There are some wonderful old tablet things. I heard about one that was instructions from the boss to guys moving some commodity from one country to another about how to avoid the customs taxes.
Do you remember the Jacksonville Jaguar employee who got sentenced to 6.5 years for embezzling $22m from the team via a corporate credit card? He has sued FanDuel for $250m blaming them because he was a problem gambler and it's their fault.
“The GREAT Pete Rose just died. He was one of the most magnificent baseball players ever to play the game. He paid the price! Major League Baseball should have allowed him into the Hall of Fame many years ago,” former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, repeating a similar plea he made four years earlier. “Do it now, before his funeral!”
See you later, Astr*s. Detroit sweeps as pinch-hitting righty Andy Ibanez clears the bases with a double yanked to the corner, to cap a four-run eighth-inning in their 5-2 victory.
Padres are really looking forward to a series with the Dodgers. Not so sure the Dodgers are as thrilled, but should be great ratings, at least in the west.
With all the injuries to the starters, it will be all on how well the Flaherty, Yamamoto, Buehler, and Knack do. It looks like the Pads mostly scored on the starters. 5 on Fried yesterday on some hanging breaking pitches, and 3 or 4 on the game 1 starter who was tipping his pitches. Don't think they did much against the Braves bullpen.
I think the last 3 game series against the Dodgers, most of their runs were scored on the starters and not the bullpen.
Will be a tough series for the Dodgers to win, especially if Freddie Freeman is out. The Dodgers need Ohtani, Mookie, and the bottom of the lineup to hit well.
The 165-page legal brief from Jack Smith's team in the Federal case against Trump in DC (Judge Chutkan) was unsealed. In it, is the DOJ's essentially laid down their hand to show what they had against Trump. In it, is damning evidence that he knew that he lost the election, was fully in control in pushing people to create schemes to overthrow the government, planned lies with the explicit goal of trying to create riots & civil unrest... and the most chilling part is the legal acrobatics that Smith has to argue that these were for personal acts and not official acts since SCOTUS essentially granted the President tyrannical powers.
Hey, folks (in the path of Hurrican Helene and other vulnerable areas) - you elected representatives who want to dismantle the government, cut back funding for government functions across the board, and deny climate change.
You are faced now with the consequences of those folks you sent to Washington to represent *you*.
I don’t watch Gameday anymore, but when I’ve happened by his show while eating lunch McAfee does plenty of swearing. He did it on the clip posted the other day during his interview with ARod. Maybe he watches himself on Saturdays.
Might be safer to have Oski Disciple be the guest picker. Will need someone to balance Corso's pick. (Spoiler, Oski may lose his mind over it, but not his head.)
TIBURON – The California men's tennis pair of Theo Dean and Carl Emil Overbeck won its doubles opener at the Tiburon Challenger on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals at the Tiburon Peninsula Club.
BERKELEY – California volleyball will welcome a pair of ACC opponents this weekend to start off a four-match homestand, hosting Wake Forest Friday evening and NC State on Sunday afternoon. This will be the first time in program history that the Golden Bears (8-6, 0-2 ACC) have matched up with either team. Both matches will be broadcast on ACCNX.
Sofie Aagaard and Michael Wilson helped lead the California women's and men's golf programs to tremendous heights as student-athletes two decades ago.
Now, fueled by the same competitive drive that made them flourish as golfers, the two alumni are back in Blue and Gold as their respective programs' head coaches, and tasked with leading the Golden Bears into a new era as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
BERKELEY – ESPN's College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will originate from Cal on Saturday – the first time the ultra-popular college football pregame show has ever come to Berkeley.
The show will be staged on Memorial Glade in the center of campus and is open to the public.
The California field hockey team will host a pair of ranked opponents at Underhill Field this week, beginning Friday in its first-ever ACC home opener against No. 12 Duke, followed by No. 1 North Carolina on Sunday. Coverage for both games will be available on ESPN+/ACCNX and live stats.
The California men's tennis team will send a squad of Golden Bears to compete in the San Diego Veteran Tennis Classic from Friday through Sunday at the University of San Diego.
Players from USD, the U.S. Naval Academy, Grand Canyon, Oregon and UC Irvine will compete with Cal sophomores Alex Aney, Jonathan Irwanto and Ethan Schiffman and freshman Bernardo Munk Mesa in the annual event, hosted by the Toreros and the U.S. Naval Academy.
"You have a large mass in your upper left lung and your upper left lobe has collapsed."
Those are the words that Coco Thistle of the California women's soccer team heard over the phone from her latest physician as she was driving back up to Berkeley from her hometown of Encinitas last March. Her post-spring break commute was interrupted, not by her first doctor, or her second, but her sixth. While he was unlucky in having to deliver the results of the CT scan and Thistle unlucky to receive it, especially while motoring up I-5, the discovery ended a nearly four-year long mystery.
And that is exactly what he and his colleagues chalked it up to – bad luck.
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Miles Goodman, a first-year grad student at UC Berkeley, had no idea the chain of events he was about to set off when he opened his photo-editing app late in Cal's 21-14 win at Auburn on Sept. 7.
For months, Goodman had interacted with opposing fan bases under the handle @golDonbear on X, and it was normal for him to run into barbs about Cal as a bastion of progressive values. The stereotyping was often meant to be insulting, but it usually just left Goodman amused.
"Cal in the ACC is very strange," said Avinash Kunnath, another prominent member of Cal's online community who has written about the Bears for years. "There's no two ways around it. And it's not going to be something that's going to be easy for a lot of older [fans] or people who have been in the Pac-12 for 50 years. But I think the one thing our community has done is -- we live in the weird."
"We embraced our identity, we started to get more comfortable with the woke stuff and all the things that come with the political side of things, but we didn't make it super serious," Kunnath said. "We just kept it kind of lighthearted. We poke fun at ourselves a lot, and we didn't run from our identity."
AUGUST 2023 WAS a particularly stressful month for Cal fans as the Pac-12 collapsed, leaving the Bears and rival Stanford with an uncertain future.
"There was a real fear that Cal football could die," said Nick Kranz, a lifelong Cal fan and a contributor to the website Write for California. "Either a literal death, like the school decides, 'This is not worth it and we're going to stop playing football.' Or a more figurative death. 'We're going to keep doing it in the Mountain West, but we're going to get no revenue out of it and we're never going to achieve anything.'"
California last hosted Miami in Memorial Stadium on September 15, 1990, a 52-24 Hurricane victory. The game was closer than the final score indicated. The Bears pulled to within 31-24 in the fourth quarter before a blocked punt set the visitors up at the Cal one. A fourth down stop and an interception led to the Canes last two TDS. One of the stories of the day was the home debut of Bear running back Russell who electrified fans with a 99-yard kickoff return the first time he touched the ball. It was Cal’s first kick off return for a TD since The Play eight years earlier. White also ran for a TD. Brian Treggs led California receivers with twelve catches for 130 yards. Bear QB Mike Pawlawski connected on 28 of 43 passes. Despite the loss the Bears went on to their first winning season (7-4-1) in eight years and their first bowl game since 1979, defeating Wyoming 17-15 in the Copper Bowl.
Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts appears Tuesday through Thursday on the DBD throughout the 2024 college football season. This feature is brought to you by widgets, your hypothetical friend.
I remember thinking in the stands at the start of the game "I hope this Russell White kid has the goods" immediate kick return for a TD. I want to say that our game was one of miami's closest contests that year as well. They were really good.
I was at Russell White's debut and we nearly lost our collective minds when Russell housed the kick off against Miami. If Russell didn't have to share time with Anthony White, he would have rushed for a bajillion yards. That season Wallace had 1002 yards on 220 attempts and White had 1000 yards on 180 attempts. Also, this was the era with a dedicated fullback (Greg Zomalt) , who had 236 yards. That team was so much fun to watch.
Newellbany and I went completely nuts. Only bigger celebration by the two of us is when we tore the Hyatt Incline Village’s sitting area apart after Midge banged that 3 v NC State in the Dance…
I had a particular fondness for that team, maybe especially after they lost such a heart-breaking Big Game. They were a special group. The next season head coach Bruce Snyder had them in the top ten. Then Bockrath....
Antonio Pierce was hit with an eight year show-cause penalty by the NCAA. Since he is safely the Raiders HC and likely won't ever need to return to college ranks and the NCAA already gave ASU a light slap on the wrist, this seems like a toothless penalty
Depending on how this season goes, I wonder how long he'll be the HC. All the players wanted him as HC and they finished well last year. So far meh this year, though the did beat the Ravens. I think he'll get this year and maybe next to turn it around.
Utah State, Wyoming, Boise State, and Southern Utah have all forfeited their games rather than play against San Jose State, which has a transgender woman on their team.
Saw an excellent if unfortunately titled film, My Old Ass, yesterday. An 18 year old getting set to leave home takes Shrooms and is magically visited by her 39 year old self (the brilliant Aubrey Plaza). It's wise, witty and fun. Maybe especially appealing to women of a certain age but I'm neither a woman nor of a certain age and I liked it. Recommended.
CU
“We’ll take the copper from the worksite, meet me here at midnight…they ain’t got a camera or a guard.”
-Opening lines of “King of Oklahoma”, by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Great tune.
Here is the background information regarding the lede comic
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir-the-oldest-recorded-customer-complaint
There are some wonderful old tablet things. I heard about one that was instructions from the boss to guys moving some commodity from one country to another about how to avoid the customs taxes.
PRO
Do you remember the Jacksonville Jaguar employee who got sentenced to 6.5 years for embezzling $22m from the team via a corporate credit card? He has sued FanDuel for $250m blaming them because he was a problem gambler and it's their fault.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/imprisoned-ex-jaguars-employee-sues-fanduel-for-250m/?
Well, of course it is!
Guess what, Pete Rose. It's not a lifetime ban.
https://apnews.com/article/rose-hall-of-fame-d3da8832097f2717590096d68600fee4
“The GREAT Pete Rose just died. He was one of the most magnificent baseball players ever to play the game. He paid the price! Major League Baseball should have allowed him into the Hall of Fame many years ago,” former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, repeating a similar plea he made four years earlier. “Do it now, before his funeral!”
The President of the Cheaters Society has an obvious opinion on the topic.
See you later, Astr*s. Detroit sweeps as pinch-hitting righty Andy Ibanez clears the bases with a double yanked to the corner, to cap a four-run eighth-inning in their 5-2 victory.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401701017
The Tigers have shown that having a cloud of undervalued relivers pitch rather than overpaid starters can win
Best results on the diamond usually correlate closely with having as many pitchers that can actually pitch as possible.
Long suffering Orioles fans feel dejected again as they get swept by Royals in a 2-1 ALWC game
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401701026
Lucas Erceg with the save again. Since he had to leave Cal after two years because he was academically ineligible, do we claim him?
As Bill Clinton once famously said, "I feel your pain."
Brewers tie up NLWC by beating Mets 5-3
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401701010
Long suffering Padres fans rejoice as they sweep the Braves in the NLWC 6-4
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401701013
Padres are really looking forward to a series with the Dodgers. Not so sure the Dodgers are as thrilled, but should be great ratings, at least in the west.
With all the injuries to the starters, it will be all on how well the Flaherty, Yamamoto, Buehler, and Knack do. It looks like the Pads mostly scored on the starters. 5 on Fried yesterday on some hanging breaking pitches, and 3 or 4 on the game 1 starter who was tipping his pitches. Don't think they did much against the Braves bullpen.
I think the last 3 game series against the Dodgers, most of their runs were scored on the starters and not the bullpen.
Will be a tough series for the Dodgers to win, especially if Freddie Freeman is out. The Dodgers need Ohtani, Mookie, and the bottom of the lineup to hit well.
[POLITICAL STUFF HERE]
The 165-page legal brief from Jack Smith's team in the Federal case against Trump in DC (Judge Chutkan) was unsealed. In it, is the DOJ's essentially laid down their hand to show what they had against Trump. In it, is damning evidence that he knew that he lost the election, was fully in control in pushing people to create schemes to overthrow the government, planned lies with the explicit goal of trying to create riots & civil unrest... and the most chilling part is the legal acrobatics that Smith has to argue that these were for personal acts and not official acts since SCOTUS essentially granted the President tyrannical powers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/02/jack-smith-trump-election-brief-details-00182287
Also Rudy Giuliani texted his plans to overthrow the government to a wrong number
That's breathtaking.
FEMA warns they are nearly out of money
https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-congress-fema-funding-5be4f18e00ce2b509d6830410cf2c1cb
Hey, folks (in the path of Hurrican Helene and other vulnerable areas) - you elected representatives who want to dismantle the government, cut back funding for government functions across the board, and deny climate change.
You are faced now with the consequences of those folks you sent to Washington to represent *you*.
No indication that they are about to run out of emergencies though.
California bans legacy status as a basis for admissions. Fine, there goes the chances of a SG Bear wing at the Haas School of Business.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-bans-legacy-admissions-colleges-universities/story?id=114363197
You can once again get four free Covid tests. Well, not free. You already paid for them via taxes.
https://covidtests.gov/
"Included in the price."
CAL
Pain Train is arriving on schedule
https://twitter.com/CalFootball/status/1841663629458022615
Star Party Weekend at the Liar of the Golden Bear with Alex Filippenko
This special 3-night experience features stargazing with renowned astrophysicist and Cal professor Alex Filippenko.
November 8–11, 2024
$1,750 plus tax per cabin (up to 6 people)
https://alumni.berkeley.edu/camp-at-the-lair/oski-year-round-cabins/star-party-weekend-with-alex-filippenko/
1750/cabin isn't bad if you get 5 or 6 people to go. That's pretty cool
BEAST MODE!!!
College GameDay
@CollegeGameDay
There is only one man for the job ...
MARSHAWN LYNCH is our guest picker this Saturday for
@CalFootball
's first EVER GameDay! 🐐
https://x.com/CollegeGameDay/status/1841885967277265200
This is so great. I am amazed how the week is coming together. GO BEARS!
I just hope the Bears don't get so distracted that they forget to actually play a good game. Or at least conduct a worthy Rockfight.
I hope that Marshawn, who didn’t have a problem forgetting how to play a good game, comes by to visit the team and get them focused and fired up.
I wonder what the odds are of Marshawn accidentally swearing
I don’t watch Gameday anymore, but when I’ve happened by his show while eating lunch McAfee does plenty of swearing. He did it on the clip posted the other day during his interview with ARod. Maybe he watches himself on Saturdays.
Bleep button will need to be manned at all times! Should be entertaining though.
100% he'll swear
Might be safer to have Oski Disciple be the guest picker. Will need someone to balance Corso's pick. (Spoiler, Oski may lose his mind over it, but not his head.)
[MTEN] Overbeck, Dean Advance To Tiburon Quarterfinals
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/2/mens-tennis-overbeck-dean-advance-to-tiburon-quarterfinals.aspx
TIBURON – The California men's tennis pair of Theo Dean and Carl Emil Overbeck won its doubles opener at the Tiburon Challenger on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals at the Tiburon Peninsula Club.
[VB] Cal Opens Home ACC Play Against Wake Forest, NC State
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/2/volleyball-cal-opens-home-acc-play-against-wake-forest-nc-state.aspx
BERKELEY – California volleyball will welcome a pair of ACC opponents this weekend to start off a four-match homestand, hosting Wake Forest Friday evening and NC State on Sunday afternoon. This will be the first time in program history that the Golden Bears (8-6, 0-2 ACC) have matched up with either team. Both matches will be broadcast on ACCNX.
[LAIR] Paying It Forward
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/2/inside-the-lair-paying-it-forward.aspx
Sofie Aagaard and Michael Wilson helped lead the California women's and men's golf programs to tremendous heights as student-athletes two decades ago.
Now, fueled by the same competitive drive that made them flourish as golfers, the two alumni are back in Blue and Gold as their respective programs' head coaches, and tasked with leading the Golden Bears into a new era as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
[FB] GameDay Primer: Details About Saturday's Historic Day
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/2/football-gameday-primer-key-details-about-saturdays-historic-day.aspx
BERKELEY – ESPN's College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will originate from Cal on Saturday – the first time the ultra-popular college football pregame show has ever come to Berkeley.
The show will be staged on Memorial Glade in the center of campus and is open to the public.
[FH] No. 20 Cal To Host Pair Of Ranked ACC Opponents
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/2/field-hockey-no-20-cal-to-host-two-ranked-acc-opponents.aspx
The California field hockey team will host a pair of ranked opponents at Underhill Field this week, beginning Friday in its first-ever ACC home opener against No. 12 Duke, followed by No. 1 North Carolina on Sunday. Coverage for both games will be available on ESPN+/ACCNX and live stats.
Cal Men's Basketball: Meet The Bears - Lee Dort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HctlkfHXBng&ab_channel=CalBears
[MTEN] Bears Play In San Diego Veterans Tennis Classic
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/2/mens-tennis-bears-play-in-san-diego-veterans-tennis-classic.aspx
The California men's tennis team will send a squad of Golden Bears to compete in the San Diego Veteran Tennis Classic from Friday through Sunday at the University of San Diego.
Players from USD, the U.S. Naval Academy, Grand Canyon, Oregon and UC Irvine will compete with Cal sophomores Alex Aney, Jonathan Irwanto and Ethan Schiffman and freshman Bernardo Munk Mesa in the annual event, hosted by the Toreros and the U.S. Naval Academy.
[WSOC] Running On Resilience
https://calbears.com/news/2024/10/2/womens-soccer-running-on-resilience.aspx
"You have a large mass in your upper left lung and your upper left lobe has collapsed."
Those are the words that Coco Thistle of the California women's soccer team heard over the phone from her latest physician as she was driving back up to Berkeley from her hometown of Encinitas last March. Her post-spring break commute was interrupted, not by her first doctor, or her second, but her sixth. While he was unlucky in having to deliver the results of the CT scan and Thistle unlucky to receive it, especially while motoring up I-5, the discovery ended a nearly four-year long mystery.
And that is exactly what he and his colleagues chalked it up to – bad luck.
How the Calgorithm has become CFB's newest obsession
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41532952/cal-football-calgorithm-social-media-community-2024
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Miles Goodman, a first-year grad student at UC Berkeley, had no idea the chain of events he was about to set off when he opened his photo-editing app late in Cal's 21-14 win at Auburn on Sept. 7.
For months, Goodman had interacted with opposing fan bases under the handle @golDonbear on X, and it was normal for him to run into barbs about Cal as a bastion of progressive values. The stereotyping was often meant to be insulting, but it usually just left Goodman amused.
This is fantastic! I laud you all who are so well connected to ESPN! Keep it up!
….funny, she doesn’t sound Swedish. But with a BF named Oski, obviously she’s a winner!
Holup. Don Grizzell is a first year grad student? [tips hat]
"Cal in the ACC is very strange," said Avinash Kunnath, another prominent member of Cal's online community who has written about the Bears for years. "There's no two ways around it. And it's not going to be something that's going to be easy for a lot of older [fans] or people who have been in the Pac-12 for 50 years. But I think the one thing our community has done is -- we live in the weird."
"We embraced our identity, we started to get more comfortable with the woke stuff and all the things that come with the political side of things, but we didn't make it super serious," Kunnath said. "We just kept it kind of lighthearted. We poke fun at ourselves a lot, and we didn't run from our identity."
AUGUST 2023 WAS a particularly stressful month for Cal fans as the Pac-12 collapsed, leaving the Bears and rival Stanford with an uncertain future.
"There was a real fear that Cal football could die," said Nick Kranz, a lifelong Cal fan and a contributor to the website Write for California. "Either a literal death, like the school decides, 'This is not worth it and we're going to stop playing football.' Or a more figurative death. 'We're going to keep doing it in the Mountain West, but we're going to get no revenue out of it and we're never going to achieve anything.'"
It’s time again for Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts.
California last hosted Miami in Memorial Stadium on September 15, 1990, a 52-24 Hurricane victory. The game was closer than the final score indicated. The Bears pulled to within 31-24 in the fourth quarter before a blocked punt set the visitors up at the Cal one. A fourth down stop and an interception led to the Canes last two TDS. One of the stories of the day was the home debut of Bear running back Russell who electrified fans with a 99-yard kickoff return the first time he touched the ball. It was Cal’s first kick off return for a TD since The Play eight years earlier. White also ran for a TD. Brian Treggs led California receivers with twelve catches for 130 yards. Bear QB Mike Pawlawski connected on 28 of 43 passes. Despite the loss the Bears went on to their first winning season (7-4-1) in eight years and their first bowl game since 1979, defeating Wyoming 17-15 in the Copper Bowl.
Oski Disciple’s Bear Facts appears Tuesday through Thursday on the DBD throughout the 2024 college football season. This feature is brought to you by widgets, your hypothetical friend.
I remember thinking in the stands at the start of the game "I hope this Russell White kid has the goods" immediate kick return for a TD. I want to say that our game was one of miami's closest contests that year as well. They were really good.
My first home game as a Newman in the Cal Band. I was hooked.
I was at Russell White's debut and we nearly lost our collective minds when Russell housed the kick off against Miami. If Russell didn't have to share time with Anthony White, he would have rushed for a bajillion yards. That season Wallace had 1002 yards on 220 attempts and White had 1000 yards on 180 attempts. Also, this was the era with a dedicated fullback (Greg Zomalt) , who had 236 yards. That team was so much fun to watch.
Newellbany and I went completely nuts. Only bigger celebration by the two of us is when we tore the Hyatt Incline Village’s sitting area apart after Midge banged that 3 v NC State in the Dance…
I had a particular fondness for that team, maybe especially after they lost such a heart-breaking Big Game. They were a special group. The next season head coach Bruce Snyder had them in the top ten. Then Bockrath....
we (HAG and I) were at that game too. that seemed like the start of a really good stretch of Cal football that we were lucky to be part of.
"lost such a heart-breaking Big Game" is the one where the Cal fans storm the field before game is over, Stanford wins, and they storm the field back
Stupid Pat Flood.
Fat Bear Week delayed after Patches (469) killed 402. The fight is available online, but I'm not posting it here.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/01/nx-s1-5134907/fat-bear-week-start-delayed-bear-killed
In other FBW news, neither Otis nor Holly has been seen at the falls this year. Otis is widely believed to have passed on to Bear Heaven.
If so, he had a good run. Would not be a surprise if that were the case.
Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later, unfortunately.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Antonio Pierce was hit with an eight year show-cause penalty by the NCAA. Since he is safely the Raiders HC and likely won't ever need to return to college ranks and the NCAA already gave ASU a light slap on the wrist, this seems like a toothless penalty
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41588590/antonio-pierce-gets-show-cause-penalty-arizona-st-violations
Depending on how this season goes, I wonder how long he'll be the HC. All the players wanted him as HC and they finished well last year. So far meh this year, though the did beat the Ravens. I think he'll get this year and maybe next to turn it around.
Failing as a Raiders coach generally won't be seen as career ending. Would probably land on his feet as a coordinator for a few years.
What do you think the odds of Deion sticking around at CU after Shedeur gets drafted?
I think he's gone. No way he sticks around to half ass something when his kids aren't there.
Would he full ass a coaching job even if his kids aren't playing?
Utah State, Wyoming, Boise State, and Southern Utah have all forfeited their games rather than play against San Jose State, which has a transgender woman on their team.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/fourth-school-joins-wave-women-s-volleyball-19812157.php
Pearl clutchers are gonna pearl clutch.
DBD AV CLUB
Saw an excellent if unfortunately titled film, My Old Ass, yesterday. An 18 year old getting set to leave home takes Shrooms and is magically visited by her 39 year old self (the brilliant Aubrey Plaza). It's wise, witty and fun. Maybe especially appealing to women of a certain age but I'm neither a woman nor of a certain age and I liked it. Recommended.