Eve /iːv/ is an English given name for a female, derived from the Latin name Eva, in turn originating with the Hebrew חַוָּה (Chavah/Havah – chavah, to breathe, and chayah, to live, or to give life). The traditional meaning of Eve is "living".
Years ago I started trying to go through every Bond movie but only got through the Connery ones and stopped. I've also basically seen every other one in a theater since the Brosnan days (since that goes from my teenage years to adulthood), but that means I have a big gap in the Moore/Dalton years where I've seen almost nothing.
The best overall Bond movie I've seen was probably Casino Royale. Among the Connery ones, probably Goldfinger.
OOOooooOOOooo, I'd disagree slightly; my favorite Connery one is From Russia With Love, but Goldfinger would be #2. You should watch On Her Majesty's Secret Service - despite Lazenby's less than fully convincing Bond, it's one of the best of the franchise.
Looking back on the Brosnan movies, there's definitely a lot of silliness there. I guess the first one was pretty decent? And I liked Michelle Yeoh's part in the one she did.
I remember there was a big controversy among Bond fans because Craig had blonde hair and not dark hair like the other Bonds. And then this movie came out and everyone was like, "Never mind, we like him."
Craig's Casino Royale was a very solid effort...I grew up in the 2nd half of the Roger Moore-era, and A View To A Kill was quite formative due to both my age and the Bay Area ties...unfortunately, while not a great film, it still holds a special place in my heart. Second-best Tanya Roberts film as well, behind The Beastmaster, an all-time classic.
We mostly stood around a fire pit drinking beers with our nextdoor neighbors while the handful of neighborhood kids came by and grabbed their candy. A pretty pleasant evening.
Watched "The Mummy" 1959, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, which my daughter mocked relentlessly - one surprisingly woke moment towards the end when the Egyptian character controlling the mummy accuses the English archeologist of sacrilegious grave-robbing and desecration.
We decided not to take the 11-year-old trick-or-treating, so we let him decide what to do on Saturday. He chose to watch all 5 Jurassic Park movies in a row and eat lots of unhealthy food. We also did a scavenger hunt for him. He declared that this was the "best Halloween EVER".
We opted out this year. Normally the neighborhood gets hundreds. Neighbors across the street set up a 20 foot delivery tube. Only saw one group use it.
Went out with the little ones and picked up candy from whatever neighbors had left it out, also hit up some local restaurants. Handed out our own candy to anyone else walking around.
Left some candy out at our house as well. Maybe two people took some.
No trick-or-treaters. At the bottom of our street I saw a table being setup with little bags. And a couple of houses had bowls. I think there are more kids down at the bottom of the street and none up where I live.
Not bad. We put out little bags of candy and the various little kids from a couple of streets were excited to pick them up. Then we went and drank with neighbors around a fire pit.
Only about 30 trick-or-treaters vs. 5 years ago when we had about 300. About 3 small kids w/ parents. The rest were teenagers going around in packs, only half wearing masks.
Recently finished (and loved) Deacon King Kong, James McBride's latest. McBride won the National Book Award for his last book, The Good Lord Bird, which is now a Showtime series.
Anyhow, Deacon King Kong is about a Baptist deacon in Brooklyn called Sportcoat who one day kills the local drug dealer in the projects. It's the story of the neighborhood full of characters, of the deacon, and how a society interacts. It's funny and tremendously well-written and I highly recommend it.
Finished "Piranesi," Susanna Clarke's first major publication since "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, a few weeks ago. It's a much smaller novel, both in scope and length. Very pretty and contemplative though, if a little predictable.
Soft-shell crab hand-roll, flying fish roe maki, mackerel nigiri.
I'm blessed to have lots of authentic Asian food where I live since there is such a big Asian community here. That being said, there are only two authentic sushi places. The rest serve American-style rolls with lots of different ingredients (eg, dragon roll) drenched in sauces. I am not against people buying what they want, but I wish I had more access to great, simple sushi.
I'm not sure that all of US can have access to fresh seafood, which is fundamentally what makes traditional sushi great.
By the way, I recall reading this article about how the Burmese immigrants end up finding work as sushi chefs, particularly in centers that supply supermarkets in the middle of America. Many of these refugees had never heard of sushi but got trained and set up in the US to make the American-style sushi.
the wife got me on Unagi... good unagi is life changing. Beyond that, I am pretty simple but will eat just about anything else. Which is odd because I am quite picky in general but I do love me some sushi
Tuna, Salmon, and Unagi nigiri. Tuna has always been my favorite, but when I was in Seattle last December for work I had salmon and salmon belly nigiri and it was amazing. I'm assuming the sushi place got fresh salmon from Pike's marketplace or directly from the boats.
I had ordered an Omakase and I told the Chef the salmon was delicious and he asked if I wanted to try the salmon belly. It was delightful. Melt in your mouth.
I’m a simple soul, I like eel rolls, spicy crab rolls, and salmon nigiri. There’s a local place that serves sweet potato tempura rolls which I’m sure aren’t remotely authentic but are surprisingly tasty.
I would say that I enjoy Film Noir as a genre, but off the top of my head right now, I can only name Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and Laura as ones that I still vaguely recall the plot of (beyond a hard boiled detective meeting a femme fatale).
Hero (the one with Jet Li) was a beautiful film to watch, but I'm not entirely sure that I agree with its main message, which was to justify the authority of an emperor (particularly when it comes from China).
Yeah, it's been a bit depressing to watch Zhang Yimou's directorial career go from making fiery social dramas critical of the Chinese government to stuff that plainly supports the status quo. It's beautiful filmmaking as ever, but the same soul isn't there (though Hero is better than his other late-period work).
too many to count. Depends on the language. Cinema Paradiso in Italian, Europa Europa in German (among others), Hero in Mandarin and a bazillion Korean films including New World, I Saw the Devil, Bittersweet Life, Memories of Murder, More than Blue, The Classic, Always, Architecture 101, Il Mare... I'm probably forgetting a few
Work normally throughout the day, try not to doomscroll too much, order some Indian food for dinner, and get high AF to watch the results in the evening.
Working as an election official. It's going to be a 16-hour marathon. However, I am hopeful that it won't be too crazy since >70% of my district has voted already - and allow me some time to sneak a few peeks to my phone over the day.
However, I did have to bone up on voter intimidation law since we had an instance of a Trump caravan intimidating voters in Raleigh. I also learned that state laws REQUIRE law enforcement to help me and if they refuse, I am deputized with the legal power to arrest people. Quirk in the law is that I must allow people to vote when in custody.
Logistics: one of you Asia, Europe or US East Coasters should post seed categories for tomorrow. I am essentially on Election Board duty for the next day and a half.
There are so many absentee ballots that I'm not expecting results to come through election night, so I'm not sure how closely I'll follow it (unlike previous years when we would watch until a victor is announced). I may follow PA closely, however, because 1) we live about 20 min from the PA border and 2) if Biden wins it, he'll almost certainly win the election.
That said, I just doompredicted some scenarios on fivethirtyeight's website. If some of not super close 'swing' states (FL, VA) count fast, it could look ugly for Trumpkins by the time polls close here in the west. And if PA does, all of the court nonsense they talk about will look like sour grapes and whining.
We'll probably be watching TV in the evening as my wife will want to have it on, but I'm wary of going the whole night without really knowing who wins (thanks to slow counting of ballots).
Will be glued to the TV come later afternoon. The Missus has been radicalized by Trump and wants to see him burn. These days, our house is 40% political TV, 40% sports, remainder split between her shitty reality shows and my shitty K dramas
Not a total blackout but I'm going to avoid as much as I can. Definitely not glued to the TV. Periodic check online at most. I even got a late afternoon reservation for one of the Smithsonian museums for Wednesday so I won't be tempted to sit in front of the TV then.
I've long since given up on national TV news. Recently I've been checking in on the local stations from time to time and they're all OK, even the local Fox station which is kind of a parallel to KTVU.
Great show for the first season. I'm not sure I like the second and third seasons much, if at all, as the show gave up on all the espionage stuff to be (too much of) just character studies of the two leads - brilliantly acted by Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer.
"A federal judge has rejected Republicans’ attempt to invalidate tens of thousands of ballots cast via “drive-through” voting in Harris County, which is home to Houston. But he also cautioned those who haven’t yet voted to avoid using drive-through centers on Election Day because of outstanding questions about the method’s legality.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, found that the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the validity of the ballots."
I mean, there was never really a case. They piloted the program, it was approved by the State Election authority, they rolled it out in force. The only reason there is a lawsuit is cause they Republicans know they are in danger of losing Texas for the first time since LBJ (basically). They're pulling out all the stops to suppress as much as possible in the urban areas. Fucking pussies. So credit to the TSC (which is all Republican appointed) and to this Federal judge for actually following the law. All of them are arch conservative but...shrug
This is a bit illustrative of the limitations of the court. In most cases where the court makes a bad decision, the real culprit is the bad underlying law.
effectively he punted. If the County is organized for counting all the early ballots as soon as allowed, they might be in a position to 'certify' the results before the court of appeals gets involved, if the plaintiffs keep going.
That was a brutal game. Luckily the Raiders were able to run the ball. And I missed the beginning but was trying to figure out how the Browns won the toss but still ended up getting the bad wind direction in both the 2nd and 4th Q. I guess they deferred in the beginning and chose to get the ball to start the 2nd half as opposed to choosing direction so they got the advantageous wind direction to end the game. Seemed like the wind was bad enough for them not to just go with conventional thinking of deferring and taking possession to start the 2nd half.
Injuries must be less-than-trivial. Niners just jettisoned salary hit away as they just traded Kwon Alexander for Kiko Alonso's messed-up-knees with half a year left on his contract and a 5th round conditional.
The Dolphins head coach Brian Flores was the one who was calling the defensive plays for the Patriots in 2018 (even though he only had the title of Linebackers Coach), the year when they stifled Goff and the Rams offense in the Super Bowl.
Goff was terrible. Bad interceptions, bad fumbles, tipped balls. He played marginally better in the 2nd half but he threw the ball like 60 times to get to 350 yards.
Some analysts have suggested this is kind of his make-or-break year for him as far as becoming an elite QB. There seems to be some signs of regression.
I didn't see the first INT but saw the 2nd and the fumble. In both cases he was hit as he threw. The first he was sacked on the blitz, I think, and he fumbled (small hands) and it was returned for a fumble-6. The 2nd was also a blitz I think and his arm was hit as he threw and it was picked. Should've just taken the sack, like the announcers were saying.
I think it's well known in the league that if he is rattled and pressured, the wheels come off. He doesn't have the ability to roll out and evade pressure like Rodgers can.
Doesn't he have the ability to roll out and evade pressure? Maybe he just doesn't have situational awareness to recognize a collapsing pocket and just stays in.
Everton lost 2-1 to Newcastle: turns out that when you lose both actual speed (Richarlison) and speed of thought (James), it matters. They weren’t as dismal as last season but that wasn’t an unfair result.
I've seen it from 2.5 to a pick 'em...wish I could've gotten a bet in on that crack-pot website that had UW -6.5 like 3-weeks ago which was clearly suspect considering UW hadn't even named a QB yet.
Sean Connery
Passed away at age 90. Good run, but I wish we could keep in instead of any number of others.
surprised no one started a "your favorite Bond movie" thread.
i dont have one favorite, but generally like them all w/ the exception of a couple recent ones that were completely ridiculous.
Years ago I started trying to go through every Bond movie but only got through the Connery ones and stopped. I've also basically seen every other one in a theater since the Brosnan days (since that goes from my teenage years to adulthood), but that means I have a big gap in the Moore/Dalton years where I've seen almost nothing.
The best overall Bond movie I've seen was probably Casino Royale. Among the Connery ones, probably Goldfinger.
OOOooooOOOooo, I'd disagree slightly; my favorite Connery one is From Russia With Love, but Goldfinger would be #2. You should watch On Her Majesty's Secret Service - despite Lazenby's less than fully convincing Bond, it's one of the best of the franchise.
It was close between Goldfinger and From Russia.
In my opinion, the Brosnan films were so incredibly janky. I love the darkness of the Craig films. I should probably watch the Connery films.
Looking back on the Brosnan movies, there's definitely a lot of silliness there. I guess the first one was pretty decent? And I liked Michelle Yeoh's part in the one she did.
Sean Bean over-shadowed Brosnan in that one, methinks.
Sure, though it's not unusual for the villain to make the biggest impression.
Casino Royale definitely up there.
I remember there was a big controversy among Bond fans because Craig had blonde hair and not dark hair like the other Bonds. And then this movie came out and everyone was like, "Never mind, we like him."
Second one yes. First one was bizarre.
Craig's Casino Royale was a very solid effort...I grew up in the 2nd half of the Roger Moore-era, and A View To A Kill was quite formative due to both my age and the Bay Area ties...unfortunately, while not a great film, it still holds a special place in my heart. Second-best Tanya Roberts film as well, behind The Beastmaster, an all-time classic.
maybe i'll watch one w/ the kids in the coming days. it is also fun to just watch the ski scenes to get excited for the winter.
i used to joke w/ the kids.
me: who is the best skier ever?
kids: James Bond
me: who is the 2nd best?
kids: the bad guys w/ machine guns that had to chase him.
How was your Covid-ween?
We mostly stood around a fire pit drinking beers with our nextdoor neighbors while the handful of neighborhood kids came by and grabbed their candy. A pretty pleasant evening.
typical.
Worked and slept.
Watched "The Mummy" 1959, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, which my daughter mocked relentlessly - one surprisingly woke moment towards the end when the Egyptian character controlling the mummy accuses the English archeologist of sacrilegious grave-robbing and desecration.
Bit of a shock.
We decided not to take the 11-year-old trick-or-treating, so we let him decide what to do on Saturday. He chose to watch all 5 Jurassic Park movies in a row and eat lots of unhealthy food. We also did a scavenger hunt for him. He declared that this was the "best Halloween EVER".
We opted out this year. Normally the neighborhood gets hundreds. Neighbors across the street set up a 20 foot delivery tube. Only saw one group use it.
Went out with the little ones and picked up candy from whatever neighbors had left it out, also hit up some local restaurants. Handed out our own candy to anyone else walking around.
Left some candy out at our house as well. Maybe two people took some.
No trick-or-treaters. At the bottom of our street I saw a table being setup with little bags. And a couple of houses had bowls. I think there are more kids down at the bottom of the street and none up where I live.
No trick-or-treaters.
Zero trick or treaters. As expected. As normal. Ate a few pieces of candy and watched the football game.
Not bad. We put out little bags of candy and the various little kids from a couple of streets were excited to pick them up. Then we went and drank with neighbors around a fire pit.
Only about 30 trick-or-treaters vs. 5 years ago when we had about 300. About 3 small kids w/ parents. The rest were teenagers going around in packs, only half wearing masks.
DBD Book Club
Recently finished (and loved) Deacon King Kong, James McBride's latest. McBride won the National Book Award for his last book, The Good Lord Bird, which is now a Showtime series.
Anyhow, Deacon King Kong is about a Baptist deacon in Brooklyn called Sportcoat who one day kills the local drug dealer in the projects. It's the story of the neighborhood full of characters, of the deacon, and how a society interacts. It's funny and tremendously well-written and I highly recommend it.
Finished "Piranesi," Susanna Clarke's first major publication since "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, a few weeks ago. It's a much smaller novel, both in scope and length. Very pretty and contemplative though, if a little predictable.
Just finished "A Memory Called Empire" - first SciFi book that says "brilliant space opera" on the cover I've read, and yes, truth in advertising.
Been very much wanting to read this!
Your top 3 sushi
Soft-shell crab or clam, unagi and fatty tuna
uni, uni, uni
Soft-shell crab hand-roll, flying fish roe maki, mackerel nigiri.
I'm blessed to have lots of authentic Asian food where I live since there is such a big Asian community here. That being said, there are only two authentic sushi places. The rest serve American-style rolls with lots of different ingredients (eg, dragon roll) drenched in sauces. I am not against people buying what they want, but I wish I had more access to great, simple sushi.
I'm not sure that all of US can have access to fresh seafood, which is fundamentally what makes traditional sushi great.
By the way, I recall reading this article about how the Burmese immigrants end up finding work as sushi chefs, particularly in centers that supply supermarkets in the middle of America. Many of these refugees had never heard of sushi but got trained and set up in the US to make the American-style sushi.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/us/burmese-refugees-sushi.html
the wife got me on Unagi... good unagi is life changing. Beyond that, I am pretty simple but will eat just about anything else. Which is odd because I am quite picky in general but I do love me some sushi
I used to be a much more picky eater and I think that getting to sushi after I started expanding my horizons was for the best.
Tuna, Salmon, and Unagi nigiri. Tuna has always been my favorite, but when I was in Seattle last December for work I had salmon and salmon belly nigiri and it was amazing. I'm assuming the sushi place got fresh salmon from Pike's marketplace or directly from the boats.
Salmon belly is delightful
I had ordered an Omakase and I told the Chef the salmon was delicious and he asked if I wanted to try the salmon belly. It was delightful. Melt in your mouth.
I’m a simple soul, I like eel rolls, spicy crab rolls, and salmon nigiri. There’s a local place that serves sweet potato tempura rolls which I’m sure aren’t remotely authentic but are surprisingly tasty.
Favorite black and white movie
Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as The Bicycle Thief
not just favorite B&W movie, but one of my favorites overall.
The Apartment and Some Like it Hot
I would say that I enjoy Film Noir as a genre, but off the top of my head right now, I can only name Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and Laura as ones that I still vaguely recall the plot of (beyond a hard boiled detective meeting a femme fatale).
You need to watch "Out of the Past", stat.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try to watch this tomorrow night to take my mind off the election.
Casablanca, the Maltese Falcon. typically a good movie holds up color or no.
+1 Casablanca!
Young Frankenstein
Lot of overlap with favorite non-English language films: Seven Samurai, La Dolce Vita et al.
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haha - you can change that!
Citizen Kane which I first saw as a Cal freshman. Some like it hot. Them. Caltiki the immortal monster.
Dr. Strangelove ("You can't fight in here! This is the war room!"); Citizen Kane; 12 Angry Men
Oh man, too many to choose from. I'll name the last great one I watched:
Night of the Living Dead
Holiday Inn. First movie that featured the song White Christmas, even though the movie White Christmas came out like 10 years later.
Holiday Inn was the best of the Bing and boys christmas movies (there were several).
probs The Apartment with Jack Lemon
Very good.
Paths of Glory, directed by Kubrick
Also Ingmar Bergman's the Seventh Seal. A bit of an art house pic. I think I saw it at PFA back in the day.
Also excellent
Favorite non-English language movie
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Lives of Others
Run Lola Run
City of God
Lotta Crouching Tiger support on this board.
Run Lola Run was surprisingly good
Agree on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Lives of Others, both great films.
@Trainspotting@
haha
My Neighbor Totoro
there are few things better in the world of movies than the Cat Bus.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. slapstick comedy of the highest order.
Love some Almodovar.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Hero.
Hero (the one with Jet Li) was a beautiful film to watch, but I'm not entirely sure that I agree with its main message, which was to justify the authority of an emperor (particularly when it comes from China).
the message was terrible, but a wonderful movie.
Yeah, it's been a bit depressing to watch Zhang Yimou's directorial career go from making fiery social dramas critical of the Chinese government to stuff that plainly supports the status quo. It's beautiful filmmaking as ever, but the same soul isn't there (though Hero is better than his other late-period work).
Eat drink man woman
We just watched that recently; it is indeed a great movie.
I was going to say this one but couldn't remember if it was non-English or not. Probably been 20 years since I've watched it.
Yes, it's a Taiwanese movie in Mandarin. There was an English remake about a Mexican-American family, called Tortilla Soup.
Yeah I've seen Tortilla Soup as well. In both movies the food looked amazing.
Seven Samurai
Three Colors trilogy
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Yes, love these!
too many to count. Depends on the language. Cinema Paradiso in Italian, Europa Europa in German (among others), Hero in Mandarin and a bazillion Korean films including New World, I Saw the Devil, Bittersweet Life, Memories of Murder, More than Blue, The Classic, Always, Architecture 101, Il Mare... I'm probably forgetting a few
Ran - Kurosawa's take on King Lear
close second - Spirited Away
Great choices too!
Oh Ran was good.
Ikiru (to live) Japanese
Question from Nam: what is your election day strategy (eg, blackout, glued to TV)?
Work normally throughout the day, try not to doomscroll too much, order some Indian food for dinner, and get high AF to watch the results in the evening.
I have the day off from work, so I'll be glued to the TV at around 4 or 5 p.m. PT
I wish I were camping out in Joshua Tree or somewhere with no wifi or reception but I’m sure I’ll be watching PBS Newshour coverage.
Working as an election official. It's going to be a 16-hour marathon. However, I am hopeful that it won't be too crazy since >70% of my district has voted already - and allow me some time to sneak a few peeks to my phone over the day.
However, I did have to bone up on voter intimidation law since we had an instance of a Trump caravan intimidating voters in Raleigh. I also learned that state laws REQUIRE law enforcement to help me and if they refuse, I am deputized with the legal power to arrest people. Quirk in the law is that I must allow people to vote when in custody.
So Wed's DBD is going to have a story about a NC poll worker with a Cal Berkeley shirt arresting voters because they won't wear a mask.
That headline will write itself and he might even get a trump tweet or mention.
“Communist/socialist UC Berkeley graduate and radical antifa member arrest trump voter in act of voter suppression.”
I sure hope so!
Logistics: one of you Asia, Europe or US East Coasters should post seed categories for tomorrow. I am essentially on Election Board duty for the next day and a half.
Sure, happy to
I've got a 6 AM call so I can help out as well.
There are so many absentee ballots that I'm not expecting results to come through election night, so I'm not sure how closely I'll follow it (unlike previous years when we would watch until a victor is announced). I may follow PA closely, however, because 1) we live about 20 min from the PA border and 2) if Biden wins it, he'll almost certainly win the election.
Following certain polling analysts on Twitter, namely Dave Wasserman, Edgar Reed, and Nate Cohn/Silver. Any other recommendations?
Harry Enten
I hope to avoid everything until late in the Eve., when the drama of it is over.
That said, I just doompredicted some scenarios on fivethirtyeight's website. If some of not super close 'swing' states (FL, VA) count fast, it could look ugly for Trumpkins by the time polls close here in the west. And if PA does, all of the court nonsense they talk about will look like sour grapes and whining.
VA is not a swing state any more, solidly blue.
I will be watching and doomscrolling, and hopefully not sobbing.
We'll probably be watching TV in the evening as my wife will want to have it on, but I'm wary of going the whole night without really knowing who wins (thanks to slow counting of ballots).
Will be glued to the TV come later afternoon. The Missus has been radicalized by Trump and wants to see him burn. These days, our house is 40% political TV, 40% sports, remainder split between her shitty reality shows and my shitty K dramas
I feel ya. Mrs. would like nothing better than a crushing blue wave and never hearing his name again.
That second sentence finished much better than how it began.
I'll be watching come Tuesday eve. Curious to see what cheeto-in-chief will do.
Not a total blackout but I'm going to avoid as much as I can. Definitely not glued to the TV. Periodic check online at most. I even got a late afternoon reservation for one of the Smithsonian museums for Wednesday so I won't be tempted to sit in front of the TV then.
Sounds like a good plan!
I’m leaning toward intermittent doom scrolling on Twitter. I don’t think I can take watching this on television.
PBS is like a comfortable old tweed jacket you forgot you had.
I don’t watch television news as a rule, I don’t think I’ll miss it.
I've long since given up on national TV news. Recently I've been checking in on the local stations from time to time and they're all OK, even the local Fox station which is kind of a parallel to KTVU.
Eve
Killing
Great show for the first season. I'm not sure I like the second and third seasons much, if at all, as the show gave up on all the espionage stuff to be (too much of) just character studies of the two leads - brilliantly acted by Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer.
TIL: Evita Peron was lobotomized in the last few months of her life, reportedly to relieve her suffering from cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Per%C3%B3n#Declining_health
Plumb
Elsewhere in college
Pirate's Air Raid doesn't want 'Bama. Loses 41-0. Only gains 115 yards, net of penalties.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup?gameId=401237119
the air raid is always susceptible to a defense that is disciplined. keep your zones/lanes and make tackles.
Rutgers' crazy lateral play that didn't count, according to Jomboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0GFSJplh6o&feature=youtu.be
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Bunker Boi builds back a better buffer
https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1323092344053354498
Oregon Governor declares emergency to allow more expedient beating of skulls because it is 2020.
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/02/oregon-gov-kate-brown-will-declare-emergency-ready-national-guard-ahead-of-election/
Not so fast!!!
"A federal judge has rejected Republicans’ attempt to invalidate tens of thousands of ballots cast via “drive-through” voting in Harris County, which is home to Houston. But he also cautioned those who haven’t yet voted to avoid using drive-through centers on Election Day because of outstanding questions about the method’s legality.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, found that the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the validity of the ballots."
WaPo
More surprising to me, actually, is that the Texas Supreme Court has ruled on this twice and rejected the plaintiffs both times.
I mean, there was never really a case. They piloted the program, it was approved by the State Election authority, they rolled it out in force. The only reason there is a lawsuit is cause they Republicans know they are in danger of losing Texas for the first time since LBJ (basically). They're pulling out all the stops to suppress as much as possible in the urban areas. Fucking pussies. So credit to the TSC (which is all Republican appointed) and to this Federal judge for actually following the law. All of them are arch conservative but...shrug
This is a bit illustrative of the limitations of the court. In most cases where the court makes a bad decision, the real culprit is the bad underlying law.
just because there's no case, doesn't mean the court won't rule against the people.
Certainly the likes of Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Barrett have little shame in being partisan hacks. That's why court expansion is so necessary.
effectively he punted. If the County is organized for counting all the early ballots as soon as allowed, they might be in a position to 'certify' the results before the court of appeals gets involved, if the plaintiffs keep going.
The County should commingle all the votes so it's impossible to separate out the curbside votes.
Three cities over from me, Black voters held a protest march on the way to vote. Whole group, children included, get pepper-sprayed.
https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1322646097689370624
Peaceful protestors were arrested.
Trumpkins attack Biden campaign bus. Trump and Marco Rubio say supportive things.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1323273438916710401
Violent terrorists were not arrested.
PRO
For the first time in a long while, I had no sports to watch in early November and was rather happy about it.
Cleveland weather bad as usual, but Raiders win anyway.
https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2020/11/02/browns-raiders-wind-daniel-carlson-cody-parkey
That was a brutal game. Luckily the Raiders were able to run the ball. And I missed the beginning but was trying to figure out how the Browns won the toss but still ended up getting the bad wind direction in both the 2nd and 4th Q. I guess they deferred in the beginning and chose to get the ball to start the 2nd half as opposed to choosing direction so they got the advantageous wind direction to end the game. Seemed like the wind was bad enough for them not to just go with conventional thinking of deferring and taking possession to start the 2nd half.
49ers look bad and injured and also get more injured, lose to Seahawks.
Is this the end for Jimmy Garoppolo? (Answer: Not quite.)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/02/kurtenbach-49ers-overreactions-is-this-the-end-for-jimmy-garoppolo/
Injuries must be less-than-trivial. Niners just jettisoned salary hit away as they just traded Kwon Alexander for Kiko Alonso's messed-up-knees with half a year left on his contract and a 5th round conditional.
From bad to worse . . . Jimmy G out indefinitely, George Kittle has a broken bone in his foot and will also miss extended time.
Season over.
It's a really stunning run of injuries this year. I guess if you're ever going to have a season from hell, 2020 would be the time to do it.
Plus, they only have four days off. Host the Packers on Thursday night football.
Jared Goff turns the ball over 4 times in surprising Rams loss to the Dolphins.
https://www.espn.com/blog/los-angeles-rams/post/_/id/42209/jared-goff-los-angeles-rams-offense-shut-down-by-miami-dolphins
Passed for 350 yards but started the game just 8-22...
Goff's fumble returned for a TD was turrible
#TinyHands
#TinyHands
The Dolphins are . . . good?
The Dolphins head coach Brian Flores was the one who was calling the defensive plays for the Patriots in 2018 (even though he only had the title of Linebackers Coach), the year when they stifled Goff and the Rams offense in the Super Bowl.
Also Gerald Alexander (he of the "Takers") is the secondary coach now. They dropped a couple of pick sixes but otherwise made Goff's day miserable.
and they get the Texans first round pick next year (next 2 actually if I remember right). The Texans are trash so likely a top 5 pick
Ya, nice work Bill O'Brien...I think they have Houston's 1 & 2 this year - not sure next year.
Goff was terrible. Bad interceptions, bad fumbles, tipped balls. He played marginally better in the 2nd half but he threw the ball like 60 times to get to 350 yards.
Some analysts have suggested this is kind of his make-or-break year for him as far as becoming an elite QB. There seems to be some signs of regression.
I didn't see the first INT but saw the 2nd and the fumble. In both cases he was hit as he threw. The first he was sacked on the blitz, I think, and he fumbled (small hands) and it was returned for a fumble-6. The 2nd was also a blitz I think and his arm was hit as he threw and it was picked. Should've just taken the sack, like the announcers were saying.
I think it's well known in the league that if he is rattled and pressured, the wheels come off. He doesn't have the ability to roll out and evade pressure like Rodgers can.
Doesn't he have the ability to roll out and evade pressure? Maybe he just doesn't have situational awareness to recognize a collapsing pocket and just stays in.
Everton lost 2-1 to Newcastle: turns out that when you lose both actual speed (Richarlison) and speed of thought (James), it matters. They weren’t as dismal as last season but that wasn’t an unfair result.
CAL
Go Bears!
Go Bears! Six more days until kickoff.
Prediction: Cal 20 - UW 16.
Cal is a 3.5 point underdog.
28-17 Bears. Cal locks eyes with Oregon, gives advanced warning for upset alert.
I like Cal by 10. This UW doesn't inspire much fear. Really good DBs andddddddd a lot of questions
The official line is down to the Huskies by 1.5, still dropping
Down to UW -1 or pick 'em
(from this morning's Chronicle)
I've seen it from 2.5 to a pick 'em...wish I could've gotten a bet in on that crack-pot website that had UW -6.5 like 3-weeks ago which was clearly suspect considering UW hadn't even named a QB yet.
yeah, betonline.ag is definitely not a trust-worthy book