We have with us tonight, Mr. Irwin Mainway, President of Mainway Toys. Uh, Mr. Mainway, your company manufactures the following so-called harmless playthings: Pretty Peggy Ear-Piercing Set, Mr. Skin-Grafter, General Tron’s Secret Police Confession Kit, and Doggie Dentist. And what about this innocent rubber doll, which you market under the name Johnny Switchblade? Mr. Mainway, I’m afraid this is, by no means, a very safe toy.
100% agree. LRP was okay, but was the beginning of the end (for me). Steve Albini produced, iirc, which gave them the "big" sound. and I think he made stipe's vocals more understandable, which was anti-REM ;-)
Most people have heard Schism, as that was the single released for that album, I believe Lateralus is the best song on that album. It is 9 minutes long of greatness.
To be honest, that whole album is complete. If that album were a football offense, it would have gone the whole game scoring TDs and FGs and never punting.
I also like the companion songs Parabol and Parabola. The Patient is also really good. The Grudge really opens the album up and sets the tone.
Possibly one of the 3 or 4 best songwriters on the planet right now and, along with his musician wife Amanda Shires, a Nashville staple. Newly sober and reflected in the lyrics, this 2013 album was a tour de force breakout for the former Drive-by Trucker guitarist. He recently took a breather from writing and recorded Georgia Blue, an album released last week comprised entirely of covers (REM's Driver 8, JB's It's a Man's, Man's World, Midnight Train to GA)...he's hotter than Hansel right now.
We didn't have many CDs, and a Shania Twain one ended up being played on all of our roadtrips when I was growing up. The most famous songs from that album are probably "From this Moment On," "You're Still the One," "Man! I Feel Like a Woman," and "That Don't Impress Me Much." So, a lesser known song: "Don't Be Stupid"
Apparently, my brother's friends are impressed by how many Shania Twain songs he knows haha
801 was an experimental rock group that formed in 1976, featuring Brian Eno. The group was formed to perform three live concerts, the first of which featured a rearrangement of Lennon's "Tomorrow Never Knows."
the reason i make the distinction is that i went to a handful of concerts with my parents (like Peter Paul and Mary at the Hollywood Bowl) and then saw some concerts like at the LA County Fair or Kenny Loggins at Six Flags. Depeche Mode was the first time I traveled somewhere for the concert
For me it's trying to write down somebody's email address, I'm just dyslexic enough that's it's a real pain, and about a 1/3 of the time I get it wrong.
This is the Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill. You are participating in the largest earthquake safety drill in U.S. history. Practice now so you can protect yourself during a real earthquake.
This is an earthquake drill. Right now, DROP, COVER, AND HOLD ON.
Unless you are driving,
DROP where you are, onto your hands and knees. This position protects you from being knocked down and also allows you to stay low and crawl to shelter if nearby.
COVER your head and neck with one arm and hand
If a sturdy table or desk is nearby, crawl underneath it for shelter
If no shelter is nearby, crawl next to an interior wall (away from windows)
Stay on your knees; bend over to protect vital organs
HOLD ON until shaking stops
Under shelter: hold on to it with one hand; be ready to move with your shelter if it shifts
No shelter: hold on to your head and neck with both arms and hands.
Now look around. What objects might fall or be thrown at you in an earthquake, that you should secure in place now?
Finally, strong earthquakes may generate a tsunami. If you're near the beach during an earthquake, DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON, then walk quickly to high ground when the shaking stops.
This drill is over. Visit ShakeOut.org for simple steps to help you survive and recover from a major earthquake, including how to secure your space. Thank you for taking part in ShakeOut!
Earthquakes are FAKE! I don't want a government agency telling me what to do. In my day, we stood up to earthquakes! (well, not literally...they do have a tendency to knock us down; but then we got up again...they're never gonna keep us down!)
my kindergartner daughter one them last week. glad that they're still doing it!
ignoring my sarcasm below, this is a reminder to update our earthquake kit. We refreshed the dry foods (e.g., cup noodles) and water bottles a month or so ago.
I haven’t received a call or text about it on my work or personal cell phones but I have received about 8 calls on each phone today about my car warrantee expiring.
"Freedom to Vote Act" goes down in flames after GOP Senators block via filibuster. This would have created Election Day as a public holiday, created automatic voter registration, and made 15 days of early voting a minimum.
Mike Durant (R-AL) announces candidacy for US Senate. He brings his two main qualifications, which are being 1) shot down and 2) becoming famous because he was captured.
Everyone's data is going to end up on the dark web. They haven't even launch yet and people weren't even trying to hack it - just poking around, but I saw on twitter some guy was already able to reserve @mikepence and another @donaldjtrump
Obviously this is because both parties are republicans posing as antifa posing as republicans posing as antifa posing as republicans in order to make your friends look bad, so they had to/were forced to pull the story.
I'm gonna give a shout out to See again. I almost finished S2 last night (one ep to go) and I REALLY wanted finish, but it was too late. Kinda wanna watch it now before my 3:30 call because otherwise I think it'll be too late to watch tonight (after the Dubs).
Started Squid Game...trying to figure out if I should switch it up and watch ep 2 in Korean with English subtitles, but I really enjoyed the first...it was nuts.
Another Korean series on Netflix that is wildly different than the norm is "My Name" about the daughter of a gangster who witnesses his murder. She joins her dad's gang and infiltrates the police (a la The Departed). It is intense, ridiculously violent and, through 5 episodes, outstanding
it ended up being a lot more entertaining than I thought. The end was kind of dumb though and the depiction of the westerners was ridiculous and stupid
there was a twitter discourse about how bad the english subtitling was. . . .but it turns out the originator of the discussion had the CC on, and not the proper subtitles - which people agreed weren't perfect but were not as bad she originally killed them for being.
"crapping out" is a bit harsh. they did take it 7 games in the Finals. but yeah, that push the last couple of weeks prob didn't do them any good. nor the effort needed to get past the thunder after being down 3 to 1 themselves...
Wasn't that the year in which the Warriors had a 3 games to 1 lead on Cleveland in the NBA Finals and then couldn't close the deal? I'm pretty sure it was.
Celtics are taken off China social media and broadcast and streaming after Enes Katner puts out pro Tibet independence tweets directly addressed to Xi Jinping
As a long-suffering Knicks fan, I got what I wanted last night: a win for NY and an excellent performance from Brown. However, I could have done without all the boneheaded mistakes that contributed to the Celtics' comeback at the end of regulation...
When the Nets moved to Brooklyn, a friend of mine who lives in NYC said they should change their names to the Brooklyn Kings because "Nets" is kinda lame and Brooklyn is also Kings County, NY.
He had no idea why I was shaking my head at him. I had to remind him that the Sacramento Kings even existed. He had completely forgotten they are a thing. Yeah, I can imagine it'd be tough to be a Kings fan.
I've found that many East Coasters are slowly realizing that, much to their surprise, professional sports are actually played West of the Mississippi...
AAC admits six new members. Are they purposely trying to make the worst football conference in America? Tulane (1-5), Navy (1-5), Rice (2-4), North Texas (1-5), South Florida (1-5), Temple (3-3), Tulsa (3-4), FAU (3-3), ECU (3-3) plus five teams with winning records (SMU, UTSA, UAB, Memphis, Charlotte). Looks like Sonny Dykes' schedule just got easier.
I've tried and failed on this front. Like all things BBQ around here, I found that it is a fool's errand to make something yourself when you can go to so many places around here and do better. I went on Amazon and found a decent one that I've had before. Lillie Q's Western Carolina sauce is decent.
I'm suggesting a Western Carolina type - which is a bit softer on the vinegar side. It's meant to go onto butts. Eastern Carolina is a mop sauce that's sharper and meant to go onto the fattier whole-hog grilling style done in the east.
I went to summer camp there for 3 summers - which convinced me that I wasn't smart enough for STEM. (I wonder if I would have taken science if I hadn't gotten my ass kicked for 3 years in high school)
But it was similar enough to Real Genius. They had a thing that they would give you as much wood + tools + building materials as you wanted so you could build up structures in your dorm room. Because we were CalTech student dorms over the summer a ton of them had built up lofts and built in bookcases, attics and cubby holes and stuff
Also you could paint and repaint the dorm hallways. They had big tanks of liquid nitrogen for student use, and they had all these economics/psych studys going on all summer where you could earn between $50 and $200 for 2 hours of playing a stock market game.
It was a fun time to be mainly unsupervised (oh my god so many people hooked up for the first time) but the classwork was too hard for me.
so maybe i am dreaming this .. but i thought i remember a game 5-ish years ago where Marshawn came back and drove the cart around for fun, making fun of his original one.
HAG doesnt remember, but i am not sure who else i would have gone to the game with.
the pain from tearing the Achilles did not kick in until the next morning.
and just so people are not confused, that was the first time i tore my Achilles. i happened to tear the same one 7 yrs later but slightly different injury ...
Yes, we got blown out by UW at that game. John Ross killed us that day. Marshawn rode the cart before the team came nto the field, first with his mom and then again with E-40. It was also his bobblehead day.
UCLA is f-ing dangerous and their Final 4 run last year really shouldn't come as too much of a surprise in hindsight...a Mick Cronin team that plays awesome D and is loaded with Mickey D AA's, with J & J able to create O for themselves...Cronin didn't really have to dial up many plays. They'll be tough.
This would be fun - kinda like when NHL teams send down some of their second team players to their AHL affiliate if that club has a legit chance at winning the Calder Cup.
Hang on. Cal improved tremendously - TREMENDOUSLY - in Fox's first year, in which he inherited the smoldering ashes of the Wyking Jones era. Cal went from 3 league wins to 8, with arguably fewer parts. This was the result of coaching, and it made me think that Fox is a high floor (maybe low ceiling) coach.
Then last year was a weird year as a result of the covid - they were practicing outside on a f'ing tennis court and such. I'm willing to throw that whole year out of the sample. If you do that, we're back to a place where we all thought that Fox could at least stabilize the program and return it to respectability. I'm not yet sure that won't happen.
Please excuse my East Coast resident friend here, as these games tip off much too late for him to watch, let alone actually pay the attention that is needed. "Improved tremendously" is a titch of a stretch - they were better simply by having a competent, mid-Major-level coach actually do some semblance of coaching - thus, they finally came out closer to the middle-side of competent....but they were still sub par.
As for the COVID excuse, come on man!!...this is a bad team with a poor structure on O and poor understanding of fundamental defensive principles...plus, they are seriously short on P12 caliber players, especially those that can create any semblance of offense - the only one they had will be filling it up off I-8 in the Viejas Arena.
Another Cal revenue-sport roster filled with good kids that try hard but just don't make enough plays to overcome the coaching handicap they face.
There is a scenario where the infusion of a couple of freshmen recruits at the wing position, we'll call them Al-&-An for short, arrive in town and actually have a basic understanding of fundamental defensive principles. This allows Fox to dial up the D to make each game just ugly enough to scrape out a few wins, despite a nightly struggle to score 60...
I impulse-bought some new Cal gear this morning because I definitely don't have enough already (but don't ask Dr. Ms. Newellbany) and I suppose there's a chance that they could give the USC game a late start so I'd better have a new Cal sweatshirt
I have SF Gate sports in my RSS feed. It used to have Chron articles (columnists, game summaries), but those are all only at Chron now. SF Gate has mostly stupid stuff, but I keep it around so that I don't miss Mr. Benson's articles every couple of months.
Pick an album you love or used to listen to a lot. Link a lesser known song in that album.
REM Life's Rich Pageant. Cuyahoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdC6thlCAlI
I think Life's Rich Pageant is my favorite album with Superman being my favorite song.
Green Day American Idiot. Extraordinary Girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-X3tLgXK0
Certainly a fine REM song, I bought their first 3 albums, and figured I had enough of them. (Life's Rich Pageant is their 4th)
100% agree. LRP was okay, but was the beginning of the end (for me). Steve Albini produced, iirc, which gave them the "big" sound. and I think he made stipe's vocals more understandable, which was anti-REM ;-)
hey, where's this orange avatar thing come from?!?
Blues Traveler - Travelers & Thieves was a kick ass album. Later. Sweet Pain resonated with me.
https://youtu.be/HckmjqtVLHI
Mountain Cry is still a favorite
The Joshua Tree by U2. One Tree Hill is by far my favorite song on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfKhVV-7lxI
Oh this is a great album as well. I think I listened to this all my sophomore year in HS.
Scootie, I will see your One Tree Hill, and raise you Running to Stand Still...my favorite U2 song of all time
that might be my favorite U2 song of all time, still get chills when listening to it
That album was my roommate's sleep-time playlist, so I listened to it a lot the first two years of college.
Artist: Tool
Album: Lateralus
Song: Lateralus
Most people have heard Schism, as that was the single released for that album, I believe Lateralus is the best song on that album. It is 9 minutes long of greatness.
for me it's Reflection.
To be honest, that whole album is complete. If that album were a football offense, it would have gone the whole game scoring TDs and FGs and never punting.
I also like the companion songs Parabol and Parabola. The Patient is also really good. The Grudge really opens the album up and sets the tone.
agree
Artist: The Roots
Album: Things Fall Apart
Song: Act Too (Featuring Common)
Great album and most people have heard and recognize the single You Got Me but I love Act Too.
Honorable mention, Step Into the Realm.
Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins is my most listened to album of all time.
Mayonaise is my favorite track from the album but isn't one of the singles.
This is my favorite version of that - which is an acoustic version they released with their VHS tape called Vieuphoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rvr-A5Pfko&ab_channel=Joaqu%C3%ADnZunino
Great album and song.
Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic
Charlie Freak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDZdNr9PHao
Band: Down (comprised of Phil from Pantera, Pepper from COC, Kirk from Crowbar, and Jimmy from EYEHATEGOD)
Album: NOLA
Song: Bury Me in Smoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA3VgO3Vz0
Artist: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Album: Southeastern
Song: Traveling Alone
https://youtu.be/uySNnupUsXc
Possibly one of the 3 or 4 best songwriters on the planet right now and, along with his musician wife Amanda Shires, a Nashville staple. Newly sober and reflected in the lyrics, this 2013 album was a tour de force breakout for the former Drive-by Trucker guitarist. He recently took a breather from writing and recorded Georgia Blue, an album released last week comprised entirely of covers (REM's Driver 8, JB's It's a Man's, Man's World, Midnight Train to GA)...he's hotter than Hansel right now.
We didn't have many CDs, and a Shania Twain one ended up being played on all of our roadtrips when I was growing up. The most famous songs from that album are probably "From this Moment On," "You're Still the One," "Man! I Feel Like a Woman," and "That Don't Impress Me Much." So, a lesser known song: "Don't Be Stupid"
Apparently, my brother's friends are impressed by how many Shania Twain songs he knows haha
Weezer (Blue Album) - Surf Wax America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM2tt0Mc-1w
Only in Dreams
https://youtu.be/4spkVX8z-vs
Not a bad track on there.
This. It's been a while since I've listened to that album, but it was a favorite for a couple years.
I've gotten back into it recently. Holds up. Weezer fell off later, but those first two albums are great.
I enjoy some of Weezer’s newer stuff, but the Song Exploder episode with Rivers was a terrifying look at his process.
The SNL weezer skit is amazing if you haven’t seen it: https://youtu.be/ab5WvwfLuLM
oh never mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkGXUn0Kuuw
801 was an experimental rock group that formed in 1976, featuring Brian Eno. The group was formed to perform three live concerts, the first of which featured a rearrangement of Lennon's "Tomorrow Never Knows."
Sting "...Nothing Like the Sun" - "Little Wing" is a cover of a Jimi Hendrix song on that album that I loved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w-Tgx8voDw
The Album "Electronic" from 1991. The band included Bernard Sumner of New Order, Neil Tenant from the Pet Shop Boys, and Johnny Marr of the Smiths.
"Getting Away with It"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSfjtdnUsls
They were the first concert I ever paid my own money to go see. Nitzer Ebb + Electronic + Depeche Mode at Dodger Stadium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzb-DTYSu_Y&ab_channel=KARzY%C5%9A-KrzysztofWiniarski
Depeche Mode was the first concert I went to - I paid, too.
the reason i make the distinction is that i went to a handful of concerts with my parents (like Peter Paul and Mary at the Hollywood Bowl) and then saw some concerts like at the LA County Fair or Kenny Loggins at Six Flags. Depeche Mode was the first time I traveled somewhere for the concert
Irwin
Steve
Corey
One odd thing you hate doing:
For me it's trying to write down somebody's email address, I'm just dyslexic enough that's it's a real pain, and about a 1/3 of the time I get it wrong.
This is the Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill. You are participating in the largest earthquake safety drill in U.S. history. Practice now so you can protect yourself during a real earthquake.
This is an earthquake drill. Right now, DROP, COVER, AND HOLD ON.
Unless you are driving,
DROP where you are, onto your hands and knees. This position protects you from being knocked down and also allows you to stay low and crawl to shelter if nearby.
COVER your head and neck with one arm and hand
If a sturdy table or desk is nearby, crawl underneath it for shelter
If no shelter is nearby, crawl next to an interior wall (away from windows)
Stay on your knees; bend over to protect vital organs
HOLD ON until shaking stops
Under shelter: hold on to it with one hand; be ready to move with your shelter if it shifts
No shelter: hold on to your head and neck with both arms and hands.
Now look around. What objects might fall or be thrown at you in an earthquake, that you should secure in place now?
Finally, strong earthquakes may generate a tsunami. If you're near the beach during an earthquake, DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON, then walk quickly to high ground when the shaking stops.
This drill is over. Visit ShakeOut.org for simple steps to help you survive and recover from a major earthquake, including how to secure your space. Thank you for taking part in ShakeOut!
Earthquakes are FAKE! I don't want a government agency telling me what to do. In my day, we stood up to earthquakes! (well, not literally...they do have a tendency to knock us down; but then we got up again...they're never gonna keep us down!)
I was surprised to discover that there are earthquake drills at my daughter's high school
my kindergartner daughter one them last week. glad that they're still doing it!
ignoring my sarcasm below, this is a reminder to update our earthquake kit. We refreshed the dry foods (e.g., cup noodles) and water bottles a month or so ago.
well, we do live in Maryland, it's not that we don't have very occasional earthquakes, but hurricanes and tornadoes are more likely.
LawnChairFallingOver.jpeg
We had them when I was in school but I grew up in San Diego where we have a history of earthquakes.
I hope everyone in EQ country has bolted any furniture taller than 3 feet to the walls.
<3. I've gotten texts on both work and personal phone and calls on cell and desk phone regarding testing of the county emergency broadcast system.
I haven’t received a call or text about it on my work or personal cell phones but I have received about 8 calls on each phone today about my car warrantee expiring.
Think I should renew it?
Hahaha yeah can't escape it
Noice! Damn, I ruined it...
I always thought it was Maimway, not Mainway.
I can still visualize Dan Akroyd with the sunglasses and the phony New Jersey accent adjusting his tie knot every so often.
Toys
Our Crumbling Democracy
"Freedom to Vote Act" goes down in flames after GOP Senators block via filibuster. This would have created Election Day as a public holiday, created automatic voter registration, and made 15 days of early voting a minimum.
https://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/1450913174958530560
Michele Fiore (R-LV City Council) announces candidacy for Nevada Governor. She announces her two main qualifications via this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZJ0Dl_wMiA
She seems so pleasant.
Mike Durant (R-AL) announces candidacy for US Senate. He brings his two main qualifications, which are being 1) shot down and 2) becoming famous because he was captured.
https://news.yahoo.com/black-hawk-down-pilot-durant-135124832.html
I thought Trump supporters didn't like people who got captured
'I like people who weren't captured' was the line....
Trump to launch own social media - TRUTH SOCIAL - looks like an easily hacked twitter clone
Reference: https://twitter.com/clairenjax/status/1451021363444174850
now with 103% more truthiness
it's the dumbest. No. Even dumber than that.
You can RETRUTH things. And Quote Truth Things.
Everyone's data is going to end up on the dark web. They haven't even launch yet and people weren't even trying to hack it - just poking around, but I saw on twitter some guy was already able to reserve @mikepence and another @donaldjtrump
BE DUMBEREST AGAIN, AGAIN
I'm an old, and one of the things olds need to learn is don't mess with people who can internet better than you
Yesterday I learned, from the hardcopy of Forbes (couldn't find it online yet):
Facebook: Boomers
Twitter: Doomscrollers
Instagram: Posers
TikTok: TBD
Would be interested to hear if any of you youngun's could verify if this is all accurate! Also, I had to look up doomscroll.
It’s funny how boomers took over Facebook.
Wouldn’t TikTok be Gen Z?
could not agree more
Jan. 6 contempt fight headed for the Justice Department
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/21/jan-6-contempt-bannon-justice-department-516390
won't be too much longer and you'll have to change the name to Our New Dictatorship https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/20/senate-republicans-voting-rights-bill-congress
Link doesn't work for me.
Obviously this is because both parties are republicans posing as antifa posing as republicans posing as antifa posing as republicans in order to make your friends look bad, so they had to/were forced to pull the story.
refreshing did not help
DBD AV Club
I'm gonna give a shout out to See again. I almost finished S2 last night (one ep to go) and I REALLY wanted finish, but it was too late. Kinda wanna watch it now before my 3:30 call because otherwise I think it'll be too late to watch tonight (after the Dubs).
Started Squid Game...trying to figure out if I should switch it up and watch ep 2 in Korean with English subtitles, but I really enjoyed the first...it was nuts.
Another Korean series on Netflix that is wildly different than the norm is "My Name" about the daughter of a gangster who witnesses his murder. She joins her dad's gang and infiltrates the police (a la The Departed). It is intense, ridiculously violent and, through 5 episodes, outstanding
I think Netflix was trying to encourage me to watch this, maybe I'll give it a go.
it ended up being a lot more entertaining than I thought. The end was kind of dumb though and the depiction of the westerners was ridiculous and stupid
Yes, I watched #1 dubbed and tho I figure to like the main character eventually, the voice-over made me kinda root against him, TBH...;-)
yuck! I can't watch stuff dubbed. everything just sounds off...so I force myself to read quickly.
actually I watch everything with CC on, so I guess I'm used to it.
Same and same. I never watch foreign films or shows dubbed. I use CC for all movies and shows regardless of language.
All HK movies are dubbed. Even ones in Cantonese.
someone here (or in an article) said that the English was very diff than the original Korean.
there was a twitter discourse about how bad the english subtitling was. . . .but it turns out the originator of the discussion had the CC on, and not the proper subtitles - which people agreed weren't perfect but were not as bad she originally killed them for being.
DBD Test Kitchen
People in LA, stop by this cafe and give one of the partners a hearty "Go Bears!" https://laist.com/news/food/aquarela-is-ready-to-change-everything-you-think-you-know-about-brazilian-coffee
Oh cool. I'll go check it out when I'm in LA next week. How do you know one of the partners is a Cal person?
Well he used to be an infrequent CGB poster. And he's been on 50% of the East Bay Taco Tours.
Ahh...ok. I'll try and check it out and get some coffee for No 1.
very infrequent CGB if ever.. He mostly shit posts on Rivals now. But we're talking the absolute highest quality shit posts.
And his brother is my neighbor!
He occasionally posted here.
I don't know if they're the BEST but they may be the best without a peanut inside.
I love the almonds ones. Also the dark chocolate as well.
Today in Covid 19
I have serious Covid fatigue to the point where I am making an exit strategy from healthcare altogether.
"exit strategy from healthcare altogether"...what could go wrong?
I still hate COVID
Pro
WFT cuts their PK for blowing it. In his place, they sign a guy named Blewitt.
https://es.pn/3G7FtCZ
Dan Syder denies leaking Gruden emails. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
https://www.si.com/nfl/washingtonfootball/news/washington-football-owner-dan-snyder-denies-leaking-jon-gruden-emails
I thought I read somewhere that the emails became public as part of a filing in a lawsuit involving Allen and Snyder.
The article says a lot without much of anything at all.
Sounds like the kitchen sink strategy has been engaged.
Bears 1 - Cardinals 0
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/i-feel-a-paw-on-my-lap-cardinals-prospect-bit-by-bear-while-bow-hunting/
Braves lead Dodgers 3 games to 1 in the NLCS. What could go wrong?
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/10/21/22737881/los-angeles-dodgers-atlanta-braves-mlb-postseason-2021-cody-bellinger
Dodgers look totally worn out. Probably having Scherzer and Urías throw in relief wasn't such a good idea.
Exactly. Somewhat analogous to the Warriors breaking the regular season record for wins and then crapping out in the playoffs.
"crapping out" is a bit harsh. they did take it 7 games in the Finals. but yeah, that push the last couple of weeks prob didn't do them any good. nor the effort needed to get past the thunder after being down 3 to 1 themselves...
Wasn't that the year in which the Warriors had a 3 games to 1 lead on Cleveland in the NBA Finals and then couldn't close the deal? I'm pretty sure it was.
Yes. Draymond Green's suspension had something to do with that.
Jaylen Brown goes off for 47 points in a loss.
Celtics are taken off China social media and broadcast and streaming after Enes Katner puts out pro Tibet independence tweets directly addressed to Xi Jinping
As a long-suffering Knicks fan, I got what I wanted last night: a win for NY and an excellent performance from Brown. However, I could have done without all the boneheaded mistakes that contributed to the Celtics' comeback at the end of regulation...
Are you also a Jets fan? If so, you win for longest suffering sports fan across NFL, CFB and NBA.
I like seeing them do well, but I don't really follow the team enough to be considered a fan.
you're better off. I have Jets fan friends, and it's seems like a miserable existence.
I don't know if it's worse to be a Bills fan and have hope but see it get crushed or a Jets fan and just never have any hope at all.
Jets fans were a miserable existence when I lived in New Jersey from '75 to '80. It's an ongoing thing.
Wait, I think that title might belong to Sacramento Kings fans.
When the Nets moved to Brooklyn, a friend of mine who lives in NYC said they should change their names to the Brooklyn Kings because "Nets" is kinda lame and Brooklyn is also Kings County, NY.
He had no idea why I was shaking my head at him. I had to remind him that the Sacramento Kings even existed. He had completely forgotten they are a thing. Yeah, I can imagine it'd be tough to be a Kings fan.
"Sacramento will never be the Capitol of California"
The Kings have had basically one period of relevance in their entire existence (the Webber teams). Hard to blame people for forgetting about them.
I've found that many East Coasters are slowly realizing that, much to their surprise, professional sports are actually played West of the Mississippi...
Hoping Alajiki is gonna remind us of Jaylen
I spoke too soon - official Celtics weibo is still posting, but the unofficial fans run one is offline.
Other College
AAC admits six new members. Are they purposely trying to make the worst football conference in America? Tulane (1-5), Navy (1-5), Rice (2-4), North Texas (1-5), South Florida (1-5), Temple (3-3), Tulsa (3-4), FAU (3-3), ECU (3-3) plus five teams with winning records (SMU, UTSA, UAB, Memphis, Charlotte). Looks like Sonny Dykes' schedule just got easier.
http://theamerican.org/news/2021/10/21/general-american-athletic-conference-announces-the-addition-of-six-universities.aspx
They'd better reserve a spot for Cal then.
whatever, we've got the Big Sky conference in our sights
Best Carolina > Mustard BBQ weirdos
https://youtu.be/YotZwsQsd20
I need a quality spicy apple cider vinegar recipe for pulled pork this weekend. Please and thank you
I've tried and failed on this front. Like all things BBQ around here, I found that it is a fool's errand to make something yourself when you can go to so many places around here and do better. I went on Amazon and found a decent one that I've had before. Lillie Q's Western Carolina sauce is decent.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/LilliesQ/page/841C843F-95F3-4855-A102-A40EED3F191E
I'm suggesting a Western Carolina type - which is a bit softer on the vinegar side. It's meant to go onto butts. Eastern Carolina is a mop sauce that's sharper and meant to go onto the fattier whole-hog grilling style done in the east.
I don't have to follow the link in order to support Best Carolina
'spensive
https://www2.cbsnews.com/the-50-most-expensive-colleges-in-america/21
Amherst College does away with legacy preference. Go L̵o̵r̵d̵ ̵J̵e̵f̵f̵s̵ Mammoths!
https://www.masslive.com/springfield/2021/10/amherst-college-eliminates-legacy-preference-in-admissions-process-increases-financial-aid-to-71-million-per-year.html
They get canes when they graduate.
they all seem comparably expensive. all within a couple thousand when the overall price tag is $75k
I wonder what it’s like being an undergrad at Cal Tech. I always imagine it’s like Real Genius, making lasers for giant Jiffy Pop containers
I went to summer camp there for 3 summers - which convinced me that I wasn't smart enough for STEM. (I wonder if I would have taken science if I hadn't gotten my ass kicked for 3 years in high school)
But it was similar enough to Real Genius. They had a thing that they would give you as much wood + tools + building materials as you wanted so you could build up structures in your dorm room. Because we were CalTech student dorms over the summer a ton of them had built up lofts and built in bookcases, attics and cubby holes and stuff
Also you could paint and repaint the dorm hallways. They had big tanks of liquid nitrogen for student use, and they had all these economics/psych studys going on all summer where you could earn between $50 and $200 for 2 hours of playing a stock market game.
It was a fun time to be mainly unsupervised (oh my god so many people hooked up for the first time) but the classwork was too hard for me.
there was a moment where i thought i wanted to go there. but i realized that there were hardly any humanities taught there.
on the other hand, the couple friends of mine that have been are all stellar human beings, smart, and quirky in a good way
I knew a few Caltech grads in graduate school at MIT. They said that Real Genius was a pretty good representation of Caltech.
I had a close friend in HS who went there. He's now a CS prof at MIT.
one of my friends has a recently minted Nobel laureate thesis adviser from Cal Tech.
Cal
15 years ago today
https://twitter.com/espn/status/1451165430006046721
so maybe i am dreaming this .. but i thought i remember a game 5-ish years ago where Marshawn came back and drove the cart around for fun, making fun of his original one.
HAG doesnt remember, but i am not sure who else i would have gone to the game with.
The game we went to was the one a few hours after you tore your achilles. Was that the one he rode his cart in? If so I guess I forgot about that.
that was an action packed day
- hoops in the morning
- trip to the ER
- Top Dog
- Cal game
- dinner w/ friend
- 25th HS reunion
the pain from tearing the Achilles did not kick in until the next morning.
and just so people are not confused, that was the first time i tore my Achilles. i happened to tear the same one 7 yrs later but slightly different injury ...
Yes, he absolutely did this. Rode the cart around with his mama and E40.
I was there, but had forgotten that it was a loss. In my memory, it was a celebratory post-game spin!
Um, like Pocho Villa just told you
Yes, we got blown out by UW at that game. John Ross killed us that day. Marshawn rode the cart before the team came nto the field, first with his mom and then again with E-40. It was also his bobblehead day.
I think I saw that...
I was at that game, still makes me LOL
Lunardi didn't do his homework, picks Cal to come in 10th in Pac12 MBB
https://es.pn/3G7FtCZ
I think it's definitely optimistic but it's not a super wild pick. Fox is not the right coach for us but he's had success before.
Lots of Love for UCLA. Will their run in the tourney result in a Final Four appearance?
UCLA is f-ing dangerous and their Final 4 run last year really shouldn't come as too much of a surprise in hindsight...a Mick Cronin team that plays awesome D and is loaded with Mickey D AA's, with J & J able to create O for themselves...Cronin didn't really have to dial up many plays. They'll be tough.
He knows something the rest of us don't
That the NCAA will rule that Jaylen Brown is allowed to play in any 3 Pac-12 games we choose?
This would be fun - kinda like when NHL teams send down some of their second team players to their AHL affiliate if that club has a legit chance at winning the Calder Cup.
Heh
I just realized that the Pac-12 refs will call him for 5 charging fouls and he'll be on the bench in the first 10 min.
Exactly...love Jaylen of course, but he was a player control foul waiting to happen.
haha - flashbacks
That a mid-season firing of Fox will salvage the season and let us claw back up to 10th?
Hang on. Cal improved tremendously - TREMENDOUSLY - in Fox's first year, in which he inherited the smoldering ashes of the Wyking Jones era. Cal went from 3 league wins to 8, with arguably fewer parts. This was the result of coaching, and it made me think that Fox is a high floor (maybe low ceiling) coach.
Then last year was a weird year as a result of the covid - they were practicing outside on a f'ing tennis court and such. I'm willing to throw that whole year out of the sample. If you do that, we're back to a place where we all thought that Fox could at least stabilize the program and return it to respectability. I'm not yet sure that won't happen.
Please excuse my East Coast resident friend here, as these games tip off much too late for him to watch, let alone actually pay the attention that is needed. "Improved tremendously" is a titch of a stretch - they were better simply by having a competent, mid-Major-level coach actually do some semblance of coaching - thus, they finally came out closer to the middle-side of competent....but they were still sub par.
As for the COVID excuse, come on man!!...this is a bad team with a poor structure on O and poor understanding of fundamental defensive principles...plus, they are seriously short on P12 caliber players, especially those that can create any semblance of offense - the only one they had will be filling it up off I-8 in the Viejas Arena.
Another Cal revenue-sport roster filled with good kids that try hard but just don't make enough plays to overcome the coaching handicap they face.
Hey Newellbany....https://youtu.be/xsZPWsVNTqo
I beg to differ with that link, Jimmy Chitwood. Crazy is an inexhaustible and endlessly renewable resource here on the DBD.
There is a scenario where the infusion of a couple of freshmen recruits at the wing position, we'll call them Al-&-An for short, arrive in town and actually have a basic understanding of fundamental defensive principles. This allows Fox to dial up the D to make each game just ugly enough to scrape out a few wins, despite a nightly struggle to score 60...
The difference between 10th and 12th is probably like 1-2 games anyway.
Go Bears!!!
I impulse-bought some new Cal gear this morning because I definitely don't have enough already (but don't ask Dr. Ms. Newellbany) and I suppose there's a chance that they could give the USC game a late start so I'd better have a new Cal sweatshirt
this is a good idea. i think the whole family needs some new stuff
The real Boomtho (as opposed to our DBD pal) has an art exhibit this weekend in SF. Check it out if you're in the area.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/views-tickets-192530161897
Between Boomtho and Pat Christopher, mens bball has churned out some good artists
I had to look up Boomtho. Surprised that he has a Girl of the Day thing going on there...
interesting stuff...maybe I can make it there.
I have SF Gate sports in my RSS feed. It used to have Chron articles (columnists, game summaries), but those are all only at Chron now. SF Gate has mostly stupid stuff, but I keep it around so that I don't miss Mr. Benson's articles every couple of months.
I just became aware of his art, and he's got some great pieces!