Last off day of the regular season. Be kind to each other. Lounge it up.
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I broke my Beats and lost my stylus for my phone. Rough day yesterday.
Today I put Canola oil on a patient.
I’m too tired to use this thread now. For aomw reason I thought picking a shift up tomorrow was a good idea.
Anyone watch any good new shows this week?
Brooklyn 99 was a good pilot but less good second episode. I liked the new DC-based show too.
I’ve been watching it. It might work if some of the non-Sandberg characters start to be funny, but that isn’t happening yet.
I think the new boss is pretty funny, and the sergeant had some good moments, but a lot of the other characters need work.
I’ve watched both episodes and haven’t laughed very much. I’m sticking with it for a while longer.
DC show?
Blacklist
Oh yeah. My dad is in love with that show already.
I can’t stop staring at the main lady’s hair.
along the lines of this post:
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and related: the cuban sandwich with a side of home-made pepper dippin’ sauce and some maduros in garlic at the westside coffee shop (church street just at canal) is still so FK’n good after 15 years. everything is so slick and trendy (there’s a whole foods at bowery and houston, just to start), i didn’t feel like i was truly back in my version of NY till i ate there today.
That sounds delicious, I want one of those right now.
me too! and tomorrow too. for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and that meal between breakfast and brunch.
Nice day for an off day. It will be fun to see what mix of sharpness-keeping and resting Melvin uses with the roster the last three games, given the four off days before ALCS Game 1.
I honestly couldn’t tell you when the playoffs started, deary.
(hint: they haven’t started yet.)
Oh thank goodness.
Did folks see Carlos Gomez versus Atlanta today? Man, that was crazy!
Wow. I guess they didn’t like his bat flip? Did he ever touch home?
What a little bitch.
Brian McCann kind of needs to chill the FK out too.
Same with the Braves guy who comes running in from the left. Asshats.
Gomez was out of line to be sure, but the Braves reaction was not at all what a poised team cruising into postseason should look like. They just scream early playoff flameout to me this year; I almost want to bet on it.
and freeman
No, never did touch home. Apparently it goes back to Gomez getting hit by the same Braves pitcher back in June.
Just watched a whole history of CarGo and Maholm – he owns him (something like 9-20 with a bunch of homers) but has been hit by pitch a couple times in the last few meetings. Including once when he tried to take out the 2nd baseman on a grounder and got hurt doing so, which apparently added fuel to the fire. So he was glaring at Maholm from the first pitch on, and once again crushed him.
Today is my four year workiversary. I was fired from my old job the very next day!
My ALDS tickets have arrived!
I hate you.
:(
No offense.
That’s quite an ensemble. Bonus points for quality costumes, minus points for lack of thematic consistency. All in all, though, a good effort.
I really like Chuck Norris.
Wolverine’s moose knuckle is scaring me.
Who wants to rock me to sleep and read me a story?
My hands say yes, but my balls say no. Sorry.
No one cares about your balls.
Exactly. Every one does.
Jennifer Fact #32: My avatar says “peace out, Trout” in the corner but it’s cut off.
Snow!!! Wooooooo!!!
Ooh, the Tigers’ shirts do say WE OWN THE CENTRAL. Ugly too.
Ew. Have fun wearing that Tigers
Want to lose 3 teeth and get booked? Then the head-first sliding tackle is for you.
the xeneizes always play better in la boca.
Shelter fundraiser today. Can’t wait til it’s oooooooovvvvveeeeerrrrrr!!!!!!
Also my fave boy Frankie went to a foster home and I think they want to adopt him forevers!!
I want the Rangers out of thw playoffs. The LAA are currently rocking my world.
Until that.
And while ordinarily I’d say Go Twins for scoring four runs in the bottom of the ninth against Cleveland….
An impressive tease, but just a tease nonetheless.
Yup. And certainly I would like for this to go on until the last day, so the Rangers fans can experience maximum anguish again.
Where are all the people (party and otherwise) at?
Work.
Bed. I’m tired and hungry.
going places on the D train.
(arriving at temporary home from 2 train, to tell the unmusical truth.)
1. The Niners looked much better tonight.
2. The Rams are really, really horrible.
Yeah. I have no idea whether that means we are getting on track, or that the Rams just can’t stop the run to save their lives.
Kaep still didn’t look very good though. Also, Staley had better be OK. Otherwise we are effed.
I think Staley will be alright. He was at least to walk off the field, and they have 10 days before the next game.
I think the Rams are just that bad. On the other hand, getting Manningham and Crabtree back could make the Niners really interesting.
Division game, etc.
But honestly, look at the inactives that the Niners had:
Willis
Crabtree
Manningham
Nnamdi
Aldon
You can’t tell me that a team missing it’s top 2 WRs, best LB, best pass rusher, and 3rd/nickel cornerback isn’t going to struggle. I know the Rams suck and stuff, and it’s not like the Niners are all of a sudden back and dominant, but right now they can basically be shut down 100% when a team can blanket Boldin and stack the box.
Also, the 2012 draft is complete shit. :(
Thanks, and go As.
Agreed. 2012 was a massive fail unless LMJ really takes off.
And we got crushed by the colts with Nnamdi, Aldon, and Willis so I’m thinking our current upside is lower-division playoffs. That changes a lot if Crabtree/Manningham come back healthy and we don’t have more big injuries.
Brian Wilson goes off on Larry Baer….a match made in heaven.
What an asshat.
Which one?
Yes.
In this particular case, I’ll go with Wilson.
Reminder: ALCS tix on sale momentarily
So who is getting me tickets and letting me go with them? :)
World Series tickets registration starting on Monday morning too
Are they doing a lottery?
Looks like they’re doing something along those lines. “Register for the opportunity to purchase tickets”
Boy, I wish JR could hit lefties as well as he can photobomb.
Billy appears to be auditioning for the remake of “Space: 1999”.
{{{obligatory Martin Landau reference}}}
I’m a “UFO” guy myself. Do you know that show?
Infinite LOLs at the Angels’ luxury tax situation.
That’s actually really interesting. I didn’t know that AAV was used to calculate being hit for the luxury tax.
Thanks, and go As.
Never forget
ummm…can someone please remind me how to make a new post? i want to invite you to the annual halloween party. thx!
Lightsaber molecule.
My friend is in that research group, and I told her how disappointed I was that she wasn’t on the author list for the paper. She tells me that the research group leader has never even seen Star Wars.
I tried watching SHIELD but couldn’t get into it.
I tried watching (insert series here) but couldn’t get into it.
I have it on my dvr and was thinking of giving it a go later today, if I end up with any free time.
I want to ask you guys for recommendations for booka to read, but you guys are way smarter than me. But I’m going to ask anyway. Good books?
I’m reading a pretty good book right now, but you’re probably not into postapocalyptic lesbian biker erotica.
I’m pretty open. I like all different kinds of books, music, etc.
Anything by Junot Diaz. His most recent is a book of short stories called This Is How You Lose Her.
I thought the new Michael Chabon (Telegraph Avenue) was good and we had some discussion about it here a while back.
On the sci-fi/fantasy end of thing, I read “Alif the Unseen” by G. Willow Wilson earlier this year and it was a cool modern take on some Arabian nights type of stuff.
Everything by Philip K. Dick.
I just bought a Diaz book
Which one? I haven’t read Drown, but Oscar Wao and TIHYLH are both great.
its the new one. The GF is a voracious reader and promptly stole it while I try to find time to finish my Carlos Fuentes book
Resounding agreement on Philip K Dick.
Jennifer, you might like Will Self’s Umbrella.
And I think I want a Kindle.
<3 my kindle!
Cope answered all the questions I could think of. I think I’m doing it.
:D
New Kindle Paperwhite. Sexy.
to new york, to new york, to eat like a pig;
home again, home again, dancing a jig.
i was worried that you wouldn’t come back.
nah. NYC is only fun when you don’t have to work. and we all have to work.
don’t i know it. glad you are are home.
me too.
i mean, we spent $500 in two days JUST EATING.
yumz. as it should be!
My happy place!
which one, balthazar or blue hill?
i’m guessing balthazar. more iconic. we had a 3:30 lunch there, got a corner booth, tourist-watched over big steaks and foncy cocktails, felt so decadent.
a few tables over was the picture of lawn-guy-land classy. a trio of kardashian wannabes, one guy, two gals. he in the middle with arms over both of them, they in acid washed tight skirts, collagen butts, and ridiculous platform pumps. fruit de mer and chocotinis.
Balthazar for sure. I love that mid-afternoon time there, get a glass of wine and some raw bar stuff for a break between whatever in the day. Just a perfect place.
Looks delicious. I was amused at the bottom of the menu to see “Please refrain from smoking”.
i can’t believe they said please!!
Folsom Street Fair! Yay!
I’m going to be wearing my pink #11 A’s jersey, matching leggings, and a leather dog hood with muzzle.
Best. Sportsblog. Ever.
I agree.
So I was in dog mode, and surprisingly, I saw a guy in a Tigers’ jersey. I growled and barked and pulled on my chain and tried to drag my handler towards him. I then lifted my leg as if to urinate on him. I don’t think he understood why I singled him out for this treatment, and he definitely didn’t respond when I broke character and said “A’s in four” to him as he passed.
I then turned and noticed he was wearing a #58 jersey with the name “Fister” on the back.
LMAO
I HARDLY KNOW…
oh wait. anonymity is part of the point at folsom st, huh?
Not really, with all the cameras and film crews and tourists with their phones permanently stuck in front of their faces.
Says the out of towner
Yes, but not all travellers are tourists.
And all participants are not spectators.
all looks are not a like; all holes are not a crack.
*alike.
(though in the FB subthread it still makes sense the other way.)
And all that is gold does not glitter.
Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.
Paul Newman and a ride home.
No, someone who travels from outside the metro area to the city only for a festival is the definition of a tourist, just like people that come to pride.
American Heritage Dictionary
tour·ist (trst)
n.
One who travels for pleasure.
noun
1a person who is traveling or visiting a place for pleasure:
I think she meant like someone who travels for business wouldn’t be a tourist. Since it’s not pleasure travel. Or someone who travels just to travel, not so much pleasure, but the need to keep moving.
I took it as distinguishing from tourists people who travel to take part in (as opposed to be spectator of) an event – especially when that event is in part a celebration of community by a marginalized group.
Yabbut that distinction isn’t dictionarially made.
Its not made by Nina either. Shes arguing that travelers aren’t tourists.
I would argue that even encompassing the tourist to the scene definition, that doesn’t mean that someone that is in scene but not from the area and there specifically for the festival, wouldn’t prevent them from being a tourist. The cultural definition doesn’t necessarily usurp the other, rather that it augments it to add new ways to become a tourist.
She’s not arguing that at all. She quite explicitly says that “not all travelers are tourists.” I.e., there is a subset of travelers who are tourists, and a subset who are not. You can say this is wrong based on a dictionary definition of “tourist,” but she is alluding to a nuanced distinction that lots of people who travel with an intent to experience cultures rather than gawk at them make, because of the pejorative connotations attached to the word tourist.
I excluded an all there. Which is true.
I agree that there is more and less gawky versions of tourism. But you can not experience a culture that is not your identity without being an outsider and a tourist. For example I cannot go to Mexico and observe with an ability to exit in the same way that someone who doesn’t have the ability to exit has. Just as someone who is not a San Franciscan can’t go to an event like FSF without changing it.
Basically my point is that while Kay might dislike “tourists” many would say that she is one, even with ties to the community which I do not question, because just like someone who is not a part of the community, those who who are, don’t particularly like a bunch of out of towners driving in for the event.
Jarvis Cocker put it best:
for a while people were saying that I look like him a lot.
That’s quite the compliment.
I’d agree with that, I think.
I say if you go there to “perform” in some way you’re not a tourist. If you just go to see all the freaks, you’re a tourist.
What if you live on that street and you go to see the live music?
If you go by the literal definition of “travel” then you may be a tourist if that’s how you want to argue it.
ah, but in the construct of cultural context, place isn’t always a location. in this case, one could say that the place is something called kink and that kay is a years-long, full-time dweller, while even SFers who live a few blocks away physically, are outsiders gawkingly touring through her cultural hood once a year in a state of in-situ othering, taking pics to show back in their cultural place what they saw on those hours of vacation.
Mind. Blown.
While you make a fine point I think at the end of the day it is insufficient. Merely belonging to a community is not enough to absolve you of being a tourist. When I go to dodgers stadium for example, I am apart of the community of baseball fans, in a way that someone who doesn’t like baseball wouldn’t be but that doesn’t mean that I am not a tourist. I am a tourist because it is not my community due to me not being geographically raised/spent long enough time there to adopt it as my home.
What if you didn’t live in the area, but were a Dodger’s fan though? Or if you were dating a Dodger’s player? At what point do you cross the line into not being a tourist despite not living there?
Exactly. I don’t consider that I’m a tourist when I go to the Bay Area, even though it is, for the most part, for pleasure, and I do things that may even be touristy, like visit two museums, a football game, and a baseball game, for a real example.
Whether you consider yourself something and whether you are something is quite different.
I don’t consider myself rich but on a global scale I am. I don’t consider myself tall but I am taller than an average US man.
How you view yourself is more important than you claim. Wealth is a matter of perspective. Whether you are wealthy or not depends entirely on what perspective you choose to exist in.
Maybe to you but its also a measured quality
It’s a measured quality, but ALL measured qualities are perspective based. Big is only big from a perspective. Stink is only stinky from a perspective. They’re not absolutes.
Then you would be slumming it with the fans and a tourist.
You would be on a pilgrimage and therefore a tourist.
I don’t know what the bright line is though. I will spend more time thinking about it.
it’s open for study, for sure. a lot of it flows from this, which i was supposed to’ve read in grad school. wish i had the time to read it now.
I like Said, and there is definitely a lot there.
nice.
DAMMIT. threw a banana at myself(?).
i read a pun into that. thought you wrote: “like i Said…”
I wish i was smart enough to make that joke
I read a different, but similar, witticism into it:
“I like Said, and there is definitely a lot [said] there.”
Ok, because I’m curious. If you’re coming down on the position that any combination of travel and pleasure equals tourist regardless of community ties, then I’m going to want you to clarify what “travel” means.
E.g. Am I traveling if I go to a neighborhood in SF I never go to (like Outer Sunset or something)? What if I go to San Jose for pleasure (suspend your disbelief)? Would that be far enough to have triggered “travel?” Sacramento appears to be far enough away judging from your comments above, so I’d want to know, at least roughly, the distance that triggers travel and therefore tourism.
I would say it is more your regular routine than actual distance. If you never go to a neighborhood on the other side of the city and then you end up there yes you are a tourist.
has to be done:
Uhh!! They are so good! Now I have to choose between listening to the whole album and getting to work on time.
Now we’re getting closer to AV’s point. If regular routine trumps distance, what defines “regular routine?”
Say that Kay’s been going to the Folsom St Festival every year for a decade, and has blocked it off on her calendar for the next decade, does that not qualify as a routine? Surely, if she lived in SF, you wouldn’t claim that she were a tourist given her history with the festival and association with the community, so at what point or distance does travel outweigh those elements and knock someone into the tourist bucket?
Or if you feel that an annual routine doesn’t qualify as “regular”, imagine that Kay (sorry to keep using you as my example Kay) came from Sacramento to every Saturday A’s home game during the season and has been doing so for years. Would she be a tourist at the Coliseum? Or is weekly/bi-weekly a high enough frequency to qualify as “regular routine” despite the travel?
I think you have to leave room for familiarity when defining tourist, whether that familiarity be cultural or historical. Either that, or take a hard tack line that any travel over X miles for non-business purposes equals tourist.
doesn’t need to be strictly bi-weekly. you could just be bi-weekly-curious.
Bwah-hah-hah-hah!
The festival is centred around a bar culture of a particular geographic area namely Folsom Street. Its a part of a San Francisco is freaky and we are going to let our freak flag fly and screw the normals attitude that is captured by San Francisco’s geography and citizenry. You cant separate the two.
Yes, but they’re all in the Milky Way Galaxy that everyone who attends is resident of. And they frequently hang out on the planet Earth in the Sol System. So, you know, they’re locals and shit, not tourists.
If one travels to a new place to live and work, and experiences the emotion of pleasure whilst so living and working, does that automatically make that person a tourist?
I would say the live and work component make you less likely a tourist, though issues of race class and global hegemony might still intervene.
there’s a lot that could go into this, different ways to evaluate it. one could be the concentric circles of closeness to the “local” culture. for example, community of baseball is bigger, community of NL fans, somewhat smaller, community of NRAF dodger fans smaller, community of SoCal dodger fans, community of LA county dodger fans, chavez ravine dodger fans. and what you’re pointing to is that difference, which i buy.
but another way to look at it too, might be about spectatorship and performativity, which might sorta parallel kay’s experience. in your example, say the cardinals are playing the dodgers that day. the cards might fall into the two largest circles above, fans of baseball/fans of NL. but would a chavez ravine native, surely in the innermost circles, be able to point to them and say the cardinals tourists at that game? i dare say it might even go the other way around, that the locals wouldn’t even have something to look at if the cards weren’t there in the first place.
oops. forgot NRAF was A’s-specific. *NRDF.
The Cardinals are there on business which is separate :)
win
Mace a tourist!
Looks like our govt has found a way to do that.
and in this particular case, most of the people with phones glued to their faces were pic collectors, harvesting months worth of spank bank material, as opposed to vanillas coming specifically to gawk.
BTW, I’m totally in favor of vanilla people coming to Folsom. I think it shows a lot of courage for them to join the freak show and expose themselves to a milieu of alternative sexualities. Eventually, I would like to see there be a public queer/freak/kink/nudist festival in every city of decent size, just like every city of decent size has a Gay Pride parade or festival.
Festival? Don’t you mean general lifestyle?
So are you retracting your tourist comment or not? I cant tell
Are you retracting your tiny penis or not? I can’t tell.
wtf, kay. this is uncalled for.
this whole discussion is totally lame at this point.
Yeah, just a little bit below the belt. (sorry, couldn’t help myself, but yeah, uncalled for.)
Agreed. This has just been an interesting discussion on terms and definitions. No need for this at all.
This has been a bullshit semantic argument DFA started for the purpose of trolling me. When I’m trolled, I troll back. It is what it is.
I wish you all would just get up the gumption to ban us both. Then, you nonconfrontational types can have the peaceful environment you want.
However, if he’s going to be around here and makes any replies to any of my comments that I perceive to be personal attacks, whether over semantics or anything else, there’s going to be a re-reply from me in a little black box, and those of you who hate meta should just ignore it.
Since no one’s getting banned, I’d urge everyone not directly involved to just steer completely clear of such spats, as the only practical way of minimizing the spread of bad feelings any further.
Fuck it. Enjoy the place to yourselves.
Honestly, I don’t think it had anything to do with you. But even if it did, it was still too far. Walking away or even saying “DFA. Stop.” or something to that affect should have occurred before you drop the nuclear option. It’s one thing to feel disrespected and speak up. It’s a whole other animal to “shoot” someone for it without warning.
I mean I enjoy pretty much any conversation that involves Edward Said and thought what was happening above was pretty cordial. The questions that I was being asked I found to be interesting and made me think about my position with regards to the intersectionality of identities. I guess it was foolish to hope that it could stay that way.
Im not sure how asking if
pic collectors = tourists
vanillas = tourists
or neither = tourists
warrants that response.
Also I think it is pretty cowardly to spoil tag that. If you are going attack me, don’t hide in the shadows to do it. Be an adult and come after me in the day light.
might i suggest: how about an agreement to just stop attacking one another? it’s a FUCKING TIRED ACT and i am sick to my heart around all of it. if you all can’t speak to one another respectfully, either stop talking to one another or take it somewhere private. hell, i’m more than willing mediate your issues with one another if you need a witness/facilitator. this has become a constant source of sadness for me and i care about all of you.
i’ve heard from some people that they were hurt by what i wrote here. for that, i apologize from my heart.
my desire for respectful discussion and my offer to mediate resolution still stands.
It didn’t hurt my feelings AT ALL. Sorry I hurt yours.
I can’t share a space with that guy. I just can’t. He makes the hair stand up on the back of my head, and I want to get primal and fight for mammalian dominance, but there’s no way to win that fight or enforce its’ results on social pecking order due to the anarchic and ban-free nature of this site.
There’s nothing to mediate or to resolve. I would quit, but you all know it’s completely meaningless if/when I quit or DFA quits.
Then again, my grandmother and eventually my mom both quit smoking. They tried lots and lots of times before it finally stuck. Maybe the key is to keep trying, and eventually the willpower will develop.
I don’t see anything you posted that would require an apology to anybody.
Thanks, and go As.
Should be a home run.
Yay! – I doctorK’d the thread!
A tradition unlike any other.