I have a vague recollection of my uncle taking me and one of my brothers to see The Incredible Mr. Limpet, starring the voice of Don Knotts, at the Coliseum. Old.
almost, almost, almost, only as a kid - except for one movie which my GF's older sister was working at a Drive-in in Compton (a bit rough) to watch Airplane! - which I still love! (the movie, not the drive-in)
I think the only one in the east bay is the one in Concord. Not sure where else there is a drive in in the Bay Area. I remember seeing the huge one in Union City (?) on drives down to my cousin in Fremont. It had the big red sign facing the freeway (back of a screen I assume) with all the movies it was playing. Unsurprisingly it's no longer there and I think it's the location of a large strip mall that includes a Krispy Kreme and a Best Buy and other stuff.
I'm honestly not sure there are. My dad died when his house burned to the ground in February and he was unable to get out. Sifting through that pile of ash that was his home, seeing how even the most sturdy and seemingly indestructible things have been completely obliterated, has been eye opening. I think the best you can hope for is that they succumbed to smoke inhalation before they were incinerated.
LOS ANGELES — The pitching duel between Clayton Kershaw as Ty Blach was as stingy as expected, but newcomer Ryan Yarbrough provided a scoreless bridge to a Dodgers comeback, and Max Muncy drove in single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to beat the Rockies 2-1 on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers have won five straight games, and are 9-1 since the trade deadline.
Kershaw held up his end of the bargain. Pitching in a game for the first time in over six weeks, the left-hander allowed only a fifth-inning solo home run to Elehuris Montero. That snapped a 20-inning scoreless streak by Kershaw, which dated back to June 14.
All 16 fake Michigan electors were arraigned yesterday, each charged with 8 criminal charges where the top charge carries a maximum 14 years in prison. All entered not guilty pleas.
Rep. Gaetz calls LGBTQ+ people "degenerate" and announces a bill to stop preventing anyone from praying at school. This is a political stunt that probably won't get passed, but if this gets passed - the bill is so broad that I am quietly confident that would have kids doing Muslim call-to-prayer and it would create a GOP shitstorm that would reveal that it was never about religious freedom and always about white Christian nationalism.
DeSantis reiterates that if he's elected POTUS, he's for using drone strikes against drug cartels smuggling drugs. When asked how people will know the difference between drug-smuggling cartel members and just run-of-the-mill brown immigrants, DeSantis says “Same way somebody operating in Iraq would know. You know, these people in Iraq at the time, they all looked the same. You didn’t know who had a bomb strapped to them. So those guys have to make judgments.”
Yes, because I am sure Mexico would love for the US to be launching a bunch of drone strikes in their territory. Or does he mean to launch them on US soil? Guess we'll never know, as he is in danger of falling into THIRD place and its 40 points behind a man who may be a convicted felon by this time next year...
I can’t see that “my policy is to indiscriminately kill people in the border zone” would be disqualifying among Republican primary voters, so why doesn’t he just say it?
Because he doesn't want to turn off the independent voter who isn't quite as sharp. He also wants to speak in dog whistles which Trump did rather effectively in '16 and '20, maintaining some sort of plausible deniability about his actual intent.
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink! Say no more! Say no more!
The DC Federal judge will hear arguments today over the protective order that Trump apparently violated several times via media and social media. It will be the first time that the lawyers appear before the judge.
Update: Trump loses. The protective order stays in place. She warns Trump's lawyers that if their client continues to shoot his mouth off, she'll move up the trial date
Judge also reveals that discovery includes 11.6 million pages or files in the first batch and wants discovery done in about 17 days. She also prohibits volunteers from seeing the evidence, which means Trump needs to pay lawyers to look at this. Good luck with that. I hope you have a good AI Discovery tool at your disposal, because you just got avalanched.
Another opportunity, I suspect, to demonstrate that hiring lawyers who are good at social media soundbites isn't a guarantee of competence in being law-talking guys and gals
MTG's 2020 campaign manager and two others have been found guilty of running a fake charity in the aftermath of the East Palestine trail derailment and were ordered to pay restitution.
Watched Painkiller, Netflix’s answer to Hulu’s Dopesick, which was a far superior program…it’s kinda like the whole Armageddon v. Deep Impact/Dante’s Peak v. Volcano…
Tough to see Ferris Bueller get old, but he did in fact play a HS senior while in his mid-20’s, so there’s that. Taylor Kitsch was great, as was Crazy Eyes from OITNB. Duchovney/Tea Leoni’s daughter also in it. Makes you mad all over again at the Sackler’s, along with the spineless US Government.
If you’ve already started this one, I imagine you’re maybe going to prefer Painkiller because they basically tell the exact same tragic and infuriating story…
I thought Dopesick was great, though the similarities are striking.
If Cal had Richard Sackler in charge, we’re never in this current predicament tho.
I don't know if this was discussed earlier, but the first couple episodes of new Futurama is decidedly average, and I'm not sure how it merited a comeback, aside from an established fanbase
ACC meeting for the third time today around expansion. Reportedly, it started off as FSU, Clemson, and UNC No - undecided UVA, VaTech, and NC State. Then it went to FSU, Clemson, UNC, and UVA no, VA Tech and NC State voted Yes. One of the four No votes has to switch for Calfurd to join the ACC or one of them to leave. I'm looking at you, FSU.
The reports on which schools are yes and no votes are all over the map. I have no idea what to believe, other than that FSU and Clemson are definite hard No.
Texas A&M's "12th Man" foundation announced it is closing its NIL branch after the IRS declared that funneling money to college players is not tax deductible for the donors
The backstory that I am hearing is more focused on TAMU's NIL program structure versus the tax implications which is the excuse they used to shut it down. Texas signed a law which basically allows Texas schools to do whatever they want from an NIL perspective...including giving stadium and seating perks for big donations... basically, the schools would then be indirectly paying athletes (which is a common misperception about NIL. Schools CANNOT pay players directly, only individuals, donor led initiatives like Cal has or businesses can). This is something both Texas and TAMU announced they were going to do. The SEC had a big problem with that because of the perception that if you're giving good seats to people who dump money into the NIL fund, then you'll have an unfair advantage against the rest of the SEC who can't do this. So behind the scenes, SEC told both schools to kill it. Texas shrugged and did so (their NIL set up is redonk and isn't even going full steam yet) but TAMU said naw, we're going to do it anyways. That didn't last long... someone apparently shook them by the neck and they found religion real quick. The tax incentive thing is going away but its immaterial in the big picture. TAMU will form up like the rest of the major schools and figure it out
Drive-in
Newellbany and I used to go to the Drive-In up in upstate NY...good times.
I've seen more than a few movies in a drive-in when I was but a lad. Two that I recall are Bonnie and Clyde and The Sting.
Bonnie and Clyde I saw at the Hilltop Drive-In. The Sting I saw at the Coliseum Drive-In.
I have a vague recollection of my uncle taking me and one of my brothers to see The Incredible Mr. Limpet, starring the voice of Don Knotts, at the Coliseum. Old.
almost, almost, almost, only as a kid - except for one movie which my GF's older sister was working at a Drive-in in Compton (a bit rough) to watch Airplane! - which I still love! (the movie, not the drive-in)
Watched Airplane! W my kids recently and they loved it!
Bet, babe, slide a piece of the porter, drink side run the java.
Is that drive in still around? Most in San Diego have closed.
I think the only one in the east bay is the one in Concord. Not sure where else there is a drive in in the Bay Area. I remember seeing the huge one in Union City (?) on drives down to my cousin in Fremont. It had the big red sign facing the freeway (back of a screen I assume) with all the movies it was playing. Unsurprisingly it's no longer there and I think it's the location of a large strip mall that includes a Krispy Kreme and a Best Buy and other stuff.
No idea - I'm not sure I've been by that area in Compton since that date.
Maui fires
Death toll rises to 55 and that's just the people they found outside
The fire is still burning in Lahaina
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hawaii-maui-wildfires-08-11-23/index.html
I suppose there are worse ways to go but I'm not sure what that would be
I'm honestly not sure there are. My dad died when his house burned to the ground in February and he was unable to get out. Sifting through that pile of ash that was his home, seeing how even the most sturdy and seemingly indestructible things have been completely obliterated, has been eye opening. I think the best you can hope for is that they succumbed to smoke inhalation before they were incinerated.
So sad. No idea what to say.
PRO
Shanahan says Philip Rivers was prepared to join the Niners in the Superbowl as a back-up if they beat the Eagles, but the loss made that a point moot
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38169634/philip-rivers-was-49ers-qb-contingency-plan-super-bowl-kyle-shanahan-says
Jose Bautista retires
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38172537/jose-bautista-retires-blue-jays-honored-team
DB Buster Skrine arrested in Canada, charged with 14 fake-check-cash-and-dash scheme. He's made more than $40m over 11 years in his career.
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/nfl/2023/08/10/former-cleveland-browns-nfl-defensive-back-buster-skrine-arrested-fraud-canada/70569895007/
Dope.
Max Muncy, Ryan Yarbrough fuel Dodgers late comeback win over Rockies
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/8/10/23828067/max-muncy-ryan-yarbrough-dodgers-rockies-clayton-kershaw-ty-blach
LOS ANGELES — The pitching duel between Clayton Kershaw as Ty Blach was as stingy as expected, but newcomer Ryan Yarbrough provided a scoreless bridge to a Dodgers comeback, and Max Muncy drove in single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to beat the Rockies 2-1 on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers have won five straight games, and are 9-1 since the trade deadline.
Kershaw held up his end of the bargain. Pitching in a game for the first time in over six weeks, the left-hander allowed only a fifth-inning solo home run to Elehuris Montero. That snapped a 20-inning scoreless streak by Kershaw, which dated back to June 14.
Litli-Hrútur is yet another Icelandic volcano that has erupted
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ycNOf0BGwo4
Want to watch it go from nothing to a fissure eruption?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yanlRDo8kkU
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
All 16 fake Michigan electors were arraigned yesterday, each charged with 8 criminal charges where the top charge carries a maximum 14 years in prison. All entered not guilty pleas.
https://apnews.com/article/fake-electors-michigan-trump-7793d91a24c96c797d1277129bf0bcb5
Rep. Gaetz calls LGBTQ+ people "degenerate" and announces a bill to stop preventing anyone from praying at school. This is a political stunt that probably won't get passed, but if this gets passed - the bill is so broad that I am quietly confident that would have kids doing Muslim call-to-prayer and it would create a GOP shitstorm that would reveal that it was never about religious freedom and always about white Christian nationalism.
https://www.scribd.com/document/663971694/DAILY-CALLER-OBTAINED-Gaetz-National-Prayer-in-School-Act#download&from_embed
[WaPo] Washington Post investigative journalists discover that Sen. Tuberville (R-AL) has lived in Florida for two decades, not Alabama
https://themessenger.com/politics/alabama-sen-tommy-tuberville-actually-lives-in-florida-report
He really is dumb as a rock
Either that or he's truly contemptuous of the common person in Alabama or anywhere else for that matter.
AG Garland grants Special Prosecutor status to David Weiss, the guy who is investigating Hunter Biden. Presumably, this tees up tax evasion charges.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/11/hunter-biden-special-counsel-investigation-00110872
DeSantis reiterates that if he's elected POTUS, he's for using drone strikes against drug cartels smuggling drugs. When asked how people will know the difference between drug-smuggling cartel members and just run-of-the-mill brown immigrants, DeSantis says “Same way somebody operating in Iraq would know. You know, these people in Iraq at the time, they all looked the same. You didn’t know who had a bomb strapped to them. So those guys have to make judgments.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-says-s-open-drone-strikes-mexican-drug-cartels-rcna99305
This raises some serious due process issues. Mainly, taking a civilian life without process, as well as be a war crime.
Yes, because I am sure Mexico would love for the US to be launching a bunch of drone strikes in their territory. Or does he mean to launch them on US soil? Guess we'll never know, as he is in danger of falling into THIRD place and its 40 points behind a man who may be a convicted felon by this time next year...
I can’t see that “my policy is to indiscriminately kill people in the border zone” would be disqualifying among Republican primary voters, so why doesn’t he just say it?
Because he doesn't want to turn off the independent voter who isn't quite as sharp. He also wants to speak in dog whistles which Trump did rather effectively in '16 and '20, maintaining some sort of plausible deniability about his actual intent.
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink! Say no more! Say no more!
SCOTUS blocks Purdue Pharma settlement that protected the Sackler family from civil lawsuits
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/10/supreme-court-blocks-purdue-pharmas-6-billion-opioid-settlement-will-hear-challenge.html
The DC Federal judge will hear arguments today over the protective order that Trump apparently violated several times via media and social media. It will be the first time that the lawyers appear before the judge.
https://apnews.com/article/jan6-trump-indictment-protective-order-jack-smith-7129afbb11d968b42c9500559109f522
Update: Trump loses. The protective order stays in place. She warns Trump's lawyers that if their client continues to shoot his mouth off, she'll move up the trial date
https://twitter.com/LMDiBartolomeo/status/1689752562239479809
Judge also reveals that discovery includes 11.6 million pages or files in the first batch and wants discovery done in about 17 days. She also prohibits volunteers from seeing the evidence, which means Trump needs to pay lawyers to look at this. Good luck with that. I hope you have a good AI Discovery tool at your disposal, because you just got avalanched.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1690026094194294784
There are plenty of companies who can rip through that in the time available but a properly scaled environment is not going to be cheap
Another opportunity, I suspect, to demonstrate that hiring lawyers who are good at social media soundbites isn't a guarantee of competence in being law-talking guys and gals
Trump goes after [checks notes]... Charles Koch
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/trump-goes-on-offense-against-koch-network.html
Of course it was in a fundraising video.
DeathSantis removes a Democratic Orlando prosecutor from her position for political purposes
https://apnews.com/article/desantis-suspends-florida-prosecutor-monique-worrell-45d2f5955b87fb5c0e817d9da9133393
MTG's 2020 campaign manager and two others have been found guilty of running a fake charity in the aftermath of the East Palestine trail derailment and were ordered to pay restitution.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/marjorie-taylor-greene-staffer-two-others-agree-to-pay-50000-for-roles-in-east-palestine-charity-scam.html
Behold my shocked face
DBD AV CLUB
Watched Painkiller, Netflix’s answer to Hulu’s Dopesick, which was a far superior program…it’s kinda like the whole Armageddon v. Deep Impact/Dante’s Peak v. Volcano…
Tough to see Ferris Bueller get old, but he did in fact play a HS senior while in his mid-20’s, so there’s that. Taylor Kitsch was great, as was Crazy Eyes from OITNB. Duchovney/Tea Leoni’s daughter also in it. Makes you mad all over again at the Sackler’s, along with the spineless US Government.
I just watched the first episode of this last night and I enjoyed it. I haven’t seen Dopesick, I’ll have to check it out.
Also:
Deep Impact>>Armageddon
Dante’s Peak>>Volcano
A Bugs Life>>Antz
If you’ve already started this one, I imagine you’re maybe going to prefer Painkiller because they basically tell the exact same tragic and infuriating story…
I thought Dopesick was great, though the similarities are striking.
If Cal had Richard Sackler in charge, we’re never in this current predicament tho.
And we would have a ton of opioid money that would be funding the athletic department.
Wait... you like Dante's Peak? That is a hella dumb movie! Sure it's lots of fun, but also hella dumb too!
He’s not putting it ahead of Godfather…Volcano was IJ & Crystal Skull-preposterous.
I don't know if this was discussed earlier, but the first couple episodes of new Futurama is decidedly average, and I'm not sure how it merited a comeback, aside from an established fanbase
Well then I'm glad we haven't watched. Do Like The AfterParty #2 quite a bit - fun show.
The After Party season 2 has been very good. I loved the Wes Anderson episode.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
West Virginia University recommends the complete dissolution of its foreign languages college
https://twitter.com/LMDiBartolomeo/status/1689752562239479809
It's much more than that.
https://www.thedaonline.com/news/university/faculty-report-recommended-program-cuts/article_857190b8-3856-11ee-99d6-c7cfd7348dc1.html
Sure, cut math but keep the sports coach major
https://www.wvu.edu/academics/programs/coaching-and-performance-science-bs
Have a library but don't let it acquire any more materials.
Lame
ACC meeting for the third time today around expansion. Reportedly, it started off as FSU, Clemson, and UNC No - undecided UVA, VaTech, and NC State. Then it went to FSU, Clemson, UNC, and UVA no, VA Tech and NC State voted Yes. One of the four No votes has to switch for Calfurd to join the ACC or one of them to leave. I'm looking at you, FSU.
The reports on which schools are yes and no votes are all over the map. I have no idea what to believe, other than that FSU and Clemson are definite hard No.
If ESPN wants it bad enough, ya gotta think one of them flips...but not sure they do.
Not looking good.
Texas A&M's "12th Man" foundation announced it is closing its NIL branch after the IRS declared that funneling money to college players is not tax deductible for the donors
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/38163983/texas-12th-man+-fund-discontinuing-nil-operation
I need Fire Sarkey to come here and spill all the aTm tea.
The backstory that I am hearing is more focused on TAMU's NIL program structure versus the tax implications which is the excuse they used to shut it down. Texas signed a law which basically allows Texas schools to do whatever they want from an NIL perspective...including giving stadium and seating perks for big donations... basically, the schools would then be indirectly paying athletes (which is a common misperception about NIL. Schools CANNOT pay players directly, only individuals, donor led initiatives like Cal has or businesses can). This is something both Texas and TAMU announced they were going to do. The SEC had a big problem with that because of the perception that if you're giving good seats to people who dump money into the NIL fund, then you'll have an unfair advantage against the rest of the SEC who can't do this. So behind the scenes, SEC told both schools to kill it. Texas shrugged and did so (their NIL set up is redonk and isn't even going full steam yet) but TAMU said naw, we're going to do it anyways. That didn't last long... someone apparently shook them by the neck and they found religion real quick. The tax incentive thing is going away but its immaterial in the big picture. TAMU will form up like the rest of the major schools and figure it out
"what do you mean I can't get an indirect subsidy for my college football swag bag work??????"
Oliver Luck hired by PAC 4 to consult on strategy.
Luck. He's gonna need it.
Apparently he was the runner up for the commissioner job that went to Kliavkoff
He should have gotten the job.
Scott and Kliavkoff's lack of experience at the collegiate level was devastating.
CAL
Go Bears!
New Things!
HAHahahahahahah
Didn't notice the new thing in the photo until now!