Court overturned North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control board banning a Maryland because the art on a beer can has an abstract naked dude on it because of "bad taste". Meanwhile, Kentucky's Against The Grain's Brown Note is absolutely not in bad taste and is easily available here.
They are, but the I roll my eyes of the stupidity of having artistic morality board within an archaic alcohol commission meant to keep people in church on Sunday. It's all so subjective. I mean, if I want to drink a beer with dicks on the label, I absolutely should.
This sounds like a terrible idea, which pretty much guarantees that the Fire Starkey family will be coming back from Maine with it mounted on the family car.
CDC data from 2020 indicates obesity rates by state. The top 3 fattest states are not surprising. The least obese states surprised me. Guess those 6 states.
I think I've seen King is a pretty progressive person. I guess the next time the two young boys in the next building over do some chalk on the sidewalk I should be concerned about destruction of property.
Mastriano won the GOP nomination for PA Gov. He's an ultra-MAGAt, Big Lie supporter, and Christian nationalist. He'll face Josh Shapiro, who ran unopposed.
if Mastriano wins, it's not hard to imagine that it's the last the democratic party will see of any wins there, at the state / electoral college level in any case
He'll face Lt. Gov John Fetterman, whose gruff visage, Carhartt hoodie wearing, and take-no-shit-approach endears himself to PA's more centrist-flavor of Democrats
Marjorie Eastman was a GOP candidate for US Senate - pro-guns, farms, and anti-CRT. She lost. I called her out for taking her press photo at a seemingly rural farm, but its actually the house of the DEM nominee for US House NC-17.
Despite a variety of state-wide and national (Congressional) races with large or diverse choices, and a significant number of compelling races and financial matters in a lot of locals, the Oregon turnout for yesterday's primary is unlikely to reach 30%. Communities with 1/3 participation are ones with a big turnout. This in a time when perceived political division is at an all time high. Is that a product of spectacular coverage exaggerating some of the issues? Or do people "care", but have largely given up on the electoral process? (Neither scenario is at all reassuring.)
The circus is coming back to my neighborhood next week.
Wild Rosslyn Press Conference in the Works — “WHAT: Jack Burkman to give press conference from wheelchair, after losing more than 65 ibs, and all his hair. WHEN: Monday May 23, 2022 High Noon. WHERE… N Colonial Terrace, Arlington VA 22209.”
this seems to be an acquired taste i have not yet acquired. my kids seem to love it and a recent trip to Berkeley made me realize how many of these boba tea places there are w/in a block or two of campus.
盐酥鸡 Salt Crisped Chicken - one of the staples of the Taiwan Night Market where you get a bunch of stuff (I like squid, random vegetables, rice cakes myself) then the proprietror fries it in with a bunch of chicken parts and you get a greasy bag back to walk around and poke bit outs with sticks. It's wonderful.
Rian Johson's slate of Star Wars films have been delayed due to his work on Knives Out 2. Skipping to the front of the queue is Taika Waititi, who will do a yet-to-be-disclosed franchise, followed next by Patty Jenkins' Rogue Squadron
First episode, when Pike was talking about Earth's history AKA WW3, which started with The Second Civil War. They showed Trump rally ("Audit the Vote"), a noose outside the Capitol, and at least one clear MAGA hat as people pushing to get in the Capitol.
That is good news! On a related note, I nearly had a disasterous injury on my MTB on Saturday. Coming in hot before a step down rock drop, I overcooked the front brake and my front wheel washed out just feet in front of the rock drop. There was no way to prevent my momentum from carrying me over the drop. Fortunately, I was able to separate from my bike enough to control my flight over the drop. I ended up with some decent bruises and abrasions but not broken bones, thankfully!
I celebrated #newbikeday yesterday - and rode back from Walnut Creek to Dublin and folks,,,the legs are not there. I was also unused to the WIND and the speeds of traffic after riding in Shanghai for the last decade. But also didn't have to dodge mopeds, random people exiting driveways without looking and SLOW bike traffic either.
Iron Horse Trail from Walnut Creek to Danville, but I've been eyeing Camino Tassajara for such a long time, I took a left on Sycamore Valley and road the back way into Dublin and I was hit with big winds and some few sketchy kms without a bike lane and a couple of climbs I wasn't quite ready for - I think end of summer/middle of fall for tackling Diablo.
Build a flower bed. I started some sunflower seedlings a week ago, but I didn't expect them to sprout and then grow to be 6" tall within 7 days. I have to plant them now otherwise they grow so aggressively that the roots will weave into each other in the planter tray.
I was just there on Saturday - our table got: dozen oysters, grilled cheese, chippino, geoduck cerviche, mussels. Everything was great, but I especially liked the mussels
Just returned. Excellent meal. I wouldn't modify the overpriced with incredibly. To me it was merely overpriced as are most fancy eateries along the water.
teaching new content for my machine learning class this semester, so need to spend a few hours prepping for class. that is a normal Wed afternoon these days.
The Josh Hawley - Elizabeth Holmes Endowed Chair of Assholery has nailed a specific type of unearned and offensive smugness that is distinct from other similar breeds back East
That's weird. The same picture showed up on a story that showed up in my news feed. The rest of the story I saw was video of them at a Dodgers game over the weekend. Didn't see the Furd hat on the video from the baseball game.
Was watching last night with friends at a bar in Boston. Had to step out during halftime to make a call. I mentioned to the person on the phone how the Celtics were looking solid.. Then I came back in halfway through the 3rd and did a double take at the tv screen. On the positive side, we had some very delicious Korean style fried chicken wings.
Giants win 12th straight game over the Rockies. Was looking like a blowout, but there's no such thing at Coors. Tying run got to bat in the bottom of the 9th, but CF Slater dove to catch a shallow bloop to end the game 10-7.
The San Francisco Giants did a funny and cool thing against the Colorado Rockies, and it was the type of funny and cool thing that you can only do at Coors Field, which is a place that breeds funniness and coolness, except for when it’s breeding annoyance and aggravation.
They led off the first and second innings with four-bag hits that could not have been any less similar had they tried.
The first one came on the second pitch of the day. It was Tommy La Stella, the guy a lot of Giants fans didn’t seem to want mucking up a rather lovely roster.
The baseball was flying out of Dodger Stadium in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader. The six home runs are the most in any Dodgers game this season, and the home team hit four of them to beat the Diamondbacks, 7-6.
Tuesday afternoon followed a pattern similar to Monday night, with Arizona taking an early lead, and the Dodgers offense getting handcuffed in the early going by the D-backs starting pitcher. After not scoring until the fifth inning against Madison Bumgarner in the series opener, the Dodgers finally got on the board in the fourth inning on Tuesday, when Will Smith homered off Tyler Gilbert.
The sixth inning was when the floodgates opened, with four hits, two walks and five runs against Gilbert. Three of those hits were home runs, including the third long ball by Mookie Betts in his last four games, and the first time Trea Turner and Justin Turner homered in the same inning.
After three straight one-run victories, the Dodgers’ latest comeback win came with some distance, piling on the Diamondbacks 12-3 on Tuesday night to complete a doubleheader sweep at Dodger Stadium.
The first win of the day for the Dodgers featured four home runs under the sun, and one double. The nightcap saw Los Angeles hit one home run but added five doubles, including Freddie Freeman tying a single-game franchise record with three doubles, tying him for the major league lead with 14 doubles of the season. He drove in three and scored twice.
Gavin Lux gave the Dodgers’ the lead with a two-run double in the second.
Mired in a long teamwide slump, the A’s put together five runs on Tuesday, beating the Minnesota Twins by a 5-2 margin at the Coliseum.
Oakland is one of the lowest-scoring teams in the majors this year, and over their past two dozen games they were averaging a mere 2.4 runs per contest, including five shutouts. Each of the last three days they were limited to one run apiece, including last night in the series opener against the Twins.
Pac-12 establishes new CCG selection parameters where the two teams with the best conference records go to the game, rather than the winner of each division. Divisions remain in place but may be dissolved down the line.
Recently read "Ways and Means" by Roger Lowenstein, a book about the financing of the Civil War and in my opinion a very good book. I'm someone who knows quite a bit about the period, but this issue honestly is much more important than the amount of attention it receives. One of the greatest ironies is the Confederates fight for state's rights (to have slaves) utterly and completely changed the Federal government into what it is today. In the first year of the war, it racked up more debts than it had in the preceding 72 years.
I saw him speak at Cody’s Books on Telegraph. Slaughterhouse Five is his best work, but he has a long bibliography of very high level, enjoyable reads. Enjoy!
I'm re-reading Jan Morris's Hong Kong - the final edition of which was published in 1997. It's an amazing document to how BRITISH HK used to be and just how much has changed in 25 years. It varies from slightly to overwhelmingly orientalist in tone but she's also a gifted and engaging author.
CAL
Someone runs an image of Oski through a machine-learned algorithm. I am shocked that it didn't rain spiders, locusts, and blood.
https://twitter.com/SickosCommittee/status/1526577454244052993?s=20&t=C2s0tgCzPhSiTAD2jzy1Qw
lower right dead skin mask Oski FTW
ALL HAIL OSKI, LORD OF DOOM
Go Bears!!!
In the who-knows-what-makes-17 year old brains-tick-department Cal has made 5th-rated QB prospect Jaden Rashada's final seven.
Others finalists include Oregon, LSU, Texas A&M, Florida, Mississippi and Miami.
Losers out of consideration:
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Auburn, Michigan State, BYU, Penn State, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, Washington, Utah, Arizona State and Houston
I would recommend the lad attend whichever of his final choices is the number one public institute of higher education in the world.
yeahhhhhhhhhhh, not gonna happen
Ole Miss or Miami
Amen.
Dear 17-year old, please pick us, please, please, please!
Court overturned North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control board banning a Maryland because the art on a beer can has an abstract naked dude on it because of "bad taste". Meanwhile, Kentucky's Against The Grain's Brown Note is absolutely not in bad taste and is easily available here.
https://wtop.com/business-finance/2022/05/flying-dog-wins-another-court-fight-over-its-edgy-beer-labels/
https://atgbrewery.com/beer/brown-note/
Wait it sounds like NC is allowing the Flying Dog label now, am I missing something?
They are, but the I roll my eyes of the stupidity of having artistic morality board within an archaic alcohol commission meant to keep people in church on Sunday. It's all so subjective. I mean, if I want to drink a beer with dicks on the label, I absolutely should.
Idea for new microbrew: Beer With Dicks
DBD HH: Beer with Dicks
This sounds like a terrible idea, which pretty much guarantees that the Fire Starkey family will be coming back from Maine with it mounted on the family car.
https://www.pressherald.com/2022/05/18/south-portland-firms-vehicle-mounted-pepper-spray-gun-sparks-criticism/
awwww yeahhhhh
CDC data from 2020 indicates obesity rates by state. The top 3 fattest states are not surprising. The least obese states surprised me. Guess those 6 states.
Fattest: West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi
Fittest: Colorado, Utah, Hawaii
🟩🟩🟩
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Ok, fattest solved and least obese has two answers established. Scattershot for the remaining least obese state: Washington, New York, New Mexico
⬜⬜⬜, but + for the scattershot strategy
I know Colorado was one of the least obese and Hawaii also makes sense.
I'll take a random stab and say the other one is Connecticut.
🟩🟩⬜
I looked it up, the remaining state is indeed in the Northeast
🟨
Agh, I was so close! Looks like CT is fourth.
Is it New Hampshire? I was thinking that but didn't put it down.
⬜
i would go with obese == poverty, fit == geography/climate/lifestyle, so..
most: Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia
least: Colorado, Vermont, Montana
🟩⬜🟩
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Fattest: Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky. Fittest: Colorado, California, Oregon
🟩🟩⬜
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Fattest - Mississippi, Louisana, Minnesota
Least obese - Wyoming, Maine, Montana
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Hawaii on fattest?
fattest? Kentucky's gotta be up there.
least: Florida? I would say Ca, Or, Wa but I'm going to guess they aren't on there. Surprising, so maybe Alaska, Hawaii?
Fattest: ⬜
Least: ⬜⬜🟩
Hawaii - way too many Pacific Islanders
omg racis
🟩
It's replacement theory, but in reverse
Idaho, North Dakota, Maine
⬜⬜⬜
Steven King
Is Susan Collins' neighbor https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/susan-collins-sidewalk-chalker-interview
I think I've seen King is a pretty progressive person. I guess the next time the two young boys in the next building over do some chalk on the sidewalk I should be concerned about destruction of property.
[POLITICAL STUFF GOES HERE]
It's May 2022. Louis DeJoy's final day as Postmaster General is imminent.
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1526637094277328898
Mike Dion
@6_string_theory
·
22h
Bwah-hah-hah. And, they should send his termination notice via registered mail, so he'd have to sign for it.
Mastriano won the GOP nomination for PA Gov. He's an ultra-MAGAt, Big Lie supporter, and Christian nationalist. He'll face Josh Shapiro, who ran unopposed.
if Mastriano wins, it's not hard to imagine that it's the last the democratic party will see of any wins there, at the state / electoral college level in any case
Trump-endorsed Dr. Oz wins GOP nomination for US Sen PA seat by a hair.
pqtm
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1526771719050039296
He'll face Lt. Gov John Fetterman, whose gruff visage, Carhartt hoodie wearing, and take-no-shit-approach endears himself to PA's more centrist-flavor of Democrats
He's also a backer of UBI, pot legalization and ran a quasi DSA campaign.
Everything I've seen says it's still too close to call and definitely going to a recount
Maybe it's election fraud! Where is Mike Lindell?
thanks Oprah
Aaarrggh.
Marjorie Eastman was a GOP candidate for US Senate - pro-guns, farms, and anti-CRT. She lost. I called her out for taking her press photo at a seemingly rural farm, but its actually the house of the DEM nominee for US House NC-17.
https://twitter.com/SGBear2/status/1526893890099355648?s=20&t=WktCzIZ5S8wbK_5VuKHjOg
Rep Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) loses primary to establishment GOPer Chuck Edwards. Edwards will almost certainly win as the district is deep red.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/politics/madison-cawthorn-chuck-edwards-north-carolina/index.html
oh gee that's a shame I guess Cawthorn is going to need to get a job
OAN and Newsmax are already writing a check. The dude is a dumbkopf, but they can write scripts for him.
Despite a variety of state-wide and national (Congressional) races with large or diverse choices, and a significant number of compelling races and financial matters in a lot of locals, the Oregon turnout for yesterday's primary is unlikely to reach 30%. Communities with 1/3 participation are ones with a big turnout. This in a time when perceived political division is at an all time high. Is that a product of spectacular coverage exaggerating some of the issues? Or do people "care", but have largely given up on the electoral process? (Neither scenario is at all reassuring.)
The circus is coming back to my neighborhood next week.
Wild Rosslyn Press Conference in the Works — “WHAT: Jack Burkman to give press conference from wheelchair, after losing more than 65 ibs, and all his hair. WHEN: Monday May 23, 2022 High Noon. WHERE… N Colonial Terrace, Arlington VA 22209.”
https://twitter.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1526616525360308225
Boba
Fett
i like how he survived the Sarlacc and learned combat technique from the Tusken Sand People on Tatooine
Boban
this seems to be an acquired taste i have not yet acquired. my kids seem to love it and a recent trip to Berkeley made me realize how many of these boba tea places there are w/in a block or two of campus.
I don't like it either. I really don't want chewy chunks when drinking stuff. I also don't really like tea which Boba is usually in.
I'm not much for boba but I love the crispy popcorn chicken that can often be found at the shops.
盐酥鸡 Salt Crisped Chicken - one of the staples of the Taiwan Night Market where you get a bunch of stuff (I like squid, random vegetables, rice cakes myself) then the proprietror fries it in with a bunch of chicken parts and you get a greasy bag back to walk around and poke bit outs with sticks. It's wonderful.
DBD AV Club
Rian Johson's slate of Star Wars films have been delayed due to his work on Knives Out 2. Skipping to the front of the queue is Taika Waititi, who will do a yet-to-be-disclosed franchise, followed next by Patty Jenkins' Rogue Squadron
https://www.avclub.com/taika-waititi-star-wars-kathleen-kennedy-1848938532
Not holding out any hope for his next films bc TLJ suuuuuucked
You couldn't be more wrong if you had a electric wronging machine.
TLJ was easily the best Star Wars movie since the OT.
no
no u
This news sounds WAY out of date. Rogue Squadron was shelved a long time ago.
In a galaxy far far away
Tried to "heart" this comment, but clicking on the heart did nothing. Strange.
Apparently it is just delayed by a minute or so.
Waititi gonna hit up all the big franchises.
Here’s hoping for a What We Do in the Shadows and a Grand Admiral Thrawn mash up
Altho the thrawn origin story book (Thrawn) sucked.
Watched the second Strange New Worlds - somebody here was saying the 1/6 stuff was too on the nose - what 1/6 stuff? I didn't see anything.
First episode, when Pike was talking about Earth's history AKA WW3, which started with The Second Civil War. They showed Trump rally ("Audit the Vote"), a noose outside the Capitol, and at least one clear MAGA hat as people pushing to get in the Capitol.
It's apparently now ST canon that the Second World War starts in 2026. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Civil_War
i was the same. need to go back to find the clip.
DBD cooking academy
Your top priority for today
celebrate!!
good news from spinal doc today. my neck vertebrae injuries should heal w/ just rest and time (4-6 wks in this neck brace) and no further surgery.
also good for family/summer/vacation planning since i wont be stuck in the house all summer
Congrats!
That is good news! On a related note, I nearly had a disasterous injury on my MTB on Saturday. Coming in hot before a step down rock drop, I overcooked the front brake and my front wheel washed out just feet in front of the rock drop. There was no way to prevent my momentum from carrying me over the drop. Fortunately, I was able to separate from my bike enough to control my flight over the drop. I ended up with some decent bruises and abrasions but not broken bones, thankfully!
good save. glad you were unharmed mostly
I celebrated #newbikeday yesterday - and rode back from Walnut Creek to Dublin and folks,,,the legs are not there. I was also unused to the WIND and the speeds of traffic after riding in Shanghai for the last decade. But also didn't have to dodge mopeds, random people exiting driveways without looking and SLOW bike traffic either.
Excited to get riding again.
Did you stick to the Iron Horse Trail for the most part?
Iron Horse Trail from Walnut Creek to Danville, but I've been eyeing Camino Tassajara for such a long time, I took a left on Sycamore Valley and road the back way into Dublin and I was hit with big winds and some few sketchy kms without a bike lane and a couple of climbs I wasn't quite ready for - I think end of summer/middle of fall for tackling Diablo.
That's good news.
Build a flower bed. I started some sunflower seedlings a week ago, but I didn't expect them to sprout and then grow to be 6" tall within 7 days. I have to plant them now otherwise they grow so aggressively that the roots will weave into each other in the planter tray.
Survive the flight back to MD with Cf-98.
ambitious
hydrate
Lunch. The missus and I are going into SF for lunch at Hog Island Oyster Co. in the Ferry Building. Love me some seafood.
good move. love Ferry Bldg and all the variety there.
I was just there on Saturday - our table got: dozen oysters, grilled cheese, chippino, geoduck cerviche, mussels. Everything was great, but I especially liked the mussels
Had oysters (delicious) and the shrimp and chips. Comes with surprisingly good cole slaw.
while good, it's incredibly overpriced
Just returned. Excellent meal. I wouldn't modify the overpriced with incredibly. To me it was merely overpriced as are most fancy eateries along the water.
it's a tourist trap
...as are most places with water views.
"Incredibly" overpriced AND a tourist trap. So you're not a fan. I get it.
Get work done
teaching new content for my machine learning class this semester, so need to spend a few hours prepping for class. that is a normal Wed afternoon these days.
Elsewhere in college
[FB] Pac12 changes its playoff format. #KingOfTheNorth
https://twitter.com/pac12/status/1527001901589569544
The Athletic describes the 250 people who changed jobs because Stanfurd upset USC in week 2 of last year
https://theathletic.com/3313383/2022/05/16/usc-college-football-coaching-carousel-2021-2022/
https://twitter.com/max_olson/status/1526557280052838401?s=21&t=dCCOQrtYOukaI_ftPu-oyA
I always find Stanfurd upsetting
The Josh Hawley - Elizabeth Holmes Endowed Chair of Assholery has nailed a specific type of unearned and offensive smugness that is distinct from other similar breeds back East
Here's local hero Tom Hanks wearing a stanfurd hat at an LA Kings game the other day
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3011298/Tom-Hanks-enjoys-night-family-bonding-hockey-match-son-Chet-fresh-rehab-drug-addiction.html
so we can all delete that Bob Costas interview from our collective memories now
That's weird. The same picture showed up on a story that showed up in my news feed. The rest of the story I saw was video of them at a Dodgers game over the weekend. Didn't see the Furd hat on the video from the baseball game.
PRO
Heat demolish the Celtics in the 3rd quarter, win 118-107
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33936614/boston-celtics-toughed-miami-heat-use-huge-third-quarter-take-game-1-jimmy-butler
That third quarter was a nightmare for the Celtics. 2 points in 6 minutes?!
Was watching last night with friends at a bar in Boston. Had to step out during halftime to make a call. I mentioned to the person on the phone how the Celtics were looking solid.. Then I came back in halfway through the 3rd and did a double take at the tv screen. On the positive side, we had some very delicious Korean style fried chicken wings.
Giants win 12th straight game over the Rockies. Was looking like a blowout, but there's no such thing at Coors. Tying run got to bat in the bottom of the 9th, but CF Slater dove to catch a shallow bloop to end the game 10-7.
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-observations-tommy-la-stella-stars-tense-win-over-rockies
Giants once again win a Coors Fieldy game at Coors Field against the team from Coors Field
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2022/5/17/23114181/giants-rockies-recap-tommy-la-stella-mike-yastrzemski
The San Francisco Giants did a funny and cool thing against the Colorado Rockies, and it was the type of funny and cool thing that you can only do at Coors Field, which is a place that breeds funniness and coolness, except for when it’s breeding annoyance and aggravation.
They led off the first and second innings with four-bag hits that could not have been any less similar had they tried.
The first one came on the second pitch of the day. It was Tommy La Stella, the guy a lot of Giants fans didn’t seem to want mucking up a rather lovely roster.
Oof.
https://twitter.com/codymcbridenlu/status/1525948192789078016
BoSox fan catches 2 of the 5 Astros 2nd-inning homeruns.
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1526713981171224576
DUBS WIN! Hoping this trend continues, but the Mavs have lost a lot of Game 1s and still have done well
Mookie Betts stays hot, Dodgers hit 4 home runs to beat Diamondbacks
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/5/17/23100497/dodgers-home-runs-mookie-betts-hot-streak-diamondbacks-game-1
The baseball was flying out of Dodger Stadium in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader. The six home runs are the most in any Dodgers game this season, and the home team hit four of them to beat the Diamondbacks, 7-6.
Tuesday afternoon followed a pattern similar to Monday night, with Arizona taking an early lead, and the Dodgers offense getting handcuffed in the early going by the D-backs starting pitcher. After not scoring until the fifth inning against Madison Bumgarner in the series opener, the Dodgers finally got on the board in the fourth inning on Tuesday, when Will Smith homered off Tyler Gilbert.
The sixth inning was when the floodgates opened, with four hits, two walks and five runs against Gilbert. Three of those hits were home runs, including the third long ball by Mookie Betts in his last four games, and the first time Trea Turner and Justin Turner homered in the same inning.
Dodgers score early and often to beat Diamondbacks again
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/5/17/23110973/dodgers-blowout-diamondbacks-win-streak
After three straight one-run victories, the Dodgers’ latest comeback win came with some distance, piling on the Diamondbacks 12-3 on Tuesday night to complete a doubleheader sweep at Dodger Stadium.
The first win of the day for the Dodgers featured four home runs under the sun, and one double. The nightcap saw Los Angeles hit one home run but added five doubles, including Freddie Freeman tying a single-game franchise record with three doubles, tying him for the major league lead with 14 doubles of the season. He drove in three and scored twice.
Gavin Lux gave the Dodgers’ the lead with a two-run double in the second.
GBBR x2
GBGBBRBR
And a getaway day game starting in about 1.5 hours.
A's bats come alive in 5-2 victory over the Twins at the somewhat empty Colosseum. Bullpen did a nice job led by Dany Jimenez's 7th save.
Game #39: A’s score some runs! Win 5-2 over Twins
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2022/5/17/23116192/game-39-oakalnd-as-minnesota-twins-score-result
The Oakland A’s finally scored some runs!
Mired in a long teamwide slump, the A’s put together five runs on Tuesday, beating the Minnesota Twins by a 5-2 margin at the Coliseum.
Oakland is one of the lowest-scoring teams in the majors this year, and over their past two dozen games they were averaging a mere 2.4 runs per contest, including five shutouts. Each of the last three days they were limited to one run apiece, including last night in the series opener against the Twins.
Somewhat empty? My kids said it was a ghost town.
https://twitter.com/Pandamoanimum/status/1526503971719888898
@Pandamoanimum: The final dance in Dirty Dancing, but they’re dancing to The Muppet Show theme tune.
Pac-12 establishes new CCG selection parameters where the two teams with the best conference records go to the game, rather than the winner of each division. Divisions remain in place but may be dissolved down the line.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/pac-12-revamps-football-conference-championship-game-format-plans-to-explore-scheduling-options-beyond-2022/
DBD book club
Recently read "Ways and Means" by Roger Lowenstein, a book about the financing of the Civil War and in my opinion a very good book. I'm someone who knows quite a bit about the period, but this issue honestly is much more important than the amount of attention it receives. One of the greatest ironies is the Confederates fight for state's rights (to have slaves) utterly and completely changed the Federal government into what it is today. In the first year of the war, it racked up more debts than it had in the preceding 72 years.
Finishing Slaughterhouse Five, first foray into Vonnegut.
I saw him speak at Cody’s Books on Telegraph. Slaughterhouse Five is his best work, but he has a long bibliography of very high level, enjoyable reads. Enjoy!
lots of other really good stuff as am i sure you are aware.
Wow, that takes me back, I think I read all of his stuff many moons ago.
I didn't get exposure to great literature growing up so I am still doing some catching up.
I'm re-reading Jan Morris's Hong Kong - the final edition of which was published in 1997. It's an amazing document to how BRITISH HK used to be and just how much has changed in 25 years. It varies from slightly to overwhelmingly orientalist in tone but she's also a gifted and engaging author.
Don't recall if I've already mentioned this, but I very much enjoyed "A New History of Watergate" by Garret Graff. I've read a lot about Watergate but this comprehensive history is the best. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Watergate/Garrett-M-Graff/9781982139162
Currently reading Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano a novel that was recommended to me by someone on the DBD.