Greetings from France. Parisians keep coming up to me congratulating Cal for having the Axe and asking if I think Spavital will turn the offense around. They all love DBD and want a French language version.
related (and not) at the same time. i discovered a contractor website that had a testimonial from me. the best part was that my job title was translated to French
My early memory as a 5th grade. My older sister worked at a local theatre. She would let me in free. One summer, I saw Flash Gordon every day for like a month straight. Good times.
My mother took me to a ton of movies as a kid, so I don't remember my first movie theater. However, the memorable ones are the domes in San Rafael, the theater at Sun Valley Mall (because going to the mall was, like, totally rad event), and the Squaw Valley movie theater. One of the earliest films I remember watching was Fantasia and the opening scene with Mickey and the walking brooms scared the crap out of me.
I remember the theater at Sun Valley Mall (which also had the ice rink next door), the dome in Pleasant Hill, and the Festival Cinemas in WC. Those were probably the ones I went to the most.
The first one I can remember was a rare elementary school birthday party (x-mas adjacent birthday meant that as often as not, those didn't happen often) in which we all went to see... might have been Bambi? Because that was the only age-appropriate English language film in the Hague that my folks were willing to deal with for my friends. Anyway I remember almost nothing of it because I was coming down with the flu, I didn't open my presents until a couple of days later LOL
Bambi was mine too. Good thing you were too sick to get angst about the crushing death of Bambi Mom. My second movie not long after Bambi was Jaws. My parents had a re-think on future movie selections.
My parents took me to see Jaws too. I will never, ever forget the scene where the head floats out of the hole in the boat. There is no way a parent could take a little kid to a movie like that in today’s world. I think I am scarred for life.
It wasn't all that hard to monitor my movie watching when I was elementary school aged because the choices were very limited either in theaters or on tv.
The Muppet Movie was my first new release in the theater. I loved it, but The Muppets Take Manhattan scared the begeezus out of me. There was a scene when they had to jump out of a plane and I was terrified that the Muppets would go splat and they'd never make another movie.
I saw On Golden Pond in the theatre with my (recently divorced) mother and grandmother (who was married to an old poop who would die in a couple of years). The coincidence wasn't lost on my as the plot unfolded. I was not yet into sucking face.
I just checked IMDB. Charles Grodin was in The Great Muppet Caper which came out in 1981. Muppets Take Manhattan came out in '84 when I would have been 10. I'd like to think I'd have been able to take the suspense of Muppets jumping out of an airplane by the age of ten and it was 7 year old me watching TGMC who was traumatized. Time Bandits (also 1981) freaked me out as well. I went back about 10-15 years ago and rewatched it. It was quite good! Maybe I'll give The Great Muppet Caper another chance and see if I can take the suspense now.
The first movie I remember seeing in a movie theater was The Sound of Music. My dad took me and my sister to see it at the California Theater on Kittredge St. We came into the theater about 5 minutes into the start of the movie. So we actually saw the first five minutes of the movie AFTER we saw the rest of the movie and then we left.
I was probably 5 years old. My sister would have been 3.
I don't know -- we went to a lot of movies when I was a kid. I saw the normal kid ones -- Pinocchio (made my brother cry), Bambi (same) -- at the drive in. I remember seeing Magnum Force and the Eiger Sanction. I would have been six for Magnum Force. The Bridge on the River Kwai was frequently the second feature at the drive in, which made my dad very happy!
cant remember an actual first movie. but i do remember going to the Pacific Film Archives a bunch when i was a kid. they seemed to show a bunch of Satyajit Ray films and other Bengali/Indian movies that my parents were likely to enjoy.
i think they moved closer to downtown Berkeley and it is no longer on Bancroft.
The first movies I remember seeing in the theater were Star Wars and Disney’s the Rescuers. I don’t know which was first and am too lazy to look up release dates.
My first theater movie was "Death Becomes Her." I should probably watch that movie with adult eyes since I didn't quite understand all the plot points at a point in my life when my media knowledge was entirely consisting of cartoons.
I remember waiting in line to see Star Wars in the theater. And dragged all my friends to see it with me so it saw it approximately 20 times in the theater.
Converseley, also saw Orca right around then which traumatized me big time. Nightwing a couple of years later almost got me to never go outside at night ever again. Eff that movie and eff Orca too.
The first one I remember (though there probably is an earlier one) was Beauty and the Beast (Mar. 1991), it was for my friend's 5th birthday. I was still 4 and one of the scenes scared me so much I asked my friend's mom to take me outside. We did return and watch the rest of the film, but that memory sticks out.
I also saw Jurassic Park in theaters too young and the raptors scared the shit out of me, giving my nightmares for a while. My mom felt terrible because she figured he likes dinosaurs and The Land Before Time and look a new dinosaur movie!
Listed above in the poll, I just did a deep dive into On Golden Pond (1981, released 2/12/82). It is one of the first movies I remember seeing in the theater. I would have been 7.5, yet I somehow totally remember some parts of it. So odd how the human memory works….this one was a powerhouse, pulling off the rare Best Actor/Best Actress exacta for Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, along with Best Adapted Screenplay, and garnering a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nom for Jane Fonda…
As a movie buff, it’s not often I see a decent movie just once, but that’s the case with this one…literally haven’t seen it in 40 years. Unlike Shawshank or The Godfather’s, etc., it’s rare to even come across it on cable…perhaps I’ve just missed it. Ordinary People was similar but even that one just turned up recently with a premium cable run on one of the HBO’s or Showtimes…
It's not a movie theater response, but: On Golden Pond was the film on the our flight LHR - LAX when we moved to the US. I'm sure that's meaningful somehow ;)
I think it was Lawrence of Arabia in the early 70's at some theater in Washington D.C. It must have been airing for the second time. My main memory was the quicksand scene where one of Lawrence 's servants is lost.
Dude....growing up, I remember my friend had his birthday...back in the day, his family owned Sorabol Korean restaurant on Grand and in the Emeryville Public Market...we were supposed to go to the restaurant and then to FairyLand, but it was pouring rain so we had to pivot and went to a movie at the Grand Lake.
That movie was The Right Stuff....talk about the worst f-ing movie possible for a dozen 9-year olds...I remember the crew of us getting so bored we were literally running up and down the center aisle of the main theater at the Grand Lake during the movie and sliding at the bottom....poor theater-goers that day.
Kelly Craft is one of the GOP candidates running for Kentucky Governor to topple Democrat Andy Beshear. Here is one of her commercials and it isn't a parody.
Feinstein concedes to pressure, tells Schumer to temporarily replace her on the Judiciary Committee. Her absence meant that Democrats couldn't appoint federal judges.
There's something about reading about the Brezhnev-Andropov-Chernenko continuum while NPR talks about how 89 yr old Senator Feinstein is consistently absent due to her age/health. This is fine. Totally fine.
Document leaker on Discord has been identified by the US government. He's in his early 20s and works at a US military base. He's probably due to spend a long time in military jail. He leaked secret documents to gain street cred on his Discord channel.
Couple of tank-like vehicles visiting his house at the moment and oh look, he's been taken into custody. Welcome to Finding Out, young man. Enjoy your next couple of decades in Leavenworth.
She was a civilian contractor though, I imagine that if he's getting charged under the uniform code of military justice, that could go... less well for him.
I took a test from Ancestry back in like 2017. It told me that my ancestors had come from the greater Asia-Pacific side of the globe without any more specificity. I complained and got my money back.
I had a similar experience. First they said my sample couldn’t be read despite following their directions to a T…so I resubmitted. They informed me I was originally from Central and Eastern Europe. No schitt! Didn’t complain, but think its kind of a crock…
its gotten a lot more specific and they periodically send me updates with new info as their database gets better and tech is refined. Allegedly. Its interesting and as my dad is a family tree junkie, it appears to be reasonably accurate as to region.
My Secretary found her father on 23andMe! Was a migrant Italian worker in NYC randomly one summer in the 50s; they had never met and he didn’t know of her existence. She flew out to Italy to meet him and his (large) extended family. Pretty wild!
Ancestry.com's a bit of a joke. Two years ago, it provided the shocking information that I'm of 99% Central/Northern European ancestry.
...Except it also found about 8 people I'm half-siblings with, one of whom quickly messaged me to suggest meeting up when he was flying out to San Diego next month. He came on extremely strong in both an awkward and enthusiastic manner, which I later found out was partly due to him being on the autism spectrum. Others messaged me too, suggesting I join them on a camping trip in Appalachia or a weekend in Vegas. It was...a lot.
I shouldn't have been terribly surprised. I've known since a pretty young age that I'm a sperm-donor kid, and my mom has always been quite open with me about the details. But it certainly caught me off-guard. I'm an only child and I've never been the type to want a larger family. To have one suddenly foisted upon me made me pull back pretty hard.
A few months ago I finally met up with a couple of them over a low-stakes lunch. They were all quite nice- two had bonded during the pandemic but the other was also meeting for the first time. One guy had a similar story of knowing from an early age while the other two were completely blind-sided and initially suspected infidelity. It really surprised me how easily we got along together! I left feeling a lot better about the whole situation, and now I'm open to meeting up again.
So yeah. That's the story of how I found out I have three half-brothers and six half-sisters (and counting).
Mine came back with a bunch of 2nd cousins that I didn't know of. My paternal grandfather left my grandmother at the beginning of WW2 when my dad was a baby. My grandmother then married his best friend who was in the army because she would otherwise have been deported to a concentration camp. They fell in love and had another kid, my aunt. That grandfather married/left a few other women. I ended up not reaching out to the lost cousins because - while blood may be thicker than water - it was not worth the reminder that my grandfather was a philandering scumbag. While my family knows that there are other relatives out there, I'm taking their names to my grave - even now that that side of the family is all dead except the last aunt.
close circle member of mine is also donor conceived, and is wary of the ancestry sites because of it. Sharing your story with him. It was open knowledge in his family, and some of his cousins were jerks about it later in life, and reading some of the articles about other donor conceived kids has been a bit of a comfort.
My mom got all the kids and significant others 23andMe for Christmas years back and the main thing we learned was that my sister's middle school family tree project that went back to the 1700's was remarkably accurate. I will occasionally answer health surveys from them making me a top contributor. All the health info is usually met with, "hmm neat" and then quickly forgotten. I did learn that being a sun-sneezer is genetic and it comes from my mom's side of the family.
It felt like the A’s would never win again. After Oakland got handed their 5th and 6th straight losses, the floor for this team seemed like it was sinking lower and lower. With a mix of unproven rookies and bargain bin veterans, any silver linings that A’s fans saw going into the season felt like they were getting dimmer as each day went by and each loss piled up.
Today was a gut check and talent check for the team. Do they have the mental fortitude to get back up after getting put all the way down? Do they even have enough major league players to win actual ballgames?
Players from up and down the roster answered the call today, putting together a solid performance from beginning to end. Starting off the game strong, Tony Kemp led off the 1st inning by smoking a down-the-middle fastball to right-center field, getting him to 2nd base with no outs on the board. Ryan Noda then launched a curveball to right field, which Austin Hays barely caught over his head, allowing Kemp to tag up and move to 3rd.
For a few innings, the San Francisco Giants were following the same blueprint they used to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 on Tuesday night. They were creating opportunities, and they were capitalizing on them. They were keeping the Dodgers from doing the same.
Just as was the case on Tuesday, it started in the first inning. In the top half, Alex Cobb danced around danger. A four-pitch walk and a single put two on with just one out, a situation Cobb deftly maneuvered with the help of a strike zone that was ebbing, flowing, and dancing around like the blob in a lava lamp.
Max Muncy. Yours truly was rather understanding in last night’s recap, acknowledging all the right reasons why Dave Roberts sat Muncy on Tuesday. Nevertheless, let us throw reason out the window, as Muncy’s second two-homer night in this series, on Wednesday, to lead a 10-5 win, showed that there is no reason when it comes to what Muncy does against San Francisco.
The night began much like the previous one, with the Dodgers starter, this time around, Clayton Kershaw, continuing the struggles he’s had in the back half of his career against the platoon-loaded Giants, as the left-hander entered the game with an ERA over 4 in his last nine games against San Francisco.
Freddie made contact early and often so I don't think Taylor Rogers was fooling him. I thought Freddie's timing was off but when interviewed later Freddie said he was being defensive to avoid the K.
Unfortunately, saying "we're not leaving" means they're leaving, saying nothing means they're leaving, and saying they're leaving is taken at face value.
Need this media deal to get done to shut down the rumor mill.
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team announced the signing of graduate transfer Ioanna Krimili, a three-time All-West Coast Conference first team selection and former WCC Newcomer of the Year for San Francisco, to its roster for the 2023-24 season.
"We are thrilled to have a player the caliber of Ioanna join our circle." Cal head coach Charmin Smith said. "She is a prolific scorer with good size and the ability to create for herself and others. She has a quick release and stretches the floor with her deep range. Most importantly, she believes in what we're building here and wants to be a part of the resurgence of this program."
One of the top 3-point shooters in the country, Krimili comes to Cal with a long list of records and accolades from her time at USF, including ranking fourth all time in the WCC for career 3-pointers made (276) and fifth for single-season 3-pointers made (97 in 2020-21). Both marks top the Dons' career and single-season lists, while her 84 3-point makes in 2022-23 rank second. She has totaled 1,782 points in her career, the fourth most in USF program history.
WALNUT – California track & field's Hakim McMorris was the only competitor for the Golden Bears on Wednesday at the Mt. SAC Relays, as Cal's top decathlete competed in the first five events of the invitational elite section to start off the four-day meet at Hilmer Lodge Stadium. At the end of the day, McMorris ended up with 4118 points – just over halfway to the school record of 8118 set by Mike Morrison in 2011 – leaving McMorris hopeful to challenge that total with a solid second day ahead.
The senior's best event was his first of the morning, as he blazed to a time of 10.48 in the 100m dash for an outright win and 980 points. McMorris followed that up with a long jump mark of 6.87m (22-6.5) and a shot put mark of 13.80m (45-3.5) before moving on to the high jump, where he cleared the bar at 1.89m (6-2.25). He bookended the afternoon with another fantastic sprint, taking third place in the 400m with his time of 47.49.
SANTA CRUZ – The California men's golf team shot a 4-under par 354 for the Western Intercollegiate field's lowest third-round score and secured a third-place finish on Wednesday at Pasatiempo Golf Club. It was the Golden Bears' fourth top-five finish in five spring tournaments played as they bested six teams ranked among the top 44 nationally.
Cal finished at even par for the tournament, jumping one spot on the leaderboard Wednesday after falling back to fourth place in round two. The Bears led the field after 18 holes played in Santa Cruz following a first-round 334.
BERKELEY – The 30th-ranked California women's tennis team closes its regular-season schedule at the Hellman Tennis Complex when the Golden Bears (9-7, 5-2 Pac-12) face Washington State (7-11, 0-7) on Friday at 1:30 p.m. PDT and No. 19 Washington (15-5, 5-2) on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Prior to Saturday's match, Cal will honor Haley Giavara and Erin Richardson in its Senior Day ceremony.
Admission is free during the regular season at Hellman. Live streams for the six Hellman courts are available by clicking here. Fans can also follow updates of all Cal matches on Twitter at @CalWomensTennis.
BERKELEY – The No. 9 California beach volleyball team will play a pair in the Bay this weekend hosting San Francisco on Friday and heading to Saint Mary's on Saturday. Friday's match with the Dons also marks Senior Day and has a 12 p.m. start time. Saturday's match in Moraga is set for 10 a.m.
The Golden Bears come into the weekend with a 21-6 overall record and have won nine of their last 10. The Dons hold a 1-22 record and the Gaels sit at 9-14.
BERKELEY – California men's soccer alumnus Drake Callender earned a call up to the U.S. National Team for its April 19 game vs. Mexico in the inaugural Allstate Continental Clásico, U.S. Soccer announced on Wednesday.
This is the first selection to the senior national team for the 25-year-old goalkeeper, who previously was chosen for U.S. Under-23 National Team training camps in 2019 and 2021. Callender is one of three goalies on the 23-player roster for the USMNT, which will face its CONCACAF rival at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, in one week.
IRVING, Texas – The National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame (NFF) announced Wednesday that California had an FBS-best 18 student-athletes from its' 2022 team selected to the 2023 NFF Hampshire Honor Society.
The NFF Hampshire Honor Society is comprised of college football student-athletes from all divisions of play who maintained an undergraduate cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better and were either starters or significant contributors throughout the 2022 season. Selections must have been either a senior player in 2022 who will graduate during the spring or summer of 2023 and just completed his final year of playing eligibility in 2022; or a graduated player who has been out of high school at least three years.
The Grey Man (Netflix, 16/19, WB). A star-studded film that is unoriginal, melodramatic, and has some far fetched plot twists. That being said, the movie actually is good. It is a series of crisp action set pieces performed by incredibly good looking actors. One of the better action films on Netflix in a while. A perfect movie to watch, enjoy the heck out of it, and then forget.
Aziz Ansari: Right Now. (Netflix, 9/19, WNB). It really felt like an apology letter for sexual misconduct that happened a year or so earlier... which made it kind of heavy and not as funny as it could have been. I wish I picked something else to watch.
Greetings from France. Parisians keep coming up to me congratulating Cal for having the Axe and asking if I think Spavital will turn the offense around. They all love DBD and want a French language version.
Mais bien sûr! I just received the petition from a mime wearing a beret and carrying a baguette.
related (and not) at the same time. i discovered a contractor website that had a testimonial from me. the best part was that my job title was translated to French
Directeur de la science des données chez VoxMedia
https://hectiq.ai/en/
you're a Director of Cheese Science? Cool
But not the testimonial itself!
I was in Barcelona this week and now just landed in Newark on my way back to Orange County. It's 92F here! Hot!!
Anyway I saw some non-American looking people wearing OSU (Oklahoma State) gear or other US college apparel. I wonder where they buy it from.
Came out in 1962 I believe. Remastered in the 80's with a deluxe version that was even longer than the original. Director's cut so to speak
YOUR FIRST THEATER MOVIE
My early memory as a 5th grade. My older sister worked at a local theatre. She would let me in free. One summer, I saw Flash Gordon every day for like a month straight. Good times.
Dale Arden getting hit with Ming's Spanish-Fly ring-ray was an important part of the then 5th grader SG Bear.
you and me both.
I still have the 'FLASH...Aaahhhahhhh" theme sone run through my head on a daily basis.
I have the Queen's Flash album... not really their best.
My mother took me to a ton of movies as a kid, so I don't remember my first movie theater. However, the memorable ones are the domes in San Rafael, the theater at Sun Valley Mall (because going to the mall was, like, totally rad event), and the Squaw Valley movie theater. One of the earliest films I remember watching was Fantasia and the opening scene with Mickey and the walking brooms scared the crap out of me.
I remember the theater at Sun Valley Mall (which also had the ice rink next door), the dome in Pleasant Hill, and the Festival Cinemas in WC. Those were probably the ones I went to the most.
the BIG DOME. i probably went there more than any others.
there was a good arcade right next to it. sometimes we would just go there for a while on HS Fri/Sat night.
So many memories at that theater and arcade. The parking lot was also the pick up location for one of the summer camps I attended
The first one I can remember was a rare elementary school birthday party (x-mas adjacent birthday meant that as often as not, those didn't happen often) in which we all went to see... might have been Bambi? Because that was the only age-appropriate English language film in the Hague that my folks were willing to deal with for my friends. Anyway I remember almost nothing of it because I was coming down with the flu, I didn't open my presents until a couple of days later LOL
Even better than Bambi...Bambi vs Godzilla. Spoiler Alert! Bambi loses
Bambi was mine too. Good thing you were too sick to get angst about the crushing death of Bambi Mom. My second movie not long after Bambi was Jaws. My parents had a re-think on future movie selections.
My parents took me to see Jaws too. I will never, ever forget the scene where the head floats out of the hole in the boat. There is no way a parent could take a little kid to a movie like that in today’s world. I think I am scarred for life.
It wasn't all that hard to monitor my movie watching when I was elementary school aged because the choices were very limited either in theaters or on tv.
The Muppet Movie was my first new release in the theater. I loved it, but The Muppets Take Manhattan scared the begeezus out of me. There was a scene when they had to jump out of a plane and I was terrified that the Muppets would go splat and they'd never make another movie.
I saw On Golden Pond in the theatre with my (recently divorced) mother and grandmother (who was married to an old poop who would die in a couple of years). The coincidence wasn't lost on my as the plot unfolded. I was not yet into sucking face.
Was that the one with Charles Grodin?
I just checked IMDB. Charles Grodin was in The Great Muppet Caper which came out in 1981. Muppets Take Manhattan came out in '84 when I would have been 10. I'd like to think I'd have been able to take the suspense of Muppets jumping out of an airplane by the age of ten and it was 7 year old me watching TGMC who was traumatized. Time Bandits (also 1981) freaked me out as well. I went back about 10-15 years ago and rewatched it. It was quite good! Maybe I'll give The Great Muppet Caper another chance and see if I can take the suspense now.
We’re the same age…Time Bandits was also one of my first films!!
Pretty sure it was Transformers.
YOU GOT THE TOUCH.
The first movie I remember seeing in a movie theater was The Sound of Music. My dad took me and my sister to see it at the California Theater on Kittredge St. We came into the theater about 5 minutes into the start of the movie. So we actually saw the first five minutes of the movie AFTER we saw the rest of the movie and then we left.
I was probably 5 years old. My sister would have been 3.
Airplane!
That’s a good one!
I don't know -- we went to a lot of movies when I was a kid. I saw the normal kid ones -- Pinocchio (made my brother cry), Bambi (same) -- at the drive in. I remember seeing Magnum Force and the Eiger Sanction. I would have been six for Magnum Force. The Bridge on the River Kwai was frequently the second feature at the drive in, which made my dad very happy!
cant remember an actual first movie. but i do remember going to the Pacific Film Archives a bunch when i was a kid. they seemed to show a bunch of Satyajit Ray films and other Bengali/Indian movies that my parents were likely to enjoy.
i think they moved closer to downtown Berkeley and it is no longer on Bancroft.
The first movies I remember seeing in the theater were Star Wars and Disney’s the Rescuers. I don’t know which was first and am too lazy to look up release dates.
My first theater movie was "Death Becomes Her." I should probably watch that movie with adult eyes since I didn't quite understand all the plot points at a point in my life when my media knowledge was entirely consisting of cartoons.
That's a good one! That movie was wild!!
An animated King Arthur movie, I think.
The Sorcerer's Stone?
I remember waiting in line to see Star Wars in the theater. And dragged all my friends to see it with me so it saw it approximately 20 times in the theater.
Converseley, also saw Orca right around then which traumatized me big time. Nightwing a couple of years later almost got me to never go outside at night ever again. Eff that movie and eff Orca too.
Pretty sure it was Star Wars. before it was Episode 4, A New Hope.
The first one I remember (though there probably is an earlier one) was Beauty and the Beast (Mar. 1991), it was for my friend's 5th birthday. I was still 4 and one of the scenes scared me so much I asked my friend's mom to take me outside. We did return and watch the rest of the film, but that memory sticks out.
I also saw Jurassic Park in theaters too young and the raptors scared the shit out of me, giving my nightmares for a while. My mom felt terrible because she figured he likes dinosaurs and The Land Before Time and look a new dinosaur movie!
Listed above in the poll, I just did a deep dive into On Golden Pond (1981, released 2/12/82). It is one of the first movies I remember seeing in the theater. I would have been 7.5, yet I somehow totally remember some parts of it. So odd how the human memory works….this one was a powerhouse, pulling off the rare Best Actor/Best Actress exacta for Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, along with Best Adapted Screenplay, and garnering a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nom for Jane Fonda…
As a movie buff, it’s not often I see a decent movie just once, but that’s the case with this one…literally haven’t seen it in 40 years. Unlike Shawshank or The Godfather’s, etc., it’s rare to even come across it on cable…perhaps I’ve just missed it. Ordinary People was similar but even that one just turned up recently with a premium cable run on one of the HBO’s or Showtimes…
What’s your first memorable movie theater visit?
It's not a movie theater response, but: On Golden Pond was the film on the our flight LHR - LAX when we moved to the US. I'm sure that's meaningful somehow ;)
I think it was Lawrence of Arabia in the early 70's at some theater in Washington D.C. It must have been airing for the second time. My main memory was the quicksand scene where one of Lawrence 's servants is lost.
According to Billy Joel, Lawrence of Arabia preceded British Beatlemania,
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson!
Pope Paul, Malcom X, British Politician Sex, JFK Blown Away
on the other hand, i DID start the fire!
It's 3 hours! Must of had a intermission.
it had an overture and an intermission and an orchestral score, sort of like an opera!
one of my all time favorite movies
I remember watching The Right Stuff in the theaters and there was an intermission.
Dude....growing up, I remember my friend had his birthday...back in the day, his family owned Sorabol Korean restaurant on Grand and in the Emeryville Public Market...we were supposed to go to the restaurant and then to FairyLand, but it was pouring rain so we had to pivot and went to a movie at the Grand Lake.
That movie was The Right Stuff....talk about the worst f-ing movie possible for a dozen 9-year olds...I remember the crew of us getting so bored we were literally running up and down the center aisle of the main theater at the Grand Lake during the movie and sliding at the bottom....poor theater-goers that day.
hey asshole, a family friend of mine won an Oscar for being on the sound team of that movie. She won for that and Amadeus in back to back years
Yup. But I don't remember it. I think I was 3 at the time.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Kelly Craft is one of the GOP candidates running for Kentucky Governor to topple Democrat Andy Beshear. Here is one of her commercials and it isn't a parody.
https://twitter.com/KellyCraftKY/status/1646220890890285056
Trump sues Michael Cohen, alleging that he's lying and - for the things that are true, he's breaking NDA and attorney-client confidentiality
lulz
Feinstein concedes to pressure, tells Schumer to temporarily replace her on the Judiciary Committee. Her absence meant that Democrats couldn't appoint federal judges.
She really ought to step down
ASAP.
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
@ksvarnon
There's something about reading about the Brezhnev-Andropov-Chernenko continuum while NPR talks about how 89 yr old Senator Feinstein is consistently absent due to her age/health. This is fine. Totally fine.
https://twitter.com/ksvarnon/status/1646474217511165953?s=20
yesterday
Document leaker on Discord has been identified by the US government. He's in his early 20s and works at a US military base. He's probably due to spend a long time in military jail. He leaked secret documents to gain street cred on his Discord channel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/
Couple of tank-like vehicles visiting his house at the moment and oh look, he's been taken into custody. Welcome to Finding Out, young man. Enjoy your next couple of decades in Leavenworth.
Reality Winner only got 5 years, we will see what he gets.
She was a civilian contractor though, I imagine that if he's getting charged under the uniform code of military justice, that could go... less well for him.
That article is wiiiild. Among my many questions, why is this minor’s parent letting him talk to WaPo??
perhaps on the assumption that he is in much less legal jeopardy than the adults? Or that they'd rather be ahead of the story?
MO state lawmaker uses anecdotal evidence to defend an indefensible position
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-missouri-lawmaker-defended-child-marriage-saying-kids-he-knows-who-got-married-at-age-12-are-still-married/ar-AA19NubK
ANCESTRY v. 23andme
I took a test from Ancestry back in like 2017. It told me that my ancestors had come from the greater Asia-Pacific side of the globe without any more specificity. I complained and got my money back.
I had a similar experience. First they said my sample couldn’t be read despite following their directions to a T…so I resubmitted. They informed me I was originally from Central and Eastern Europe. No schitt! Didn’t complain, but think its kind of a crock…
its gotten a lot more specific and they periodically send me updates with new info as their database gets better and tech is refined. Allegedly. Its interesting and as my dad is a family tree junkie, it appears to be reasonably accurate as to region.
My Secretary found her father on 23andMe! Was a migrant Italian worker in NYC randomly one summer in the 50s; they had never met and he didn’t know of her existence. She flew out to Italy to meet him and his (large) extended family. Pretty wild!
Now THAT'S cool!! Awesome!!
Ancestry.com's a bit of a joke. Two years ago, it provided the shocking information that I'm of 99% Central/Northern European ancestry.
...Except it also found about 8 people I'm half-siblings with, one of whom quickly messaged me to suggest meeting up when he was flying out to San Diego next month. He came on extremely strong in both an awkward and enthusiastic manner, which I later found out was partly due to him being on the autism spectrum. Others messaged me too, suggesting I join them on a camping trip in Appalachia or a weekend in Vegas. It was...a lot.
I shouldn't have been terribly surprised. I've known since a pretty young age that I'm a sperm-donor kid, and my mom has always been quite open with me about the details. But it certainly caught me off-guard. I'm an only child and I've never been the type to want a larger family. To have one suddenly foisted upon me made me pull back pretty hard.
A few months ago I finally met up with a couple of them over a low-stakes lunch. They were all quite nice- two had bonded during the pandemic but the other was also meeting for the first time. One guy had a similar story of knowing from an early age while the other two were completely blind-sided and initially suspected infidelity. It really surprised me how easily we got along together! I left feeling a lot better about the whole situation, and now I'm open to meeting up again.
So yeah. That's the story of how I found out I have three half-brothers and six half-sisters (and counting).
Mine came back with a bunch of 2nd cousins that I didn't know of. My paternal grandfather left my grandmother at the beginning of WW2 when my dad was a baby. My grandmother then married his best friend who was in the army because she would otherwise have been deported to a concentration camp. They fell in love and had another kid, my aunt. That grandfather married/left a few other women. I ended up not reaching out to the lost cousins because - while blood may be thicker than water - it was not worth the reminder that my grandfather was a philandering scumbag. While my family knows that there are other relatives out there, I'm taking their names to my grave - even now that that side of the family is all dead except the last aunt.
close circle member of mine is also donor conceived, and is wary of the ancestry sites because of it. Sharing your story with him. It was open knowledge in his family, and some of his cousins were jerks about it later in life, and reading some of the articles about other donor conceived kids has been a bit of a comfort.
Wow. That is indeed a lot. Not sure how I would handle that. Good for you for going at your own pace!
My mom got all the kids and significant others 23andMe for Christmas years back and the main thing we learned was that my sister's middle school family tree project that went back to the 1700's was remarkably accurate. I will occasionally answer health surveys from them making me a top contributor. All the health info is usually met with, "hmm neat" and then quickly forgotten. I did learn that being a sun-sneezer is genetic and it comes from my mom's side of the family.
Finnish on both sides. Maybe a little Swedish way back but haven't found any yet in tracing back.
we have some thing at our local hospital where they took our DNA and tried to tell us if had "likely sensitivity to cilantro or not"!
it seems that they could do a lot more with the data. but their headline charts and graphs were in the "crowd pleasing" category.
https://www.joinallofus.org/
types of analysis ..
https://photos.app.goo.gl/krYe2NytmjRmnAPC7
Genetic ancestry - Genetic ancestry can be very interesting, but you may also learn information you didn’t expect. Learn more
Bitter taste perception - Learn what your genes can tell you about how you taste bitter things.
Cilantro preference - Your genes play a role in whether you love cilantro or think it tastes like soap.
Earwax type - Flaky or sticky? Earwax type is in your genes.
What? I'm 100% white and I like Cilantro!
Earwax type - Flaky or sticky?
Say what?
HE ASKED IF YOUR EARWAX WAS FLAKY OR STICKY
i didnt even know there were two kinds!
i just assumed everyone's ear wax was just like mine, no different than other bodily excrements ..
The ex was the one that said there were two different types. I guess asians have flaky ones so that's all I knew.
PRO
Dallas Mav's GM confident he can bring back the same roster needed to miss the playoffs again next year
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/36162390/mavericks-gm-optimistic-re-signing-kyrie-irving
Kings coach Mike Brown voted NBCA Coach of the Year
As well he should. Don't think anyone had the Kings in the top half of the west.
Top of the fourth and if you had the over for today's A'-O's game, you win. I won't spoil it with the score.
Rooker’s 3-run bomb, Waldichuk’s strong outing end A’s losing streak
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/4/12/23681298/oakland-athletics-baltimore-orioles-ken-waldichuk-brent-rooker-carlos-perez
It felt like the A’s would never win again. After Oakland got handed their 5th and 6th straight losses, the floor for this team seemed like it was sinking lower and lower. With a mix of unproven rookies and bargain bin veterans, any silver linings that A’s fans saw going into the season felt like they were getting dimmer as each day went by and each loss piled up.
Today was a gut check and talent check for the team. Do they have the mental fortitude to get back up after getting put all the way down? Do they even have enough major league players to win actual ballgames?
Players from up and down the roster answered the call today, putting together a solid performance from beginning to end. Starting off the game strong, Tony Kemp led off the 1st inning by smoking a down-the-middle fastball to right-center field, getting him to 2nd base with no outs on the board. Ryan Noda then launched a curveball to right field, which Austin Hays barely caught over his head, allowing Kemp to tag up and move to 3rd.
Giants lose two outfielders, one game
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/4/12/23681316/giants-dodgers-recap-injuries-michael-confort-bryce-johnson
For a few innings, the San Francisco Giants were following the same blueprint they used to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 on Tuesday night. They were creating opportunities, and they were capitalizing on them. They were keeping the Dodgers from doing the same.
Just as was the case on Tuesday, it started in the first inning. In the top half, Alex Cobb danced around danger. A four-pitch walk and a single put two on with just one out, a situation Cobb deftly maneuvered with the help of a strike zone that was ebbing, flowing, and dancing around like the blob in a lava lamp.
Crisis averted.
Maybe, just maybe, they could intentionally walk Max Muncy? Dude had I think 12 RBI in the series.
There's zero reason to pitch to him when he's on a heater like this. But Kapler thinks he's smarter than everyone.
He went from 2 RBIs for the season to tied for the league lead.
Maximum damage with Muncy leading the Dodgers’ victory over the Giants
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/4/12/23681374/max-muncy-home-runs-clayton-kershaw-giants
Max Muncy. Yours truly was rather understanding in last night’s recap, acknowledging all the right reasons why Dave Roberts sat Muncy on Tuesday. Nevertheless, let us throw reason out the window, as Muncy’s second two-homer night in this series, on Wednesday, to lead a 10-5 win, showed that there is no reason when it comes to what Muncy does against San Francisco.
The night began much like the previous one, with the Dodgers starter, this time around, Clayton Kershaw, continuing the struggles he’s had in the back half of his career against the platoon-loaded Giants, as the left-hander entered the game with an ERA over 4 in his last nine games against San Francisco.
Went to this one. Early innings had me worried until Max Power blew it wide open. That 15 pitch Freddie Freeman at-bat was fun.
Which is surprising given how lost he looked against the 3 batters before Freddie.
Freddie made contact early and often so I don't think Taylor Rogers was fooling him. I thought Freddie's timing was off but when interviewed later Freddie said he was being defensive to avoid the K.
Yeah most of his swings were just short hacks to make contact.
OTHER COLLEGE
The Lia Thomas (trans swimmer) vs. Riley Gaines has turned a bit ugly and political.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/sfsu-president-says-riley-gaines-event-was-deeply-traumatic-for-trans-community/
Colorado AD refutes complete rando's tweet that they're leaving the PAC12
https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1646336975908085760
Unfortunately, saying "we're not leaving" means they're leaving, saying nothing means they're leaving, and saying they're leaving is taken at face value.
Need this media deal to get done to shut down the rumor mill.
Yeah and there are a number of publications that keep bashing the conference and are generally unhelpful to the cause.
Which means they're totally gone.
CAL
GO BEARS!
[WBB] Cal Signs Ioanna Krimili For 2023-24 Season
https://calbears.com/news/2023/4/12/womens-basketball-cal-signs-ioanna-krimili-for-2023-24-season.aspx
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team announced the signing of graduate transfer Ioanna Krimili, a three-time All-West Coast Conference first team selection and former WCC Newcomer of the Year for San Francisco, to its roster for the 2023-24 season.
"We are thrilled to have a player the caliber of Ioanna join our circle." Cal head coach Charmin Smith said. "She is a prolific scorer with good size and the ability to create for herself and others. She has a quick release and stretches the floor with her deep range. Most importantly, she believes in what we're building here and wants to be a part of the resurgence of this program."
One of the top 3-point shooters in the country, Krimili comes to Cal with a long list of records and accolades from her time at USF, including ranking fourth all time in the WCC for career 3-pointers made (276) and fifth for single-season 3-pointers made (97 in 2020-21). Both marks top the Dons' career and single-season lists, while her 84 3-point makes in 2022-23 rank second. She has totaled 1,782 points in her career, the fourth most in USF program history.
[T&F] McMorris In Good Shape After Day One
https://calbears.com/news/2023/4/12/track-field-mcmorris-in-good-shape-after-day-one.aspx
WALNUT – California track & field's Hakim McMorris was the only competitor for the Golden Bears on Wednesday at the Mt. SAC Relays, as Cal's top decathlete competed in the first five events of the invitational elite section to start off the four-day meet at Hilmer Lodge Stadium. At the end of the day, McMorris ended up with 4118 points – just over halfway to the school record of 8118 set by Mike Morrison in 2011 – leaving McMorris hopeful to challenge that total with a solid second day ahead.
The senior's best event was his first of the morning, as he blazed to a time of 10.48 in the 100m dash for an outright win and 980 points. McMorris followed that up with a long jump mark of 6.87m (22-6.5) and a shot put mark of 13.80m (45-3.5) before moving on to the high jump, where he cleared the bar at 1.89m (6-2.25). He bookended the afternoon with another fantastic sprint, taking third place in the 400m with his time of 47.49.
[MGOLF] Bears Finish Strong At Western Intercollegiate
https://calbears.com/news/2023/4/12/mens-golf-bears-finish-strong-at-western-intercollegiate.aspx
SANTA CRUZ – The California men's golf team shot a 4-under par 354 for the Western Intercollegiate field's lowest third-round score and secured a third-place finish on Wednesday at Pasatiempo Golf Club. It was the Golden Bears' fourth top-five finish in five spring tournaments played as they bested six teams ranked among the top 44 nationally.
Cal finished at even par for the tournament, jumping one spot on the leaderboard Wednesday after falling back to fourth place in round two. The Bears led the field after 18 holes played in Santa Cruz following a first-round 334.
[WTEN] Cal Ends Regular-Season Home Slate
https://calbears.com/news/2023/4/12/womens-tennis-cal-ends-regular-season-home-slate.aspx
BERKELEY – The 30th-ranked California women's tennis team closes its regular-season schedule at the Hellman Tennis Complex when the Golden Bears (9-7, 5-2 Pac-12) face Washington State (7-11, 0-7) on Friday at 1:30 p.m. PDT and No. 19 Washington (15-5, 5-2) on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Prior to Saturday's match, Cal will honor Haley Giavara and Erin Richardson in its Senior Day ceremony.
Admission is free during the regular season at Hellman. Live streams for the six Hellman courts are available by clicking here. Fans can also follow updates of all Cal matches on Twitter at @CalWomensTennis.
[BVB] No. 9 Cal Hosts USF, Faces Saint Mary’s On The Road
https://calbears.com/news/2023/4/12/beach-volleyball-no-9-cal-hosts-usf-faces-saint-marys-on-the-road.aspx
BERKELEY – The No. 9 California beach volleyball team will play a pair in the Bay this weekend hosting San Francisco on Friday and heading to Saint Mary's on Saturday. Friday's match with the Dons also marks Senior Day and has a 12 p.m. start time. Saturday's match in Moraga is set for 10 a.m.
The Golden Bears come into the weekend with a 21-6 overall record and have won nine of their last 10. The Dons hold a 1-22 record and the Gaels sit at 9-14.
[MSOC] Drake Callender Called Up To USMNT
https://calbears.com/news/2023/4/12/mens-soccer-drake-callender-called-up-to-usmnt.aspx
BERKELEY – California men's soccer alumnus Drake Callender earned a call up to the U.S. National Team for its April 19 game vs. Mexico in the inaugural Allstate Continental Clásico, U.S. Soccer announced on Wednesday.
This is the first selection to the senior national team for the 25-year-old goalkeeper, who previously was chosen for U.S. Under-23 National Team training camps in 2019 and 2021. Callender is one of three goalies on the 23-player roster for the USMNT, which will face its CONCACAF rival at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, in one week.
[FB] Cal Leads FBS With 18 In New Hampshire Honor Society
https://calbears.com/news/2023/4/12/football-cal-leads-fbs-with-18-in-new-hampshire-honor-society.aspx
IRVING, Texas – The National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame (NFF) announced Wednesday that California had an FBS-best 18 student-athletes from its' 2022 team selected to the 2023 NFF Hampshire Honor Society.
The NFF Hampshire Honor Society is comprised of college football student-athletes from all divisions of play who maintained an undergraduate cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better and were either starters or significant contributors throughout the 2022 season. Selections must have been either a senior player in 2022 who will graduate during the spring or summer of 2023 and just completed his final year of playing eligibility in 2022; or a graduated player who has been out of high school at least three years.
DBD A/V CLUB
The Grey Man (Netflix, 16/19, WB). A star-studded film that is unoriginal, melodramatic, and has some far fetched plot twists. That being said, the movie actually is good. It is a series of crisp action set pieces performed by incredibly good looking actors. One of the better action films on Netflix in a while. A perfect movie to watch, enjoy the heck out of it, and then forget.
I didn’t enjoy it as much as Extraction. I was a bit underwhelmed by it and found it as forgettable as a grey shirt.
Yeah it was fine and somewhat enjoyable but seemed like something auto generated by an AI. I would say more like 13/19.
enjoyed it as well
same
Aziz Ansari: Right Now. (Netflix, 9/19, WNB). It really felt like an apology letter for sexual misconduct that happened a year or so earlier... which made it kind of heavy and not as funny as it could have been. I wish I picked something else to watch.
Oats Studio (Netflix, 4/19, WNB). It's like "Love, Death & Robots" except the animated short videos are not very good.
Yep, completely agree. It was a live action LDR but not nearly as good.
This latest The Mandalorian was fucking awesome, really good - solid.
What next?