On at this very moment is Light Years by The National, which is just a song on my Daily Mix 2 today. Next up: Feist, Junip, Noah Kahan with Sam Fender, Alexei Murdoch and Michael Kiwanuka. MK is the only one I am knowingly familiar with.
A covers album of Slayer songs but done in a doom metal style, featuring members of bands like Lowrider, Kylesa, Monolord, and Fu Manchu. I love SLAYER and I love doom so this is right in the ol’ wheelhouse.
The new Green Day (Saviors) and also Dookie. The sept concert at Pac Bell park will include all of Dookie and American Idiot since it's the 30th and 20th anniversary for those two.
The Montreal-style bagel or Montreal bagel is a distinctive variety of handmade and wood-fired baked bagel. In contrast to the New York-style bagel, the Montreal bagel is smaller, thinner, sweeter and denser, with a larger hole, and is always baked in a wood-fired oven. It contains malt, egg, and no salt, and is boiled in honey-sweetened water before being baked.
Most people hate the oily, funky fish - but I love it. My wife is out of town all month, so I cooked a mackerel-based dish (pasta, big can of mackerel, roasted tomatoes, fresh bell pepper, parmesan, garlic, S&P). But it's so strong and its hard to eat a lot of it even though I love it. I have decided that it is a controversial flavor, so I should never cook it as a main again. I would describe it like a tuba. Everyone normal would probably prefer it in the band's background so much so that they don't even notice it individually and I shouldn't try to convert people to my love of the occasional seasonal tuba solo.
when i first met my wife - who ate mostly veggies - she would always ask "does fish X have a fishy taste?"
i didnt know how to answer because all fish has some fish taste, otherwise it would taste like chicken. so i would always say yes, this salmon tastes like salmon and this tuna tastes like tuna.
What's weird is No 2 doesn't like fishy fishes but loves Salmon. It's about the only one he'll eat when cooked a specific way. Basically pan fried skin side down on low heat with some salt and pepper.
Tonight: MBB vs. Stanfurd, WBB vs. Arizona, T&F: New Mexico Open (an indoor meet with lots of teams). How fast is Cal WR Mason Mangum? He's on Cal's 60m sprint and long jump teams.
I was planning on going to the hoops tonight, but friend decided to go skiing with fam instead. Still haven't been this season, even tho it seems entertaining-ish.
Who out there goes? Maybe can meet up.
Or if anyone wants to sample the team, I do have two season tix. I can forward you tix if I'm not using (which is most of the time).
oddly enough, seeing my parents marriage, it never seemed like a great thing. on the other hand we are all sort of socialized to think it is going to be great even if your local examples are not.
i have certainly gotten a good massage and it feels great for an hour. i dont get much last benefit or emotional lift from it the way other people seem to.
i prefer a good sauna or steam room or hot tub experience
also, getting beaten w/ platza leaves in the Russian-Turkish bathhouse is a great and worthy experience.
If you drive about four hours east of me in North Carolina, you'll get to the Outer Banks. As you get to the shore, you'll start to notice that many of the places are clearly Scottish names. Outer Banks is a long barrier island - actually a few barrier islands that are all connected by a highway now. Actually, it's all connected except for one populated island and a few unpopulated protected nature reserves. The populated Island is Okracoke Island and it is still exceptionally difficult to get there - which means the residents still retain some original Elizabethan-era language. Okracokians speak a very thick brogue that sounds like Scottish/Irish/Deep South. They're not dumb or completely isolated, so they can switch to a standard North Carolina accent, but they'll still have words and phrases that are incomprehensible.
Apropos: all eight of my great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Japan in the 1880s due to the anti-Chinese immigration laws (supported by Gov Leland Stanford Sr) that had loopholes for Japanese to come instead. All four of my grandparents knew and spoke Japanese - one exclusively speaking Japanese and not learning English despite being born and raised in the SF Bay Area. They all visited Japan at some time in their lives, but had to have translators because the Japanese couldn't understand their Meiji-era dialect.
SGBear: how old were they when they came to US. and how many years later was the visit back to Japan. Like the 1920s (so far enough after Meiji to have the language be an issue).
With that, I recall going to BAM (on Durant, when the building was an art museum) 15+ years ago when they had a Taisho Chic exhibit. All the hybrid Japanese-flapper ads, etc. Was interesting and aesthetically pleasing. I like that mash-up era of advertising...
[Re-reading: it was the *great* grands who came from Japan and the grands who went back. Maybe they were kids? So the grands coulda been traveling in the 30s? at least pre-WWII sometime. So maybe even post Taisho?]
Wasn't this local vs. federal thing roughly the plot to the 1981 movie "Taps" starring George C Scott, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, and Tom Cruise? And TIL that Giancarlo "Gus Fring" Esposito was in Taps.
I just found out last week that he was "Buggin' Out" in Do the Right Thing. I was sitting in a bar in Luang Prabang chatting with a guy who reminded me of Buggin Out so I looked him up on IMDB
Iowa, which already requires the Pledge of Allegiance, has a bill under consideration to force public school teachers and students to sing the national anthem every school day. Freedom!
Trump shits all over his own legal case as he testifies during closing arguments. There have been stories of Trumps lawyers all telling him to not take the stand because he's such a loose cannon. He wants to because he sees it as a media platform, but often his lawyers can get him to stand down. Alina Habba couldn't get him to stand down and so he testified for the damages phase of his second defamation case he's lost against E. Jean Carroll. Alina Habba's closing arguments teed up Trump on a defense story line that Trump was saying political hyperbole and there was no actual malice or damage was intended - but Trump went off script, directly confirmed the prosecution's arguments, and even confirmed that he intentionally did it with malice - which opens the door toward punitive damages. All he had to do was say a few minimizing comments or even nothing, but he just couldn't help himself. The case continues today.
I think his lawyer is (not) getting paid by the "Objection. Overruled". IANAL, but I guess lawyers do that even though they know they'll be overruled to get a point across.
Hmm...over-objecting is a bit like crying wolf and most judges will not allow a speaking objection that would allow the attorney to "get the point across." The "getting the point across" usually comes in the form of an attorney making a statement that is inflammatory or which they know will warrant a sustained objection. The judge will tell the jury to disregard the statement, but the attorney still gets a point across. You know, like Mickey Haller does!
Trump and lawyers were late, Trump got bundled in, and then stormed out within minutes. Then his lawyers are almost O-fer on their objections and are absolutely getting their asses handed to them by the judge. One warning to Habba to tell her to sit down and shut up when its not her turn to speak. A sidebar to set Trump's lawyers straight on what they can and can't insist is evidence. Trump terrible behavior and his lawyer's incompetence/having their defense blown up yesterday by their client is on full display.
Looks like the Jury is in deliberation. O/U on deliberation time? They're towards the end of day today so I'm going to say tomorrow afternoon. maybe 245 EST
International Court of Justice rules 15-2 that Israel should stop killing people in the Gaza. That's it people. That will totally do something and we're done here. /s
Yeah, folks will just ignore the ICJ. As the US does, yes? I guess that's the Int'l Criminal Court, from which we withdrew. Not sure the diff...[Ah, ICJ seems to address conflicts between countries and ICC deals with people.]
Wrote up something long-ish about this "diluting the meaning of 'genocide'", but decided not to post.
It should go without saying that the most humane method of execution is no execution. But that's not the popular narrative in public discourse, and it's a given that the default perspective is in favor of capital punishment.
A similar thing occurs with the issue of a woman's bodily autonomy. A woman's bodily autonomy is about more than reproductive choice. It is about other issues including being able to give or withhold consent in all sorts of bodily contact and physical intimacy. Why is the default that women must (1) assert their rights to bodily autonomy and (2) loudly object to violations of that autonomy when discussions about reproductive choice and sexual assault are raised? The very opposite should be true: that we start from the perspective that women have bodily autonomy as a given AND that any legislation or acts that violate that autonomy are assaults on women.
The mainstream press is complicit in this atmosphere of women as second class humans in the way stories are framed and the use of the words "abortion", "abortion rights", while also assuming that women are incapable of making their own choices about physical intimacy.
It's not humane when the condemned is resisting execution.
The most humane methods, now that lethal injection has been shown not to be humane, is either hanging or firing squad. Of the two, I would think that hanging would be quickest and most likely to be painless.
George Carlin's estate sues platform that produces an AI generated show using his voice and material as sources information. I, for one, am against this sort of thing and am interested to see how this case develops.
The Bear (Hulu, S2 E8-10). I have a tendency to "savor" my favorite shows, saving the last episodes because I don't want it to end. In this case, I paused watching after watching S2E7 "Forks" with the redemption arc of Richie because it was so good. I rewatched the "Is this beneath you? Dude, I love this so much" scene again from E7 then I binged the final three last night.
E8 "Bolognese" was essentially the climax of the season - a comedy/drama based upon love/loss, pain/joy, and all put on hot-buttered rollerskates of chaos. Season 2 is about personal story arcs, not the group story in Season 1. And it all comes down - everybody's crushing weight of a lifetime of hopes, dreams, and disappointments balancing on a proverbial pin against literal tensile strength of a blue balloon. What a masterful job of creating suffocating suspense.
E9 "Omelette" is essentially a set-up episode for the final - setting the conditions as to why each character ends the way they do after the Finale. There are a ton of "Chekhov's guns" in this episode - items included in a story and because they are there, they will be important later on.
E10 "Friends and Family" All of Chekhov's guns go off. Everybody's story arcs complete - except one, which sets up Season 3.
Phenomenal series. The best of 2023 (19/19, WB). I may watch this again.
Oregon State baseball will go independent next season, but under the Pac-12 banner. OSU and WSU became affiliate members of the WCC for two years, but that didn't include baseball due to OSU's strength. I guess this means that Wazzu baseball is independent unless they want to be the Pac-1.
Barf. Run-oriented scheme in Tampa Bay though they failed to consistently run the ball. Bryce Young is not an NFL QB, and Mike Tepper is a meddlesome owner.
I let it grow out without any cuts from age 14 to 16. My hair is very straight, so it wasn't unruly exactly, but in retrospect I'm not sure what I was thinking.
I buzzed my head in 2020 due to Covid. I've buzzed it as a teenager and it looked fine. However, this last time, I looked like my late father enough to really be upsetting.
What are you listening to now? It doesn't have to be good. Just something that happens to be on.
The Best of Blondie
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars ...
On at this very moment is Light Years by The National, which is just a song on my Daily Mix 2 today. Next up: Feist, Junip, Noah Kahan with Sam Fender, Alexei Murdoch and Michael Kiwanuka. MK is the only one I am knowingly familiar with.
Slower
A covers album of Slayer songs but done in a doom metal style, featuring members of bands like Lowrider, Kylesa, Monolord, and Fu Manchu. I love SLAYER and I love doom so this is right in the ol’ wheelhouse.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3d8XUMZuE3thn8C0oEsh63?si=QitqtxOvQ_q_i0Qi8_g6vQ
Ordinary Elephant - Americana folk.
Sirsy - Rock n’ Roll from upstate New York.
Cat Power sings Dylan
Zach Bryan
Ian Noe
The new Green Day (Saviors) and also Dookie. The sept concert at Pac Bell park will include all of Dookie and American Idiot since it's the 30th and 20th anniversary for those two.
I’ve also been listening to this a lot at the gym.
Archeological artefact of a revolver from the Battle of Gettysburg uncovered at [checks notes] the Walmart garbage
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/01/gun-from-civil-war-found-in-trash-can-at-gettysburg-walmart.html
EATS
Montreal-style bagels .. had one for breakfast
The Montreal-style bagel or Montreal bagel is a distinctive variety of handmade and wood-fired baked bagel. In contrast to the New York-style bagel, the Montreal bagel is smaller, thinner, sweeter and denser, with a larger hole, and is always baked in a wood-fired oven. It contains malt, egg, and no salt, and is boiled in honey-sweetened water before being baked.
And is superior to the NY bagel in all ways
indeed.
luckily there are a couple places in NYC where it is relatively easy to get some.
Black Seed Bagels are the biggest, easiest place.
Mackerel.
Most people hate the oily, funky fish - but I love it. My wife is out of town all month, so I cooked a mackerel-based dish (pasta, big can of mackerel, roasted tomatoes, fresh bell pepper, parmesan, garlic, S&P). But it's so strong and its hard to eat a lot of it even though I love it. I have decided that it is a controversial flavor, so I should never cook it as a main again. I would describe it like a tuba. Everyone normal would probably prefer it in the band's background so much so that they don't even notice it individually and I shouldn't try to convert people to my love of the occasional seasonal tuba solo.
when i first met my wife - who ate mostly veggies - she would always ask "does fish X have a fishy taste?"
i didnt know how to answer because all fish has some fish taste, otherwise it would taste like chicken. so i would always say yes, this salmon tastes like salmon and this tuna tastes like tuna.
Nah. Salmon is super fishy. Cod and Sole are not fishy.
What's weird is No 2 doesn't like fishy fishes but loves Salmon. It's about the only one he'll eat when cooked a specific way. Basically pan fried skin side down on low heat with some salt and pepper.
since i grew up eating fish of all sorts i didnt appreciate that there were fishy fishes and not-so-fishy fishes.
Horse Mackerel or Spanish Mackerel is my go-to sushi that is outside the normal list of things
Japanese people love mackerel. Fishier the better.
My wife (from Japan) just had Saba-gari maki for lunch yesterday. Glad I wasn't in the house to smell it. but it's raw, so not too bad
🤜
In Nara (outside Osaka), we had their Mackerel sushi specialty. Mackerel nigiri wrapped in a persimmon leaf. It was phenomenal.
Oakland chefs for Burdell, Lion Dance Cafe, and Daytrip all recognized as great
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/24/oakland-chefs-james-beard-semifinalists
Cal
Cal Trivia: Name Jared Goff's team number as a Spring semester enrollee at Cal.
Go Bears!!!
Hell yeah!
https://twitter.com/CalFootball/status/1750958613324308824
Tonight: MBB vs. Stanfurd, WBB vs. Arizona, T&F: New Mexico Open (an indoor meet with lots of teams). How fast is Cal WR Mason Mangum? He's on Cal's 60m sprint and long jump teams.
I was planning on going to the hoops tonight, but friend decided to go skiing with fam instead. Still haven't been this season, even tho it seems entertaining-ish.
Who out there goes? Maybe can meet up.
Or if anyone wants to sample the team, I do have two season tix. I can forward you tix if I'm not using (which is most of the time).
What is a severely overrated experience?
Marriage ;-)
oddly enough, seeing my parents marriage, it never seemed like a great thing. on the other hand we are all sort of socialized to think it is going to be great even if your local examples are not.
I have not witnessed a single marriage in my orbit that is appealing enough to me to ever think about giving it a try.
I doubt that would be the case were I in your orbit.
a massage. i think perhaps it is just me.
i have certainly gotten a good massage and it feels great for an hour. i dont get much last benefit or emotional lift from it the way other people seem to.
i prefer a good sauna or steam room or hot tub experience
also, getting beaten w/ platza leaves in the Russian-Turkish bathhouse is a great and worthy experience.
I am sure you are not alone in your preference for flogging
What is the hardest native English-speaking accent (eg, Boston Southie) for you to understand?
Okracoke
If you drive about four hours east of me in North Carolina, you'll get to the Outer Banks. As you get to the shore, you'll start to notice that many of the places are clearly Scottish names. Outer Banks is a long barrier island - actually a few barrier islands that are all connected by a highway now. Actually, it's all connected except for one populated island and a few unpopulated protected nature reserves. The populated Island is Okracoke Island and it is still exceptionally difficult to get there - which means the residents still retain some original Elizabethan-era language. Okracokians speak a very thick brogue that sounds like Scottish/Irish/Deep South. They're not dumb or completely isolated, so they can switch to a standard North Carolina accent, but they'll still have words and phrases that are incomprehensible.
Apropos: all eight of my great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Japan in the 1880s due to the anti-Chinese immigration laws (supported by Gov Leland Stanford Sr) that had loopholes for Japanese to come instead. All four of my grandparents knew and spoke Japanese - one exclusively speaking Japanese and not learning English despite being born and raised in the SF Bay Area. They all visited Japan at some time in their lives, but had to have translators because the Japanese couldn't understand their Meiji-era dialect.
SGBear: how old were they when they came to US. and how many years later was the visit back to Japan. Like the 1920s (so far enough after Meiji to have the language be an issue).
With that, I recall going to BAM (on Durant, when the building was an art museum) 15+ years ago when they had a Taisho Chic exhibit. All the hybrid Japanese-flapper ads, etc. Was interesting and aesthetically pleasing. I like that mash-up era of advertising...
[Re-reading: it was the *great* grands who came from Japan and the grands who went back. Maybe they were kids? So the grands coulda been traveling in the 30s? at least pre-WWII sometime. So maybe even post Taisho?]
Fascinating!
PRO
49ers HC Shanahan playfully sets a reporter straight
https://twitter.com/KNBR/status/1750605626768806316
I do not believe he has a playful bone in his body. The man is a walking downer.
Atlanta Falcon owner takes control and decides to hire Raheem Morris as HC
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39387574/sources-falcons-hire-rams-raheem-morris-coach
Yawn. Defense minded retread on a team with 3 top 10 picks at the skill positions. Boo.
Atlanta Falcons owner demotes the team's President Rich McKay. He now runs the owner's MLS team.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/falcons-make-cosmetic-changes-to-rich-mckays-title-and-official-duties
Jurgen Klopp stepping down at Liverpool after this season
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39392653/liverpool-boss-jurgen-klopp-leave-end-season
Wizards make HC Unseld disappear
https://twitter.com/JeffZillgitt/status/1750505603569475932
Canadian hockey team does one day rebrand that I can appreciate
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/prince-albert-whl-team-cobra-chickens-1.7092324
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Guy who isn't a governor nor president calls on states' National Guards to go to Texas
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv7p7/trump-national-guard-texas-border-dispute-federal-government-standoff
Wasn't this local vs. federal thing roughly the plot to the 1981 movie "Taps" starring George C Scott, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, and Tom Cruise? And TIL that Giancarlo "Gus Fring" Esposito was in Taps.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083169/mediaviewer/rm2121457408?ft0=name&fv0=nm0002064&ft1=image_type&fv1=still_frame&ref_=tt_ch
Giancarlo Esposito was also in Trading Places. Look for him in the jailhouse scene.
I just found out last week that he was "Buggin' Out" in Do the Right Thing. I was sitting in a bar in Luang Prabang chatting with a guy who reminded me of Buggin Out so I looked him up on IMDB
Iowa, which already requires the Pledge of Allegiance, has a bill under consideration to force public school teachers and students to sing the national anthem every school day. Freedom!
https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-bill-would-require-teachers-students-to-sing-national-anthem-at-school-every-day/46535489
Sounds like a First Amendment violation to me.
Trump shits all over his own legal case as he testifies during closing arguments. There have been stories of Trumps lawyers all telling him to not take the stand because he's such a loose cannon. He wants to because he sees it as a media platform, but often his lawyers can get him to stand down. Alina Habba couldn't get him to stand down and so he testified for the damages phase of his second defamation case he's lost against E. Jean Carroll. Alina Habba's closing arguments teed up Trump on a defense story line that Trump was saying political hyperbole and there was no actual malice or damage was intended - but Trump went off script, directly confirmed the prosecution's arguments, and even confirmed that he intentionally did it with malice - which opens the door toward punitive damages. All he had to do was say a few minimizing comments or even nothing, but he just couldn't help himself. The case continues today.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68071744
That live action tweet thread from yesterday was great.
Found today's closing argument thread:
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1750891486202282150
OMFG, the live tweets are amazing.
I think his lawyer is (not) getting paid by the "Objection. Overruled". IANAL, but I guess lawyers do that even though they know they'll be overruled to get a point across.
Hmm...over-objecting is a bit like crying wolf and most judges will not allow a speaking objection that would allow the attorney to "get the point across." The "getting the point across" usually comes in the form of an attorney making a statement that is inflammatory or which they know will warrant a sustained objection. The judge will tell the jury to disregard the statement, but the attorney still gets a point across. You know, like Mickey Haller does!
Trump and lawyers were late, Trump got bundled in, and then stormed out within minutes. Then his lawyers are almost O-fer on their objections and are absolutely getting their asses handed to them by the judge. One warning to Habba to tell her to sit down and shut up when its not her turn to speak. A sidebar to set Trump's lawyers straight on what they can and can't insist is evidence. Trump terrible behavior and his lawyer's incompetence/having their defense blown up yesterday by their client is on full display.
Looks like the Jury is in deliberation. O/U on deliberation time? They're towards the end of day today so I'm going to say tomorrow afternoon. maybe 245 EST
International Court of Justice rules 15-2 that Israel should stop killing people in the Gaza. That's it people. That will totally do something and we're done here. /s
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-68097640
Yeah, folks will just ignore the ICJ. As the US does, yes? I guess that's the Int'l Criminal Court, from which we withdrew. Not sure the diff...[Ah, ICJ seems to address conflicts between countries and ICC deals with people.]
Wrote up something long-ish about this "diluting the meaning of 'genocide'", but decided not to post.
Alabama executes man via nitrogen. It took 3 minutes for him to die. Is this more humane than - say - a plastic bag over his head?
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2024/01/alabama-to-execute-kenneth-smith-with-untested-nitrogen-gas-tonight.html
It should go without saying that the most humane method of execution is no execution. But that's not the popular narrative in public discourse, and it's a given that the default perspective is in favor of capital punishment.
A similar thing occurs with the issue of a woman's bodily autonomy. A woman's bodily autonomy is about more than reproductive choice. It is about other issues including being able to give or withhold consent in all sorts of bodily contact and physical intimacy. Why is the default that women must (1) assert their rights to bodily autonomy and (2) loudly object to violations of that autonomy when discussions about reproductive choice and sexual assault are raised? The very opposite should be true: that we start from the perspective that women have bodily autonomy as a given AND that any legislation or acts that violate that autonomy are assaults on women.
The mainstream press is complicit in this atmosphere of women as second class humans in the way stories are framed and the use of the words "abortion", "abortion rights", while also assuming that women are incapable of making their own choices about physical intimacy.
Rant over.
It's not humane when the condemned is resisting execution.
The most humane methods, now that lethal injection has been shown not to be humane, is either hanging or firing squad. Of the two, I would think that hanging would be quickest and most likely to be painless.
TEN minutes. Fucking reprehensible.
Trump warns that Haley supporters will be "permanently banned from MAGA camp". Making enemies with potential supporters is a bold strategic move.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4428148-trump-warns-haley-donors-will-be-permanently-barred-maga-camp/
Trump is ahead of the game, purging the disloyals before he becomes the first fuhrer of America.
DBD STREET JOURNAL
DBD AV CLUB
Finished S1 of You. Still processing my thoughts on it.
You finish Loudermilk?
I did. Enjoyed it…found S3E9, the penultimate episode, extremely painful to watch tho.
Was that the daughter’s work party?
E7(?) was the opposite. When he shows up at the door and reconnects. A big mood swing!
Ya. I love Brian Regan but found that work event cringeworthy…sigh.
George Carlin's estate sues platform that produces an AI generated show using his voice and material as sources information. I, for one, am against this sort of thing and am interested to see how this case develops.
https://apnews.com/article/george-carlin-artificial-intelligence-special-lawsuit-39d64f728f7a6a621f25d3f4789acadd
Good. I hope the estate wins and takes them for every gawd-damned penny possible.
AI has made bullies of a lot of people and exposed them for their greed.
The Bear (Hulu, S2 E8-10). I have a tendency to "savor" my favorite shows, saving the last episodes because I don't want it to end. In this case, I paused watching after watching S2E7 "Forks" with the redemption arc of Richie because it was so good. I rewatched the "Is this beneath you? Dude, I love this so much" scene again from E7 then I binged the final three last night.
E8 "Bolognese" was essentially the climax of the season - a comedy/drama based upon love/loss, pain/joy, and all put on hot-buttered rollerskates of chaos. Season 2 is about personal story arcs, not the group story in Season 1. And it all comes down - everybody's crushing weight of a lifetime of hopes, dreams, and disappointments balancing on a proverbial pin against literal tensile strength of a blue balloon. What a masterful job of creating suffocating suspense.
E9 "Omelette" is essentially a set-up episode for the final - setting the conditions as to why each character ends the way they do after the Finale. There are a ton of "Chekhov's guns" in this episode - items included in a story and because they are there, they will be important later on.
E10 "Friends and Family" All of Chekhov's guns go off. Everybody's story arcs complete - except one, which sets up Season 3.
Phenomenal series. The best of 2023 (19/19, WB). I may watch this again.
I have "savored" shows as well. Especially when the series finale is coming up. I leave 2 or 3 to binge at a later date. Not sure why I do this.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
UOP basketball scored [checks notes] 28 points
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401589689
Oregon State baseball will go independent next season, but under the Pac-12 banner. OSU and WSU became affiliate members of the WCC for two years, but that didn't include baseball due to OSU's strength. I guess this means that Wazzu baseball is independent unless they want to be the Pac-1.
https://twitter.com/ChrisVannini/status/1750940873838260488
[MBB] #9 Arizona @ Oregon State (the worst team in Pac-12)
https://twitter.com/BeaverMBB/status/1750766074927390987
That game winner was nothing but bottoms…splash.
Good universities favor rich kids, according to lawsuit. Shocking, I know. [Looks at list of defendant and then gives a sigh of relief]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/24/brown-yale-columbia-lawsuit-wealthy-applicants
Carolina Panthers hire Dave Canales as HC
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39386316/panthers-hire-buccaneers-dave-canales-coach
Barf. Run-oriented scheme in Tampa Bay though they failed to consistently run the ball. Bryce Young is not an NFL QB, and Mike Tepper is a meddlesome owner.
This ends badly.
Post fail
LSU receiver charged for betting on games that he played in
https://www.wafb.com/2024/01/25/kayshon-boutte-charged-illegal-sports-gaming-scheme/
Gov. Hobbs fires a shot across the U of Arizona's Regents bow. I think the next salvo with be right amongst their ranks.
https://twitter.com/GovernorHobbs/status/1750697791171768526
Dino Babers hired at Arizona as OC. If I'm an Arizona fan, I'm not sure that I'd be excited by this.
What was your most unfortunate hair choice?
I let it grow out without any cuts from age 14 to 16. My hair is very straight, so it wasn't unruly exactly, but in retrospect I'm not sure what I was thinking.
Allowing a former gf’s hairdresser roommate to dye my hair.
I buzzed my head in 2020 due to Covid. I've buzzed it as a teenager and it looked fine. However, this last time, I looked like my late father enough to really be upsetting.
You’re a handsome man nonetheless.