"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
Really too bad she's gone full Q. I enjoyed her as an actress, but more importantly she's going to be personally sorry when this bits her in the ass more than just her wallet.
The A’s dropped the series finale against the Rangers, falling 7-2 and splitting the four-game set in Texas.
The starting pitching wasn’t the best today but the offense wasn’t either, collecting just three runs on five hits. At least they head home now.
After starter Sean Murphy had started all previous three games of this series, top prospect Shea Langeliers got the nod behind the plate for the early morning finale. We got to see what scouts had been talking about when praising his arm behind the plate in the very first inning. After a walk, former Athletic Marcus Semien tried stealing on the rookie catcher, only to get gunned down by the top prospect:
In the sixth inning of the San Francisco Giants game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday afternoon, Brandon Crawford found himself in the batter’s box to lead off the inning.
Crawford, who finished fourth in NL MVP voting a year ago, was in a 1-2 count, stymied by three straight knuckle curves from Zac Gallen. Crawford, a lefty, had the handedness advantage against Gallen, a righty.
On the fourth pitch, he laid down a bunt. It went foul. Strike three.
In the seventh inning of the San Francisco Giants game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday afternoon, Brandon Belt found himself in the batter’s box with two outs and runners at second and third. The Giants needed some runs.
It doesn't make sense to have Brandon Crawford take the bat out of his own hands, but in what world does it make sense to sacrifice with 2 outs? Even if it had worked, it would have been inning over.
Andrew Heaney missed more bats on Thursday than in any start the last two seasons. But he didn’t miss Andrew McCutchen, who homered twice off the Dodgers starter to earn the Brewers a series split with a 5-3 win on getaway day Thursday in Milwaukee.
McCutchen hit a solo home run in the first inning, then added a two-run shot in the third. He spoiled what was building as an impressive outing for Heaney, who struck out 10 batters. The last strikeout was McCutchen with two outs in the fifth inning, but the ball got away from catcher Will Smith to extend the inning.
The goal of a five-inning start for Heaney, something he hasn’t done in five starts since returning from his second extended injured-list stint this year, proved elusive, as Hunter Renfroe followed with a two-run home run of his own, ending Heaney’s day.
I made chile verde last night at 11pm when I felt compelled to cook. Changes I made - beef brother rather than chicken, which I got from my Mexican girlfriend's mom when I was at Berkeley.
We’re in Montreal this weekend and went to dinner at Nora Gray last night. We went BIG and ordered the 40oz bone-in ribeye. Holy shit that was a slab of meat. Amazing little restaurant and a wine list that would make even Cugel jealous.
Also, last time we were in Montreal, we ate at a lot of very good restaurants that had no wine list, just a sign in French saying "don't forget your wine" - no bottle charge, and the locals were so fucking fast picking out the wine before dinner in the local wine stores.
I binged Murderville on my flight back from Nashville last night. Loved the Marshawn one.
The scene where he promises to avenge Terry Seattle's aunt's death. was great. And his new name, Bagabitch, but bitch is pronounced beesh. like french. Killed me.
when biking down Market St to work today, saw that they're playing the Warfield for a few nights. Would like to see them – haven't heard anything since their second album – but not sure I'm ready for an indoor event yet with random people.
then got an email today noting that an colleague tested positive for covid today...yay! keep on truckin', covid!
One of the perils of middle age is that I often find myself having downloaded music that plainly is in the category of “I’d have enjoyed this at the time” but within a week I’ll have forgotten about how I can across it. In any case I’ve been enjoying “Over the Edge” by the Wipers and “Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing” by Discharge. Also been enjoying Rhythm Revolution by Ferry Djimin - kind of a wild backstory, the only released album by a former teacher, boxer, and one time Paris policeman from Benin who got the money for the recording from the president Mathieu Kerekou after Kerekou decided to rename Dahomey to Benin and take a hard turn into bringing Marxism from the top down, apparently he thought Djimin’s music would help sell socialism to the kids (I don’t know if they bought the politics but they didn’t buy the album). Not the best album I ever listened to but the good tracks are very good indeed.
"apparently he thought Djimin’s music would help sell socialism to the kids "
If audience members can't even pick up the leftism the Rage Against the Machine espouses in their lyrics, how can anyone else have a chance? (see Paul Ryan naming them as his favorite band, and all of the people who post to their twitter and facebook page "When did Rage become political?")
I know that streaming services are another nail in the coffin for musicians trying to make a living off their work but being able to do things like download multiples Nardcore albums is pretty compelling for someone like me who misses a lot of music when it comes out.
I don't understand the dynamic of how streaming changed the music industry very well, but have some rambling observations. I know a single stream makes a fraction of a penny for an artist but at the same time, smaller artists do not have to sign a record deal to get access to an audience, no? I don't know if this is a net negative for artists or not, but it seems to me that more artists have to make their scratch by live performances and syncs. Another change: Artists are not accused of being a "sell out" for making money off of a sync. In the past, this was not the case. I suppose we all had knowledge that an artist was making millions off record deals and so if an artist sold a song to Coca Cola, it was perceived as significantly compromising that artists' integrity.
I think the sellout angle was native to Boomers partly from the angle of "but we're the counter culture" and partly because of the emergence of the singer / songwriter as an artistic / commercial differentiator, nobody gets mad that there are different versions of the Mac the Knife so when it was in a McDonald's ad there wasn't the same horror as when Michael Jackson licensed "Revolution" to Nike. There's definitely still that element of "don't be a sell out" for artists that I was listening to in my youth in the 80s and 90s, but I think it was more genre specific and as much about content as cashing those fat checks.
Definitely genre and artist specific depending on whether the artist was perceived to be writing for a commercial audience from the outset. Perhaps it is generational with the underlying explanation being as I indicated above that: 1) Artists have fewer options for cashing in on their art; and 2) the rise of social media and influencers has created a class of younger people that find it totally acceptable to market yourself to all people at all times.
I was texting with a good friend from SC the other day who plainly thinks I’m completely bonkers for my grudge about SC jumping to the Big10 - for her, tons of cash for other sports and no more late kickoffs against Oregon State sound great and she’s all in (she’s also the only one of my close friends from college who has ever had season tickets). I suspect she’s more representative of the alumni / fans who go to games than me, so I guess the football program will still have plenty of people for the crowd shots / noise required for those expensive broadcasts.
the best chili i ever ate was after going up to half dome and back the summer before my senior year at Cal, my feet were aching and i couldn't even get out of my tent after I took my boots and pants off and got into shorts. It was a can of hormel, no beans and my roommate made like 3 cans. I ate a can and a half with like 5 slices of bread half lying down.
Oh man, one of my favorite wife's dishes (the good one, not the easy red one) (she knows this, sorry). The good one is green, which takes some time, the sauce is made with onions, tomatillos, and various roasted green chillis, and to be honest, the spiciness varies somewhat. While the sauce is cooking, then the cubed meat (generally beef that was cubed and tenderized in the fridge) is grilled, and added to the sauce after it's ready to be slightly blended a bit before. Then it needs another hour of simmering to be ready to eat.
But you don't eat it by itself - too rich & spicy - it's served over rice, topped with grated cheese, and Crema on the side (if you like that) Back in the day, she made it so spicy it would only work with beer as a drink, but nowadays, still spicy, but low enough that you can pair with a Syrah or Zin.
Yes, I'm also wondering about "my favorite wife's dishes". Who is this favorite wife of which Cugel speaks and what is it about her dishes? Are these dishes ceramic or culinary?
My favorite chili recipe uses ground beef; hot and mild Jimmy Dean sausage; kidney and pinto beans; tomatoes and lots of spices. It's not spicy at all, but it is really very flavorful. The keys are hitting the right balance on the seasonings (including sugar and vinegar to counteract the spicy) and letting it cook for a while. I think the cook time is something like 3 hours or so. I eat it simply in a bowl with lots of cheddar and a dollop of sour cream. Yum!
It doesn’t do anything for me. I don’t make it, I’ll eat it to be polite, but that’s about it. Folks we know have a neighborhood chilli “competition” in the fall and I stopped going because I got tired of having to explain why I wasn’t partaking
Far be it from me to argue, but I started being given chilli before I moved to the US (from friends of my parents who were from Texas), I lived in California for 10 years, and every single person strutting their stuff at the neighborhood chilli cookout is from the east coast or midwest. I think this is idiosyncratic rather than geographic.
It could very well be (idiosyncratic), and I am aware of your history in the west, and your family's presence. I was just searching for the basis of an opinion, shared by another apparent easterner (dcblue), that I've no recollection of ever encountering or observing in my decades of eating experiences in these parts, even in some cases with subcultures with a very strong lean to other ethnic dining styles from other continents.
Like Peetjay, I thought chili in its broadest sense was something everyone liked some variety of.
"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
- Mr. Anderson (The Matrix)
https://twitter.com/i_ameztoy/status/1559964154131353600
Let's check in with what Gina Carano (F&F 6, Deadpool, Mandalorian) is acting in these days... oh...
https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1560406332745867264
Really too bad she's gone full Q. I enjoyed her as an actress, but more importantly she's going to be personally sorry when this bits her in the ass more than just her wallet.
One of the all-time fumbling the bag moves.
This seems like entirely the wrong kind of role for Gina Carano. If Old Man Biden started creeping on her, why wouldn't she just kick him in the face?
apparently she cannot resist the charms of Based Biden
who among us can?
Dark Brandon strikes again.
PRO
Aussie Carey Newman gets suspended for a bum poke vs. France. Not quite John Hopoate level, but that's not part of the "gentleman's game".
https://twitter.com/captainbarbs1/status/1559416606794870784
Balls to the wall
https://twitter.com/BuffaloBisons/status/1560091011157729281
Astros score 3 touchdowns against the White Sox
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401355986
Zero hits in a game.
https://www.mlb.com/news/two-dominican-summer-league-no-hitters-in-one-game
Tom Brady. What's up with him? Is Gisele pissed at him for being his side piece?
there's a long reddit theory that some guy came up with that he's the masked singer - the redditor matched up his absences with the filming datees.
Game #119: A’s drop finale, lose 10-3 to Rangers
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2022/8/18/23311541/game-119-as-drop-finale-rangers-logue
The A’s dropped the series finale against the Rangers, falling 7-2 and splitting the four-game set in Texas.
The starting pitching wasn’t the best today but the offense wasn’t either, collecting just three runs on five hits. At least they head home now.
After starter Sean Murphy had started all previous three games of this series, top prospect Shea Langeliers got the nod behind the plate for the early morning finale. We got to see what scouts had been talking about when praising his arm behind the plate in the very first inning. After a walk, former Athletic Marcus Semien tried stealing on the rookie catcher, only to get gunned down by the top prospect:
Giants wage war on the entire concept of winning
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2022/8/18/23312000/giants-diamondbacks-recap-losing-streak-zac-gallen-evan-longoria
In the sixth inning of the San Francisco Giants game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday afternoon, Brandon Crawford found himself in the batter’s box to lead off the inning.
Crawford, who finished fourth in NL MVP voting a year ago, was in a 1-2 count, stymied by three straight knuckle curves from Zac Gallen. Crawford, a lefty, had the handedness advantage against Gallen, a righty.
On the fourth pitch, he laid down a bunt. It went foul. Strike three.
In the seventh inning of the San Francisco Giants game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday afternoon, Brandon Belt found himself in the batter’s box with two outs and runners at second and third. The Giants needed some runs.
It doesn't make sense to have Brandon Crawford take the bat out of his own hands, but in what world does it make sense to sacrifice with 2 outs? Even if it had worked, it would have been inning over.
Home runs doom Dodgers to series split with Brewers
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/8/18/23311777/dodgers-brewers-split-andrew-heaney-home-runs-andrew-mccutchen
Andrew Heaney missed more bats on Thursday than in any start the last two seasons. But he didn’t miss Andrew McCutchen, who homered twice off the Dodgers starter to earn the Brewers a series split with a 5-3 win on getaway day Thursday in Milwaukee.
McCutchen hit a solo home run in the first inning, then added a two-run shot in the third. He spoiled what was building as an impressive outing for Heaney, who struck out 10 batters. The last strikeout was McCutchen with two outs in the fifth inning, but the ball got away from catcher Will Smith to extend the inning.
The goal of a five-inning start for Heaney, something he hasn’t done in five starts since returning from his second extended injured-list stint this year, proved elusive, as Hunter Renfroe followed with a two-run home run of his own, ending Heaney’s day.
DBD Kitchen
I made chile verde last night at 11pm when I felt compelled to cook. Changes I made - beef brother rather than chicken, which I got from my Mexican girlfriend's mom when I was at Berkeley.
https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-pressure-cooker-pork-chile-verde-recipe
I'm not sure the beef broth you got when you were at Berkeley is still good...
We’re in Montreal this weekend and went to dinner at Nora Gray last night. We went BIG and ordered the 40oz bone-in ribeye. Holy shit that was a slab of meat. Amazing little restaurant and a wine list that would make even Cugel jealous.
Also, last time we were in Montreal, we ate at a lot of very good restaurants that had no wine list, just a sign in French saying "don't forget your wine" - no bottle charge, and the locals were so fucking fast picking out the wine before dinner in the local wine stores.
Moi?
DBD A/V CLUB
This is late – and it's a weekend – but saw this in The Onion this morning and when it said, "the seven-volume Chronicles Of Buckeye series", well...
Books for TBB! :-)
https://www.theonion.com/underwhelming-fantasy-novel-starts-with-map-of-ohio-1849349382?utm_source=TheOnion_Daily_RSS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022-08-20
hahaha
I binged Murderville on my flight back from Nashville last night. Loved the Marshawn one.
The scene where he promises to avenge Terry Seattle's aunt's death. was great. And his new name, Bagabitch, but bitch is pronounced beesh. like french. Killed me.
Going to see LCD Soundsystem at the Fox in Oakland tonight and Mac DeMarco in my hometown Sunday night. Should be a fun weekend!
when biking down Market St to work today, saw that they're playing the Warfield for a few nights. Would like to see them – haven't heard anything since their second album – but not sure I'm ready for an indoor event yet with random people.
then got an email today noting that an colleague tested positive for covid today...yay! keep on truckin', covid!
I had tickets to see LCD Soundsystem on Tuesday but I am fighting a bit of a cough so decided for the best of everyone to skip it.
Sorry to hear this, what a bummer.
eh in the grand scheme of things it's pretty minor.
Nice! We are seeing LCD at This Ain't No Picnic at the Rose Bowl (well the golf course) next Saturday
Sounds like fun!
Nice!
One of the perils of middle age is that I often find myself having downloaded music that plainly is in the category of “I’d have enjoyed this at the time” but within a week I’ll have forgotten about how I can across it. In any case I’ve been enjoying “Over the Edge” by the Wipers and “Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing” by Discharge. Also been enjoying Rhythm Revolution by Ferry Djimin - kind of a wild backstory, the only released album by a former teacher, boxer, and one time Paris policeman from Benin who got the money for the recording from the president Mathieu Kerekou after Kerekou decided to rename Dahomey to Benin and take a hard turn into bringing Marxism from the top down, apparently he thought Djimin’s music would help sell socialism to the kids (I don’t know if they bought the politics but they didn’t buy the album). Not the best album I ever listened to but the good tracks are very good indeed.
"apparently he thought Djimin’s music would help sell socialism to the kids "
If audience members can't even pick up the leftism the Rage Against the Machine espouses in their lyrics, how can anyone else have a chance? (see Paul Ryan naming them as his favorite band, and all of the people who post to their twitter and facebook page "When did Rage become political?")
I know that streaming services are another nail in the coffin for musicians trying to make a living off their work but being able to do things like download multiples Nardcore albums is pretty compelling for someone like me who misses a lot of music when it comes out.
I don't understand the dynamic of how streaming changed the music industry very well, but have some rambling observations. I know a single stream makes a fraction of a penny for an artist but at the same time, smaller artists do not have to sign a record deal to get access to an audience, no? I don't know if this is a net negative for artists or not, but it seems to me that more artists have to make their scratch by live performances and syncs. Another change: Artists are not accused of being a "sell out" for making money off of a sync. In the past, this was not the case. I suppose we all had knowledge that an artist was making millions off record deals and so if an artist sold a song to Coca Cola, it was perceived as significantly compromising that artists' integrity.
I think the sellout angle was native to Boomers partly from the angle of "but we're the counter culture" and partly because of the emergence of the singer / songwriter as an artistic / commercial differentiator, nobody gets mad that there are different versions of the Mac the Knife so when it was in a McDonald's ad there wasn't the same horror as when Michael Jackson licensed "Revolution" to Nike. There's definitely still that element of "don't be a sell out" for artists that I was listening to in my youth in the 80s and 90s, but I think it was more genre specific and as much about content as cashing those fat checks.
Definitely genre and artist specific depending on whether the artist was perceived to be writing for a commercial audience from the outset. Perhaps it is generational with the underlying explanation being as I indicated above that: 1) Artists have fewer options for cashing in on their art; and 2) the rise of social media and influencers has created a class of younger people that find it totally acceptable to market yourself to all people at all times.
I'd say Gen-X definitely continued the "no sellout" trend from the Boomers. But Millennials and Gen-Z don't care, for exactly the reasons you gave.
Licensing your music for ads/TV/movies is pretty much THE way to make money off of your recordings now.
NUESTRA REPUBLICA PROBLEMATICA
Judge orders redacted copy of warrant. DOJ warns that nearly the whole thing will be blacked out.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118240659/justice-department-must-provide-redacted-mar-a-lago-affidavit-judge-says
Somehow, I think this falls under the heading of "Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it."
Rudy is such a good lawyer that he incriminates his client on TV
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1560464469230342144
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
I was texting with a good friend from SC the other day who plainly thinks I’m completely bonkers for my grudge about SC jumping to the Big10 - for her, tons of cash for other sports and no more late kickoffs against Oregon State sound great and she’s all in (she’s also the only one of my close friends from college who has ever had season tickets). I suspect she’s more representative of the alumni / fans who go to games than me, so I guess the football program will still have plenty of people for the crowd shots / noise required for those expensive broadcasts.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
CHILLI
Had a pound of ground turkey that I needed gone so I made some chili yesterday in the crockpot...as solid as turkey chili can taste, I suppose...
the best chili i ever ate was after going up to half dome and back the summer before my senior year at Cal, my feet were aching and i couldn't even get out of my tent after I took my boots and pants off and got into shorts. It was a can of hormel, no beans and my roommate made like 3 cans. I ate a can and a half with like 5 slices of bread half lying down.
the Mountain House freeze dried chili mac is especially satisfying after a long day of hiking and carrying a load around
Mountain House makes good products.
Hormel no beans and a brick of cream cheese heated up and stirred together is a sneaky good dip for Fritos or Tostitos Scoops.
I like the Hormel no beans chili. It's similar to Tommy's. Ohh...I've got a 32oz container of frozen Tommy's chili in the freezer.
Tommy's is very high on the list of things Scootie likes about LA. (It's not a long list)
Have a tex-mex cookbook with a great recipe. Don't mess with Texas
i try to make my chili w/ no beans and only cut up steak. despite how good it is, i get a of lot of complaints about "no beans"
i also really only make chili once a year during the Super Bowl, when chili cheese dogs are the main event.
You don't "need" beans, the ONLY true need is chilies
Secrets:
Low and slow onions
Deglazing pan with tomato juice
A wedge of Ibarra
A medley of chilies. Chipotle adobo sauce + a touch of an ancho + guajillo
Vietnamese mushroom powder. It adds umami
Cooking super low for hours with a cartouche on top
Oh man, one of my favorite wife's dishes (the good one, not the easy red one) (she knows this, sorry). The good one is green, which takes some time, the sauce is made with onions, tomatillos, and various roasted green chillis, and to be honest, the spiciness varies somewhat. While the sauce is cooking, then the cubed meat (generally beef that was cubed and tenderized in the fridge) is grilled, and added to the sauce after it's ready to be slightly blended a bit before. Then it needs another hour of simmering to be ready to eat.
But you don't eat it by itself - too rich & spicy - it's served over rice, topped with grated cheese, and Crema on the side (if you like that) Back in the day, she made it so spicy it would only work with beer as a drink, but nowadays, still spicy, but low enough that you can pair with a Syrah or Zin.
So damn good.
Your favorite/good wife is green? Was that before or after she ate that sauce?
Yes, I'm also wondering about "my favorite wife's dishes". Who is this favorite wife of which Cugel speaks and what is it about her dishes? Are these dishes ceramic or culinary?
Inquiring minds and all that jazz.
well, it's not the easy red wife.
Say what? Not a crazy Mormon, only one wife.
"My favorite wife's"
I was thinking the choice was between "the good wife" and the easy red wife"...
Sigh, I guess if I had three, and they each needed sex twice a week... well that wouldn't be bad.
My favorite chili recipe uses ground beef; hot and mild Jimmy Dean sausage; kidney and pinto beans; tomatoes and lots of spices. It's not spicy at all, but it is really very flavorful. The keys are hitting the right balance on the seasonings (including sugar and vinegar to counteract the spicy) and letting it cook for a while. I think the cook time is something like 3 hours or so. I eat it simply in a bowl with lots of cheddar and a dollop of sour cream. Yum!
It doesn’t do anything for me. I don’t make it, I’ll eat it to be polite, but that’s about it. Folks we know have a neighborhood chilli “competition” in the fall and I stopped going because I got tired of having to explain why I wasn’t partaking
That would be me too.
Same, it's fine, my MIL makes a great one, but I don't seek it out
I... I... don't get that.
Must be an east coast/regional thing. In the southwest and west, Chili is one of the basic food groups.
Far be it from me to argue, but I started being given chilli before I moved to the US (from friends of my parents who were from Texas), I lived in California for 10 years, and every single person strutting their stuff at the neighborhood chilli cookout is from the east coast or midwest. I think this is idiosyncratic rather than geographic.
It could very well be (idiosyncratic), and I am aware of your history in the west, and your family's presence. I was just searching for the basis of an opinion, shared by another apparent easterner (dcblue), that I've no recollection of ever encountering or observing in my decades of eating experiences in these parts, even in some cases with subcultures with a very strong lean to other ethnic dining styles from other continents.
Like Peetjay, I thought chili in its broadest sense was something everyone liked some variety of.
Until DC's post, I held an operational assumption that everyone likes chili. No wonder he got tired going to the chili competition.