Even in perfect weather, the whole Gawddamned thing sounds absolutely miserable to me. A desolate, almost apocalyptic landscape, with major traffic in and out…the horror stories of Burners hauling their garbage out off the Playa only to absolutely trash the nearby Mom and Pop gas stations (who admittedly make good $$$ from those same asshats loading up on supplies, but still)…personally, I’m just loving this year’s schitt show.
I got a Burner buddy and I always tell him “F-ck your Burning Man!” Of course, the artsy ex-Mrs. Jimmy C loved this sort of thing, even though she never attended.
Pack it in, pack it out. Some folks don't understand what it means. When I backpacked that meant I'd often wait until I got home to offload empty and squashed containers.
Burning Man organizers could do better with the Leave No Trace principle. If they pick up after the folks who leave trash behind, how do they accomplish their mission without using massive numbers of trash bins? At what point do they pick up and use garbage storage to transport waste?
I'm always a little flummoxed as to why this festival exists at all, given that one of its 10 Principles is Leave No Trace. With 70,000 attendees, it seems that a significant percentage do not adhere to Leave No Trace.
Just how does 70,000 people leave no trace even if you have staff who clean up after those who can't or won't? I'm reminded of Lake Tahoe trash after 4th of July this year.
I have mixed feelings about Lake Tahoe. Love the lake, hate the fact that it would seem one needs to kiss someone or some business' ass just to dip one's toe in the water. With all that commercial and private ownership of lakefront property, maybe those owning entities can afford the clean up. Just venting and, yes, I think the Lake needs preserving.
Despite our absurdly hot weather I went for a walk late yesterday afternoon. In the parking lot of the park I went to I saw a car with a license plate holder that said Mean Green and North Texas. I wished I'd had paper and pen so I could leave a gloating remark.
My friend introduced me to her fiance this weekend. He was a Oklahoma fan who lived in Dallas but he somehow knew Cal was located in Berkeley. He didn't know where Berkeley was located in California, but I was really surprised and impressed that someone knew Cal = Berkeley
I find it interesting that someone who knows that Cal=Berkeley doesn't know Berkeley's location, which implies not knowing it's close to San Francisco or Oakland. How old is this person?
I think as sport fans, we hear the campus names a lot and some are often not major cities. Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill, Tuscaloosa, Norman, Oxford, Urbana-Champaign, Palo Alto, etc. I actually don't know where Tuscaloosa and Norman are within respective states.
Meh. I think local bias is pretty common. Ask any average west coast non-DBDer to point on a map where the University of Indiana, University of Wisconsin, or FIU is and be more specific than the state.
I think there's truth in what you say. I also think folks above a certain age are more likely to know Berkeley's general location within California, which is what I was trying to impart.
As a trial, I asked my wife where these place as on a map. Her guess for Indiana was Purdue. The response for Wisconsin was "who knows that?". The response for FIU was "Who cares? Who's asking? Why are you bothering me?"
I know which cities IU and Wisconsin are located in, but I could not point out on unlabeled map where those two cities are in their states. Hell, I couldn't even tell you where Indianapolis or Milwaukee are.
On this day in 2015 in Memorial Stadium, the Golden Bears defeated Grambling State 72-14. DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
But what will I do with all the mental sanity and peace of mind that will befall me when I don't have recurring nightmares of the AM/PM food-dreads guy and "Conference of Champions" promos?
I'd almost prefer a barrage of varied commercials to PAC 12 Network "broken-record" repeat-ads-because-we-did-not-sell-all-the-ad-space.
Now, if we could put that clever, clever "You See" ad to rest....
Spencer Lovell transferred to a pretty bad Kansas team. He is second string.
Jack Plummer had a pretty Jack Plummer Day - 18/31 for 247 for 3 TD and 1 INT. He ran 9 times for 51 yards. It was enough to squeeze out a come from behind 39-34 win over Georgia Tech.
Jackson Brown - who transferred to Pitt and had rumors that he thought he deserved playing time - was not on the 2-deep depth chart. We may see him again when Cal plays Pitt
ACC: Syracuse schedules Colgate and proceeds to allow only 104 yards, not included the 40 yards of penalties. 'Cuse won 65-0 despite having 3 turnovers.
Arizona beats NAU 38-3. Kai Milner had a meh day 14/22 for 166 yards and no TD or INT. He ran 5 times for 3 yards. Wildcats defense held the Lumberjacks to 1.9 YPC.
I do not miss Sonny Dykes' defenses. They played the whole game like they were missing 2 linebackers--small gains underneath turned into huge plays because nobody was around.
My wife has been cutting my hair since Covid. She sent me out to get my hair cut since I'm going to a few wedding and she preferred that I look less like... well... like I normally do. She said that it now takes forever for her to get a hair appointment and warned me that I need to go out now to find one. Found out the hard way that two of the haircut places that I normally go to are gone. Had to go to a Fantastic Sam's... which isn't fantastic - but I look less feral.
Spanish Football Federation has sacked its women's football coach criticizing Luis Rubiales. This will not end well for the Spanish Football Federation.
Wife and I bingewatched Deadloch on Amazon Prime over the weekend. 8 episode Aussie crime drama/dramedy. Perfect medium-light fare, well produced and enough meat in the crime portions to balance the dramedy-level writing. 14/19.
Maybe I was in a bad mood. Maybe I'm just cranky. There's something off about the production. I loved History of the World Part 1, Space Balls, and other Mel Brooks movies - but this was bad. Poorly written. Some actors seem to just mail it in like it was a SNL skit. I made it about 20 minutes and gave up. Lot of jokes that were 3s and 4s and an occasional 6 (a smile), but nothing that got me to laugh out loud.
Only Murders in the Building (S3, E1 through 3, Hulu 18/19)
The show continues on a similar path without seeming like old ground. Paul Rudd and Martin Short now play flipsides of the same over-the-top coin. Meryl Streep remains criminally good at acting. Outstanding so far.
We are getting new ACC opponents. What restaurants would you put on their "should visit" to get an idea of Berkeley?
(Inter)Mezzo, La Burrita
Boichick
Everything everyone else has suggested, plus Comal and Jupiter
Vik's Chaat.
Picante
Great Wall
Kirala
Sliver
Chez Panisse
Angeline's Louisiana Kitchen
Not to mention all the Auburn visitors this weekend!
Cheese Board
Anything in the gourmet ghetto or Asian ghetto
Top Dog
That should be a reasonably expansive view of the Berkeley experience
Zachary's
Gordo
Gregoire
Top Dog
70,000 people stuck at Burning Man
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/burning-man-crowd-stuck-muddy-venue-no-cause-panic-ceo-says-rcna103217
A fellow I went to highschool with is a "Black Rock Ranger."
As a teacher, Burning Man was my favorite example of how utopian anarchism eventually reinvents the social contract.
Even in perfect weather, the whole Gawddamned thing sounds absolutely miserable to me. A desolate, almost apocalyptic landscape, with major traffic in and out…the horror stories of Burners hauling their garbage out off the Playa only to absolutely trash the nearby Mom and Pop gas stations (who admittedly make good $$$ from those same asshats loading up on supplies, but still)…personally, I’m just loving this year’s schitt show.
I got a Burner buddy and I always tell him “F-ck your Burning Man!” Of course, the artsy ex-Mrs. Jimmy C loved this sort of thing, even though she never attended.
Pack it in, pack it out. Some folks don't understand what it means. When I backpacked that meant I'd often wait until I got home to offload empty and squashed containers.
Burning Man organizers could do better with the Leave No Trace principle. If they pick up after the folks who leave trash behind, how do they accomplish their mission without using massive numbers of trash bins? At what point do they pick up and use garbage storage to transport waste?
Eh, I don't like it, would never go - BUT - you are giving it too much logical reasons for not liking it.
If I ever go, it's just for the boobs.
Well, fair point, but there are plenty of closer spots to catch a glimpse than some dreadful stretch of hard pan in BFE NW Nevada…
Also a fair point.
I'm always a little flummoxed as to why this festival exists at all, given that one of its 10 Principles is Leave No Trace. With 70,000 attendees, it seems that a significant percentage do not adhere to Leave No Trace.
Just how does 70,000 people leave no trace even if you have staff who clean up after those who can't or won't? I'm reminded of Lake Tahoe trash after 4th of July this year.
I have mixed feelings about Lake Tahoe. Love the lake, hate the fact that it would seem one needs to kiss someone or some business' ass just to dip one's toe in the water. With all that commercial and private ownership of lakefront property, maybe those owning entities can afford the clean up. Just venting and, yes, I think the Lake needs preserving.
It's generally the state and local park locations that end up being a dump after major holidays.
Keep Tahoe blue. I subscribe to this, although it inevitably leads to restrictions on development, leading to controversy.
It would have done well to make it a National Park, but, too late.
A friend of mine is stuck there. They have plenty of supplies, but it looks like a giant mess out there
I don't know who - but so many tenants I'm sure...
So many...
Who's late on rent payments?
Haha - none of those guys (oddly?)
CAL
One ESPN prognosticator has Cal in the Independence Bowl vs. Iowa State the other has us against Pitt in the Sun Bowl. I have us in the national semis vs. Alabama but then nobody asked me. https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/38327865/college-football-bowl-projections-week-1
Bama, who?
We're rollin'
Roll on you, Bears....
Ooops, I'm doing those overdoses of sunshine that I swore off of.
Best managed expectations stance... "Meh, Bears"
After we're 8-0, ":WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO BEARS!!!!!!
Oh be still my heart!!
EL PASO CITY!!!!
Despite our absurdly hot weather I went for a walk late yesterday afternoon. In the parking lot of the park I went to I saw a car with a license plate holder that said Mean Green and North Texas. I wished I'd had paper and pen so I could leave a gloating remark.
My friend introduced me to her fiance this weekend. He was a Oklahoma fan who lived in Dallas but he somehow knew Cal was located in Berkeley. He didn't know where Berkeley was located in California, but I was really surprised and impressed that someone knew Cal = Berkeley
I find it interesting that someone who knows that Cal=Berkeley doesn't know Berkeley's location, which implies not knowing it's close to San Francisco or Oakland. How old is this person?
I think as sport fans, we hear the campus names a lot and some are often not major cities. Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill, Tuscaloosa, Norman, Oxford, Urbana-Champaign, Palo Alto, etc. I actually don't know where Tuscaloosa and Norman are within respective states.
He's 27.
The same age as my youngest son. That's not surprising.
To be fair, at the age of 27 I didn't know the location on a map for many college campii aside from the state in which they are located.
Meh. I think local bias is pretty common. Ask any average west coast non-DBDer to point on a map where the University of Indiana, University of Wisconsin, or FIU is and be more specific than the state.
I think there's truth in what you say. I also think folks above a certain age are more likely to know Berkeley's general location within California, which is what I was trying to impart.
As a trial, I asked my wife where these place as on a map. Her guess for Indiana was Purdue. The response for Wisconsin was "who knows that?". The response for FIU was "Who cares? Who's asking? Why are you bothering me?"
I know which cities IU and Wisconsin are located in, but I could not point out on unlabeled map where those two cities are in their states. Hell, I couldn't even tell you where Indianapolis or Milwaukee are.
Small sample size, no offense intended.
pqtm at the last question
On this day in 2015 in Memorial Stadium, the Golden Bears defeated Grambling State 72-14. DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
Describe your gameday experience
Go Bears!!!
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Before you start bragging about your TV rights, here's what you've signed up for:
https://twitter.com/tomfornelli/status/1698029462036599114
That's another reminder that college football and the NFL have been captured by TV networks.
But what will I do with all the mental sanity and peace of mind that will befall me when I don't have recurring nightmares of the AM/PM food-dreads guy and "Conference of Champions" promos?
I'd almost prefer a barrage of varied commercials to PAC 12 Network "broken-record" repeat-ads-because-we-did-not-sell-all-the-ad-space.
Now, if we could put that clever, clever "You See" ad to rest....
This is some pettiness that I can get behind.
https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1698781282866495907
Other former Bears:
Spencer Lovell transferred to a pretty bad Kansas team. He is second string.
Jack Plummer had a pretty Jack Plummer Day - 18/31 for 247 for 3 TD and 1 INT. He ran 9 times for 51 yards. It was enough to squeeze out a come from behind 39-34 win over Georgia Tech.
Jackson Brown - who transferred to Pitt and had rumors that he thought he deserved playing time - was not on the 2-deep depth chart. We may see him again when Cal plays Pitt
https://pittsburghpanthers.com/documents/2023/8/28/Pitt_Game_Notes__vs_Wofford__8.28.23.pdf
How'd J Mike do?
Allow me to answer my own question after googling:
5 receptions, 136 yards, 1 TD. Good for him. I love that kid.
Jermaine Terry caught one pass for 4 yards for Oregon State
Auburn dominates a terrible UMass team 59-14, proving nothing but sets up an interesting game against Cal this week
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401520151
I'm encouraged that Auburn gave up several long runs and generally let the UMass ground game have a decent day
Baylor loses their starting QB to a knee injury, loses to Texas State 42-31
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/401525817
Texas State and Colorado's victories seem to support the idea that the portal is the way to quick turnarounds.
And Cal
The Fighting Tedfords beats Purdue 39-35 in West Lafayette
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/401520170
Damien Moore is not on two deep and did not record stats for Fresno State
ACC: Syracuse schedules Colgate and proceeds to allow only 104 yards, not included the 40 yards of penalties. 'Cuse won 65-0 despite having 3 turnovers.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup/_/gameId/401525466
ACC: NIU beats BC 27-24 in OT. lol
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/401525464
I sitting next to a NIU fan in 2014 at the Cal/NW game; she was friendly.
Midwestern friendly or handjob under the bleachers friendly?
hahaha Uh - Midwestern. (she was kinda rooting for Cal)
Midwestern handjob, got it.
Wazzu beats CSU 50-24 as Cam Ward lights up the Rams.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401523990
Arizona beats NAU 38-3. Kai Milner had a meh day 14/22 for 166 yards and no TD or INT. He ran 5 times for 3 yards. Wildcats defense held the Lumberjacks to 1.9 YPC.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401523989
UCLA beats Coastal Carolina 27-13 as J. Mike saves the Bruins' butts
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401523995
Oregon State beats SJSU 42-17 as Uiagaleilei has a good day against the Spartans. Jermaine Terry had one catch for 4 yards but otherwise just blocked.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401532573
Cal should go back to scheduling SJSU regularly once it starts play in the ACC.
I watched part of that game. Oregon State was clearly the better team from the start.
Colorado stuns TCU 45-42 on the road. Coach Prime goes off.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401523994
I do not miss Sonny Dykes' defenses. They played the whole game like they were missing 2 linebackers--small gains underneath turned into huge plays because nobody was around.
You can say that again
Oregon beats Portland State 81-7. It turns out that you tend to score when your 3rd stringers are 4 and 5 start recruits.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401523992
Penix gets big numbers as the Huskies beat Boise State 56-19
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401523997
Stanfurd beats Hawaii 37-24 as Ashton Daniels shows he can throw the ball and not just run with it
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401523988
Claw
3M thing that works quite well for hanging pictures
, Bear
My first tattoo, off the helmets from the ‘80’s.
Do
, Hair
My wife has been cutting my hair since Covid. She sent me out to get my hair cut since I'm going to a few wedding and she preferred that I look less like... well... like I normally do. She said that it now takes forever for her to get a hair appointment and warned me that I need to go out now to find one. Found out the hard way that two of the haircut places that I normally go to are gone. Had to go to a Fantastic Sam's... which isn't fantastic - but I look less feral.
Agreed, I’ve had nothing but schitty experiences at Fantastic Sams.
Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do!
Doh! a beer, a 12-ounce beer
Ray, the guy who buys me beer
Me, the guy who drinks the beer
Fa, a long long way for beer
So, I think I'll have a beer
La, la la la la la la
Tea, no thanks I'll have a beer
Which will bring us back to
Doh!...
hahaha - never heard this before
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Ted Cruz rages against a non-existent thing to create controversy
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1697057026839343300?
Someone is claiming that there are leaked emails that link Putin paying Marine La Pen, which should be a surprise if true.
https://twitter.com/insight_news_m/status/1699054465817682398
PRO
Hard Knocks:
Aaron Rodgers shares the UFO sighting experience he had with Steve Levy in New Jersey, 2005.
Spanish Football Federation has sacked its women's football coach criticizing Luis Rubiales. This will not end well for the Spanish Football Federation.
https://news.sky.com/story/spanish-womens-football-team-coach-jorge-vilda-sacked-in-wake-of-rubiales-kiss-furore-12955553
Christopher Brooks made the 53 man roster at Miami
https://www.deseret.com/2023/9/3/23857594/chris-brooks-makes-miami-dolphins-active-roster
DBD AV CLUB
Wife and I bingewatched Deadloch on Amazon Prime over the weekend. 8 episode Aussie crime drama/dramedy. Perfect medium-light fare, well produced and enough meat in the crime portions to balance the dramedy-level writing. 14/19.
History of the World Part 2 (Hulu, 7/19, WNB)
Maybe I was in a bad mood. Maybe I'm just cranky. There's something off about the production. I loved History of the World Part 1, Space Balls, and other Mel Brooks movies - but this was bad. Poorly written. Some actors seem to just mail it in like it was a SNL skit. I made it about 20 minutes and gave up. Lot of jokes that were 3s and 4s and an occasional 6 (a smile), but nothing that got me to laugh out loud.
Never finished it.
it was terrible, I was so disappointed by this show
Nah, no big deal disliking this.
Saw a new film called Bottoms over the weekend. Among the cast was one Marshawn Lynch (as a high school teacher). The film is an absurdist comedy and Marshawn, who improvised most of his lines, is part of its delights. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17527468/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_q_bottoms
Marshawn was good, but I thought the movie as a whole was just okay. Sometimes went too much into absurdism for absurdism's sake for my tastes.
Oh I want to see this. Heard he's pretty good in it.
He is. He has his students act out the Treaty of Versailles.
It would be worth watching just to hear him pronounce "Versailles."
Only Murders in the Building (S3, E1 through 3, Hulu 18/19)
The show continues on a similar path without seeming like old ground. Paul Rudd and Martin Short now play flipsides of the same over-the-top coin. Meryl Streep remains criminally good at acting. Outstanding so far.
'Tis very good!
Smash Mouth's front man Steve Harwell dies in hospice from liver failure
https://twitter.com/smashmouth/status/1698721853815283932
Ya, just a big time, heavy weight drinker.