I wish we didn't have to know her name. I wish she could have lived her beautiful life. I wish the Louisville police hadn't murdered her. I wish I had more faith that her killers would be held responsible.
I just found out that I am older that Ann B. Davis (Alice) was in the last season of the Brady Bunch (48 yo). That's messed up. Apropos: I am also older than Christopher Lloyd was when he played Doc Brown in Back to the Future (47).
Gotta follow @BrimleyLine on Twitter, who catalogs all the celebs who are now older than Wilfred Brimley was when they filmed Cocoon (he was only like 50 1/2).
I apparently still have T-shirts from 25 years ago that I kept. These range from some high school competitions to sports-related memorabilia. They also still fit since they are mostly generic men's M/L size. Some of them are also in not so good shape since I machine washed it quite a few times.
Yea, I've got a couple 25-year-old t-shirts, which at this point are middle school vintage. None are in great shape, and they're all basically band t-shirts of bands I was into at the time.
You know, I never have bought a band t-shirt for myself. I did buy a Modern Lovers t-shirt for my wife, but she didn't think it was as cool as I thought it was.
The oldest shirt I have is from the 1997 Long Beach Gran Prix, but the oldest article of clothing I have is a New York Knicks hat from the early 90s ('92, I think). It has an orange bill and a green underside of the bill, so it's quite a relic from its time.
I still have a bunch of Cal gameday shirts from the Tedford Era, but most of those have been demoted to bedtime shirts.
I have a ton of race t-shirts, including a handful that have survived from the first races I ran in the late 70s. A couple from a race that went from Temescal to Jack London Square and one that went from Berkeley City Hall up to LHS.
So back in my senior year of HS in '92, Pops and I flew to Omaha, NE for the College World Series. Cal came back from the brink to topple favored Texas A & M in the Regional to punch their ticket. The Bears had a helluva team - Campo-grad Jon Zuber, Matt Luke, Chris Clapinski and Geoff Blum would all go on to play MLB ball...DH Troy Penix was a beast, and the pitching was solid. As we were leaving a crushing, extra-inning Game 1 loss to Miami, I bought a CWS t-shirt off a street-vendor. Unfortunately, it was an XL, and I weighed like 120 pounds soaking wet at the time. I could literally eat a Smokehouse burger and fries, wash it down with a bottle of Coca-Cola and a Red Vine straw, and scarf an It's-It for dessert....and like lose weight in the process. Miss those days (smh!)
Well, I kept that damn shirt through college...and grad school...and multiple cross-country moves, etc....until finally, a lil over 20+ years later, I unfortunately filled out enough for it to fit decent enough. It's still a little long on me, but the baggy fit is suddenly my jam as I now rock my own little "Kuato" from Arnold's Total Recall. That bad boy is in the washer as we speak.
i used to prefer the very baggy XL tee. but recently (couple years now) i am opting for the L tee that is still cozy and comfortable w/o feeling tight.
the problem is that some of them do feel tight (but not initially) so it is only about 50% of the time that i actually end up liking the tee that i got.
The T in Boston is kind of like BART (or the DC Metro) in that they both cost you more money if you go further. The NYC subway is a flat rate however if you go a few blocks or to the end of the line to another borough. I feel like I am gaming the system if I take it all the way to Flushing (for Mets game or US Open or Taiwanese food) from Manhattan.
NWSL Challenge Cup will be played in Utah in the end of June. All the teams will be at one resort for a total of 25 matches. It's not yet clear how many of the USWNT players will participate. Rapinoe made news yesterday for apparently deciding to skip this.
All the tourists go to the Peninsula in Hong Kong. All the upper class society in HK actually go to the Mandarin Oriental. My last full day in Hong Kong as a resident I spent with my Cal friend Abbie, and we were at high tea for 5 hours lounging on the couches at the Mandarin.
Pulled the “Clark Griswold in the Grand Canyon” from Vacation at the Empress, observing all the fine people having tea...then hustled to a bar down the street for pints of Carlsberg & fresh oysters.
i find that high tea has a couple different aspects
- the tea
- the food
- the setting
i personally am a coffee snob, but happy w/ most teas, so the first one does not make a difference.
but the other 2 are definitely up my alley. sometimes access to a beautiful room or setting requires the tea service and i am happy to do it just to looks around and soak in the vibes
I've done high tea twice. Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon and then another place in London that I can't remember. It's probably my fault for going to the touristy high-tea places, but I found them to be underwhelming.
Roxane Gay tweeting about "Lady G," all of us scrambling and worried about what Lady Gaga could have done, then learning that it's got something to do with Lindsey Graham...
I am a little bit envious of the fifth, eighth and 11th graders in 2070 who will get to study this year in US History. I would love to see their faces when they get to the 3rd Amendment part of the story.
"The Pentagon has told the District of Columbia National Guard and guardsmen from other states who have arrived in the nation’s capital as backup to not use firearms or ammunition, a sign of de-escalation in the federal response to protests in the city after the killing of George Floyd, according to officials familiar with the decision.
The Department of Defense, led by Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, appears to have made the decision without consulting the White House, where President Trump has ordered a militarized show of force on the streets of Washington, D.C,. since demonstrations in the city were punctured by an episode of looting on Sunday. Trump specifically had encouraged the National Guard to be armed."
Apparently, the Particle Physics and Cosmology community is organizing a strike for next Wednesday. I'm both happy that people are trying to do something but can't help but be cynical about its impact in the grand scheme of things.
There used to be a store in the West Covina/Glendora/San Dimas San Gabriel Valley corridor that we could see from the freeway that was something like "Ray's TV Repair and Soccer Supplies"
I once attended a Social Networks and Mining conference and managed to convince Mrs. Bk97 that it was for mining precious metals rather than data mining.
We had several hundred folks flood the streets around City Hall and march to the police station in my town. We're in a fairly small county (~250k) in the only red district in MD, so I was very pleased to see such a big turnout. I'm considering heading there with a backpack full of gatorade and sunblock on Sunday to hand out to anyone in need.
There's a march tomorrow from the county courthouse to downtown via the Lincoln and MLK memorials to meet up with the big demonstration. It goes right by my house so I think I have no choice but to join in.
It is mildly amusing (better than getting verklempt anyway) to see people saying "gosh I never thought my skills in reporting on lying collapsing regimes through actions like ordnance counting would be relevant in the US." Surprise bitches!
For those who don't know, RB Coach Aristotle Thomson is the real deal as a person. The more I read about that man, the more that I am proud that he is molding the Sons of California into men. He has a heavy load to carry.
Keep calm and drop 50 shirt from a few years back in the Dykes era.
So tired of emails from various companies touting their progressive stand against racism.
/eyeroll.
festoon
unhinged/dominate
lowlife/scum
bunker
aiding and abetting
photo op
Merriam-Webster with another editorial.
I think my Apple TV died last night :(
Was there a cop nearby?
pqtm
Virginia Tech
A friend of mine is married to one of the football coaches, so I get all this VT Hokie stuff in my twitter and instagram feed when they sign recruits.
weird color combo, or weirdest?
Lots of Hokies in my neighborhood.
That 52-49 Insight Bowl win was some kind of fun!
https://twitter.com/BrianMFloyd/status/1268656459648098304
Happy Birthday, Breonna Taylor. It would have been your 27th birthday if cops hadn't blasted unannounced into your house and shot you 8 times in bed.
I wish we didn't have to know her name. I wish she could have lived her beautiful life. I wish the Louisville police hadn't murdered her. I wish I had more faith that her killers would be held responsible.
Another casualty of the proliferation of no-knock warrants in recent decades...
F*
Alice
B Toklas.
I love you Alice B. Toklas,
And so does Gertrude Stein.
I just found out that I am older that Ann B. Davis (Alice) was in the last season of the Brady Bunch (48 yo). That's messed up. Apropos: I am also older than Christopher Lloyd was when he played Doc Brown in Back to the Future (47).
Gotta follow @BrimleyLine on Twitter, who catalogs all the celebs who are now older than Wilfred Brimley was when they filmed Cocoon (he was only like 50 1/2).
Alice's Restaurant on Skyline and 84 is a fun hang on a warm autumn day.
It's apparently a big stop for bikers cruising 84. Been meaning to go there and check it out sometime.
T-shirt
I still occasionally (but a lot fewer times now, to preserve the wears) rock my "No Hype, No Prisoners" Cal Basketball 1995-1996 t-shirt
1994-1995
Fine for exercise and yard work - or for lounging around while working from home
I regularly rock t-shirt dresses, but don't think I've worn a straight up t-shirt in probably 20 years or more.
At my height t shirt = T-shirt dress
I guess my current fave is a v-neck
I apparently still have T-shirts from 25 years ago that I kept. These range from some high school competitions to sports-related memorabilia. They also still fit since they are mostly generic men's M/L size. Some of them are also in not so good shape since I machine washed it quite a few times.
Yea, I've got a couple 25-year-old t-shirts, which at this point are middle school vintage. None are in great shape, and they're all basically band t-shirts of bands I was into at the time.
You know, I never have bought a band t-shirt for myself. I did buy a Modern Lovers t-shirt for my wife, but she didn't think it was as cool as I thought it was.
I have regatta/ trading shirts from my Sr year in high school 1982
The oldest shirt I have is from the 1997 Long Beach Gran Prix, but the oldest article of clothing I have is a New York Knicks hat from the early 90s ('92, I think). It has an orange bill and a green underside of the bill, so it's quite a relic from its time.
I still have a bunch of Cal gameday shirts from the Tedford Era, but most of those have been demoted to bedtime shirts.
I have a t shirt from the first concert I went to in 1981 (I think)
I have a ton of race t-shirts, including a handful that have survived from the first races I ran in the late 70s. A couple from a race that went from Temescal to Jack London Square and one that went from Berkeley City Hall up to LHS.
So back in my senior year of HS in '92, Pops and I flew to Omaha, NE for the College World Series. Cal came back from the brink to topple favored Texas A & M in the Regional to punch their ticket. The Bears had a helluva team - Campo-grad Jon Zuber, Matt Luke, Chris Clapinski and Geoff Blum would all go on to play MLB ball...DH Troy Penix was a beast, and the pitching was solid. As we were leaving a crushing, extra-inning Game 1 loss to Miami, I bought a CWS t-shirt off a street-vendor. Unfortunately, it was an XL, and I weighed like 120 pounds soaking wet at the time. I could literally eat a Smokehouse burger and fries, wash it down with a bottle of Coca-Cola and a Red Vine straw, and scarf an It's-It for dessert....and like lose weight in the process. Miss those days (smh!)
Well, I kept that damn shirt through college...and grad school...and multiple cross-country moves, etc....until finally, a lil over 20+ years later, I unfortunately filled out enough for it to fit decent enough. It's still a little long on me, but the baggy fit is suddenly my jam as I now rock my own little "Kuato" from Arnold's Total Recall. That bad boy is in the washer as we speak.
Sigh....helluva shirt. Go Bears!
"I could literally eat a Smokehouse burger and fries, wash it down with a bottle of Coca-Cola and a Red Vine straw, and scarf an It's-It for dessert."
Jimmy Chitwood, I want to party with you.
I wish Smokehouse was still open.
Would make the pandemic so much easier
My standard dgaf attire is black cotton t-shirt.
Now that I'm working from home all the time, that's pretty much all I wear.
i used to prefer the very baggy XL tee. but recently (couple years now) i am opting for the L tee that is still cozy and comfortable w/o feeling tight.
the problem is that some of them do feel tight (but not initially) so it is only about 50% of the time that i actually end up liking the tee that i got.
I haven't used "Baggy" and "XL" together in decades.
I wear a lot of plain white T's. Mostly under other shirts.
is what I wear probably 95% of the year.
T
Bone is a very decent cut.
The T in Boston is kind of like BART (or the DC Metro) in that they both cost you more money if you go further. The NYC subway is a flat rate however if you go a few blocks or to the end of the line to another borough. I feel like I am gaming the system if I take it all the way to Flushing (for Mets game or US Open or Taiwanese food) from Manhattan.
KEN-MOHAH STATION. THIS IS A SCIENCE PAHK BOUND TRAIN.
WSOC
NWSL Challenge Cup will be played in Utah in the end of June. All the teams will be at one resort for a total of 25 matches. It's not yet clear how many of the USWNT players will participate. Rapinoe made news yesterday for apparently deciding to skip this.
High tea
All the tourists go to the Peninsula in Hong Kong. All the upper class society in HK actually go to the Mandarin Oriental. My last full day in Hong Kong as a resident I spent with my Cal friend Abbie, and we were at high tea for 5 hours lounging on the couches at the Mandarin.
I like my tea low and all day
I like my beats fast and my bass down low
Didn't Cugel do this once?
Brownies, not tea.
THC infused tea? That's an idea.
It's readily available, my MIL enjoys the all 30:1 CBD:THC version
I don't think we can get that in Maryland somehow 😂
Tea sandwiches are my shit.
I guess we did this once, in Victoria at Hotel Fairmont Empress, and I agree with SGBear, not really worth the effort.
I guess we did this once, in Victoria at Hotel Fairmont Empress, and I agree with SGBear, not really worth the effort.
I guess we did this once, in Victoria at Hotel Fairmont Empress, and I agree with SGBear, not really worth the effort.
Pulled the “Clark Griswold in the Grand Canyon” from Vacation at the Empress, observing all the fine people having tea...then hustled to a bar down the street for pints of Carlsberg & fresh oysters.
High like formal or high like mind altering?
i find that high tea has a couple different aspects
- the tea
- the food
- the setting
i personally am a coffee snob, but happy w/ most teas, so the first one does not make a difference.
but the other 2 are definitely up my alley. sometimes access to a beautiful room or setting requires the tea service and i am happy to do it just to looks around and soak in the vibes
I've done high tea twice. Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon and then another place in London that I can't remember. It's probably my fault for going to the touristy high-tea places, but I found them to be underwhelming.
OUR BURGEONING FASCIST STATE
Roxane Gay tweeting about "Lady G," all of us scrambling and worried about what Lady Gaga could have done, then learning that it's got something to do with Lindsey Graham...
There is speculation - which could just be from internet trolling - that some DC sex workers will name names
I mean his orientation and predilection for hiring external experts is like DC's worst kept secret.
I am a little bit envious of the fifth, eighth and 11th graders in 2070 who will get to study this year in US History. I would love to see their faces when they get to the 3rd Amendment part of the story.
the more I think about this, the more I think that they'll still be struggling to get to, never mind past, world war 2.
Type in "3rd" in Google and "3rd amendment" is the first autocomplete result.
"The Pentagon has told the District of Columbia National Guard and guardsmen from other states who have arrived in the nation’s capital as backup to not use firearms or ammunition, a sign of de-escalation in the federal response to protests in the city after the killing of George Floyd, according to officials familiar with the decision.
The Department of Defense, led by Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, appears to have made the decision without consulting the White House, where President Trump has ordered a militarized show of force on the streets of Washington, D.C,. since demonstrations in the city were punctured by an episode of looting on Sunday. Trump specifically had encouraged the National Guard to be armed."
Maybe Esper has grown some balls...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pentagon-disarms-guardsmen-in-washington-dc-in-signal-of-de-escalation/2020/06/05/324da91a-a733-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
Esper is covering his ass, in case some dipshit tries to order shootings, and orders get refused. Then he can say WTF I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT.
Apparently, the Particle Physics and Cosmology community is organizing a strike for next Wednesday. I'm both happy that people are trying to do something but can't help but be cynical about its impact in the grand scheme of things.
There are definitely further actionable items that need to be taken in academia, so let's hope we can make progress on that front!
I read that as Particle Physics and Cosmetology and thought "wut, that's quite an interesting combo!"
There used to be a store in the West Covina/Glendora/San Dimas San Gabriel Valley corridor that we could see from the freeway that was something like "Ray's TV Repair and Soccer Supplies"
A real Caltech & Pasadena City College combo
More like Pacific Tech and the Wanda Trossler School of Beauty
I once attended a Social Networks and Mining conference and managed to convince Mrs. Bk97 that it was for mining precious metals rather than data mining.
FWIW, they (the organizers) are trying to get non-academics involved as well. I am sure they do welcome the cosmetology community.
Nobody says you can't be smart and pretty!
We had several hundred folks flood the streets around City Hall and march to the police station in my town. We're in a fairly small county (~250k) in the only red district in MD, so I was very pleased to see such a big turnout. I'm considering heading there with a backpack full of gatorade and sunblock on Sunday to hand out to anyone in need.
That is a good thing to do!
I’m frankly surprised at some of the places in Maryland that have had protests
My small, right leaning, home to area cops, very religious, suburban hometown had a march.
Took place in the San Diego march yesterday. Pretty peaceful, heard there might be some counter protesters but never saw them.
There's a march tomorrow from the county courthouse to downtown via the Lincoln and MLK memorials to meet up with the big demonstration. It goes right by my house so I think I have no choice but to join in.
Ukraine: "We did what you pressured us to do as a quid-pro-quo. No evidence of shenanigans. Now leave us alone."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-ukraine/ukraine-found-no-evidence-against-hunter-biden-in-case-audit-former-top-prosecutor-idUSKBN23B2RB
Behold my shocked face
US Park Police: "No tear gas was used at Lafayette Park. We only used spicy smoke and pepper balls."
Journalist:
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/tear-gas-washington-dc-protests-st-johns-church/65-7e9a67c7-e40b-47a2-8060-3f7d908139dd
It is mildly amusing (better than getting verklempt anyway) to see people saying "gosh I never thought my skills in reporting on lying collapsing regimes through actions like ordnance counting would be relevant in the US." Surprise bitches!
This basically means: "We didn't use tear gas, just gas that brings tears to the eyes."
not to support the park police's untennable position, but Isn't tear gas 'spicy smoke'?
PRO
CAL
Go Bears!
For those who don't know, RB Coach Aristotle Thomson is the real deal as a person. The more I read about that man, the more that I am proud that he is molding the Sons of California into men. He has a heavy load to carry.
he also has a great name.