About

“To shoot an arrow, you gotta pull it backwards.”

Oh, hi! Didn’t see you there. Not because of my nearsightedness, but because this is the internet and I, literally, could not see you. This page is off to a roaring start, isn’t it?

Welcome to The Captain’s Speech! My name is Paul. I will be the voice inside your head as you read the words I write! Let’s be friends.

This blog was born on June 23, 2013 as a sports blog, but that got boring after two months when I realized I had more I wanted to say, so now I write about anything and everything.

The title of my blog comes from my university days when I was the Captain of my intramural team. I’d give pre-game speeches that didn’t always lead to a win, but always generated a chuckle.

Here are some rapid fire facts about me:

• I love sports.
• My favourite food is pizza.
• I say “serviette” instead of napkin.
• I enjoy conversations about random things.
• I watch wrestling and The Bachelor.
• Some of my favourite songs are: Where The Streets Have No Name by U2; Sleeping Sickness by City & Colour; and Closer To The Edge by 30 Seconds To Mars.
• My favourite colour is blue, I think. No, red. Both.
• I’m not sure if I have a favourite/lucky number, though I seem to favour 2, 19, 22, and 91. Writing that out made me realize I only care about numbers 1, 2, and 9. Ok.
• All of my puns are intended.
• I have a dry sense of humour.
• I’ve never seen Star Wars, Lord of the Rings.
• I prefer non-fiction books.
• I’ve never had tacos, sushi, or Nutella.
• My baseball glove is about 30 years old. I couldn’t imagine wearing a different one.
• At least 10 people have told me I look like Sidney Crosby.

My interests are all over the place, which means this blog is too. If you were to ask me what my blog is about, I wouldn’t know how to answer you. My blog is about me, but you don’t know me, so reading it is the only way to find out.

Many of my posts are written in the middle of the night. I try to make every post sound as if I’m talking, rather than you are reading.

A lot of my posts have jokes in them, so if you don’t like to laugh…uhh I don’t even know how to finish this sentence.

I write about life. I write about sports. I write about me. I write about writing. I write about scenarios in life that no one talks about enough.

Essentially, if a thought pops in my heads, I’ll turn it into a blog post. I like to think I’m constantly coming up with new ideas that will entertain others.

My goal is to make you laugh, think, or cry. Failing that, hopefully you click away from my blog feeling a little bit better than before you got here.

Now then…because I have nowhere else to put it, and because I want to remember the specific dates, here is a list of my blogging accolades which I was somehow deemed worthy of.

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ACCOLADES
My blog has been featured three times on Freshly Pressed:

September 6, 2013: I Miss School, Already

March 28, 2014: Watching The Leafs Isn’t Fun Anymore

May 18, 2015: Growing Up Millennial

…and three times on Discover:

January 16, 2017: Digital Diet

July 17, 2017: Reflecting on Four Years of Blogging

November 8, 2017: Roy Halladay

On December 19, 2017, Discover did a Top 10 list of the most popular features of the year.  My post “Reflecting on Four Years of Blogging” came in at #4.

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Thank you for getting through this About page, which I’ve edited about 81 times. I appreciate it!

Please feel free to leave a comment below.

Your Captain,

Paul