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Susanna Hoffs (born January 17, 1959) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, author, and actress. Hoffs, Debbi and Vicki Peterson founded the Bangles in 1981. Hoffs learned ballet as a child and started playing guitar in elementary school, learning chords from her uncle. She attended Palisades High School and received a Bachelor's Degree in Art in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she switched majors between dance, theater, film, and art.
My friends, my wife, and I went to a Bananarama concert back in the late 1990s. Once there, we all realized that we actually confused them with the Bangles and preferred the latter. *shrug*
The numbers he put up back in the day are pretty amazing. The rules were not nearly as friendly to the passing game in those days but he still out-produced everyone who came after him.
I-80. During Covid, I drove back to Philly with No 1 (he had driven out, stopping off and picking up a couple of friends in Louisville visiting their parents that lived in SF) so he didn't have to drive it alone. We took it all the way from the Bay Area to Eastern Ohio, at which point we went to Pittsburgh. I don't think i've driven on 80 East of that point.
Growing up we used to visit Nebraska relatives every few years. I would guess half the time it was 80 straight through. The other times we would go up through Yellowstone.
I've driven all of the New Jersey portion of I-80 in addition to all of the California and most of the Nevada portions of I-80. Come to think of it, I've also drive in a tiny of Pennsylvania on I-80 (eastern PA), a few miles west of the Delaware Water Gap. I have driven essentially nothing of I-80 between Elko, NV and East Stroudsburg, PA.
I might have seen her from time to time, not knowing I witnessing a future famous person. I will say this. Knowing she's a Cal grad makes me appreciate her 100X more than the usual "famous" folks.
On this day in 1974 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Washington State, 37-33 to raise their record to 7-2-1 heading into a Big Game that they would lose in heartbreaking fashion. It was Mike White’s third year at the helm and marked his first winning season and only the third time Cal won as many as seven games in a season since 1952. Quarterback Steve Bartkowski was California’s hero on the day as he connected on 21 of 30 passes for 300 yards. This gave him a season total of 2,262 passing yards surpassing the school record set a decade prior by Craig Morton. The Bears forced ten Cougar turnovers, four fumbles and six interceptions. The last turnover came in the game’s waning moments when Wazzu fumbled inside the Bear five-yard line. The Sturdy Golden Ones had a touchdown negated by the officials just before halftime. A Washington State fumble was run back for an apparent score as signaled by three refs, but a fourth official had inadvertently blown his whistle. Cal DB Herm Edwards ran back an interception for a TD that was not called back.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
Imagine that. Had the Cougs not suffered their 10th turnover, they probably would have won a game in which they turned the ball over 9 times. One way or the other, that sounds like a WSU-Cal classic that would be the envy of Sonny Dykes and Justin Wilcox.
86-page investigative report indicates that Buffy Sainte Marie, a Canadian performer who spead awareness of her allegedly indigenous background. The report indicates that she was Anglo-Italian.
My buddy is flying in from Australia. So my buddy from Austin and I are thinking of flying to Denver because it's somewhere in the middle, it's a flight hub, and flights are cheap to get there. While I've been to Denver, I've never really hung out there. Anybody have recommendations for good restaurants or cool things to do for a bromance weekend?
My friend's favorite sushi restaurant there is Sushi Den. Tavernetta was pretty good, and just outside Union Station. Obviously there are a lot of breweries!
- there are some great restaurants in the RINO (River North Art) district. there is some fun walking around and shopping too.
- Dio Mio for casual Italian
- Uchi Japanese/sushi
- Safta Israeli - was the best food we had
- if you have a car and the weather is reasonable a short drive up to Red Rocks is a great way to spend a few hours. a nice/short hike and it is fun to see the concert venue even if there is no show. there is a music themed museum at the top.
- Frasca Italian - Michelin star Italian in Boulder, one of the best meals i have ever had. ask for the vintage amaro after dinner. not cheap.
- walk around the main street in Boulder, good food, beer, shopping.
- a short/easy hike to see the Flatirons is well worth it. even if you just drive there and take photos it is pretty impressive.
I used to run long obstacle course races and would cramp. I tried eating mustard packs but found that they didn't have enough electrolytes - so I started drinking 2.5 ounce bottles of pickle juice. It was gross, but it worked.
I have heard that pickle juice is very effective when dehydrated and cramping. Sometimes people take the single serving pickle packs and eat one and drink the juices.
Ontario to require posting pay range in job posting. I think that's a good idea. Fighting discrimination is one thing, but it also counter's the Western cultural norm of discussing salary last, which is a waste of time if the salary isn't in the right ballpark. I appreciated in Asia that it was okay to discuss salary first.
BOOO. But I am curious to see how long it takes to get everything resolved with the stadium and actually get it built. As we all know, things seem to take longer than expected.
Ultramarathoner gets only banned for 1 year after riding a car for 2.5 miles off a 50 mile race to come in third place. She blamed it on [checks notes]... jet lag.
The first time I tried a 50 miler I got to the 40 mile checkpoint with about a 30 minute lead. But I was aware that I was way dehydrated and was starting to have trouble going in a straight line. I knew there was no way I could do ten more miles so I dropped out. But then, I hadn't just flown in from Australia so guess I had my wits about me.
Senate passes House Bill to extend keeping the Federal government running
11 voted against, 2 abstained.
The 11 against: Blackburn (R-TN, Braun (R-IN), Crapo (R-ID), Lee (R-UT), Paul (R-KY), Risch (R-ID), Schmitt (R-MO), Scott (R-FL), Tuberville (R-AL), Vance (R-OH), Bennett (D-CO). Bennet was a symbolic no because he objected that it didn't have support for Ukraine.
The HEC decided not to subpeen Santos because he would just invoke the Fifth. There is an expectation that a motion to expel him from office will be tabled before the weekend and will be passed. Why he doesn't resign is beyond me. Resign and he'll be forgotten. Be expelled and he'll be etched more prominently in history. j
Apropos: his fund raiser pleaded guilty yesterday and faces up to 20 years in jail
It's (somewhat) amazing to me that the feds & state have been on Trump since the 70's and the worst that has happened in all of that litigation over the decades is he pays a fine. I think it's hard to get convicted unless you are out of politics and out of the big big money.
WaPo runs an article about the destruction that the AR-15 has done to the US via mass shootings. The paper publishes full color photos never seen before of mass shootings. I've seen some bad things over the years. But the photos of school shootings made me cry and feel physically nauseated for the first time. I know about shootings. And I knew there would be blood. But seeing how much gore from children - including one photo where you can see the Uvalde shooter had time to dip his hand in his victim's blood and write LOL on a whiteboard while cops sat outside hiding has shaken me to my core. A terrible view, but something that the article effectively delivered its message.
I think Obama missed an opportunity after Sandy Hook. Ban assault weapons via executive order, should have done it while the outrage was full-on. Would have created years of litigation (and confrontations), but it is otherworldly crazy that this is allowed to go on.
Obama tried. Too many in Congress were in the NRA's thrall. There was not enough outrage.
Without people being shocked tot heir core by looking at the gory mess, and taking in the loss of life, the trauma to the survivors and communities, the NRA will continue to hold members of Congress in thrall.
This remind me of when Life magazine published photos from the My Lai massacre a month or so after the atrocity was made public. In both cases the power of the photographs added immeasurably to a more visceral understanding of slaughter.
ICYMI: There were leaked videos from the Trump Fulton County case. A defendant's lawyer owned up to it. While not good, there was no protective order. Fani Willis filed to have a protective order issued.
In one video, ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis tells us what we already knew but serves up on a plate for the Fulton County case. Trump knew he lost and wasn't going to leave office willingly, and this was a conspiracy to overturn the election.
The defense testimony of the guy who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer is bananas. He self-radicalized by listening to Glenn Beck, Tim Pool, other podcasts, and Youtube videos.
Whoever unilaterally pulled his country out the deal in 2018 to keep Iran from enriching uranium and destabilizing the area even more was either a moron or a traitor.
Trump's take on foreign policy is regressive and ignorant. I stumbled on a Larry King interview with him from some time in the late eighties, early nineties, where he is questioning why we send money to other countries and asking what we get in return. No surprise, his worldview has not changed or grown, not even while he was president. The guy is so obsessed with immediate, transactional return--the MO of a narcissist--that the concepts of soft power and enlightened self interest are beyond his grasp.
80
Jerry Rice. GOAT.
The numbers he put up back in the day are pretty amazing. The rules were not nearly as friendly to the passing game in those days but he still out-produced everyone who came after him.
Flash 80. ❤️
I-80. During Covid, I drove back to Philly with No 1 (he had driven out, stopping off and picking up a couple of friends in Louisville visiting their parents that lived in SF) so he didn't have to drive it alone. We took it all the way from the Bay Area to Eastern Ohio, at which point we went to Pittsburgh. I don't think i've driven on 80 East of that point.
Growing up we used to visit Nebraska relatives every few years. I would guess half the time it was 80 straight through. The other times we would go up through Yellowstone.
I've driven all of the New Jersey portion of I-80 in addition to all of the California and most of the Nevada portions of I-80. Come to think of it, I've also drive in a tiny of Pennsylvania on I-80 (eastern PA), a few miles west of the Delaware Water Gap. I have driven essentially nothing of I-80 between Elko, NV and East Stroudsburg, PA.
i have driven all of i-80 except the section between Cheyenne and Chicago, only about 1000 miles!
Not missing much between Cheyenne and Chicago. Middle of Nebraska and Iowa doesn't have anything worth looking at.
no but those are 2 of the 3 states i havent been to yet
Hour work week.
last week we saw two 80 yr old musicians that are still very much doing amazing things in separate concerts
Bob Dylan 82 - mostly a blues guitar set of his own music, no greatest hits were played
Steve Miller 80 - another blues guitar set of classic Delta and Chicago blues, also no greatest hits were played.
Bowlesman80 graduates from "Cal Berkeley."
So did you know Susanna Hoffs? Surely you knew all the graduates that year, even those in the Art Department.
LOL.
I might have seen her from time to time, not knowing I witnessing a future famous person. I will say this. Knowing she's a Cal grad makes me appreciate her 100X more than the usual "famous" folks.
CAL
On this day in 1974 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Washington State, 37-33 to raise their record to 7-2-1 heading into a Big Game that they would lose in heartbreaking fashion. It was Mike White’s third year at the helm and marked his first winning season and only the third time Cal won as many as seven games in a season since 1952. Quarterback Steve Bartkowski was California’s hero on the day as he connected on 21 of 30 passes for 300 yards. This gave him a season total of 2,262 passing yards surpassing the school record set a decade prior by Craig Morton. The Bears forced ten Cougar turnovers, four fumbles and six interceptions. The last turnover came in the game’s waning moments when Wazzu fumbled inside the Bear five-yard line. The Sturdy Golden Ones had a touchdown negated by the officials just before halftime. A Washington State fumble was run back for an apparent score as signaled by three refs, but a fourth official had inadvertently blown his whistle. Cal DB Herm Edwards ran back an interception for a TD that was not called back.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
Imagine that. Had the Cougs not suffered their 10th turnover, they probably would have won a game in which they turned the ball over 9 times. One way or the other, that sounds like a WSU-Cal classic that would be the envy of Sonny Dykes and Justin Wilcox.
Here's something I wrote about my experience as a Cal football fan https://rikuwrites.blogspot.com/2023/11/roll-on-you-bears-love-letter-to-cal.html
86-page investigative report indicates that Buffy Sainte Marie, a Canadian performer who spead awareness of her allegedly indigenous background. The report indicates that she was Anglo-Italian.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/15/buffy-sainte-marie-indigenous-false-claims/
“It puts a smile on my face knowing that neighbor has to see it every day”
https://journalstar.com/life-entertainment/nation-world/home-gardening/nebraska-man-rainbow-house/article_0005b37c-2820-5c77-87e7-580d4065beaf.html
COOL THINGS TO DO IN DENVER
My buddy is flying in from Australia. So my buddy from Austin and I are thinking of flying to Denver because it's somewhere in the middle, it's a flight hub, and flights are cheap to get there. While I've been to Denver, I've never really hung out there. Anybody have recommendations for good restaurants or cool things to do for a bromance weekend?
My friend's favorite sushi restaurant there is Sushi Den. Tavernetta was pretty good, and just outside Union Station. Obviously there are a lot of breweries!
Linger is good, and in a former mortuary: https://www.ediblebeats.com/linger
- Death and Co for cocktails
- there are some great restaurants in the RINO (River North Art) district. there is some fun walking around and shopping too.
- Dio Mio for casual Italian
- Uchi Japanese/sushi
- Safta Israeli - was the best food we had
- if you have a car and the weather is reasonable a short drive up to Red Rocks is a great way to spend a few hours. a nice/short hike and it is fun to see the concert venue even if there is no show. there is a music themed museum at the top.
- Frasca Italian - Michelin star Italian in Boulder, one of the best meals i have ever had. ask for the vintage amaro after dinner. not cheap.
- walk around the main street in Boulder, good food, beer, shopping.
- a short/easy hike to see the Flatirons is well worth it. even if you just drive there and take photos it is pretty impressive.
Ohh if you go to Boulder, go to the tea house!!! https://www.boulderteahouse.com/
Hike around Red Rocks. Saw Jason Isbell there a few years back.....so cool.
The Meow Wolf there is supposed to be fantastic.
https://tickets.meowwolf.com/denver/
SHE BLINDED ME WITH...
I feel bad for the younger generation. I can't imagine what this will do to kid's self esteem with unrealistic comparisons.
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1724827621467283502
Drinking ketchup for science
https://lifehacker.com/i-drank-ketchup-packets-on-my-run-for-science-1851011104
I used to run long obstacle course races and would cramp. I tried eating mustard packs but found that they didn't have enough electrolytes - so I started drinking 2.5 ounce bottles of pickle juice. It was gross, but it worked.
I have heard that pickle juice is very effective when dehydrated and cramping. Sometimes people take the single serving pickle packs and eat one and drink the juices.
A baby explodes 2.4 billion light years away and it ruffled our atmosphere. That's a powerful baby.
https://www.sciencealert.com/record-space-explosion-was-so-powerful-it-shook-earths-atmosphere
DBD Street Journal
This sound... interesting?
https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/taylor-swift-themed-cruise-set-193679
Disney's lawyers set limits to in-park pin trading
https://ktla.com/news/theme-parks/disneyland/disneyland-updates-pin-trading-guidelines-to-improve-overall-guests-experience/
So many things I didn't know were things... headed to D-Land with the family on Sunday, need to figure out Genie I guess.
Ontario to require posting pay range in job posting. I think that's a good idea. Fighting discrimination is one thing, but it also counter's the Western cultural norm of discussing salary last, which is a waste of time if the salary isn't in the right ballpark. I appreciated in Asia that it was okay to discuss salary first.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-pay-ranges-job-postings/
PRO
*sigh* MLB owners approve A's move to Las Vegas
https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/2767076
Eff these motherfuckers.
BOOO. But I am curious to see how long it takes to get everything resolved with the stadium and actually get it built. As we all know, things seem to take longer than expected.
Ultramarathoner gets only banned for 1 year after riding a car for 2.5 miles off a 50 mile race to come in third place. She blamed it on [checks notes]... jet lag.
https://themessenger.com/sports/scottish-ultramarathon-runner-joasia-zakrzewski-gets-one-year-ban-for-using-car-during-50-mile-race
well the main thing is that she didn't take any performance enhancing drugs. Also she's never going to hear the end of this in the form of heckling
The first time I tried a 50 miler I got to the 40 mile checkpoint with about a 30 minute lead. But I was aware that I was way dehydrated and was starting to have trouble going in a straight line. I knew there was no way I could do ten more miles so I dropped out. But then, I hadn't just flown in from Australia so guess I had my wits about me.
All that arm flapping to fly in from Australia really takes a toll.
Draymond: 5 for fighting
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38908534/sources-warriors-draymond-green-suspended-5-games-nba
i used to like Draymond. now i think he is just an annoying troublemaker that the Warriors should get rid of ...
The Virtual pro golf league with Tiger, Rory, Collin, Rickie Folwer, Justin Thomas, Wyndham Clark, Justin Rose, and others collapses. Literally.
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/38908287/woods-mcilroy-virtual-golf-venue-damaged-roof-collapse
Speaking of Rory - this is an interesting shot
https://twitter.com/DPWorldTour/status/1725128508404605071
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Second poll shows that Trump is leading Biden
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-edges-biden-half-voters-201138357.html
Senate passes House Bill to extend keeping the Federal government running
11 voted against, 2 abstained.
The 11 against: Blackburn (R-TN, Braun (R-IN), Crapo (R-ID), Lee (R-UT), Paul (R-KY), Risch (R-ID), Schmitt (R-MO), Scott (R-FL), Tuberville (R-AL), Vance (R-OH), Bennett (D-CO). Bennet was a symbolic no because he objected that it didn't have support for Ukraine.
No vote: Cornyn (R-TX), Scott (R-SC).
I probably would have gotten 9 of the 11 correct by guessing.
House Ethics Committee releases report on George Santos a day early.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics/read-santos-ethics-report/index.html
In response to the report, back-to-back Black Entrepreneur of the Year winner Santos has said he won't seek reelection.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics/ethics-committee-releases-santos-report/index.html
The HEC decided not to subpeen Santos because he would just invoke the Fifth. There is an expectation that a motion to expel him from office will be tabled before the weekend and will be passed. Why he doesn't resign is beyond me. Resign and he'll be forgotten. Be expelled and he'll be etched more prominently in history. j
Apropos: his fund raiser pleaded guilty yesterday and faces up to 20 years in jail
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sam-miele-fundraiser-rep-george-santos-pleads-guilty/story?id=104875146
He doesn't care about history. He'll just change his name, anyway.
Santos cares about the money. He's demonstrated that repeatedly. Ergo, no resignation.
But, but, he hasn't been convicted of anything.
It's (somewhat) amazing to me that the feds & state have been on Trump since the 70's and the worst that has happened in all of that litigation over the decades is he pays a fine. I think it's hard to get convicted unless you are out of politics and out of the big big money.
WaPo runs an article about the destruction that the AR-15 has done to the US via mass shootings. The paper publishes full color photos never seen before of mass shootings. I've seen some bad things over the years. But the photos of school shootings made me cry and feel physically nauseated for the first time. I know about shootings. And I knew there would be blood. But seeing how much gore from children - including one photo where you can see the Uvalde shooter had time to dip his hand in his victim's blood and write LOL on a whiteboard while cops sat outside hiding has shaken me to my core. A terrible view, but something that the article effectively delivered its message.
[WARNING: NSFL, paywall]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-force-mass-shootings/
I think Obama missed an opportunity after Sandy Hook. Ban assault weapons via executive order, should have done it while the outrage was full-on. Would have created years of litigation (and confrontations), but it is otherworldly crazy that this is allowed to go on.
Obama tried. Too many in Congress were in the NRA's thrall. There was not enough outrage.
Without people being shocked tot heir core by looking at the gory mess, and taking in the loss of life, the trauma to the survivors and communities, the NRA will continue to hold members of Congress in thrall.
hence the executive order route
This remind me of when Life magazine published photos from the My Lai massacre a month or so after the atrocity was made public. In both cases the power of the photographs added immeasurably to a more visceral understanding of slaughter.
Yup. Powerful photos.
It's official and people much smarter than me saw this coming a million miles away - Trump files for a mistrial in the NY fraud case.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/politics/trump-fraud-mistrial-request/index.html
Yeah, I'm not surprised by it. WaPo hinted at it a couple weeks ago. He'll do anything to evade responsibility. Any. Thing.
ICYMI: There were leaked videos from the Trump Fulton County case. A defendant's lawyer owned up to it. While not good, there was no protective order. Fani Willis filed to have a protective order issued.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4311369-lawyer-georgia-defendant-trump-election-case-admits-leaking-witness-video/
Update: Protective order granted today
In one video, ex-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis tells us what we already knew but serves up on a plate for the Fulton County case. Trump knew he lost and wasn't going to leave office willingly, and this was a conspiracy to overturn the election.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4307912-ellis-told-georgia-prosecutors-trump-planned-to-stay-in-power-abc-news/
The defense testimony of the guy who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer is bananas. He self-radicalized by listening to Glenn Beck, Tim Pool, other podcasts, and Youtube videos.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/david-depape-testifies-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack-trial/
He was convicted this morning.
Whoever unilaterally pulled his country out the deal in 2018 to keep Iran from enriching uranium and destabilizing the area even more was either a moron or a traitor.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-stockpile-of-enriched-uranium-is-22-times-above-2015-deals-limit-says-iaea/
Why not both?
Trump's take on foreign policy is regressive and ignorant. I stumbled on a Larry King interview with him from some time in the late eighties, early nineties, where he is questioning why we send money to other countries and asking what we get in return. No surprise, his worldview has not changed or grown, not even while he was president. The guy is so obsessed with immediate, transactional return--the MO of a narcissist--that the concepts of soft power and enlightened self interest are beyond his grasp.
DBD AV CLUB
They're breaking up the band. See them in Northridge for their farewell tour.
https://local12.com/news/offbeat/chuck-e-cheese-retire-munchs-make-believe-band-iconic-animatronic-bands-northridge-cincinnati-david-mckillips-nolan-bushnell-cec-entertainment-press-release-five-nights-at-freddys-fnaf-commemoration-event-modern-upgrade-experience-future-fans-memories-77
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Iowa gets even more Sickos as their star player is out for the rest of the season.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/cooper-dejean-injury-iowas-star-cb-will-miss-rest-of-season-as-team-eyes-big-ten-championship-game-spot/