Gwen Stefani’s inspiration for the song, “Hollaback Girl” was actually created in response to a beef she had with Courtney Love.
“Being famous is just like being in high school. But I’m not interested in being the cheerleader. I’m not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She’s the cheerleader, and I’m out in the smoker shed. And plenty of you are out there in the smoker shed too. When it comes to rock ‘n’ roll, it’s just like high school.” - Courtney Love - Seventeen Magazine (2004)
Apparently, Stefani was not pleased to hear that Love had called her a cheerleader: “Y’know someone one time called me a cheerleader, negatively, and I’ve never been a cheerleader. So I was like ‘OK, fuck you. You want me to be a cheerleader? Well, I will be one then. And I’ll rule the whole world, just you watch me.’” Hollaback Girl ended up being a #1 worldwide hit.
Yes. I added one when we bought the house in Louisville. I did find out that the previous owner had the kitchen moved to a space under a covered porch. The people he had to do the work had joined the drains of the new kitchen sink and washer (in a new laundry room adjoining the kitchen) to the main with a Y that was easy to plug up.
Apparently his workers didn't glue one section of pipe so one time I tried to snake it the pipe disconnected and water and waste ended up in the crawl space, unbeknownst to me for at least a week. I ended up smelling rotting food as water leaked out at the bottom of the clapboards.
But I still kept using the garbage disposal after that. Just was a bit more careful.
Not on your life. Too many downsides to having one, plus it sets up drains and laterals for getting clogged if you don't run gallons of water to dilute the waste.
Further, there are added treatment costs in the sewage waste stream by adding foodstuffs through the garbage disposal that could otherwise be (1) composted or (2) thrown out in the trash.
"Too many downsides to having one, plus it sets up drains and laterals for getting clogged if you don't run gallons of water to dilute the waste. "
Not true
Further, there are added treatment costs in the sewage waste stream by adding foodstuffs through the garbage disposal that could otherwise be (1) composted or (2) thrown out in the trash.
When my first house needed a new disposal, I went to the hardware store and found many options. Tiny apartment type disposals that couldn't handle much more than soft plantlife, to large powerhouses that were rated to grind beef bones.
Rep Chris Stewart (R, UT-2) is resigning due to his wife's struggling health. There will be a special election, but the GOP carried the district by 30 points last election.
[WaPo] Will Nauta allegedly helped Trump move boxes of classified documents around to hide them is in trouble. He directly asked the IT guy if the securities cameras could see him, how the cameras worked, and how long video evidence was kept. Some call that Obstruction, Will.
The concept of Americans "defecting" is hilarious to me. You're free to move anywhere you want, and give up your American citizenship. You don't even need top make an announcement! Defection is for people who are not allowed to leave their home countries, so defecting is their only choice.
Chris Christie, who exited as governor with a 31% approval rating and placed nearly last in the 2016 Republican primaries, says he'll be ready to be hurt again next week.
He has little chance, but seems like he will attack Trump directly for being a twice impeached election loser clown show, so is a bit refreshing. At least he is actually trying to win in 2024! I think the rest of the field, with their “Trump is a true American hero, but…” nonsense is not even attempting to win in 24, but just hoping to get their names out there for runs in later years, TV pundit jobs, or both. Get ‘em, Chris!
Fresh off an exciting win over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Memorial Day in Oakland, the Oakland Athletics faced the Braves for game two of the three-game series Tuesday night at the Coliseum.
J.P. Sears, the 27-year-old lefty, got the start against the National League East leading Braves. Atlanta sent 24-year-old right hander Bryce Elder to the mound. Elder with his NL leading 2.01 ERA is 3-0 in his ten 2023 starts.
Ah, Baseball. The one sport that’s ready to knock you out the second you feel good about how a game went down. Yesterday, the San Francisco Giants won 14-4, scoring the most runs at Oracle Park since July 2015. 18 hours later, they lose 2-1.
It wasn’t the worst game you’ll see the Giants play, but it was pretty typical of what we’ve seen since roundabout 2017. The exception this time being that it certainly felt like the Giants could move ahead at any time. But we’re not quite back in 2021 territory, where every late game deficit became a come from behind victory. We’re still in that stage where Patrick Bailey and Brett Wisely are gonna chase tantalizing high fastballs in the bottom of the 9th because they’re rookies and they’re facing an elite closer like David Bednar.
and today – my first game of the season – they had like 11 hits, but lost 9 to 4(?) Schmitt missed a 3HR by a couple of feet. Cobb allowed a rally by hitting someone in the foot. A few "why is the Giants defender not where they're supposed to be?".
I think 13 of the Pie-rats' 14 hits didn't reach the outfield grass on the fly. And like six of them were doubles between Davis and the third-base line.
BUT, even tho there were 13 runs and 25 hits and 3 errors, the game was only 2:40 long. which was great! didn't notice the "shot clock" except for when Yaz got himself in an 0-1 hole w/o seeing a pitch.
Answering the bell every single time the Nationals tried to get close on this one, the Dodgers secured a 7-3 win Tuesday behind a strong outing from Tony Gonsolin and the defense behind him, with four different batters chipping in multi-hit games.
Just another evening of Freddie Freeman and J.D. Martinez carrying this lineup to a fine offensive performance. The Dodgers first baseman had four hits, extending his hitting streak to 19 games, with 13 of them having been multi-hit ones. His fourth hit was a home run in the eighth inning.
The Last Dance. that was great to watch especially if you were a basketball those years, even if you were rooting to the Pacers, Knicks, Blazers, Sonics, etc.
i mostly lived in Indiana those years. we didnt see MJ play, but say the Pacers and Reggie a bunch of times.
The last place Al East team (Red Sox) have a better record that the first place AL Central team (Twins) and the same record as the first place NL Central team (Brewers).
I had no idea that western black bears mostly have a brownish coat and not a black coat. I wonder why they are evolving to have a brown coat and not a black one like the eastern black bear.
The fact that most of the story was about different colors of bear coats, and the bizarre use of the verb “harvests” to describe shooting a bear, makes me think this article was AI generated perhaps?
I dunno, I grew up hunting on most weekends with my uncles and grandpa. I haven’t gone in 20 years, but these are not per se bad people, IMO. It’s just a different way of life. If he didn’t violate any laws, I don’t see the issue? Different people can like and do different stuff, and that is fine. (Someone needs to tell Kershaw this!)
I agree with your overall sentiment, I just think hunting apex predators is kind of low as it is completely for the sport and not at all for the sustenance or respect for food chain.
During my run this morning I saw a couple different folks with Cal gear on. Both times I didn't notice it until I was almost past so too late to give a greeting.
Do people think the Bears are more likely to go 5-7 or 7-5? How about 4-8 or 8-4? How about 3-9 or 9-3? How many people think we're going to finish 6-6 and just want to leave it at that?
I am of the mindset that we will be better than last season but will struggle to win 6 games due to our schedule being more difficult. Odd year schedule, new QB/offense, OL is still a major concern and a fairly tough OOC schedule adds up for a 4/5 win season.
As I recall the gold outs haven't worked in the past in part due to old codgers like me who insist on wearing our blue and gold to football games as opposed to gold and gold.
I watched a few eps of FUBAR (Arnold) and kinda liked it. Expressed that on a bi-weekly with some friends last night, and got laughed out of the room ;-)
Just finished the last 4 episodes of Ted Lasso. I thought they did a really good job with the last few episodes. It would be nice if they continued it, but I don't think they will.
I thought the last four eps were ok, altho wrapped things up too quickly. Nate is bad...no, he's good! Keeley is with Roy...no, she's not...maybe she is. The Beard closing wasn't great. And bringing back characters for the last ep – with essentially no dialogue – who should have been part of the whole season, was odd. Maybe they had other commitments, so they filmed it (and other possible scenes) at the end of S2?
The Sacrament (a film from 2013…I watched on Tubi). (9/19)…cult movie,e.g. a movie about a cult.
I read a mousey Mick LaSalle blurb online where he was asked to list some of his actor/roles that he thought SHOULD have won an Oscar but did not, and he mentioned Gene Jones, who played Father in The Sacrament. I recognized him from the famous coin toss scene with Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Man, but he was also in Hateful Eight. And he was definitely good in this.
So, LaSalle cautioned that this movie was very disturbing, so I figured I’d check it out…plus it was by Ti West, who did X and Pearl, which I thought were solid. Parts of it were definitely disturbing, but all in all, it appears to have just been a cult film based mostly on the Jim Jones massacre…which drains it of all originality, IMO. So at the end, I just felt kind of meh about it.
I remember Carli Lloyd's (the VB setter) Uncle (?) was one of the American Gladiators. I think helped raise her when her dad died. He coached all her VB teams.
Do you have a garbage disposal?
Both places.
Hell yes. Use it daily.
Yes. I added one when we bought the house in Louisville. I did find out that the previous owner had the kitchen moved to a space under a covered porch. The people he had to do the work had joined the drains of the new kitchen sink and washer (in a new laundry room adjoining the kitchen) to the main with a Y that was easy to plug up.
Apparently his workers didn't glue one section of pipe so one time I tried to snake it the pipe disconnected and water and waste ended up in the crawl space, unbeknownst to me for at least a week. I ended up smelling rotting food as water leaked out at the bottom of the clapboards.
But I still kept using the garbage disposal after that. Just was a bit more careful.
Not on your life. Too many downsides to having one, plus it sets up drains and laterals for getting clogged if you don't run gallons of water to dilute the waste.
Further, there are added treatment costs in the sewage waste stream by adding foodstuffs through the garbage disposal that could otherwise be (1) composted or (2) thrown out in the trash.
we have one, but it's 95% compost and 5% random shit that ends up in the drain. so rarely use the disposal. but it's better than fishing the crud out.
"Too many downsides to having one, plus it sets up drains and laterals for getting clogged if you don't run gallons of water to dilute the waste. "
Not true
Further, there are added treatment costs in the sewage waste stream by adding foodstuffs through the garbage disposal that could otherwise be (1) composted or (2) thrown out in the trash.
Could be true
we do. i have had one pretty much everywhere i have ever lived.
occasionally at a rental house or mountain cabin, there is a kitchen w/o one or even a dishwasher.
is there a rule of thumb that you shouldnt put stuff in it that should otherwise go in the garbage, ie food scraps?
When my first house needed a new disposal, I went to the hardware store and found many options. Tiny apartment type disposals that couldn't handle much more than soft plantlife, to large powerhouses that were rated to grind beef bones.
Best Korea launches their new submarine
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65761995
Cheer
Give me a "Q"
"Q!"
Give me a "Q"
"Q!"
Give me a "Q"
"Q!"
Give me a "Q"
"Q!"
What's that spell?
"Four Q!"
Sis boom bee, kick 'em in the knee!
Sis boom bass, kick 'em in the other knee!
Alakazoo, Alakazam!
Horsemanure, Boulder Dam,
Which is which, block that punt,
Rah, Rah, Duck!
Raise your hand if you know the real version!
"Ice cold beer, makes me wanna cheer.
Ice cold gin, makes me wanna win."
Iced Cold Duck, makes me wanna SCORE"
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Rep Chris Stewart (R, UT-2) is resigning due to his wife's struggling health. There will be a special election, but the GOP carried the district by 30 points last election.
[WaPo] Will Nauta allegedly helped Trump move boxes of classified documents around to hide them is in trouble. He directly asked the IT guy if the securities cameras could see him, how the cameras worked, and how long video evidence was kept. Some call that Obstruction, Will.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/30/trump-mar-a-lago-surveillance-camera/
JFC. It's all bad faith actors.
https://twitter.com/petestrzok/status/1663625517717680128
She is cray cray!
The concept of Americans "defecting" is hilarious to me. You're free to move anywhere you want, and give up your American citizenship. You don't even need top make an announcement! Defection is for people who are not allowed to leave their home countries, so defecting is their only choice.
Trump throws shade at [checks notes] his biggest supporter
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1663704478468517889
Chris Christie, who exited as governor with a 31% approval rating and placed nearly last in the 2016 Republican primaries, says he'll be ready to be hurt again next week.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/politics/chris-christie-2024
He has little chance, but seems like he will attack Trump directly for being a twice impeached election loser clown show, so is a bit refreshing. At least he is actually trying to win in 2024! I think the rest of the field, with their “Trump is a true American hero, but…” nonsense is not even attempting to win in 24, but just hoping to get their names out there for runs in later years, TV pundit jobs, or both. Get ‘em, Chris!
P.S. we so badly need open primaries….
PRO
Athletics take second straight from the Braves 2-1
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/5/30/23743430/athletics-win-2-in-a-row-braves-drop-second-straight
Fresh off an exciting win over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Memorial Day in Oakland, the Oakland Athletics faced the Braves for game two of the three-game series Tuesday night at the Coliseum.
J.P. Sears, the 27-year-old lefty, got the start against the National League East leading Braves. Atlanta sent 24-year-old right hander Bryce Elder to the mound. Elder with his NL leading 2.01 ERA is 3-0 in his ten 2023 starts.
Giants walk 7 times, get 5 hits, lose to Pirates 2-1
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/5/30/23743380/san-francisco-giants-game-recap-5-30-2023-walk-7-times-get-5-hits-lose-to-pirates-2-1
Ah, Baseball. The one sport that’s ready to knock you out the second you feel good about how a game went down. Yesterday, the San Francisco Giants won 14-4, scoring the most runs at Oracle Park since July 2015. 18 hours later, they lose 2-1.
It wasn’t the worst game you’ll see the Giants play, but it was pretty typical of what we’ve seen since roundabout 2017. The exception this time being that it certainly felt like the Giants could move ahead at any time. But we’re not quite back in 2021 territory, where every late game deficit became a come from behind victory. We’re still in that stage where Patrick Bailey and Brett Wisely are gonna chase tantalizing high fastballs in the bottom of the 9th because they’re rookies and they’re facing an elite closer like David Bednar.
and today – my first game of the season – they had like 11 hits, but lost 9 to 4(?) Schmitt missed a 3HR by a couple of feet. Cobb allowed a rally by hitting someone in the foot. A few "why is the Giants defender not where they're supposed to be?".
I think 13 of the Pie-rats' 14 hits didn't reach the outfield grass on the fly. And like six of them were doubles between Davis and the third-base line.
BUT, even tho there were 13 runs and 25 hits and 3 errors, the game was only 2:40 long. which was great! didn't notice the "shot clock" except for when Yaz got himself in an 0-1 hole w/o seeing a pitch.
Dodgers power and defense back Tony Gonsolin in win over Nationals
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/5/30/23743401/freddie-freeman-jd-martinez-home-runs-dodgers-tony-gonsolin-nationals
Answering the bell every single time the Nationals tried to get close on this one, the Dodgers secured a 7-3 win Tuesday behind a strong outing from Tony Gonsolin and the defense behind him, with four different batters chipping in multi-hit games.
Just another evening of Freddie Freeman and J.D. Martinez carrying this lineup to a fine offensive performance. The Dodgers first baseman had four hits, extending his hitting streak to 19 games, with 13 of them having been multi-hit ones. His fourth hit was a home run in the eighth inning.
Doug Mientkiewicz throws shade at ARod
https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2023/05/he-is-going-to-die-a-lonely-man-yankees-legend-ripped-by-former-teammate.html
Pippen throws shade at MJ
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2023/05/29/scottie-pippen-michael-jordan-feud-horrible-player-chicago-bulls/70266676007/
Not gonna read, but man, you could certainly tell if you watched that Jordan thing 2 years ago. (HBO?)
The Last Dance? ESPN, spring of 2020. It was a weekly treat during the early weeks of lockdown.
Netflix .. maybe
The Last Dance. that was great to watch especially if you were a basketball those years, even if you were rooting to the Pacers, Knicks, Blazers, Sonics, etc.
i mostly lived in Indiana those years. we didnt see MJ play, but say the Pacers and Reggie a bunch of times.
I was! Very much, but rooting for the Lakers.
The last place Al East team (Red Sox) have a better record that the first place AL Central team (Twins) and the same record as the first place NL Central team (Brewers).
https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings
Another reason to dislike Jay Cutler
https://outsider.com/outdoors/news-outdoors/trophy-tuesday-jay-cutler-harvests-cinnamon-black-bear-montana-hunt/
I had no idea that western black bears mostly have a brownish coat and not a black coat. I wonder why they are evolving to have a brown coat and not a black one like the eastern black bear.
The fact that most of the story was about different colors of bear coats, and the bizarre use of the verb “harvests” to describe shooting a bear, makes me think this article was AI generated perhaps?
You know, you might be right. That was one of the most disjointed articles that I’ve read in a long time.
I dunno, I grew up hunting on most weekends with my uncles and grandpa. I haven’t gone in 20 years, but these are not per se bad people, IMO. It’s just a different way of life. If he didn’t violate any laws, I don’t see the issue? Different people can like and do different stuff, and that is fine. (Someone needs to tell Kershaw this!)
I agree with your overall sentiment, I just think hunting apex predators is kind of low as it is completely for the sport and not at all for the sustenance or respect for food chain.
That should be another reason to HATE Jay Cutler.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
RIP Cheez-It Bowl
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pop-tarts-intercepts-college-football-174500667.html
CAL
During my run this morning I saw a couple different folks with Cal gear on. Both times I didn't notice it until I was almost past so too late to give a greeting.
Over/under is at ~5.5 wins... Bet the over!
Checked the futures further and I found Cal +7500 for P12 Championship. Fat chance for sure but tempted to lark it and place at least $20.00.
Do people think the Bears are more likely to go 5-7 or 7-5? How about 4-8 or 8-4? How about 3-9 or 9-3? How many people think we're going to finish 6-6 and just want to leave it at that?
I'm bullish with a 5-win floor and a longer-shot 9-win ceiling
I am of the mindset that we will be better than last season but will struggle to win 6 games due to our schedule being more difficult. Odd year schedule, new QB/offense, OL is still a major concern and a fairly tough OOC schedule adds up for a 4/5 win season.
OD, it’s April, man! We are going to go 15-0!!!!!
Or May, hah!
Go BEARS!!!
OOC times and channels set. For us east coasters, it's either day drinking or after dark.
https://twitter.com/calfootball/status/1663968630613372928?s=46&t=WFlljYbkN_q0KuOdwshW6g
Looks like Idaho is a morning flight in and an evening flight out, Auburn is now a Sat/Sun affair
94 days to the season opener at North Texas.
101 days to the home opener vs. Auburn
GO BEARS!
Auburn on ESPN at 7:30 could nab the Bears some national exposure but hopefully of the right kind.
Crap. I was hoping for a 12 or 1 start so I could fly out for work later that night. Looks like I won't be arriving in Budapest until Monday morning.
I am going to say it will be the commencement of the Ott for Heisman campaign, going out on a limb.
Also it's a gold out so I am wondering about our historical performance in those contests...
As I recall the gold outs haven't worked in the past in part due to old codgers like me who insist on wearing our blue and gold to football games as opposed to gold and gold.
No gold outs for me. I'm not gonna look ugly just to satisfy some marketing intern.
DBD AV Club
I watched a few eps of FUBAR (Arnold) and kinda liked it. Expressed that on a bi-weekly with some friends last night, and got laughed out of the room ;-)
They convinced me that it's actually not good...
Just finished the last 4 episodes of Ted Lasso. I thought they did a really good job with the last few episodes. It would be nice if they continued it, but I don't think they will.
EDITED: removed accidental spoiler
Oops..sorry SPOILER ALERT. Tried hard not to but did anyways. And it looks like the Edit function doesn't work.
btw, Guardian lambasted the show today
I thought the last four eps were ok, altho wrapped things up too quickly. Nate is bad...no, he's good! Keeley is with Roy...no, she's not...maybe she is. The Beard closing wasn't great. And bringing back characters for the last ep – with essentially no dialogue – who should have been part of the whole season, was odd. Maybe they had other commitments, so they filmed it (and other possible scenes) at the end of S2?
The Sacrament (a film from 2013…I watched on Tubi). (9/19)…cult movie,e.g. a movie about a cult.
I read a mousey Mick LaSalle blurb online where he was asked to list some of his actor/roles that he thought SHOULD have won an Oscar but did not, and he mentioned Gene Jones, who played Father in The Sacrament. I recognized him from the famous coin toss scene with Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Man, but he was also in Hateful Eight. And he was definitely good in this.
So, LaSalle cautioned that this movie was very disturbing, so I figured I’d check it out…plus it was by Ti West, who did X and Pearl, which I thought were solid. Parts of it were definitely disturbing, but all in all, it appears to have just been a cult film based mostly on the Jim Jones massacre…which drains it of all originality, IMO. So at the end, I just felt kind of meh about it.
The American Gladiators documentary on ESPN+ was a fantastic watch. Part II releases today.
Is this for the TV Show?
I remember Carli Lloyd's (the VB setter) Uncle (?) was one of the American Gladiators. I think helped raise her when her dad died. He coached all her VB teams.
I am so excited to watch this.
Citadel - Netflix - 13/19
i think i rated it higher to start. only 6 episodes, so that was good for my short attention span w/ TV shows.
every one betrays everyone, which is great for a double-agent spy series.
the bananas option above reminded me of a favorite chiildhood TV show, the Banana Splits!
The Banana Splits Opening and Closing Theme 1968 - 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMl6HnhFFIA
Better version of that song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMS2gHFOH0