Anyone know anything about a musician Fantastic Negrito? He’s a blues and R&B singer who’s doing a free show at the Kennedy Center tonight. The KC has one of his videos on its website and the video was filmed in downtown Oakland and he won a Grammy in 2016 for a contemporary blues album The Last Days of Oakland. The Wiki page about him says he learned to play by sneaking into music classrooms at Cal even though he wasn’t a student.
It’s time for another edition of Oski Disciple’s quote of the day.
"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now.... Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." — Bill Hicks
I prefer to remember Joan Crawford for her movie roles, not as a subject for a grotesque tell all.
Mildred Pierce (the title role), Daisy Kenyon (also the title role), The Damned Don't Cry, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? are but a few of her many movies.
Oh, yeah. Certainly, Mildred Pierce and Daisy Kenyon are examples of those roles.
She definitely wasn't sultry in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, but she showed range that was underappreciated in that film. I think that film was a true horror classic, but not in the over-the-top slasher fashion.
Pardoned J6 and former FBI agent joins DOJ's "Weaponization Working Group". [record scratch]. Hold up. Trump has a group specifically meant to go after people that he perceived had wronged him? JFC. Put on an SS uniform already and quit pretending.
Oakland Ballers beat the Rocky Mountain Vibes 15-6. They are 27-10 and tied for 1st place in the Pioneer League standings with the Missoula PaddleHeads.
The A’s eked out the win on Tuesday evening over the Rays, winning in extra innings in Tampa Bay 4-3 and setting themselves up to possibly secure the series sweep with a win in tomorrow’s road trip finale.
If you’re reading this, then you’re probably a fan of the San Francisco Giants. And if you’re a fan of the San Francisco Giants, then you probably need a reminder right now that baseball is fun. It sure doesn’t feel that way. The Giants lost 8-2 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday, their seventh loss in the last eight days, during which times they’ve averaged 2.63 runs per game. You have forgotten it. You have fully forgotten that baseball is fun, and I’m here to remind you.
Shohei Ohtani was already voted to the National League All-Star team, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto has a good chance to join him once rosters for the midsummer classic are announced on Sunday. Both figured prominently in the Dodgers’ 6-1 win over the White Sox on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
Kershaw 3 Ks away from 3K. Going to Wear my Kershaw Day shirt as No 1 and I go to the Met's game tonight. Can cross Citifield off my list. Going to New World Mall in Flushing before the game. Can't wait.
In NYC staying with HSB helping move No 1 from Providence to NYC. He got an apt in Bed-Stuy but can't move in until 8/1 so moved large stuff into a small storage unit and boxes and other stuff into HSB's basement. It's a good thing NYC doesn't have earthquakes the way we Tetrised stuff in a 5x8 footprint.
The unsubstantiated rumors are that we threw a ridiculous amount of money at Tofi, but Oregon tampered and threw even more money. While losing Tofi is a crushing blow, this is the minor leagues now and any loss in talent free up funds to pay for other talent. Paying large sums of money to true freshmen is an interesting risk/reward game.
This and many, many other similar scenarios lays bare what has been happening on a smaller and more covert scale for decades.
I believe that this is the beginning of a new era in college athletics that will eventually spell the end of intercollegiate athletics as we know it now.
It has already spelled the end of intercollegiate athletics as we knew it just a few years ago.
I doubt that college football will collapse under its own weight, because there is too much money and too much viewership for that to happen. But the divide between a small number of the top draws/programs and the next tier will widen even more dramatically, akin to what already exists between G6 & most of FCS, and FCS and DII/DIII. Yet those lower levels continue to exist in quantity, even though the world is evolving there at an unprecedented rate as well.
The House settlement is the interesting piece here, though. Sure, it might not survive in its current form, but it represents that there is SOME desire to have stability and guardrails around pay-for-play, even from the most powerful programs.
An even higher % of FCS and below run a deficit too, but they still exist.
I don't dispute that a lot of FCS programs will cut that deficit, but I doubt many will shut down. There are too many people who still want the programs in some form, even if they can't afford the larger form they wish they could.
I hear people say that college football is eventually going to collapse under its own weight. It's one of those things that sounds reasonable and could well be true but I have a hard time imagining what it's going to look like.
California catcher Alex Birge was named Tuesday to the 2025 Academic All-America® Baseball teams as a second-team selection. College Sports Communicators named first, second and third teams to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the diamond and in the classroom.
What’s a brand you’ll never trust again and why?
Chevrolet.
I owned a Chevy for two years. Ick.
I was thinking maybe CaliforniaGoldenBlogs. But it's possible I will trust CGB again someday. Depends what happens.
it's always good to be cautious
MyPillow. Duh.
Did you ever trust MyPillow?
The pillow itself, yes. I bought it before I knew anything about the guy who runs the company and while Bed Bath & Beyond was still selling it.
Anyone know anything about a musician Fantastic Negrito? He’s a blues and R&B singer who’s doing a free show at the Kennedy Center tonight. The KC has one of his videos on its website and the video was filmed in downtown Oakland and he won a Grammy in 2016 for a contemporary blues album The Last Days of Oakland. The Wiki page about him says he learned to play by sneaking into music classrooms at Cal even though he wasn’t a student.
Never heard of him. I'm grooving to him on Spotify now. He's great. He's got a lot of breadth of blues styles.
It’s time for another edition of Oski Disciple’s quote of the day.
"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now.... Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." — Bill Hicks
Bill Hicks the comedian? Would never have guessed this was his quote.
Yup, that's him.
Other colleges
Joan
Wilder? THE Joan Wilder? You are Joan Wilder, the novelist?
Allen. Her performance as the mother in Pleasantville was sublime. Underrated film.
As was her performance in The Ice Storm (1997) a terrific film directed by Ang Lee with Tobey Maguire, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver and Christina Ricci. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119349/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_ice%2520stor
Loved that movie. I haven’t seen it make the rounds on TV in years.
Is Pleasantville the B&W one with William Macy?
He’s in it though I more remember Tobey McGuire and Jeff Daniels. It’s mostly in black and white though color comes into play later.
Jett. Put another dime in the jukebox, baby.
She's the epitome of a bad-ass rocker, male or female.
Crawford. I remember watching Mommy Dearest when I was younger.
I prefer to remember Joan Crawford for her movie roles, not as a subject for a grotesque tell all.
Mildred Pierce (the title role), Daisy Kenyon (also the title role), The Damned Don't Cry, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? are but a few of her many movies.
When I was young (teenager or just about?), that was the first time I'd heard of her. I never watched old movies.
She was a terrific actress (could do a variety of roles) and had an interesting sultriness to her through middle age.
Oh, yeah. Certainly, Mildred Pierce and Daisy Kenyon are examples of those roles.
She definitely wasn't sultry in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, but she showed range that was underappreciated in that film. I think that film was a true horror classic, but not in the over-the-top slasher fashion.
of Arc
DBD Food
DBD AV Club
OUR CRUMBLED DEMOCRACY
Pardoned J6 and former FBI agent joins DOJ's "Weaponization Working Group". [record scratch]. Hold up. Trump has a group specifically meant to go after people that he perceived had wronged him? JFC. Put on an SS uniform already and quit pretending.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/justice-department-rioter-weaponization.html
PRO
Dame Lillard waved by Bucks
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45630759/sources-free-agent-myles-turner-bucks-reach-4-year-107m-deal
He won't play next year due to his recent achilles injury.
Oakland Ballers beat the Rocky Mountain Vibes 15-6. They are 27-10 and tied for 1st place in the Pioneer League standings with the Missoula PaddleHeads.
A’s Win In Extras, Beat Rays 4-3
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2025/7/1/24460020/as-win-in-extras-beat-rays-4-3
The A’s eked out the win on Tuesday evening over the Rays, winning in extra innings in Tampa Bay 4-3 and setting themselves up to possibly secure the series sweep with a win in tomorrow’s road trip finale.
Diamondbacks smack endless homers against helpless Giants
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2025/7/1/24460161/giants-diamondbacks-recap-scores-hayden-birdsong-zac-gallen-jake-mccarthy-lourdes-gurriel-jr
If you’re reading this, then you’re probably a fan of the San Francisco Giants. And if you’re a fan of the San Francisco Giants, then you probably need a reminder right now that baseball is fun. It sure doesn’t feel that way. The Giants lost 8-2 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday, their seventh loss in the last eight days, during which times they’ve averaged 2.63 runs per game. You have forgotten it. You have fully forgotten that baseball is fun, and I’m here to remind you.
It's not just that they're losing, but they're losing to bad teams - Marlins, White Sox, and Dbacks.
Oh, so they just SUCK now.
[groan]
Yoshinobu Yamamoto tames White Sox, Shohei Ohtani his 30th homer in Dodgers win
https://www.truebluela.com/2025/7/1/24460176/yoshinobu-yamamoto-shohei-ohtani-dodgers-white-sox
Shohei Ohtani was already voted to the National League All-Star team, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto has a good chance to join him once rosters for the midsummer classic are announced on Sunday. Both figured prominently in the Dodgers’ 6-1 win over the White Sox on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
I stayed up and watched his first two ABs. Of course he waits until the third to hit the home run.
Waiting until the East Coasters go to bed.
Kershaw 3 Ks away from 3K. Going to Wear my Kershaw Day shirt as No 1 and I go to the Met's game tonight. Can cross Citifield off my list. Going to New World Mall in Flushing before the game. Can't wait.
In NYC staying with HSB helping move No 1 from Providence to NYC. He got an apt in Bed-Stuy but can't move in until 8/1 so moved large stuff into a small storage unit and boxes and other stuff into HSB's basement. It's a good thing NYC doesn't have earthquakes the way we Tetrised stuff in a 5x8 footprint.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Oregon makes Cal its bitch again. This time, they sign Cal's star world-record holding discus thrower
https://x.com/OregonTF/status/1940426607824441667
The unsubstantiated rumors are that we threw a ridiculous amount of money at Tofi, but Oregon tampered and threw even more money. While losing Tofi is a crushing blow, this is the minor leagues now and any loss in talent free up funds to pay for other talent. Paying large sums of money to true freshmen is an interesting risk/reward game.
This and many, many other similar scenarios lays bare what has been happening on a smaller and more covert scale for decades.
I believe that this is the beginning of a new era in college athletics that will eventually spell the end of intercollegiate athletics as we know it now.
It has already spelled the end of intercollegiate athletics as we knew it just a few years ago.
I doubt that college football will collapse under its own weight, because there is too much money and too much viewership for that to happen. But the divide between a small number of the top draws/programs and the next tier will widen even more dramatically, akin to what already exists between G6 & most of FCS, and FCS and DII/DIII. Yet those lower levels continue to exist in quantity, even though the world is evolving there at an unprecedented rate as well.
The House settlement is the interesting piece here, though. Sure, it might not survive in its current form, but it represents that there is SOME desire to have stability and guardrails around pay-for-play, even from the most powerful programs.
And yet 90% of FBS athletic departments run a deficit.
Are you telling me that those departments wouldn't welcome the opportunity to shed that albatross?
An even higher % of FCS and below run a deficit too, but they still exist.
I don't dispute that a lot of FCS programs will cut that deficit, but I doubt many will shut down. There are too many people who still want the programs in some form, even if they can't afford the larger form they wish they could.
I hear people say that college football is eventually going to collapse under its own weight. It's one of those things that sounds reasonable and could well be true but I have a hard time imagining what it's going to look like.
I guess everyone else does too....
[BASE] Alex Birge Named Academic All-American
https://calbears.com/news/2025/7/1/baseball-alex-birge-named-academic-all-american.aspx
California catcher Alex Birge was named Tuesday to the 2025 Academic All-America® Baseball teams as a second-team selection. College Sports Communicators named first, second and third teams to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the diamond and in the classroom.