Baked beans are an American/English invention. The genus “phaseolus”, which encompasses most of the common beans found in grocery stores, are native to the Americas. Baked Beans were a Native American dish first combined with maple syrup. This was adapted by colonists, who used brown sugar or molasses instead to avoid Britain’s high tax rate for sugar.
Baked beans became a staple, so much so that Boston became known for it. A century later the American food company HJ Heinz started a canning it at their first factory in 1885. A year later, a factory was opened in the UK and baked beans quickly became part of the UK’s breakfast. The UK version started making their less sweet than the US version and cut out the pork in WW2 due to rationing.
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both of my daughters prefer to watch tv / movies with closed captioning on, it took the missus a couple of years to stop complaining about it. I appreciate that sometimes you get incidental dialog that you might not otherwise hear.
I've gotten used to it by having a MIL who is hard of hearing, however I do not like the new trend of it coming on automatically on both the Fox Sports and ESPN streaming apps. So each time you have to go in to turn them off. On my phone they take up a big portion of the screen so you can't see a lot of the action, Fox is especially bad in my experience.
Both my pops and step-Dad can’t hear a lick (which if you knew Ma Chitwood, you’d understand is both of the dude’s superpowers) but I love good dialogue and writing…the subs allow me to catch so much that I would’ve otherwise missed.
I dunno if it’s an A.D.D. Issue, but I have such a hard time discerning things sometime, esp song lyrics, that the CC just make easier. I would still swear to this day that Boy George and Culture Club say “carmacalize my dreams” in Kharma Chameleon
Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, Rian Johnson show-run and directed the first two episodes. She's a Vegas Cocktail waitress with the gift of being able to tell when people are lying.
Aside from the murders - it's SO MUCH FUN. I'm done with episode 1 and will crank through episodes 2-3 (maybe 4?) soon
Still rewatching Friday Night Lights 18/19 - haven't rewatched it a looooong time so like the one last night hardly remember at all. Women's football game? Also watched Star Wars "Bad Batch" - 1st episode of second season was quite good - but I know other people have complained about other episodes - we'll see.
One of my close friends recommended I watch this movie a few weeks ago, so I did that night and immediately thought it might've been his way of telling me he doesn't want to be friends anymore.
I watched it on the recommendation of my friends/family, who all seemed to like it. I thought it was garbage to middling. The donkey was great and the word play well done, but this is one of those movies that is interesting to talk about but not actually enjoyable to watch. My own view is that the primary objective of any work of fiction is to entertain. So if you fail to do that, you failed. 9/19
Regal Cinema is hosting a $6 showing of all the best picture nominees starting March 6th. I might go watch Everything Everywhere All At Once. My kid saw it and said it was their favorite film ever.
I'm a big fan of Everything Everywhere All At Once.
My wife and I started watching The Way Home on Hallmark. A couple episodes in, there are a surprising number of parallels to EEAAO. Maybe it's an industry trend.
It's my favorite movie of the year and likely the past 10 years. Though I think it is much more impactful in the theater since it is so visually stunning
Taco Chronicles S3. (Netflix 10/19 WNB). The first two seasons were delightful narration about specific types of tacos. Season 3 is geography based ones, which devolves into a narration about a few different places that make tacos well and people fawning over them - which really isn't a compelling story. Even worse, I tried to visit one that was featured in the NYC one and found out that it already closed down before the season dropped. It's not a bad show, it's just not that different from other food shows.
"Night Court" - 8/19. Sigh, I really want to like this more than I do. I LOVED the original series. This one is just too much formula. Melissa Rauch is OK as the judge/Harry Stone's daughter. The rest of the supporting cast is mostly blah (especially the bailiff, who is plain awful - I miss Bull!). John Larroquette is really the only brilliance in this show, and he remains pretty hysterical, even though he looks a lot like Santa in his advanced age. I am going to give this an entire season before I (or NBC) decide to dump it from my viewing list, but I don't have much hope for improvement.
I noted the other day that I (for some reason) watched the pilot of That 90s Show. I haven't/don't plan to watch this NC reboot, but if you want to make it seem better, watch the pilot of T90S. I suspect that NC would seem brilliant
I think it's going to take a while for the non-Judge Stone/Dan Felding characters to come to life. Sitcom characters always take a few episodes - especially when we're comparing them to Christine, Mac and Roz. I'm enjoying it enough to give it a few more episodes.
I know Marsha Warfield is alive. She's been on this season of 9-1-1. I assumed Bull was. I know Markie Post died in 2022 and Harry Anderson a few years ago.
Joe "Bean" Esposito, singer/songwriter of "You're the Best" on the Karate Kid soundtrack, during the rising action in the All Valley Tournament. Gives me the feels every time! Nothing's gonna ever keep you down.
That was a wild game. I wonder if the Grizzlies try harder to beat the Warriors to their detriment. Ja throws his body into the defender and frequently gets the call when it isn't deserved. Klay's second foul wasn't a foul. I think a foul could've been called on Brooks everytime he defended Steph.
Not to mention the Kuminga flagrant foul appeared to be a full on flop, hard to see if he ever made contact, and if he did, pretty unlikely it would have sent him flying, clutching his face.
I heard the announcers saying Steph has only been ejected 3 times and each time it was because he threw his mouthguard
In a later development, a guy right next to him photographed him with a microphone on and said he went into the stands and sat down - speculating that it was just a stupid stunt.
"Oski was a presence on campus all the time, so it was kind of natural for me to name the company after him," Singhal said, who held the titles of Founder and Chief Oski of the business.
Incoming group of newly converted Pentecostals in 3... 2... 1...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/homosexuality-not-a-crime-pope-francis-says-1.6246147
Closed captioning
My b-i-l needs it. When I visit it's kind of nice when we watch the Dubs games and can talk amongst ourselves while still seeing what's being said.
both of my daughters prefer to watch tv / movies with closed captioning on, it took the missus a couple of years to stop complaining about it. I appreciate that sometimes you get incidental dialog that you might not otherwise hear.
Yes! There is sometimes dialogue that is completely inaudible that is transcribed
I don't need this unless it's a language I don't understand.
I've gotten used to it by having a MIL who is hard of hearing, however I do not like the new trend of it coming on automatically on both the Fox Sports and ESPN streaming apps. So each time you have to go in to turn them off. On my phone they take up a big portion of the screen so you can't see a lot of the action, Fox is especially bad in my experience.
I normally make the lettering translucent, so you can see the action through it, just in case.
It is interesting the mistakes that are sometimes made on the live shows.
Yeah I like it for a scripted show. But for sports it is super annoying and unhelpful
yeah...can't have it for live stuff.
Also always a play or two behind
Very handy for following what's going on while infants or spouse are sleeping.
Was a game changer for actually following and understanding GoT, Peaky Blinders, plus all the Brit shows I enjoy watching.
It also did wonders for developing a real appreciation for The Gentleman, one of the better films to come around in the past 5 years IMHO...
I started doing it with the original Shameless. Wasn't until then that I knew that the last word in the title monologue was "scatter"!
now always do it. lots of times I'll read dialog that I don't here, esp background dialog
Both my pops and step-Dad can’t hear a lick (which if you knew Ma Chitwood, you’d understand is both of the dude’s superpowers) but I love good dialogue and writing…the subs allow me to catch so much that I would’ve otherwise missed.
I dunno if it’s an A.D.D. Issue, but I have such a hard time discerning things sometime, esp song lyrics, that the CC just make easier. I would still swear to this day that Boy George and Culture Club say “carmacalize my dreams” in Kharma Chameleon
I think captioning should stay open, I'm totally against closing it.
DBD AV Club
First three episodes of Poker Face dropped today.
Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, Rian Johnson show-run and directed the first two episodes. She's a Vegas Cocktail waitress with the gift of being able to tell when people are lying.
Aside from the murders - it's SO MUCH FUN. I'm done with episode 1 and will crank through episodes 2-3 (maybe 4?) soon
sounds good, but Peacock? Do I need to subscribe? I think I can watch (with ads), right?
Still rewatching Friday Night Lights 18/19 - haven't rewatched it a looooong time so like the one last night hardly remember at all. Women's football game? Also watched Star Wars "Bad Batch" - 1st episode of second season was quite good - but I know other people have complained about other episodes - we'll see.
Banshees of Inishrerin
Want to catch some of the Best Picture nominated films, so I watched this one on HBO. Yikes man, pretty bleak.
One of my close friends recommended I watch this movie a few weeks ago, so I did that night and immediately thought it might've been his way of telling me he doesn't want to be friends anymore.
I watched it on the recommendation of my friends/family, who all seemed to like it. I thought it was garbage to middling. The donkey was great and the word play well done, but this is one of those movies that is interesting to talk about but not actually enjoyable to watch. My own view is that the primary objective of any work of fiction is to entertain. So if you fail to do that, you failed. 9/19
After reading that they were nominated, I caught the trailer on HBO and I was like 😬
Regal Cinema is hosting a $6 showing of all the best picture nominees starting March 6th. I might go watch Everything Everywhere All At Once. My kid saw it and said it was their favorite film ever.
https://consequence.net/2023/01/regal-cinemas-best-picture-oscar-nominees/
I'm a big fan of Everything Everywhere All At Once.
My wife and I started watching The Way Home on Hallmark. A couple episodes in, there are a surprising number of parallels to EEAAO. Maybe it's an industry trend.
EEAAO is next up...maybe tonight.
It's my favorite movie of the year and likely the past 10 years. Though I think it is much more impactful in the theater since it is so visually stunning
Taco Chronicles S3. (Netflix 10/19 WNB). The first two seasons were delightful narration about specific types of tacos. Season 3 is geography based ones, which devolves into a narration about a few different places that make tacos well and people fawning over them - which really isn't a compelling story. Even worse, I tried to visit one that was featured in the NYC one and found out that it already closed down before the season dropped. It's not a bad show, it's just not that different from other food shows.
"Night Court" - 8/19. Sigh, I really want to like this more than I do. I LOVED the original series. This one is just too much formula. Melissa Rauch is OK as the judge/Harry Stone's daughter. The rest of the supporting cast is mostly blah (especially the bailiff, who is plain awful - I miss Bull!). John Larroquette is really the only brilliance in this show, and he remains pretty hysterical, even though he looks a lot like Santa in his advanced age. I am going to give this an entire season before I (or NBC) decide to dump it from my viewing list, but I don't have much hope for improvement.
I noted the other day that I (for some reason) watched the pilot of That 90s Show. I haven't/don't plan to watch this NC reboot, but if you want to make it seem better, watch the pilot of T90S. I suspect that NC would seem brilliant
I think it's going to take a while for the non-Judge Stone/Dan Felding characters to come to life. Sitcom characters always take a few episodes - especially when we're comparing them to Christine, Mac and Roz. I'm enjoying it enough to give it a few more episodes.
I've watched the first 2 episodes. It's not bad. I wonder if they'll bring both Bull and Marsha Warfield back for cameos.
I think they mentioned in episode 2 that everyone else has passed away? Although they were on 30 Rock!
I know Marsha Warfield is alive. She's been on this season of 9-1-1. I assumed Bull was. I know Markie Post died in 2022 and Harry Anderson a few years ago.
The missus and I found the third episode to be awful. Giving it one more chance.
I agree with every word. Disappointed in the reboot. On the plus side American Auto is back for season two and the first episode was hilarious.
Giraffe
Just saw a news story that one has been born at the Sacramento Zoo.
Giraffes getting too excited about moving to Elk Grove.
Dice
I'm sure that there's something punny going on, but what's with the dice in the beans (in the photo)?
Bean
beans beans, a musical flute, etc.
3 years to the date that Kobe Bean Bryant passed away
Joe "Bean" Esposito, singer/songwriter of "You're the Best" on the Karate Kid soundtrack, during the rising action in the All Valley Tournament. Gives me the feels every time! Nothing's gonna ever keep you down.
Frances Cobain
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn2vv4VsUZm/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Baked Beans, bureau drawers, and books. Lights and lamps and hats and hooks.
I typed almost all that out from memory.
Baked beans are a staple food. And can be darned good if you add the right amount of brown sugar!
Uh, yuck!
Mister
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
PRO
Dame scores 60 in the Blazers' win over the Jazz 134-124
https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401468882
He is being wasted up there! Love to watch him
Dubs beat Grizzlies in a wild 122-120 win, which included Curry getting ejected for throwing his mouthguard
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35529324/warriors-battle-back-stephen-curry-tossed-throwing-mouthpiece
That was a wild game. I wonder if the Grizzlies try harder to beat the Warriors to their detriment. Ja throws his body into the defender and frequently gets the call when it isn't deserved. Klay's second foul wasn't a foul. I think a foul could've been called on Brooks everytime he defended Steph.
Not to mention the Kuminga flagrant foul appeared to be a full on flop, hard to see if he ever made contact, and if he did, pretty unlikely it would have sent him flying, clutching his face.
I heard the announcers saying Steph has only been ejected 3 times and each time it was because he threw his mouthguard
Elsewhere in college
A dumb development at Duquesne/Chicago Loyola MBB game. A food delivery guy walks onto the court with a McD's bag during the game.
https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1618427086586142720
In a later development, a guy right next to him photographed him with a microphone on and said he went into the stands and sat down - speculating that it was just a stupid stunt.
https://twitter.com/AustinHansenTV/status/1618484372541440001
Yeah - a food delivery guy isn't going to get access to the arena OR floor level without a ticket
That's what I assumed, like the shitty NBA crowd stunts
LSU accidentally overpaid Brian Kelly $1m in 2022. Must be nice to not notice an extra $100k in your bank account each month.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35526753/audit-lsu-discovered-1m-overpayment-brian-kelly-2022
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Thank you Vigyan Singhal and Sonali Bhushan
https://calbears.com/news/2023/1/23/generous-gift-provides-new-position-at-cameron-institute.aspx
"Oski was a presence on campus all the time, so it was kind of natural for me to name the company after him," Singhal said, who held the titles of Founder and Chief Oski of the business.
I hope he put that on his business card.