). Sam Mitchell (New Fairfield) commits to Western New England University (CCC) in the fall. Michael McCosh, the son of former New Haven Nighthawk/Senator Shawn McCosh, finishes juniors with the New Mexico Ice Wolves (NAHL) and commits to D3 Buffalo State (SUNYAC). COACHING MOVES The 2022 US WJC coaching staff named head coach Nate Leaman (Providence College-HE) returns for another shot at gold. Joining him are ex-Wolf Pack/Sound Tiger Ted Donato (Harvard University-ECACHL) and Kris Mayotte (Michigan-Big 10). And add traditional rival of Michigan, Steve Miller of Ohio St. (Big 10). In addition, Theresa Feaster (Providence College-HE) returns as their video coach. The 45-player roster at the Canada Junior Development camp held at the Seven Chiefs Sports Complex in Tsuut’ina Nation near Calgary features several Rangers prospects, starting with goalie Dylan Garand of the Kamloops Blazers (WHL), who's coming into his final junior year. Last year, he played two games in Hartford and the recently drafted Brennan Othmann from the Flint Firebirds (OHL). Other notables include Cole Sillinger, Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL), who played in Sioux City Stampede (USHL) last year and is the son of former Sound Tiger Mike Sillinger. Ridley Greig, the son of former Whaler Mark Greig, invited but not attending this camp, is giant forward 6’6 Jack Finley Spokane Chiefs (WHL) who played in Syracuse for ten games last year and is the son ex-Wolf Pack, Jeff Finley. EVEN MORE The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League (NOJHL) and Maritime Junior Hockey League (MHL), which are members of the Junior-A Canadian Junior Hockey League, announced its schedule for the 2021-22 season that will feature all 12 teams NOJHL playing a 56-game schedule and the MHL playing a 52-game schedule. Fellow junior A league member, the Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA du Quebec (QJAAAHL), which canceled its entire 2020-21 season due to COVID-19 pandemic, announced its 2021-22 season would feature 12 teams in three four-team division set-ups will play a 48-game regular season schedule. The Chambly Forts team is the only team in the league to drop out. Only nine of the NOJHL's 12 teams participated in the pandemic shortened 2020-21 season. The schedule dates remain tentative pending approval from the Canadian government and health officials because of the coronavirus. Hartford Wolf Pack HOME Read the full article