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24 Aug 2009  |  oblique  |The Grill

Ratto thinks the A’s are Ziggy with a cloud over his head.  And I don’t mean Brad Ziegler, though he might have a cloud over his head too.

The A’s play the Mariners tonight, for anyone who’s so completely bored with life that they have to tune into something so meaningless.  There will also be reruns of House on some random channel I’ve never heard of.

Recent discovery:  Apparently Mork and Laverne actually dated.  Seriously.

34 thoughts on “DLD 8/24/2009. Why are we here?”

  1. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 1:46 pm

    In college, I played 5-string fretless bass for Grisly Thunderhead.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • oblique Aug 24,2009 1:56 pm || Up

      My sister’s cat is named Bass, and sometimes frets like a dunderhead.

  2. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 2:02 pm

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Aug 24,2009 2:30 pm || Up

      He’s actually very good in How I Met Your Mother (which is fine compromise-tv)

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • JediLeroy Aug 24,2009 5:10 pm || Up

        HIMYM is fantastic. Jason Segel is my hero.

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • nevermoor Aug 24,2009 5:20 pm || Up

          I’m not going to say it’s Mad Men, or The Wire (hi monkeyball), or Breaking Bad, or Rescue Me, or The Office. It is, however, one of the better “standard” sitcoms out there.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • JediLeroy Aug 25,2009 6:06 pm || Up

            I actually prefer it to The Office (which is now my second favorite sitcom). I quite like The Big Bang Theory, too.

            LOST is probably my go-to series right now.

            az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
      • monkeyball Aug 24,2009 5:19 pm || Up

        I’m not sure how you interpreted that as an anti-NPH post.

        Tortured logic, perhaps?

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  3. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 2:06 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Aug 24,2009 2:35 pm || Up

      Holy shit. Hope there’s still duct tape, spam and bottled water at Safeway after work.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  4. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 2:07 pm

    Christ, what an Aschburner

    Now, despite what Al Gore and his legions might tell you, the climate in Minnesota hasn’t changed nearly enough since the Dome opened in 1982.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  5. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 2:08 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  6. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 2:12 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Aug 24,2009 2:35 pm || Up

      Not a strong example.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. salb918 Aug 24,2009 2:13 pm

    There’s going to be a Science Tuesday tomorrow.

  8. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 2:19 pm

    I think higher education is purely extortion

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • salb918 Aug 24,2009 2:25 pm || Up

      Says the history major.

      • nevermoor Aug 24,2009 2:31 pm || Up

        Seriously, without higher education I’d have no way to sneer at the huddled masses.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  9. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 2:25 pm

    I like Louis CK:

    “I don’t like people who are successful, I don’t like people who are good at their job, and I certainly don’t like people who are likable.”

    (I don’t, however, care much for R. Gervais.)

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • Leopold Bloom Aug 24,2009 6:39 pm || Up

      I’m not real fond of Rickey, either, though Patton Oswalt makes me laugh very much.

    • mikeA Aug 24,2009 8:42 pm || Up

      I agree on the first two, but I like likeable people. And also Gervais.

      Why has no one ever told me to watch Pooty Tang before a few weeks ago?

      • monkeyball Aug 25,2009 8:05 am || Up

        I’m pretty sure I’ve extolled the brilliance of Pooty Tang before.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  10. nevermoor Aug 24,2009 2:32 pm

    I just want to say, props to DFA for continuing to bring it at **. If the “chief administrator” was less of an irredeemable fuckup, he’d be the next front page writer.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. andeux Aug 24,2009 2:37 pm

    Two good articles from the New Yorker this week:
    James Surowiecki on how some behavioral economics phenomena make selling health care reform more difficult.

    And a longer article about how hard it is for NYC teachers to be fired for misconduct or incompetence.

    TINSTAAFK
    • monkeyball Aug 24,2009 5:28 pm || Up

      TWSS

      the so-called “endowment effect”: the mere fact that you own something leads you to overvalue it

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  12. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 2:59 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  13. monkeyball Aug 24,2009 5:43 pm

    Hunh. Day off for Rajai, Cust back at cleanup (and in RF), no Everidge. Lefty-heavy lineup for Snell.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  14. FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 24,2009 6:16 pm

    Laverne was hot to trot.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Leopold Bloom Aug 24,2009 6:37 pm || Up

      Aren’t both Laverne and Mork gay? Like I know they’re both not “out”, so to speak, but aren’t they both gay?

      • 5Aces Aug 25,2009 6:09 am || Up

        I always thought that Laverne was a straight dude. Didn’t realize he was gay…

        Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
      • monkeyball Aug 25,2009 8:06 am || Up

        I’m 99% sure Laverne is — Mork, though, I think is polymorphously perverse.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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