155 Comments
author

Jakarta is one of the few places I didn't even try to run. I didn't even feel all that comfortable walking from the hotel to the embassy. Traffic was crazy.

Expand full comment

I have tried to travel to Indonesia 4 times in my life. 4 times, I have had to cancel my trip - anti Chinese violence (May 1998), anti American violence (sometime around 1999), work scheduling got moved (Feb 2007), Covid (May 2020)

Expand full comment

A few weeks of "Living Dangerously".

Expand full comment

It is a sign you should never go to Indonesia.

Expand full comment

Even if I wanted to . . . I haven't been able to!

Expand full comment
author

Buffalo 🦬

Expand full comment

buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Expand full comment

I think technically only an animal from N Africa, with our natives being Bison. Whatever the case, I like the little herd in GG Park, so random. Used to run by them all the time when I lived in panhandle.

Expand full comment

I learned that recently. I saw Bison in Kentucky and learned that they are bison and not buffalo.

Expand full comment

Zach Maynard

Expand full comment

He was actually pretty good at Buffalo and I was excited he was transferring to Cal due to his experience and performance with Buffalo.

Expand full comment

He was still better than anyone else we had on the roster, so I think it was a good move to get him, even if it was only to get Keenan Allen here.

Now I do hope Sam Jackson is better than Maynard.

Expand full comment

Tatonka

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

The History Channel gives considerable credit for the invention of Buffalo Wings to a Black restauranteur named John Young, who opened Wings and Things in Buffalo, New York, rather than to the Bellissimo family.

“I was selling 5,000 pounds of chicken wings in 1962,” Young told The Courier-Express in a 1981 article. “Mr. Bellissimo used to come into my place and eat my chicken wings.”

https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-buffalo-wings

https://www.history.com/shows/the-food-that-built-america/season-4/episode-3

The Food that Built America episode also gives a lot of credit for chicken wing popularity to Hooter's.

Expand full comment

girls won't you come out tonight?

Expand full comment

Soldier

Expand full comment

I saw a car today that was pulled over on the side of the street and seemed lost. I noticed the license plate holder made reference to Buffalo Soldiers.

Expand full comment

It’s also a national African American motorcycle club.

Expand full comment

Did not know that.

Expand full comment

Bills

Expand full comment

anyone ever seen this movie Buffalo 66, where some guy is distraught that Scott Norwood missed the FG in the Super Bowl and wants to kill him?

Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, very funny

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118789/

Expand full comment

I sure have and I enjoyed it. Good ol’ Prince Vince, not as controversial as The Browm Bunny.

Expand full comment

Wild Wings. I’ve never been before.

Expand full comment

i find most wings to be all about the same. never great, never terrible, just wings.

and the sauce is some differentiating thing, but because i dont eat much spicy food i usually require a giant pile of celery and ranch or blue cheese to be able to eat more than one.

Expand full comment

Hooters is worse than most chain places.

Expand full comment

Buffalo wings are fine, but I like the other ones better. Like maybe a dry rub, like Memphis style. Or the asian ones.

Safeway sometimes has $5/lb wings on Fridays. They have a really good salt and vinegar one.

Expand full comment

I prefer Asian over Buffalo.

Expand full comment

I love the Asian Zing flavor at B-Dubs. But yeah, asian wings like Bonchon are better than buffalo.

Expand full comment

Not as good as Wing Stop.

Expand full comment

I like Wing Stop.

Expand full comment

Expensive but I do some like of their flavors.

Expand full comment
author

sauce. It came out of nowhere to be a popular spicy flavor. Perhaps it's filled in as sriracha has declined.

Expand full comment
author

2018

Expand full comment
author

A song with a flute (post a link)

Expand full comment

“Goodbye Gemini” by Blood Ceremony, a Canadian 70s prog/doom rock band.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5TWrUhklM4YGtLbmnEe60L?si=QA7e289uQaGlw-AzzvoLYQ&app_destination=copy-link

Expand full comment

Blackbyrds - Walking In Rhythm (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tg_3e7avZo

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

My friends have a band headquartered in Saratoga Springs, NY called Sirsy...a wife/husband team that rocks, she on the drums/vocals, he on the guitar. She busts out the flute for multiple songs.

They hit the road in their van twice a year tho, and play all over, including CA. Check them out...one of their songs was featured on Shameless, and they get airtime in the 518. Wonder if Jim Knowlton ever saw them when he was at RPI....

https://youtu.be/lgf2swYFQoA

Expand full comment
author

"I come from a land down under

Where beer does flow and men chunder"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s

Expand full comment

That was the first cassette I ever bought as a kid…

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

all the Jethro Tull songs.

going to a live concert was one of the better musical experiences i remember. the guy really does sing, dance and play the flute ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

Thick as a Brick is one of my favorites. in this video, he not only plays the flute but uses it in various unnatural ways (around 4:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FERNwBdBt4c

Expand full comment
author

Something false that people still generally believe is true

Expand full comment

My lottery ticket is going to win for sure this time!

Expand full comment

Stop being negative it totally is!

Expand full comment

"one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"

Expand full comment

"the best is yet to come!"

Expand full comment

Does Kimberly Gilfoyle live in your head near Gorka?

Expand full comment

Stevie Wonder is blind (h/t Scootie)

Expand full comment
author

Sugar immediately makes kids hyperactive

Expand full comment
author

Hard/good work will be recognized by management

Expand full comment
author

Mission

Expand full comment

Burritos!

I don’t know why other kinds of burritos exist.

Expand full comment

Street. There are many such examples all over the Bay Area and California.

Expand full comment

Beach

Expand full comment

Bay

Expand full comment

San Jose .. a local high school that my cousins went to in Fremont

Expand full comment
author

How many streaming services do you pay for?

Expand full comment

Netflix, Paramount +, ESPN +, Hulu, Disney Plus, Peacock (caught a sale), BritBox.

We get HBOMax through our AT&T mobile plan, and Amazon via our prime subscription.

I also have a family plan for Apple One that includes Apple TV and Apple Music.

I suppose technically speaking we could count our cable tv package in here too

Expand full comment

HBO, Netflix, Disney. I don’t count Amazon as I get prime for other reasons, or Hulu, which came free w signing up for Spotify some yonks back

Expand full comment

Apple TV (it came with my iPhone but I assume I paid for it somewhere), Disney/Hulu bundle, Amazon Prime, Peacock.

Expand full comment

Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, AppleTV, MLBTV, plus Cox cable which gives me HBOMax and Showtime Anytime. Too f-ing much....

Mooch: Paramount +, Hulu, Disney

Expand full comment

YouTube TV

HBO Max

Netflix

Amazon Prime

BritBox

Acorn

I would love to ditch YouTube TV since it is easily the most expensive. But, believe it or not, Mrs Slug insists that we still need ESPN and the NBC Sports channels. Given that the MLB regular season and the NBA Playoffs are fast approaching, I am at a disadvantage in making a counter argument.

Expand full comment

YouTube TV is gonna have the NFL Sunday Ticket begging this fall, apparently, so if that's your thing.....

Expand full comment

None. I mooch everything

Expand full comment

impressive ..

Expand full comment

The former Mrs and I still share Netflix and Hulu, which she pays for. The lady friend added me to her YouTube Tv acct. I get Disney and ESPN+ free through Verizon, and all the movies channels (HBOMAX, Showtime, Starz) I get through my sister.

Expand full comment

Oh, and I bet the Pac12 network through the generosity of someone on this board

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

Criterion Channel, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Apple +, and for proper football (soccer to you Yanks) Peacock, Paramount Plus and ESPN plus.

Expand full comment

Netflix.

I get HBO/Showtime from having cable, and sharing those with the family. They also use the cable login to get TNT/ESPN/Fox/TBS, to watch sports on their TV.

Although if Netflix out of house verification gets tedious or they charge for out of house members I'm cancelling.

Also I have MLB.TV which is provided with T-Mobile.

Expand full comment
author

Four: HBO, Hulu, Prime, Netflix

Expand full comment
author

Netflix, Amazon video/music, Peacock (got it on sale for a year). I think that's all... We also have HBO Max, but it's included since we pay for HBO with our tv bill.

Expand full comment

I pay for the following:

D+/ESPN+/Hulu bundle

Apple TV+ (first year was free because we bought a new iPad, we now pay)

Peacock (got it on sale for $20 for a year)

Netflix (it is part of my T-Mobile cell phone package)

Amazon Prime

We borrow logins for:

HBO Max

Spotify

Expand full comment

all of the them! in reality it is probably 5-7 and i borrow several others.

i guess i wont have to borrow HAG's pac12 stream anymore if that goes away.

Expand full comment

ones i can remember ... YouTubeTV, FloBikes, GlobalCyclingNetwork, Disney, Paramount (CBS), Peacock (NBC), HBO, NBA League Pass, Amazon Prime

do fitness apps count? ... Equinox/SoulCycle (actual live streams of workouts)

borrow .. Netflix, Pac12

Expand full comment
author

The best hangover meal is...

Expand full comment

1. Sleep in until noon.

2. Go to La Fiesta.

3. Two hours later go for a run.

4. Take a long hot shower.

Good to go!!!

Expand full comment

I don't drink - so do not have hangovers BUT sul lun tang (korean oxtail soup) is amazing. Also good - barbacoa tacos.

Expand full comment

1990-2009 - Any breakfast sandwich, so long as it had eggs, bacon/sausage, cheese, bread and hot sauce/ketchup. The best days: Top Dog, especially before a Cal football game.

2010-2017 - A Bloody Mary, bacon and some toast.

2018-2019 - Yikes, a Claussen Kosher pickle spear, a glass of Pedialyte and a pint of vodka...probably the reason we quit drinking in June '19... ;-)

Expand full comment

Scrambled eggs, sausage (patties or links), toasted bagel with cream cheese, hash browns, black coffee with an orange juice (or simply an orange) chaser.

Expand full comment
author

McDonald's breakfast combo

Expand full comment

Beer poured over Cap'n Crunch cereal.

Expand full comment

A Bloody Mary and a bowl of pozole

Expand full comment

This is strong, only I might switch out the Bloody Mary with a michelada.

Expand full comment

Noodles.

Expand full comment

A breakfast burrito

Expand full comment
author

Oooh, that's a good one. But a good breakfast burrito is so hard to find...(on the east coast, at least)

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

this is true about east coast and a good breakfast burrito, or even burritos in general.

there is are a few places i can get Austin-style breakfast tacos that are quite good, but not easily enough for a hangover ...

http://kingdavidtacos.com/

Expand full comment

cold pizza and a beer

Expand full comment
author

DBD AV CLUB

Expand full comment

Mando Episode 2 - Grogu leveling up! ************** in the ******** of Mandalore!

Expand full comment

Poker Face Season Finale - The Hook!

Really keeps you on edge lots of surprises in this one

Expand full comment
author
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023Author

OUR STUMBLING DEMOCRACY

Expand full comment
author

Since avoiding derailments requires spending money, I assume the numbers won't drop off any time soon

Expand full comment
author

Lauren Boebert: "Sex education is the scourge of our schools and should be removed."

Also Lauren Boebert: My 17 year old son is going to make me a 36 year old grandmother

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1633542947936296966

Expand full comment
author

West Virginia votes against bill to raise marriage age from 16 to 18, voting along party lines.

Kanawha County Republican Sen. Mike Stuart, a former federal prosecutor who sided with the majority, said his vote “wasn’t a vote against women.” He said his mother was married when she was 16, and “six months later, I came along. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.”

https://apnews.com/article/child-marriage-west-virginia-bill-defeated-4d822a23b5ffd70f5370a36cc914cfb0

Expand full comment

I guess self-awareness is not Sen. Stuart's strong suit.

Expand full comment
author

Huckaby-Sanders signs bill so that kids no longer need their parent's permission to work. Arkansas newspaper distributors, coal mines, weaving factories, clothing sweatshops, and abattoirs rejoice.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-arkansas-child-labor/index.html

Expand full comment
author

Past Tucker Carlson warns everyone about future Tucker Carlson

https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1633594477637173248

Expand full comment
author

Jenna Ellis is censured by Colorado Supreme Court. The march toward disbarment for many ex-Trump lawyers continues.

https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2304-OPINION-APPROVING-STIPULATION-TO-DISCIPLINE-UNDER-C.R.C.P.-242.19c....pdf

Expand full comment
author

Nikki Haley's solution to saving Medicare and Social Security is to make sure almost nobody can access it

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/nikki-haley-retirement-age-social-security-medicare/index.html

Expand full comment

IIRC the UAW agreed to generational changes in benefits, basically selling out their younger members, back in the 90s, which didn't really do much for the younger members' enthusiasm for the union. People like Haley LOVE wealth transfers to the elderly because it's not bribing your base if they're old.

Expand full comment
author

Mitch McConnell treated at the hospital after tripping

Expand full comment
author

I'm glad he's getting the mental help he needs. Dude's been tripping for well over a decade

Expand full comment

Perfect opportunity to title this section "Our Stumbling Democracy".

Expand full comment
author

Pro

Expand full comment
author

Ballmer is excited to triple Clippers fans pp capacity

https://twitter.com/BenGolliver/status/1633227791733870593

Expand full comment
author

Tiger loves to hook up with and dump restaurant staff

https://people.com/sports/who-is-erica-herman-tiger-woods/

Expand full comment

Jets close to deal with Aaron Rodgers

https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/03/09/jets-optimism-aaron-rodgers-green-bay-meeting-trade?

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

i think it is official now. (or not)

i thought i saw a headline while waiting for pizza but dont see anything definitive online

Expand full comment
author

Elsewhere in college

Expand full comment
author

ICYMI from two weeks ago: #7 Arizona - up by 2 with 2.9 seconds left. ASU inbounds.

https://twitter.com/ContextFreeCBB/status/1629592361511845889

Expand full comment
author

John Feinstein wrote a column for WaPo that said Boeheim should have been able to stay as long as he wanted. When I checked earlier this morning, every comment to the story disagreed.

Expand full comment
author

Cal

Expand full comment

Project Rishi has the most unique donors through 11:04 am at the Big Give.

I have donated to Excellence in Social Sciences and to the Student Emergency Fund and Food Pantry

Expand full comment

I had an unhappy experience with an unsubscribe request.

A Big Give email inspired me to unsubscribe. I'm not feeling charitable in light of the state of the Athletic Department and what I feel is Chancellor Christ's (and the administration's) indifference towards revenue sports.

Therefore, I chose to unsubscribe. Then they wanted to know why. I chose Other. When you choose Other, the form asks for your reason, to which I tried responding, "Cal’s administration and Athletic Dept. leadership has demonstrated that athletics is irrelevant to the University."

That's 115 characters, including spaces. The form flashed that the response contained an invalid field length or some such nonsense. So, I made it valid. I simply responded, "Fuck off."

I really don't like that response, either. So I wrote to updates@go.calbears.com to explain my terse and vulgar response. And now I'm still grumpy because I dislike being nasty and confrontational.

Yes, I've had my coffee.

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

I got that same Big Give email and was completely turned off by the unfortunate timing of sending it out right after we lost yesterday and after the football and bball seasons we just had.

Expand full comment

Didn't Knowlton also ask for money after the loss to Colorado or some other nasty football game loss? These guys have the timing and the tone deafness of an old man yelling at the clouds.

Expand full comment

Has Mark Fox been fired yet?

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

I'll be shocked if it's today, and surprised if it is even tomorrow.

Knowlton is useless and does nothing with urgency. If he didn't fire him during this season, he is clearly not in a rush. He'll take time to evaluate the program, as he says....hopefully by next week.

But the firing is only the first step....Knowlton has to have some plan in place, otherwise the disaster will likely continue.

****UPDATED****

Happy to be shocked!!

Expand full comment

Are you shocked?

Expand full comment

I actually am. I think so little of Knowlton and while I hoped he would, I honestly did not expect him to actually pull the plug so soon, given that he let him hang around all season. Glad he did and it is a good start, but again, he is so overmatched in his current position that I still remain skeptical.

Expand full comment

I can't remember if there was financial incentive to wait until the end of the season. Anyone remember what his contract said?

Expand full comment

Maybe not in Fox's contract, but hiring someone mid season means you have to hire and pay a new coach

Expand full comment
Mar 10, 2023·edited Mar 10, 2023

I don't believe so, no. The contract he signed in 2019 stipulated that Fox would be paid a base salary of $275,000 per year, plus a talent fee.

Year One: $1.5 million

Year Two: $1.575 million

Year Three: $1.65 million

Year Four: $1.725 million

Year Five: $1.8 million

If Fox is terminated without cause, here’s how much the university will owe him:

Year One: 100% of the base salary and talent fee for the remainder of the contract year in which the termination occurs.

Year Two: 100% of the base salary and talent fee for the next contract year

Year Three: 75% of the base salary and talent fee for the next contract year

Year Four: 50% of the base salary and talent fee for the next contract year

Year Five: 25% of the base salary and talent fee for the next contract year

Any way you slice it, this looks like year 4, whether that was December 2022, January 2023 or March 2023...

So it appears to be a buyout of 50% of $1.8M, or $900K, whenever it was done, UNLESS year 5 started when the 2022-2023 season ended, which I do not think is how they work it.

https://watchstadium.com/california-coach-mark-fox-signs-five-year-contract-salary-buyout-incentives-07-22-2019/

Expand full comment

Me too. Exactly the same thought.

Expand full comment

I had dinner with my friend and his parents, big donors. We talked Cal BB. He said he would like Dennis Gates, but would probably be impossible. He said he thought it would be hard to get a good coach without a practice facility. I said the blog threw out Pasternack and the San Jose State HC. He said he didn't like Pasternack with the way he seems to treat the players and doesn't seem to have a good attitude. And the Jorge trip. I said I thought they should do a G5 up and comer like Ben Braun was.

First year they hadn't used their BB tickets for various reasons. Said next year they'll start going again but I got first dibs on the tickets they couldn't go to. I said this was the first year I didn't go to any games since moving back and I was OK with that. Didn't miss much.

Expand full comment

I've come around on Pasternack...the job is a disaster, and the applicant pool does not figure to be deep with quality options.

A retread would be a death knell. The program needs a jolt of energy!

Expand full comment

Watch Knowlton pulls of a miracle and brings Monty out of the retirement

Expand full comment

Honestly, not sure Monty helps this program now. The cupboard is basically empty, he doesn’t recruit, and he’s clearly not keen on the NIL.

Cuonzo would maybe help more, if we’re talking former Cal HCs returning….

Expand full comment

I meant it would be the worst thing ever.

Expand full comment

I just hope it's a creative hire. Bottom line is don't hire a retread who can't adjust to today's game and recruit.

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

Bottom line is don't leave your revenue sports hires up to consultants. If you can't perform this essential task, you need to form a committee of interested major donors and get the fuck out of the way.

That is all.

Expand full comment

Exactly.

Expand full comment

So true!!

Expand full comment

Go bears 🐻

Expand full comment
author

Waves

Expand full comment

...of filling in partially collapsed compliant tubes.

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/biomechanical/article-abstract/105/1/12/398275/Filling-of-Partially-Collapsed-Compliant-Tubes?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Relevant to filling of blood vessels after they are emptied.

Master's thesis of some guy who did undergraduate work at Cal.

Expand full comment

The Great ... off Kanagawa (w/o the S)

despite how over-exposed it is, i still love this painting. makes my smile every time and there are so many cool modern takes and interpretations on it.

we have a couple small woodblock paintings at home that we bought 20+ years ago in Japan at very nominal prices. interesting to see that they are worth something now.

Expand full comment
author

Katrina and the...

The world record leader for upbeat film montage soundtracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U

Expand full comment

i like this song a lot. makes me happy in the standard way.

Expand full comment

It's a classic. It was in The Secret of My Success, I think....

Expand full comment

Pepperdine -. Beautiful view from campus. Never knew it was a religious school until a few years ago.

Expand full comment

I had a glorious weekend of partying down at Pepperdine during my freshman year at Cal. Beautiful view, beautiful women, great times…

Expand full comment

I believe all the original members of the WCC (before BYU joined) were Catholic schools, right?

Expand full comment

oh maybe. I guess I never thought about it.

Expand full comment

Hmm, looks like I'm also slightly wrong in that Pepperdine is not Catholic, though they are Christian. Also I forgot that Pacific had joined them too (they are methodist).

The other member schools outside of those and BYU are Catholic, though.

Expand full comment

This is your reminder that USC was founded as a Methodist school.

Expand full comment
Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

Does that mean Pepperdine is affiliated with a Protestant sect?

Expand full comment

According to Wikipedia, they are affiliated with the Churches of Christ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches_of_Christ

Expand full comment