StarsScene

So who am I exactly?

Well I am Art Middleton… Nice to meet you.

I am a 31 year old male living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada which as I am repeatedly told by Edmonton Oilers marketing is “The Heartland Of Hockey” and also “Oil Country.”  Despite that though I am not an Oilers fan.  Sure they are an ok team but they and their fan base get on my nerves after a while.  It’s kinda like how Chris Tucker was ok in the first Rush Hour movie and then just steadily got more annoying with each passing movie after.

HA!  The Oilers are officially the “Chris Tucker” of the NHL!

Anyway, I’m a hardcore Dallas Stars fan dating back to around the 89/90 season when I was 12 and when the Stars were actually North Stars and were playing out of a 3/4 empty Met Center in Bloomington, MN. with a fresh faced kid from the Prince Albert Raiders named Mike Modano having had just joined the club.  They moved to Dallas a few years later of course and they even more importantly repeatedly made the Oilers their playoff bitches season after season a few years after that move (though the proud tradition of Stars whipping Oiler ass was actually started in the 1991 playoffs back in Minny) and with that I became a commited Stars die-hard.

Just to give you the run down on all the other sports and teams I root for…  Calgary Stampeders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Antonio Spurs, Minnesota Twins, Houston Astros (I’m think I’m allowed to have two teams as they are technically in different ‘leagues’) and I have a special place in my heart for the Swift Current Broncos of the WHL since in a strange way I still call my “hometown team” even though I haven’t lived in Swift Current since I was 5 years old (or something like that…)

Of course I have other interests outside of sports… I love music, stand-up comedy, video games, long walks on the beach and sleeping in when possible.  I’m a single male (which means I still get to watch sports on my TV when I want without fear of having it interrupted by whatever drama it is women like to watch right now…) with no kids (*insert “that I know of” joke here*), but I do have a black cat named “Ninja” that pretty much acts like an attention starved child, so it all balances out.

Now as for this website/blog…

StarsScene from it’s start in 2007 until June of 2009 used to soley be about my thoughts and opinions as a fan of the Dallas Stars living a few thousand miles away from them and of hockey and sports in general.

But in the aforementioned June of 09 I also started writing for SBN’s “Defending Big D” which ironically enough is a fantastic blog covering the Dallas Stars, so most of my Stars ranting and raving will be on that site, while the general sports comments and amusing opinions (I hope) I have get directed here.

I can’t promise you any in-depth news coverage, and I’ll leave the “creating rumors out of thin air by throwing darts at a board and seeing what I get” news to other blogs… What I can assure you though is you’ll get my flat out honest opinions and views on whatever catches my attention sporting wise.

Why should you care what some random 31 year old from Alberta, Canada thinks?

I really don’t know, but hey, you may as well waste your time here rather than some usless application on Facebook right?

Thanks for reading!