I got a $29 WaPo subscription last year so that I could keep up with the 2020 election and the associated Trumpkin shenanigans. FYI, if you cancel and pick the "promotion ended", they'll give you another year for $29. Thus, I'm relying on WaPo, Bloomberg, and NYT for my news. Premium news is so, so, so much better than free.
my wife insists on getting a physical paper, so I can read WaPo online - and since it's improved so much over the last few years, I'm not mad. We also get the Sunday NYT, so I could probably read that online as well. (before we had kids we got the WaPo, NYT, and WSJ in print daily)
I subscribe to WaPo, which I think is a really good paper, I piggyback off my ex-boss's NYT sub (no idea if she knows), and I recently picked up a $4/month WSJ offer that I will cancel when it runs out because it's not worth more than that to me, but it included the Saturday paper in paper form and I LOVE the Saturday Journal.
Thanks to the NCAA tournament games on TruTV, I learned about the new show Fast Foodies which gets three chefs (two Top Chef winners) to copycat (meh) and remix (the much more interesting) fast-food favorites of the celeb-of-the-week. While each show is at times kind of ADHD, they are also just 20 minutes long. As someone who watched a lot of food competition shows, I really enjoyed this.
I also found myself watching the two Netflix docudrama - The Lost Pirate Kingdom and Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan. I found them mostly informative despite obvious oversimplifications to overemphasize the importance of singular events, but they also got plenty of action, gore, and sex.
This week's Shutdown Fullcast was a review of the Snyder cut, which in turn inspired me to watch said movie just based on how asinine it sounds and I barely scratched the surface last night.
Oh, also watched Maniac...Emma Stone and Jonah Hill (plus Gabriel Byrne, Sally Field). By Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, yes?). Very quirky. Started off strong, had lots of interesting episodes – which are almost standalone – but the overall arc was so-so.
When did Jonah Hill lose all that weight? I didn't even recognize him. He looks old and gaunt...
Halt and Catch Fire was good. I never got around to watching S4 until the pandemic. Interesting watching what happens to their companies, knowing that they can't succeed (altho sometimes I forget!)
Just binged Roadkill on PBS (Masterpiece) – whatever happened to "Theatre"??? – with Hugh Laurie. Only four episodes; was quite good. I've been meaning to ask why ratings are out of 19, but I'll give it...16/19.
Krispy Kreme was founded in NC. There are eight within a 15-minute drive of me. Warm KK donuts right off the line are fluffy pieces of heaven. Cold ones from the grocery store are not very good and I'll limit my consumption to only a half dozen of them.
They're alright, but you're right, the ones they give you when you stand in line waiting to purchase are the best. I wouldn't usually pay for them. The grocery store ones suck. Maybe I'll go inside to see if they give me one. Otherwise, I skip Krispy Kreme for the best local ones.
Happy Donuts on Gilman and San Pablo (chocolate devil's food cake donuts). Unfortunately the one across from Pac Bell Park closed down.
Johnny's Donuts in Lafayette (glazed raised/donut holes and chocolate old fashion are their best)
Leland said they would reach out to the submitter and see if they wanted to repost without the xenophobic term. @so now everoyne that has a new post will be a suspect@. or to quote the youngins, sus
Absolutely! Sounds like it wasn't a case of keeping the trolls out as this community does an excellent job of making trolls feel unwelcomed, but a comment from a regular poster. Seems like it is being handled appropriately.
It was the third failed variant that McDonald's launched to compete head-to-head against the Whopper by adding lettuce & tomato + other toppings. It was preceded by the Big N' Tasty and the McDLT (keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool).
The Romans invented military parades that went through an arch. The original arches are everywhere in Europe/Asia minor, plus were copied by a lot of cultures. So there are a lot of triumphal arches around the world. Or as I call them "Dude-We-Kicked-Ass"
True story: when we were there, we were able to be out in the street taking photos for 15 minutes before a car came by. And this is on the MAJOR highway leaving Pyongyang to the South. Like the 5 out of the Bay Area.
The Justice League had to face more bureaucratic red tape for their HQ...until they moved to space (moon in the comics, space station in the animated series).
There’s a few songs that tho I once despised, over time, have developed a healthy tolerance for and can now resignedly listen to and pretty much tolerate...it’s almost like the song broke me, much like Cool Hand Luke feigned to be with the mirrored-glasses guard. We Didn’t Start the Fire is one, Love Shack is another. I’m just a beaten man, and after so many years of changing the dial, I can finally, almost begrudgingly, sing along...damn...
I wasn't sure that the Splits would mean anything to the Younger Generation™ :-)
Watching the closing credits, you can see that Richard Donner directed (the Danger Island bits...which I'm sure are terribly non-appropriate racially!)
"apparently it is correlated to being allergic to latex"
My wife has had a coughing/post nasal drip every morning. She thought it was dairy because she adds cream to her coffee, but recently tested negative for dairy allergy. I thought it might be coffee, because I noticed that my asthma got worse when I drink it out of a Yeti but it's fine if I let it cool off a bit by serving it in over-sized ceramic mug to act as a heat-sink. But she does have bananas every morning in her smoothie and she's allergic to latex...
They expel a super viscous and anesthetic mucus when agitated which makes them very difficult to eat. With no predators, they just have to keep an eye out for bike tires and hiking boots.
For at least a couple years as a kid I thought the lyrics were "Groove Samba" not "Cruel Summer", I never knew the title of the song, so it wasn't sorted out until it was used in the movie Blue Crush.
What does a Cal Bear use as the “basis formula” for donating? Final score of a great victory (which one)? Number of NCAA championships? Number of Nobel Prize Winners? Or, number of years that Cal has not been to the Rose Bowl?
Bear vs. Bear as Collin Morikawa takes on Max Homa in WGC-Dell Match-Play. Unfortunately, I think it is a "must-win" for both of them after Morikawa drawed and Homa lost yesterday.
Will the Warriors do anything? Try to get someone back for Oubre? Not sure they should keep him after Klay comes back. Would rather have Wiggins over Oubre if only for his D.
Dubs got a lot of incentive to trade Oubre or else they just lose him when he becomes a free agent (since he was acquired with a salary cap exception).
Looks like they traded Marques Chriss and Wannamaker. But not Oubre. Which I guess means they think they can re-sign him? This opens up a couple of spots so who will they sign? They need a backup PG don't they? Or does that fall on Jordan Poole? Or maybe they'll sign Jeremy Lin.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Georgia's voter suppression bill (SB202) passes the lower house and will go to the state's Senate.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/politics/georgia-state-house-voting-bill-passage/index.html
Apropos:
https://twitter.com/OpinionThorny/status/1374735436132794368
That is really hilarious too
RIP Jessica Walter - best known for Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development and Malory Archer from Archer
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/entertainment/jessica-walter-obit/index.html
I got a $29 WaPo subscription last year so that I could keep up with the 2020 election and the associated Trumpkin shenanigans. FYI, if you cancel and pick the "promotion ended", they'll give you another year for $29. Thus, I'm relying on WaPo, Bloomberg, and NYT for my news. Premium news is so, so, so much better than free.
my wife insists on getting a physical paper, so I can read WaPo online - and since it's improved so much over the last few years, I'm not mad. We also get the Sunday NYT, so I could probably read that online as well. (before we had kids we got the WaPo, NYT, and WSJ in print daily)
I subscribe to WaPo, which I think is a really good paper, I piggyback off my ex-boss's NYT sub (no idea if she knows), and I recently picked up a $4/month WSJ offer that I will cancel when it runs out because it's not worth more than that to me, but it included the Saturday paper in paper form and I LOVE the Saturday Journal.
Nice beaver.
https://twitter.com/KrisReports/status/1375058712012918784
Reminder that Jerry Mathers is a Cal guy!
I saw one swimming in the Potomac last week. Not quite the same.
I saw one by the shore of the Chesapeake Bay in my first week living out here. Over five and a half years later and I've yet to see another.
I've only seen a few in all the years I've been here. That's why I found it noteworthy.
DBD AV Club
Thanks to the NCAA tournament games on TruTV, I learned about the new show Fast Foodies which gets three chefs (two Top Chef winners) to copycat (meh) and remix (the much more interesting) fast-food favorites of the celeb-of-the-week. While each show is at times kind of ADHD, they are also just 20 minutes long. As someone who watched a lot of food competition shows, I really enjoyed this.
I also found myself watching the two Netflix docudrama - The Lost Pirate Kingdom and Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan. I found them mostly informative despite obvious oversimplifications to overemphasize the importance of singular events, but they also got plenty of action, gore, and sex.
Kristin Kish might be the most attractive person on television right now.
The IT Crowd (Netflix, 16/19 WB). Finished the whole series. Sets up the characters via bottle episodes and then explodes into wonderful weirdness.
This week's Shutdown Fullcast was a review of the Snyder cut, which in turn inspired me to watch said movie just based on how asinine it sounds and I barely scratched the surface last night.
Microplane Thanos made me laugh so hard, I had to stop my bike and pull over.
Well, it is 4 hours
Oh, also watched Maniac...Emma Stone and Jonah Hill (plus Gabriel Byrne, Sally Field). By Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, yes?). Very quirky. Started off strong, had lots of interesting episodes – which are almost standalone – but the overall arc was so-so.
When did Jonah Hill lose all that weight? I didn't even recognize him. He looks old and gaunt...
Almost done with Halt and Catch Fire, highly recommend it. Very sad episode last night.
Watching the 4th season of Call My Agent, an entertaining Dramedy, very, very French.
After the first Season of Shitts Creek, it gets way better, somewhere in the 3rd season now.
Halt and Catch Fire was good. I never got around to watching S4 until the pandemic. Interesting watching what happens to their companies, knowing that they can't succeed (altho sometimes I forget!)
Just binged Roadkill on PBS (Masterpiece) – whatever happened to "Theatre"??? – with Hugh Laurie. Only four episodes; was quite good. I've been meaning to ask why ratings are out of 19, but I'll give it...16/19.
Today in Covid
Krispy Kreme Is Incentivizing You to Get the Jab With a Daily Free Doughnut
https://www.eater.com/22346767/krispy-kreme-gives-daily-free-doughnuts-to-covid-19-vaccine-recipients
I may be trying to find the closest Krispy Kreme after I get my shot on Sat morning.
If there is one near Contra Costa College in Richmond.
Krispy Kreme was founded in NC. There are eight within a 15-minute drive of me. Warm KK donuts right off the line are fluffy pieces of heaven. Cold ones from the grocery store are not very good and I'll limit my consumption to only a half dozen of them.
They're alright, but you're right, the ones they give you when you stand in line waiting to purchase are the best. I wouldn't usually pay for them. The grocery store ones suck. Maybe I'll go inside to see if they give me one. Otherwise, I skip Krispy Kreme for the best local ones.
Happy Donuts on Gilman and San Pablo (chocolate devil's food cake donuts). Unfortunately the one across from Pac Bell Park closed down.
Johnny's Donuts in Lafayette (glazed raised/donut holes and chocolate old fashion are their best)
Stan's Donuts in Santa Clara are other-worldly. Cash only, they close early, often a long wait, but worth every bit of inconvenience.
The Donut King, story about the Cambodian donut shops in LA. Coming May 24th
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-donut-king/
i just got Coco's Donuts in Portland delivered to a friend this morning. mostly went on people's recommendations.
it was someone's last day at work so figured they could use a treat to start the day.
never had them myself though ...
I Guess CCC is in San Pablo. Looks like Pinole has the closest one so I can go there then the backroads home.
That location might have closed a while ago. Friends were annoyed.
Hmm...interesting. google maps shows it. Let me check the krispy kreme website.
Someone had their comment deleted from the front page. It appears someone used a xenophobic term for Covid-19. IMHO, it was nicely handled by Leland.
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/cal-bears-football-schedule-2021
Now I want to know who it was.
Same here.
Leland said they would reach out to the submitter and see if they wanted to repost without the xenophobic term. @so now everoyne that has a new post will be a suspect@. or to quote the youngins, sus
it was GB49 wasn't it?
Absolutely! Sounds like it wasn't a case of keeping the trolls out as this community does an excellent job of making trolls feel unwelcomed, but a comment from a regular poster. Seems like it is being handled appropriately.
Arch
...Deluxe
It was the third failed variant that McDonald's launched to compete head-to-head against the Whopper by adding lettuce & tomato + other toppings. It was preceded by the Big N' Tasty and the McDLT (keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool).
I loved the McDLT. Always asked for no mustard so that I always got a freshly made one (and because I hate yellow mustard).
Triumphal...
The Romans invented military parades that went through an arch. The original arches are everywhere in Europe/Asia minor, plus were copied by a lot of cultures. So there are a lot of triumphal arches around the world. Or as I call them "Dude-We-Kicked-Ass"
Arch of Septimius Severus in North Africa
https://www.livius.org/articles/place/lepcis-magna/photos/lepcis-magna-arch-of-septimius-severus/
Arch of Triumph, Pyongyang (larger than Arc D'Triomph in Paris!)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/arch-of-triumph
True story: when we were there, we were able to be out in the street taking photos for 15 minutes before a car came by. And this is on the MAJOR highway leaving Pyongyang to the South. Like the 5 out of the Bay Area.
Heh, as if they defeated the Japanese (not).
-Enemy
i always enjoyed watching the Superfriends as a kid because Legion of Doom was full of archenemies for each of the superheroes.
plus the Legion of Doom much better HQ than the the good guys.
The Justice League had to face more bureaucratic red tape for their HQ...until they moved to space (moon in the comics, space station in the animated series).
"....of your enemy is your friend" To this day, I still don't get how W missed this basic lesson in foreign policy.
great Swedish death metal band, though I preferred their previous singer though
though though though
For years, I thought it was: Cool summer.
Trouble in the Suez
Could take weeks to move the ship...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/ever-given-a-massive-cargo-ship-is-still-stuck-in-the-suez-canal.html
what a mess. I'll be surprised if it only takes a few days to get it loose.
Europe is going to start seeing shortages of consumer goods. I guess it's the Europeans turn to start hoarding TP.
We're gonna need a smaller boat
There’s a few songs that tho I once despised, over time, have developed a healthy tolerance for and can now resignedly listen to and pretty much tolerate...it’s almost like the song broke me, much like Cool Hand Luke feigned to be with the mirrored-glasses guard. We Didn’t Start the Fire is one, Love Shack is another. I’m just a beaten man, and after so many years of changing the dial, I can finally, almost begrudgingly, sing along...damn...
I remember after the song came out I got the flu and had the CD. So I listened to the song over and over until I learned all the lyrics.
eh, Love Shack is lame and inoffensive - We Didn’t Start the Fire is objectionable.
Why is it objectionable?
I'd have to subject myself to listening to that to tell you, so I'll have to leave this blank.
I thought it was an OK song, but what a golden oldie.
Bananas
One banana, two bananas, three bananas, four...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMl6HnhFFIA
this is the BEST banana song
I wasn't sure that the Splits would mean anything to the Younger Generation™ :-)
Watching the closing credits, you can see that Richard Donner directed (the Danger Island bits...which I'm sure are terribly non-appropriate racially!)
Nope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-_KlWqmjU
This sounds like the same song, speeded up by 30%
i really dislike bananas, so i just tell people that i am allergic to them.
interestingly enough, before my recent Achilles surgery, they asked me if i was allergic to bananas!
apparently it is correlated to being allergic to latex.
"apparently it is correlated to being allergic to latex"
My wife has had a coughing/post nasal drip every morning. She thought it was dairy because she adds cream to her coffee, but recently tested negative for dairy allergy. I thought it might be coffee, because I noticed that my asthma got worse when I drink it out of a Yeti but it's fine if I let it cool off a bit by serving it in over-sized ceramic mug to act as a heat-sink. But she does have bananas every morning in her smoothie and she's allergic to latex...
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
Melt Banana. A very unique but awesome Japanese noise rock band
Nice one! I think I saw them at the DNA Lounge like 15 years ago.
My son is super sensitive to the smell of ripe bananas - he likes only if they are a bit green & firm
Fighting _______ Slugs
No known predators!
Seriously? That just confirms, some potential meals are so unpalatable in texture that no living being in the natural world includes them on the menu.
They expel a super viscous and anesthetic mucus when agitated which makes them very difficult to eat. With no predators, they just have to keep an eye out for bike tires and hiking boots.
Mashed banana, mashed banana (mashed banana, mashed banana)
Mashed banana, mashed banana (mashed banana, mashed banana)
Mashed banana, mashed banana (banana), banana (banana)
Banana, banana, banana
3rd verse of Wiggles song
Peanut butter and banana sandwich on whole wheat
Swap for toasted sourdough and I'm in
Cruel Summer
For at least a couple years as a kid I thought the lyrics were "Groove Samba" not "Cruel Summer", I never knew the title of the song, so it wasn't sorted out until it was used in the movie Blue Crush.
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire...
Other College
EDSBS Charity Bowl
https://twitter.com/hollyanderson/status/1374717944148672513?s=21
Cal finished #25 in 2020, behind both Oregon and Colorado. Scottie wants a top ten finish this year. Go Bears
Damn right she does. Let's do it.
What does a Cal Bear use as the “basis formula” for donating? Final score of a great victory (which one)? Number of NCAA championships? Number of Nobel Prize Winners? Or, number of years that Cal has not been to the Rose Bowl?
I have usually donated $46.17 in the past (for the 1993 Big Game) but since we're aiming for top ten, I'll figure out an amount over $100
Scootie*
EDSBS = Everyday Should Be Saturday?
yes
Thanks.
Former Top CFB Recruits Down to Their Last Chances in 2021
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2937848-former-top-cfb-recruits-down-to-their-last-chances-in-2021
Demetris Robertson is on the list...
Since he can transfer without sitting out, we still need WRs...
Yup
Pro
Bear vs. Bear as Collin Morikawa takes on Max Homa in WGC-Dell Match-Play. Unfortunately, I think it is a "must-win" for both of them after Morikawa drawed and Homa lost yesterday.
The NBA Trade Deadline is 3pm EDT today
Will the Warriors do anything? Try to get someone back for Oubre? Not sure they should keep him after Klay comes back. Would rather have Wiggins over Oubre if only for his D.
Dubs got a lot of incentive to trade Oubre or else they just lose him when he becomes a free agent (since he was acquired with a salary cap exception).
Looks like they traded Marques Chriss and Wannamaker. But not Oubre. Which I guess means they think they can re-sign him? This opens up a couple of spots so who will they sign? They need a backup PG don't they? Or does that fall on Jordan Poole? Or maybe they'll sign Jeremy Lin.
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2021/3/25/22350929/warriors-trade-marquese-chriss-brad-wanamaker-hornets-spurs-kelly-oubre-jr
Vucevic to the Bulls
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31133908/orlando-magic-trade-nikola-vucevic-chicago-bulls-sources-say
USA vs Jamaica in a few minutes...
Dest with an amazing strike at 35 USA 1-0 Jamaica
USA 2-0 now
Davante Downs signs one year deal with the NY Giants
Raiders re-work Marcus Mariota's contract...
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/marcus-mariota-reworks-contract-with-the-raiders-reportedly-receives-no-trade-clause/
Cal
The weekend series between Cal Softball and No.3 UCLA is canceled due to COVID issues on the UCLA end.
Welcome Jim Plain, who replaces Nick Mitchell for video production at Cal Football
https://twitter.com/JamesPlain1/status/1374941140772786181
Go Bears!