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Molly

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see Joe Don Baker - 1973 movie with Walter Matthau.

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I'd seen Charley Varrick, but it was so long ago I didn't remember it.

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I never saw it until probably the 90’s on some cable feed. I got a kick out of it and made a point to view again years later, when I could remember on Netflix.

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Ah, Molly. I had a crush on Molly Ringwald as a teenager. Incidentally, over the years I had the pleasure of performing at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, a festival that sometimes featured as headliner Molly’s father, Robert, who was an accomplished traditional jazz pianist and one of the Jubilee’s founders.

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Did you ever get to meet her? I think I recall seeing she's living in France with her husband and kids.

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Cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!

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I recently recalled a conversation I had decades ago with two friends who were, like me, devoted fans of the Sturdy Golden Bears. My two friends were arguing over whether Ebenezer Scrooge would have been a graduate of Stanfurd or U$C. I surprised them by saying that he must have been an Old Blue. I explained that neither a Furdien or a Trojan could have undergone the magical transformation that Scrooge did at the end of A Christmas Carol. My argument carried the day and drinks were purchased for me by both lads. (True story.)

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Takeaway: Cal is the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future!

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Good sense, and simple humanity, prevailed.

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FAVORITE CHRISTMAS GIFT YOU GOT AS A WEE TYKE

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DBD AV CLUB

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ELSWHERE IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

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PROFESSIONAL SPORTS

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Go Bears!

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I see what you did there!

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Grizzlies slow-cook Warriors in 144-93 blowout

https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2024/12/19/24325600/grizzlies-slow-cook-warriors-144-93-blowout

Memphis, Tennessee is one of the world’s great cities for barbecue. They slow-roast meat, with a preference for pork, using giant pits. And what do you need to build those pits? Lots and lots of bricks.

That’s what the Golden State Warriors provided in their 144-93 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies Thursday night. A big ol’ pile of bricks. 58 of them spefically, a number that would have been worse had both teams not cleared their benches with a quarter and a half to go.

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Never thought I'd see a day where Steph and Dray missed all their shots. OK maybe Draymond, but never Steph. At least Steph made 2 FTs.

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POLITICS

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CAL

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Go Bears!!!

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Women's basketball hosts their tourney this weekend. They take on Fordham Saturday at 5:00, then play the winner of Temple/Xavier Sunday, also at 5:00. You may recall that the women are now ranked 24th in the nation and boast an 11-1 record.

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