Lawsuit alleges a Wynn casino dealer played around a guy who went into cardiac arrest for 20 minutes. No word on whether Wynn will play Kenny Rogers as their main defense strategy.
Rep George Santos - the lead guitarist for Panic at the Disco! - went on the Piers Morgan talk show and admits that he has been "a terrible liar" and then proceeds to lie more.
Great choice of meat for fish tacos. We used to have a lake not so far away that had a good fishable population, but mis-management of the lake, where weed control was too effective, left the lake almost devoid of both perch and trout, not to mention bass (no cover, no food so no reproduction), so its been a while since I've caught a stringer of perch.
If I don't have anything else going on I like to go for a walk around Roosevelt Island in the late afternoon. Currently the timing works out to be right around sunset and I've been seeing the turkeys fly up to roost for the night so I can tell you where their perch is.
Cobra Kai - season one. Now I had heard about that TV show some, and thought "it might be ok" - but was hardly interested in watching it. We watched The Karate Kid (1984) over a month ago with my daughter - she liked it.
Anyway, I thought I'd try it, since there were so many fans here, and FUCK YEAH, I thought it was a lot of fun, and actually quite good. So we watched the first 3 episodes, and told my daughter she should watch those so we could watch them together - and she was quite grouchy about that. But last night, she surprised me by saying she'd watched 5 episodes! So we had to watch two last night - so much fun, and so much surprise.
Bingewatching Adventure Time on HBO Max, because why not. It's the perfect background show that is worth paying attention to 5 minutes at a time.
Now that Sling is adding ABC/KGO next week, I will finally move from fubo to Sling. Saves about $30/month and gets me Turner just in time for March Madness.
UNLV announces the passing of 20 year-old defensive lineman Ryan Keeler. Keeler played in 7 games totaling 7 tackles, including 1 sack. No cause of death was announced yesterday. Condolences to the UNLV family and the Keeler family.
Jerry Kill promised his team (NMSU) that if they made a bowl (only their second since 1960) that he'd get his first tattoo to commemorate it. He came through and - hooboy - it's a quite the tattoo. I guess you can't take your skin with you, so he might as well.
Orioles CEO/Chairman says that the pandemic was good to help rebuild the team. I mean, what does a rebuild look like compared to the normal suckage of the Orioles?
It is nice to see that Camden Yards is starting to fill up with fans again--it deserves better than acres of empty seats. I went to an A's game there late in the '18 or '19 season when the O's had already broken the 100-loss mark and it was a ghost town. Announced attendance was about 8k and I'd be surprised if even half that had shown up. There was a pleasant 20-25k when I saw the A's there last year (but still well short of the raucous sellout crowd from my first A's game there back in 2015).
Since the Dodgers will be going there every year, I'm going to have to find a trip to go there and Pittsburgh. And probably the Nats if it's the same trip. No 1 is leaving after this summer so it may have to be this year in July. The Pirates are in Apr middle of the week so that's probably not a one night trip from Philly.
We planned to see the Dodgers last time they were in Baltimore but we ended up being out of town. I'm glad the new schedule gives more opponent variety; it gets boring seeing so much of the schedule dominated by the same division foes.
And of course the schedule makers don't have any of Pirates, the Phillies, the Nats, and the Orioles on the same road trip. They're all different road trips.
I was talking to my brother recently about how the Orioles have sucked since the 90s, but he reminded me they made the ALCS in 2014 with that Adam Jones team. I totally forgot about that!
SHE BLINDED ME WITH...
Gaiman Argentina was settled by Welshmen. There are dragons everywhere and they speak Welsh with a strong Spanish accent. Welshpañol?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhkZ_EoJtE
Turkey has a new canyon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiDvo-xTinY
Japanese firm to offer space balloon flights for $180k and your choice of chicken or fish. I would recommend that they don't fly over Wyoming.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41076425.html
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Lawsuit alleges a Wynn casino dealer played around a guy who went into cardiac arrest for 20 minutes. No word on whether Wynn will play Kenny Rogers as their main defense strategy.
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/man-suffering-cardiac-arrest-in-las-vegas-casino-left-slumped-over-as-dealer-continued-play-lawsuit-says/
Trump either wants to spank or jail your kids. That seems normal.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1627827857211752448
gosh, threatening to use state violence against non-white people? That's not like him
That's an improvement over what he really wants to do to kids...
[WhyNotBoth.gif]
Rep George Santos - the lead guitarist for Panic at the Disco! - went on the Piers Morgan talk show and admits that he has been "a terrible liar" and then proceeds to lie more.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64712914
does a "terrible" liar mean that he's terrible because he lied? or that he was terrible at lying (i.e., got caught)?
Yes
I should have noted that as the presumptive answer!
Abraham Lincoln was 300-1 as a wrestler. No, really.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/abraham-lincoln-wrestling
PERCH
the fish.
good fresh Lake Michigan perch is among one of the better things you can eat.
usually prepared pretty simply, lightly fried, a little lemon ..
I generally prefer freshwater fish (trout and catfish in particular) to saltwater fish.
Great choice of meat for fish tacos. We used to have a lake not so far away that had a good fishable population, but mis-management of the lake, where weed control was too effective, left the lake almost devoid of both perch and trout, not to mention bass (no cover, no food so no reproduction), so its been a while since I've caught a stringer of perch.
If I don't have anything else going on I like to go for a walk around Roosevelt Island in the late afternoon. Currently the timing works out to be right around sunset and I've been seeing the turkeys fly up to roost for the night so I can tell you where their perch is.
I don't know if it's my favorite spot, but you can usually find me on the couch in the living room if I'm not at my desk.
This is pretty much my exact answer
Same. Followed in preference by a chair or couch near our picture window. There's also a comfy chair in the LR near the couch which I like.
Agreed, couch is my fave.
DBD AV CLUB
Cobra Kai - season one. Now I had heard about that TV show some, and thought "it might be ok" - but was hardly interested in watching it. We watched The Karate Kid (1984) over a month ago with my daughter - she liked it.
Anyway, I thought I'd try it, since there were so many fans here, and FUCK YEAH, I thought it was a lot of fun, and actually quite good. So we watched the first 3 episodes, and told my daughter she should watch those so we could watch them together - and she was quite grouchy about that. But last night, she surprised me by saying she'd watched 5 episodes! So we had to watch two last night - so much fun, and so much surprise.
It's probably the best version of this kind of legacy sequel that you could do.
Bingewatching Adventure Time on HBO Max, because why not. It's the perfect background show that is worth paying attention to 5 minutes at a time.
Now that Sling is adding ABC/KGO next week, I will finally move from fubo to Sling. Saves about $30/month and gets me Turner just in time for March Madness.
OK, what's with this "Chang can Dunk" Disney movie? Looks like a teenage "Yellow guys can't jump".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-2GBTBVyKY
FYI in high school, at 5'8", I had a 33 inch vertical leap. Could grab the rim, but not dunk.
Nice to have Last Week Tonight with John Oliver back. No show quite like it.
I didn't realize it was back until yesterday. I always look forward to watching it.
Same. I was surprised he came back on a holiday weekend, but it's good to have his unique type of reporting back on tv.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
UNLV announces the passing of 20 year-old defensive lineman Ryan Keeler. Keeler played in 7 games totaling 7 tackles, including 1 sack. No cause of death was announced yesterday. Condolences to the UNLV family and the Keeler family.
https://unlvrebels.com/news/2023/2/20/unlv-mourns-passing-of-football-student-athlete-ryan-keeler.aspx
Do as I say, not as I do.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pocharaponneammanee/vanderbilt-email-chatgpt-ai-msu-shooting
Jerry Kill promised his team (NMSU) that if they made a bowl (only their second since 1960) that he'd get his first tattoo to commemorate it. He came through and - hooboy - it's a quite the tattoo. I guess you can't take your skin with you, so he might as well.
https://twitter.com/NMStateFootball/status/1627421503053778945
Good on him for following through and for going all in on that design
go big or go home
As a dude with tatts, I wholeheartedly endorse this!
PRO
[ESPN] Pat Bev to the Bulls
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35703231/free-agent-guard-patrick-beverley-finalizing-deal-bulls
I have no idea what the Bulls are trying to build, but I wish they would stop.
Lonzo Ball out for the remainder of the season
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35706323/bulls-rule-guard-lonzo-ball-knee-remainder-season
Orioles CEO/Chairman says that the pandemic was good to help rebuild the team. I mean, what does a rebuild look like compared to the normal suckage of the Orioles?
https://twitter.com/NathanSRuiz/status/1627359135661494277
It is nice to see that Camden Yards is starting to fill up with fans again--it deserves better than acres of empty seats. I went to an A's game there late in the '18 or '19 season when the O's had already broken the 100-loss mark and it was a ghost town. Announced attendance was about 8k and I'd be surprised if even half that had shown up. There was a pleasant 20-25k when I saw the A's there last year (but still well short of the raucous sellout crowd from my first A's game there back in 2015).
Since the Dodgers will be going there every year, I'm going to have to find a trip to go there and Pittsburgh. And probably the Nats if it's the same trip. No 1 is leaving after this summer so it may have to be this year in July. The Pirates are in Apr middle of the week so that's probably not a one night trip from Philly.
We planned to see the Dodgers last time they were in Baltimore but we ended up being out of town. I'm glad the new schedule gives more opponent variety; it gets boring seeing so much of the schedule dominated by the same division foes.
And of course the schedule makers don't have any of Pirates, the Phillies, the Nats, and the Orioles on the same road trip. They're all different road trips.
The A’s would kill to have 8k fans at their games
The rest of the story. Will they even be playing in Camden Yards after this year? My guess is, yes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/02/05/orioles-rebuild-uncertainty/
I was talking to my brother recently about how the Orioles have sucked since the 90s, but he reminded me they made the ALCS in 2014 with that Adam Jones team. I totally forgot about that!
ESPN cut to commercial as Letterman starts to tell a weird story of Goodell
https://www.thethings.com/espn-quickly-cut-to-a-commercial-when-david-letterman-was-revealing-a-roger-goodell-story/
Colts hire an OC with the most Southern name ever. He grew up in Tennessee. Welcome Jim Bob Cooter.
https://sports.yahoo.com/colts-hiring-ex-lions-oc-122450013.html
He’s actually a pretty decent OC…
He better be, with that name.
Russell Westbrook waived by Jazz, plans to sign with the Clippers. Does LA have a monopoly on aging superstars?
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35701800/russell-westbrook-plans-sign-la-clippers-agent-says
Red's Dead
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35702850/red-mccombs-ex-owner-spurs-nuggets-vikings-dies
CAL
Go Bears!!!