Hockey Masks.

Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was a little busy yesterday so he didn't get a chance to blog. But today he wanted to take a moment to mention that he too, like loyal minion Kilgore Trout, does spend time wondering what design he would put on a goalie mask if he were a professional hockey goalie. On Tuesday, Kilgore wrote a great post about this very subject. Your Maximum Leader believes Kilgore should go for the "monster trout brandishing razor-sharp dorsal fins and shooting lightning from its gills" look. The gleaming fangs and red eyes are a little to passe. Of course, if your Maximum Leader were to get himself a goalie mask he would opt for something resembling Sauron's helmet from the opening sequence of the Fellowship of the Ring. But if regulations required that the long spikes be removed (as they would most likely cause attacking players to flee), he might opt for something more along the classical line. Perhaps something like your traditional nordic Viking helmet. Or go more classical and make something based on Agamemnon's mask? Humm... Perhaps he would opt for a regular mask, painted black, but with ancient nordic curses inscribed in runes all around.

The possiblities are endless. And unlike Kilgore, your Maximum Leader doesn't require Meredith Baxter-Birney to be involved with his mask.

Carry on.