Lede: "a Danny DeVito Christmas ornament, fire sword, remote-controlled vibrator, chicken wings, six cheesecakes, painted rat traps, an important pregnancy test, dentures, a lightsaber, weed and one Gucci loafer"
Yup I absolutely don't like James Harden. Hated his game when we was with the Rockets. And I hated the Rockets style of play as well. He's ball dominate, drives the lane to draw a foul, and then complains when he doesn't get the call in the playoffs. And then he's worn out by the playoffs because his usage rate is so high.
Ex-Raiders WR Henry Ruggs III to plead guilty in fatal DUI case
Police say the 24-year-old Ruggs was drunk and reached speeds of 156 mph in Las Vegas' valley west of The Strip in the early morning hours of Nov. 2, 2021, when his Corvette Stingray hit Tina Tintor's Toyota RAV4, propelling it 571 feet and setting it on fire. Tintor, 23, and her dog Max burned to death, a coroner ruled in December 2021.
I say this as someone who was a massive proponent of the San Francisco Giants decision to hire Farhan Zaidi, a massive proponent of their decision to continue employing him, a massive proponent of their public desire to retain him, a massive proponent of how the team handled this offseason, and a massive proponent of the thought that the Giants are gonna be pretty good, actually.
So, to recap: I think the Giants are run by smart people who have done smart things. I think they should keep employing those smart people who will continue doing smart things.
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers offense scored early and often, their power display more than enough to smooth over any potential turbulence in Monday’s 13-4 win over the Phillies at Dodger Stadium.
Season highs in runs and hits (15) gave the Dodgers a fourth straight victory marked their longest win streak of the season.
State Rep Zooey Zephyr is suing the MT legislature because she is locked out from speaking on the floor for the rest of 2023. Go get 'em Zooey. Fascists suck.
Interesting times down here in LA. Rumors that the producers are holding out to thin out the Writers Guild. Most union departments are striking in solidarity. The show my wife is on (some Marvel TV spin off) somehow is not striking, which is good on the pay check side, however she now has to ask her lead man "so how do we navigate the picket lines to get on the lot" every day. Hoping a resolution can be found soon or else there will be A LOT of people hurting within the month. I think the LA workforce is something like 35% linked to entertainment and a lot of it is union.
My wife's second short film was just accepted into the Big Sur Film Festival. The event isn't until Mar 2024, but hopefully this will be the first of many.
Went and saw Sisu in the theater. Over the top Nazi killing by an ex-commando in Finland at the end of WW2. Entertaining and lots of dead Nazis. 15/19 WB
BERKELEY – The California men's tennis program returned to the postseason on Monday when the NCAA announced that the 29th-ranked Golden Bears would face 33rd-ranked Louisiana State in the first round of the NCAA Championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cal (12-10) takes on the Tigers (14-10) on Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT at the University of Michigan's Varsity Tennis Center.
The host and seventh-ranked Wolverines (24-4) play 73rd-ranked Toledo (18-5) on Saturday at 1 p.m. EDT, with Saturday's winners taking on each other in the second round on Sunday at 1 p.m. EDT. That winner advances to the super-regional round, at a campus site TBA, on either May 12 or 13.
BERKELEY – The California women's water polo team will take the No. 3 seed into the 2023 NCAA Championship after receiving an at-large berth on Monday evening. The Golden Bears will face sixth-seeded Princeton in the quarterfinals on May 12.
The NCAA Championships will take place from May 10-14 at Pacific's Kjeldsen Pool at the Eberhardt Aquatics Center in Stockton.
This will be the ninth NCAA Championship appearance for the Bears, who have never failed to reach the semifinal round. They have advanced to the semifinals four times in five non-COVID years under head coach Coralie Simmons and own an 11-9 all-time record at the championship. They reached the title match and finished as runners-up in 2011.
BERKELEY – The 26th-ranked California women's tennis team earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Championship and will face 30th-ranked San Diego in the first round on Friday in Austin, Texas, the NCAA announced on Monday. The Golden Bears bring a 12-9 record into the clash with the 12-10 Toreros. The teams will square off at 11 a.m. CDT on Friday at the Texas Tennis Center.
The University of Texas will host the four-team regional that includes Cal, USD, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and the Longhorns. Eighth-seeded Texas plays the Islanders in a first-round match at 2 p.m. CDT on Friday. The two first-round victors will play in the second round at 4 p.m. CDT on Saturday for the right to advance to a super regional at a site TBA.
CAL OPENS PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP AGAINST ARIZONA STATE
— Arizona State holds a 9-4 advantage in the all-time series after the teams first met in 2018, and has won each of the last eight games including both games in 2023 with a 13-9 victory in Berkeley on April 2 and a 15-6 win in Tempe on April 9.
— Wednesday's meeting will be the fourth consecutive time the teams have met in the Pac-12 Championship with the Bears a winner in Eugene in 2019 for their first-ever victory in the event, and the Sun Devils victorious at Stanford in 2021 and in Tempe in 2022.
BERKELEY – The California baseball team returns to the Bay Area on Tuesday for a nonconference contest at Santa Clara. First pitch for the Bears and Broncos is scheduled for 6 p.m. PT. Tuesday's game will be streamed on the WCC Network and fans can also follow along via livestats at Stabroadcast.com.
Cal (18-22) is coming off a tough weekend in Pittsburgh where it was swept by the Panthers. Prior to that series, the Bears were 12-3 in nonconference play. Santa Clara (23-15) is currently riding a five-game winning streak after sweeping Pepperdine in Malibu last weekend.
The Cal Athletic Study Center hosted its annual Academic Honors Luncheon on Monday at the Field Club At California Memorial Stadium, honoring a variety of accomplishments by an impressive cross-section of Cal student-athletes.
Neveah DeSouza of Cal's women's gymnastics team took home two prestigious awards – the Tom Hansen Medal as the top female senior student-athlete at Cal and the Walter A. Haas, Jr. Community Service Award. Reece Whitley of the men's swimming & diving team was Cal's male winner of the Tom Hansen Medal.
That cover picture of tulips - when I was a kid and we were living in the Netherlands, the place was absolutely inundated with tourists coming to see the tulip fields and the Keukenhof in particular. For years I associated tulips with German tour buses (they’d hang strings of them across the front of the buses)
I was just at Keukenhof last week and the tourists are out of control. When we booked, it was suggested 2-4 hrs were needed to see and enjoy everything. We left after an hour and a half.
I completely believe it. I think we went *once* as a family because my folks were like “absolutely fuck this noise,” but I know we had at least one school trip also
My favorites tend to be cactus flowers, however I don't know the name of any of them. The San Pedro or Moonlight cactus that only blooms at night is high on my list. Also a thornless succulent called a Carrion Plant that produces a flower that gives off a rotting flesh scent attracting flies tricking them into pollinating. We had a couple of them potted and after many years they started blooming these weird looking flowers last summer.
When we did a spring break to the southwest in 2017, we were surprised at a section of the drive from Phoenix to Flagstaff which had fields just full of wildflowers, I guess there had been recent rain- quite lovely.
I had a friends who did a season at sea working on an Alaska crab boat. We met while studying abroad in Budapest. He went to UCSD, he was a big and physically fit guy and said it was the hardest work he ever did, it also paid really well for such a short time commitment.
As a side note, what are the two states in the union that rhyme? He was born in one and lived in the other.
The imagery is pretty spectacular. Fishing boats in high seas at night in the Bering Sea, pulling up crab pots, which are often covered in ice? Sign me up for a desk job.
Lede: "a Danny DeVito Christmas ornament, fire sword, remote-controlled vibrator, chicken wings, six cheesecakes, painted rat traps, an important pregnancy test, dentures, a lightsaber, weed and one Gucci loafer"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/30/business/uber-2023-lost-and-found-index-trnd/index.html
PRO
[Athletic] Dillon Brooks not welcome back to the Grizzlies
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1653430519315714049
Nikko Remigio signs with the Chiefs
https://twitter.com/FresnoStateFB/status/1652485977057931265
Iowa's Lukas Van Ness was drafted by the Packers 13th overall. To celebrate, his dad patted his girlfriend on the ass after he was drafted on live TV.
https://twitter.com/rgfray1/status/1651766803343765505
Twice.
Serena, 41, pregnant with her second child. Congratulations!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CruD3jjLOPB/
Jokic scores 39 points as Denver goes up 2-0 over Suns after a 97-87 win. It helps when Phoenix goes 6-31 from 3.
https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401544335
Uh, that one.
Ohhhh Brogdon... Celtics lose.
https://twitter.com/ohnohedidnt24/status/1653213911594704899
I mean, he hit the open man.
it was literally the "James Harden" show. fun to watch for those of us unlike HAG who dont dislike him so much.
Yup I absolutely don't like James Harden. Hated his game when we was with the Rockets. And I hated the Rockets style of play as well. He's ball dominate, drives the lane to draw a foul, and then complains when he doesn't get the call in the playoffs. And then he's worn out by the playoffs because his usage rate is so high.
according to your theory he will get the 76ers to the finals, but then be too tired to beat the Warriors!
Except he didn't have to be ball dominant this season so he's got much more energy to go to the strip clubs.
i was bisy this year. didnt go to that many
Missed that game, watched that super low scoring one.
Ex-Raiders WR Henry Ruggs III to plead guilty in fatal DUI case
Police say the 24-year-old Ruggs was drunk and reached speeds of 156 mph in Las Vegas' valley west of The Strip in the early morning hours of Nov. 2, 2021, when his Corvette Stingray hit Tina Tintor's Toyota RAV4, propelling it 571 feet and setting it on fire. Tintor, 23, and her dog Max burned to death, a coroner ruled in December 2021.
156 mph is a LOT!
Completely ridiculous speeds. At least he’s pleading guilty, not that it brings her back.
New Giants killer unlocked: Mauricio Dubón
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/5/1/23707478/giants-astros-recap-mauricio-dubon
I say this as someone who was a massive proponent of the San Francisco Giants decision to hire Farhan Zaidi, a massive proponent of their decision to continue employing him, a massive proponent of their public desire to retain him, a massive proponent of how the team handled this offseason, and a massive proponent of the thought that the Giants are gonna be pretty good, actually.
So, to recap: I think the Giants are run by smart people who have done smart things. I think they should keep employing those smart people who will continue doing smart things.
Now, with that said. Deep breath.
Farhan and Kapler are buffoons.
Dodgers hit 4 home runs, run winning streak to 4 games
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/5/1/23706176/dodgers-home-runs-winning-streak-phillies-recap
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers offense scored early and often, their power display more than enough to smooth over any potential turbulence in Monday’s 13-4 win over the Phillies at Dodger Stadium.
Season highs in runs and hits (15) gave the Dodgers a fourth straight victory marked their longest win streak of the season.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
TIL: It's illegal to hang anything from your rearview mirror in Illinois
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/pending-illinois-house-bill-could-legalize-fuzzy-dice-other-items-on-rearview-mirrors/
State Rep Zooey Zephyr is suing the MT legislature because she is locked out from speaking on the floor for the rest of 2023. Go get 'em Zooey. Fascists suck.
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1653068406415843331
DBD AV CLUB (EXCLUDING DEADLIEST CATCH)
At seven PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said "fellas, it's been good to know ya"
Gordon Lightfoot passes away at age 84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI
Writers Guild goes on strike.
https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-what-went-wrong-1235353267/
Interesting times down here in LA. Rumors that the producers are holding out to thin out the Writers Guild. Most union departments are striking in solidarity. The show my wife is on (some Marvel TV spin off) somehow is not striking, which is good on the pay check side, however she now has to ask her lead man "so how do we navigate the picket lines to get on the lot" every day. Hoping a resolution can be found soon or else there will be A LOT of people hurting within the month. I think the LA workforce is something like 35% linked to entertainment and a lot of it is union.
My wife's second short film was just accepted into the Big Sur Film Festival. The event isn't until Mar 2024, but hopefully this will be the first of many.
AWESOME!!!
oh right .. i forgot to start the DBD AV CLUB section
Awkward! 9-1-1 cancelled on Fox but it's spinoff, 9-1-1 Lone Star is renewed. ABC then signs 9-1-1.
‘9-1-1’ Moves From Fox to ABC for Season 7; ‘Lone Star’ Renewed for Season 5 at Fox
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/9-1-1-fox-abc-season-7-lone-star-renewed-season-5-fox-1235599928/
Watched the show about the guys who did Watergate - eh, I wanted it to be good, but it wasn't that good 11/19.
Went and saw Sisu in the theater. Over the top Nazi killing by an ex-commando in Finland at the end of WW2. Entertaining and lots of dead Nazis. 15/19 WB
Can’t miss with piles of dead Nazis
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Serial killer on the loose at UC Davis
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/third-stabbing-near-uc-davis-134400502.html
I wonder how long it will take yahoo to realize they posted that under "Entertainment?"
CAL
Cal lands starting Texas A&M offensive lineman Matthew Wykoff. He played center for the Aggies and was an SEC 1st team all freshman last year.
https://twitter.com/WykoffMatthew/status/1653414098732736517
Awesome!
ne is more of an RT than a center but can play a lot of positions. Decent addition and should push for a starting spot. 3 years of eligibility left
Good news!!!!!!!!!!!
Cal lands 6'6" 270 lb OLB from [checks notes] Southern France
https://twitter.com/Tidiane_DL/status/1653456895762415637
Go Bears!!!
Allez les Bleus
[MTEN] Bears Back In NCAA Championship
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/1/mens-tennis-bears-back-in-ncaa-championship.aspx
BERKELEY – The California men's tennis program returned to the postseason on Monday when the NCAA announced that the 29th-ranked Golden Bears would face 33rd-ranked Louisiana State in the first round of the NCAA Championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cal (12-10) takes on the Tigers (14-10) on Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT at the University of Michigan's Varsity Tennis Center.
The host and seventh-ranked Wolverines (24-4) play 73rd-ranked Toledo (18-5) on Saturday at 1 p.m. EDT, with Saturday's winners taking on each other in the second round on Sunday at 1 p.m. EDT. That winner advances to the super-regional round, at a campus site TBA, on either May 12 or 13.
[WPOLO] Bears Take No. 3 Seed At NCAA Championship
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/1/womens-water-polo-bears-take-no-3-seed-at-ncaa-championship.aspx
BERKELEY – The California women's water polo team will take the No. 3 seed into the 2023 NCAA Championship after receiving an at-large berth on Monday evening. The Golden Bears will face sixth-seeded Princeton in the quarterfinals on May 12.
The NCAA Championships will take place from May 10-14 at Pacific's Kjeldsen Pool at the Eberhardt Aquatics Center in Stockton.
This will be the ninth NCAA Championship appearance for the Bears, who have never failed to reach the semifinal round. They have advanced to the semifinals four times in five non-COVID years under head coach Coralie Simmons and own an 11-9 all-time record at the championship. They reached the title match and finished as runners-up in 2011.
[WTEN] Cal Plays USD In NCAAs In Austin
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/1/womens-tennis-cal-plays-usd-in-ncaas-in-austin.aspx
BERKELEY – The 26th-ranked California women's tennis team earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Championship and will face 30th-ranked San Diego in the first round on Friday in Austin, Texas, the NCAA announced on Monday. The Golden Bears bring a 12-9 record into the clash with the 12-10 Toreros. The teams will square off at 11 a.m. CDT on Friday at the Texas Tennis Center.
The University of Texas will host the four-team regional that includes Cal, USD, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and the Longhorns. Eighth-seeded Texas plays the Islanders in a first-round match at 2 p.m. CDT on Friday. The two first-round victors will play in the second round at 4 p.m. CDT on Saturday for the right to advance to a super regional at a site TBA.
[LAX] Cal Opens Pac-12 Championship Against Arizona State
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/1/lacrosse-cal-opens-pac-12-championship-against-arizona-state.aspx
CAL OPENS PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP AGAINST ARIZONA STATE
— Arizona State holds a 9-4 advantage in the all-time series after the teams first met in 2018, and has won each of the last eight games including both games in 2023 with a 13-9 victory in Berkeley on April 2 and a 15-6 win in Tempe on April 9.
— Wednesday's meeting will be the fourth consecutive time the teams have met in the Pac-12 Championship with the Bears a winner in Eugene in 2019 for their first-ever victory in the event, and the Sun Devils victorious at Stanford in 2021 and in Tempe in 2022.
[BASE] Bears To Battle Broncos
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/1/baseball-bears-to-battle-broncos.aspx
BERKELEY – The California baseball team returns to the Bay Area on Tuesday for a nonconference contest at Santa Clara. First pitch for the Bears and Broncos is scheduled for 6 p.m. PT. Tuesday's game will be streamed on the WCC Network and fans can also follow along via livestats at Stabroadcast.com.
Cal (18-22) is coming off a tough weekend in Pittsburgh where it was swept by the Panthers. Prior to that series, the Bears were 12-3 in nonconference play. Santa Clara (23-15) is currently riding a five-game winning streak after sweeping Pepperdine in Malibu last weekend.
Cal Student-Athletes Recognized At Honors Luncheon
https://calbears.com/news/2023/5/1/athletics-news-cal-student-athletes-recognized-at-academic-honors-luncheon.aspx
The Cal Athletic Study Center hosted its annual Academic Honors Luncheon on Monday at the Field Club At California Memorial Stadium, honoring a variety of accomplishments by an impressive cross-section of Cal student-athletes.
Neveah DeSouza of Cal's women's gymnastics team took home two prestigious awards – the Tom Hansen Medal as the top female senior student-athlete at Cal and the Walter A. Haas, Jr. Community Service Award. Reece Whitley of the men's swimming & diving team was Cal's male winner of the Tom Hansen Medal.
Flowers
I'm a peony fan, followed closely by lilacs and hydrangeas.
That cover picture of tulips - when I was a kid and we were living in the Netherlands, the place was absolutely inundated with tourists coming to see the tulip fields and the Keukenhof in particular. For years I associated tulips with German tour buses (they’d hang strings of them across the front of the buses)
I was just at Keukenhof last week and the tourists are out of control. When we booked, it was suggested 2-4 hrs were needed to see and enjoy everything. We left after an hour and a half.
When I went, which was a break during a business trip, it was in May 2008. Spectacular and the place was pretty empty.
I completely believe it. I think we went *once* as a family because my folks were like “absolutely fuck this noise,” but I know we had at least one school trip also
My favorites tend to be cactus flowers, however I don't know the name of any of them. The San Pedro or Moonlight cactus that only blooms at night is high on my list. Also a thornless succulent called a Carrion Plant that produces a flower that gives off a rotting flesh scent attracting flies tricking them into pollinating. We had a couple of them potted and after many years they started blooming these weird looking flowers last summer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapelia_gigantea
Oh and California Poppies
my favorite are wildflowers, often in stark and barren landscapes like the desert.
something about the bright pop of color in a background of gray or brown makes me happy.
When we did a spring break to the southwest in 2017, we were surprised at a section of the drive from Phoenix to Flagstaff which had fields just full of wildflowers, I guess there had been recent rain- quite lovely.
The Deadliest Catch .. does anyone watching this?
I had a friends who did a season at sea working on an Alaska crab boat. We met while studying abroad in Budapest. He went to UCSD, he was a big and physically fit guy and said it was the hardest work he ever did, it also paid really well for such a short time commitment.
As a side note, what are the two states in the union that rhyme? He was born in one and lived in the other.
@Aren't there a lot? North Dakota rhymes with South Dakota. West Virginia rhymes with Virginia...@
Those aren’t rhymes as much as they are the same word.
Nebraska and Alaska that rhymes but not the same word.
what a wise guy!
someone smack him ...
on the other hand, it reminds me of my "worst dad joke" that is something like this ...
me: who was the first president of the US?
kid: i dunno
me: i'll give you a hint. starts w/ W and rhymes w/ Washington.
can be substituted w/ just about any question ..
If Washington washed his woolies, how many w's in all?
ANSWER: There are no w's in "all"!
The imagery is pretty spectacular. Fishing boats in high seas at night in the Bering Sea, pulling up crab pots, which are often covered in ice? Sign me up for a desk job.
i guess you have to have an another boat on the high seas at night taking the photos.
isnt someone from DBD planning an Alaska trip this summer?
was watching some random commercial on TV when i thought that this boat (Southern Wind) from the Deadliest Catch looked familiar
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JFcwuSFKTAPCwXXd7
sure enough, when i looked thru my Alaska trip photos i found this picture of the exact same fishing boat docked in Homer.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NdauF4La9KAsqLPu8
as you can see, we did not go on a very deadly fishing trip!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BTHJE6ns5Nqxq3Yf6