I need some help from the FK music mavens. I have very clearly in my mind’s ear a rap lyric, which I thought was by Public Enemy but maybe is from someone else, and I cannot find it anywhere through online references. It exists somewhere in my music collection…I’ve heard it on my mp3 player…yet I still cannot find it. The line is something like:
I don’t need a watch to know what time it is.
Meaning “I can see through your bullshit and know what the real truth is.” The line might say clock instead of watch. Anyone?
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Somehow this got me thinking of Living Colour’s “Time’s Up.” Which is also not the answer, though one of the Public Enemy guys appears elsewhere on that album.
NWA has a couple references to what time it is/was. one is rather n-wordy. oh wait. i forgot what NWA meant.
elsewhere, the time is the time to get ill. which coincides with walking in my guccis time.
kool moe-dee asks if you know the time, tells you to tell him if you know, and still makes you check the clock.
the dylan association is making me think of groups that wouldn’t be embarrassed by a dylan association, such as disposable heroes, or rap-alikes such as rage against the machine.
but nope. drawing a blank.
punk non sequitur: i bought you a wristwatch baby, and you wouldn’t even give me the time of day.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
OK, my search has taken me from Public Enemy to Boo-yaa Tribe to the soundtrack to Judgment Night to Agent Orange without any luck. I give up, maybe I dreamt the whole thing. Fun journey, though.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Sleep appears to have crystalized my memory and I found it. Except I had the line wrong. It’s from Boo-yaa T.R.I.B.E’s “Pickin up Metal,” and the line is (inscrutably) “That’s why I don’t by time, I know what time it is.” Good song though.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I follow nursey blogs for nursey things, right? This one blog posts cool injuries and forensic things. I wasn’t expecting man versus machete to pop up today. I had a steak for dinner and man vs machete was all I could think about.
The big event of my day will not be the Big Game, or even the Tar Heels hosting the Richmond Spiders in the Dean Dome. No, instead I will be chaperoning my daughter and six friends here at our house as they watch all seven hours of One Direction’s livestream for what they’re calling 1D Day. Story of my life.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
The over/under of when I switch from the Big Game to the 1D Day livestream, or maybe a nice afternoon walk, is 3 minutes into the second quarter. I see Furd leading by about 31 at halftime, then David Shaw playing his scrubs in the second half and allowing Cal to just beat the 32-point spread. Furd 45, Bears 17.
Yeah, I think the Cal fans entered 2013 expecting a losing season, and were prepared to give Dykes some breathing room to turn it around. But zero wins over D-1 schools surely exhausted all that good will. Cal’s not the kind of school that will fire a guy in his second year under almost any non-criminal circumstances, but he better start winning pretty fast next year, or it’s gonna get uncomfortable, at least.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
It didn’t matter much whether we won one game or four this year. We know that Cal football is going to have these long-wave ups and downs and the last three years or so of the Tedford era established this as a down. You do expect to see patches of improvement over the course of the season even in the worst years, but that was totally absent this season, and when I looked at those sideline shots of the head coach I saw a deer in the headlights. I do give him a get out of jail free for this first season, but there is absolutely no evidence that he can lead a Pac-12 program into the Top 25.
I give Jared Goff great credit for hanging in there (until the second quarter today) with no offensive line and a joke of a running game.
Something Coach Dykes can do immediately is get some good junior college players to fill some holes, as he can promise immediate playing time. Tedford did this very well in the aftermath of the Holmoe era and won a grand prize getting Aaron Rodgers that way. It’s a short-term fix though. Cal ought to be able to attract its share of the best high school prospects and then develop them at the Pac-12 level, and I have no confidence in Dykes’ ability to do that.
So i am jogging by the caltrain station, and there are a bunch of people in stanford gear getting ready to ride the train to the game. One guy is getting out of a car as i whiz by, he is wearing a stanford t shirt and holding a giant ass bottle of wine.
The girls are 5:50 into the 7:00 live stream without any sign of wearying. Now a Ninja is teaching the boys how to throw those sharp metal star things.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
the ex husband is a friend of mine from elementary school. I believe I still have his copy of Berzek for the 2600. Only then he was a shy viatnamese immigrant going by his given named Tam. by high school he was a Spicoli surfer type and went by Tom. I was still friends with him, but as I am not a surfer, we didn’t hang much. around the middle 90s another friend ran into him and was proud of himself for not calling him “Tam.” only to have “tam” say, no dude, it Gianni now. he was trying to get into clothing design and though he may as well go all the way with his name.
Anyway, another friend told me about this a couple of months ago. I don’t know what to think.
Yikes. Not a good guy to be found anywhere near that story, sounds like. The wife’s story is hard to accept at face value. Nevertheless, also sounds like a massive reach by the prosecutor…special circumstances murder, after 20 years and with apparently sharply conflicting testimony?
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
it appears, yes, she did testify before the grand jury.
something else i read elsewhere was that she did seek medical treatment for the rape the day after, but simply was given a day after pill and sent on her way. she declined to call the police
If I were going to bet on the Pacquiao-Rios fight tonight I think I’d go with the underdog Rios at between +300 and +400. That’s a pretty good price for the proposition that Manny can’t bounce right back after getting hurt as bad as he did his last time out.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Damn that was fast. Just saw a one minute “don’t lift the sanctions on Iran until the the threat from iran is COMPLETELY eliminated” ad before a you tube video
As they stand right now, the Angels have Tommy Hanson and Jerome Williams at the back end of the rotation, but both could be non-tendered. Joe Blanton is under contract for $7.5 million
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Or extremely young people who can’t be bothered to fact-check, which unfortunately describes a large percentage of journalists today.
I think I’ll get my sister some bongo drums for Christmas.
have i ever told you guys the story of when we couldn’t go home because my wife got shoo’d out of the house after cops with serious firepower swept through our house so she could lock and leave because there was an armed perp hiding in the basement and my wife made a map of the various different areas of the basement and we had to go hang out at a bar with witchy and G until it seemed like it’d been long enough and even though it happened right in our basement not the cops nor the papers had any info for us as to WTF actually happened and if we needed to be aware of anything, such as the time before when a perp had hopped one fence, ran across our yard, and hopped the other fence and maybe just maybe ditched a gun in our yard?
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
helped us convince the landlords we needed locks in all the basement level doors.
we’re just positioned in a weird way, with freeway across the street and the configuration of fences, that if someone’s being chased and they get to the corner by our house, what seems like the best trajectory is over our fence and into the yard.
the real best trajectory is to follow the homeless path next to the offramp and go the wrong way up the freeway side. i should make signs.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Slip is the position next to that of wicket-keeper. A slip position is used in cricket if the team is in need of wicket of the opposition. There can be more than one slip. If the team needs a wicket desperately then, a captain places more slip positions.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
ok, i get the gist because 262 > 261 by 1. have no idea what the rest means. then…
india
266/5
46.1/50
windies
263/5
50/50
“india won by 5 wickets.”
HUH?? i thought we were counting runs, for one. and i don’t see a difference of 5 in anything. (is it the /5 that’s in both scores? is it that 50 – 46.1 = 3.9 which in some universe might round up to 5?)
how ’bout this one?
nepal
143/8
20/20
rhinos
144/5
20/20
“nepal won by 5 wickets.”
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
As you know, the first row is runs/wickets, although no wicket-count is given if the team is all-out (loses all 10 of its wickets).
The second row the number of overs used/available (these are all limited overs games).
The first two matches should have the teams listed in the other order, since in each case the second team listed actually batted first.
The 3rd one is a typo – it was Hong Kong who scored 143/8 in 20/20 overs and Nepal (a.k.a. the Rhinos) who scored 144/5 with the winning run coming on the last ball of the last over.
As for the margin of victory, the team that bats first sets a target for the other team to chase. If they don’t make it, the first team wins by the number of runs they are ahead; if the chasing team does make it, they win by the number of wickets they have remaining.
and a lot of my typing mistakes there i attribute to http://www.icc-cricket.com/results, which listed them in that order and didn’t give the team name of the losing side, hence me guessing that nepal was the dragon icon and the rhino would be an african team.
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but seriously now, thanks. that last ¶ is what i was missing. i guess it’d be like a team walking off with 1 out in the 9th and saying they won by two outs (sorta).
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Guessing: India by 5 wickets: India achieved more runs without using all their overs (only on bowl after 46 overs in a match that had a maximum 50 overs.) since so maybe as far as scoring goes, since not all the overs were used they only count wickets? maybe saying winning by one wicket is telling you India had room to score more?
ptbnl? you must know something about this?
But now my typing doesn’t make sense after I read the nepal/rhinos score.
But nepal didn’t score as many runs as the rhinos, but had more wickets. they both used all their overs…
I always wonder the level of skill required to open that “wax”. Because sometimes at work I get flustered trying to open premixed nitroglycerin bottles and want to chuck it across the room after a few seconds.
Old Crow is what I drink when I’m with my parents and subject to their penny-pinching ways. It’s not bad at all. That article’s $15 threshold really does limit you to the cheapest of the cheap; even my go-to modestly priced bourbons George Dickel and Buffalo Trace don’t make that cut.
Doesn’t make sense to spend a lot on bourbon for cooking with (or for making sweetened cocktails) anyway, since the natural taste largely gets cooked out and/or covered up.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I decided to test it out last night before bed. For science. Pretty tasty really. With my lousy palate I’m pretty sure it’s indistinguishable from a bottle three times the price.
We just picked up a bottle of Knob Creek. The motivation was making pecan truffles, but that only required a little bit of bourbon, so I bought something reasonably nice that I can drink the rest of.
Apparently cricket has a tradition of hardcore trash talking, which is called “sledging.” That’s not to be confused with “Percy Sledging,” which is when a man loves a woman.
That is pathetic. The Giants are much better served in this rivalry by pretending they’re above such lowbrow behavior. They aren’t, but still, it’s a much better facade to maintain. Because if they really want to match insults, they’re in big trouble.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
We saw this before, right? Or am I going crazy? Either way, in addition to being classless, it’s really ugly and clumsy. And why would they want to walk around wearing our logo?
I have never cooked my own turkey; others have always done so for me (mother-in-law and mother mostly). I’d like to try BBQing one. And deep frying, of course. I might like fire a little too much.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
For several years I went to TG at a friend’s who did fried turkeys. They cook really quickly, but (if you want them to be awesome) are a lot of work in advance. He injected them with a marinade, and did a dry rub under the skin.
We (mostly he) also smoked a goose one year, which was also great. Never BBQ’d or grilled a turkey though.
Here, we’ve previously bought the cheap pre-brined Trader Joe’s turkeys, and they’ve turned out pretty well, but this year we decided to try getting a fancy heritage turkey (BN ranch) and brining it ourselves.
deep frying is massively overrated, but the danger part of it is quite fun.
I smoked one on my Green Egg one year. Turned out pretty good.
We’ve done them in brine, that works pretty well too.
Frankly though, the best way I’ve come up with is to get one of those cheapo reynolds oven bags, rub the bird down with some butter, toss it in the bag, and forget about it while it’s in the oven. It bastes itself in the bag while it’s cooking.
TBH though the best thing about TG turkey is leftovers for sammiches.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
That session is kind of legendary. Johnny Mac refuses to allow it to be issued because he claims his guitar was buzzy and not working right… honestly it’s because Hendrix cut his ass so bad over the course of the 42 minutes that he probably considered becoming a dentist after leaving the studios that day.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
Also, Happy 60th birthday to Gos-n Boris Grebenschikov, leader of the seminal Russian group Akvarium, who was arguably the Russian equivalent of Dylan, Bowie, Smith, Byrne, Eno, Jagger, Reed, McGuinn, and T. Rex. Some may say he simply copied those musicians at their general peaks, they were one of two bands (along with DDT) that gave Soviet Russians access to western style of music with enough Russian influence to call it their own. And he’s still going strong.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
my sis had the baby today! everett donovan. mama and baby are doing great and they hope to be back home for thanksgiving dinner. i get to go and visit them 12/8-12/14 and i can’t wait to meet my new nepphy. i cooked all day and am relaxing now with a magic hat #9.
you are all so special to me and i’m thankful for our friendship. happy thanksgiving, dear kittens! xoxoxo
It’s now officially (as in that “after midnight where I’m at” way) Thanksgiving, and I wish you all a happy, peaceful and safe holiday, whether it’s enjoyed with the family you were born to, the family you chose, or the family that chose you. Love to all you FKwits… <3
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
Agreed, happy turkey day to all (coming to you from Woodstock). No snow on the ground yet but we’re still hoping for some. Safe travels for those of you on the road, and may there be much pie for all.
I love Mutts. I went to the Farm Sanctuary Celebration for the Turkeys a few weeks ago where turkeys were fed a magical feast and it was fabulous. They are such beautiful creatures.
I’m always glad when this day comes around that my family members live far away. The only turkeys I’m having anything to do with today are the Oakland Raiders and the Dallas Cowboys. Chicken wings and Anchor Xmas, woooooo! Have a great holiday!
I know I’m not as involved as some, and that I have been especially scarce lately, but all the same, I’m truly thankful for each of you, and for the fact that when I have shown up, you’ve welcomed me with open arms.
I’m headed to a house where I estimate 22 of the 25 guests will be Raiders fans. Two are from Boston. And then there’s me. It’s gonna be a long afternoon.
When I read stuff like that, it makes me wonder exactly how many and which umpires are betting the over/under on MLB (or is that “WWE”?) games (hi, Angel “El Diablo” Hernandez) and taking home millions in untraceable corruption $.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!! Happy Hannukah!!!! Happy 70th birthday, Randy Newman!!!! A complete 1979 concert, backed by a full symphony orchestra, no less, accompanies today’s bloggy posting.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
I was just constructing a recipe to use up the last of the fresh hops in my inventory and when I plugged the numbers into the brewing software I use it came out at 6.66% ABV, 66.6 IBUs and 6.66 SRM … beer of the beast anyone?
I need some help from the FK music mavens. I have very clearly in my mind’s ear a rap lyric, which I thought was by Public Enemy but maybe is from someone else, and I cannot find it anywhere through online references. It exists somewhere in my music collection…I’ve heard it on my mp3 player…yet I still cannot find it. The line is something like:
I don’t need a watch to know what time it is.
Meaning “I can see through your bullshit and know what the real truth is.” The line might say clock instead of watch. Anyone?
I don’t have a clue. Sorry, dear.
Can you remember any other lyrics from the song?
can you hum a few bars?
Seriously though, get a shazam app on your phone and play the song for it. it will tell you ore than likely
He said he can’t find it on his mp3.
ah. I don’t really know what an mp3 is.
The last of the mp trilogy. Duh.
Nah, there’s been more than 3.
Did FKing George Lucas keep it going when he shoulda left it alone?
Yes.
I keep getting stuck in a loop between Dylan and Chicago. Which considering you thought it was PE is clearly the wrong part of town.
Yeah, I’m thinking “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
Exactly where I went. Then when I tried my own googling I got back Chicago’s “Does anyone really know what time it is”.
Now I also have Morris Day screaming “What time is it?!”, but as a lover of The Time that happens occasionally.
Somehow this got me thinking of Living Colour’s “Time’s Up.” Which is also not the answer, though one of the Public Enemy guys appears elsewhere on that album.
NWA has a couple references to what time it is/was. one is rather n-wordy. oh wait. i forgot what NWA meant.
elsewhere, the time is the time to get ill. which coincides with walking in my guccis time.
kool moe-dee asks if you know the time, tells you to tell him if you know, and still makes you check the clock.
the dylan association is making me think of groups that wouldn’t be embarrassed by a dylan association, such as disposable heroes, or rap-alikes such as rage against the machine.
but nope. drawing a blank.
punk non sequitur: i bought you a wristwatch baby, and you wouldn’t even give me the time of day.
More obscure Dylan: “It’s just that I ain’t got no watch, An’ you keep askin’ me what time it is”
Nelly Furtado/”Afraid”
I don’t need a Rolex to know what the time is
OK, my search has taken me from Public Enemy to Boo-yaa Tribe to the soundtrack to Judgment Night to Agent Orange without any luck. I give up, maybe I dreamt the whole thing. Fun journey, though.
Maybe you need to be rapper and use that line.
Sleep appears to have crystalized my memory and I found it. Except I had the line wrong. It’s from Boo-yaa T.R.I.B.E’s “Pickin up Metal,” and the line is (inscrutably) “That’s why I don’t by time, I know what time it is.” Good song though.
My boss and the manager from one of the other groups in our office just came through the cubicles with a fully loaded Delta Airlines drinks cart.
What plane did they steal it from?
I said “dare I ask where you got that” but didn’t really get an answer. Not going to look a gift pale ale in the mouth.
Speaking of pale ale, Boulevard here in KC has started making pale ale and wheat beer brats. They are amazing.
If it had decent beer you know it’s not a real airline cart.
good gag.
In trying to find you an answer (looks like $225-$700 on ebay) I found that crew members are just like everyone else
The only thing that ever rolls through my office is the panic train, offering deep draughts of stress.
I follow nursey blogs for nursey things, right? This one blog posts cool injuries and forensic things. I wasn’t expecting man versus machete to pop up today. I had a steak for dinner and man vs machete was all I could think about.
Linky?
Wait, is it creepy that I asked for that?
The big event of my day will not be the Big Game, or even the Tar Heels hosting the Richmond Spiders in the Dean Dome. No, instead I will be chaperoning my daughter and six friends here at our house as they watch all seven hours of One Direction’s livestream for what they’re calling 1D Day. Story of my life.
sneak this in around hour 5. see if they notice.
The over/under of when I switch from the Big Game to the 1D Day livestream, or maybe a nice afternoon walk, is 3 minutes into the second quarter. I see Furd leading by about 31 at halftime, then David Shaw playing his scrubs in the second half and allowing Cal to just beat the 32-point spread. Furd 45, Bears 17.
If they decide to call off the second half altogether your guess will prove quite close.
Dear Mr. Dykes:
Your one-season free pass just expired.
Yeah, I think the Cal fans entered 2013 expecting a losing season, and were prepared to give Dykes some breathing room to turn it around. But zero wins over D-1 schools surely exhausted all that good will. Cal’s not the kind of school that will fire a guy in his second year under almost any non-criminal circumstances, but he better start winning pretty fast next year, or it’s gonna get uncomfortable, at least.
It didn’t matter much whether we won one game or four this year. We know that Cal football is going to have these long-wave ups and downs and the last three years or so of the Tedford era established this as a down. You do expect to see patches of improvement over the course of the season even in the worst years, but that was totally absent this season, and when I looked at those sideline shots of the head coach I saw a deer in the headlights. I do give him a get out of jail free for this first season, but there is absolutely no evidence that he can lead a Pac-12 program into the Top 25.
I give Jared Goff great credit for hanging in there (until the second quarter today) with no offensive line and a joke of a running game.
Something Coach Dykes can do immediately is get some good junior college players to fill some holes, as he can promise immediate playing time. Tedford did this very well in the aftermath of the Holmoe era and won a grand prize getting Aaron Rodgers that way. It’s a short-term fix though. Cal ought to be able to attract its share of the best high school prospects and then develop them at the Pac-12 level, and I have no confidence in Dykes’ ability to do that.
LOL
So i am jogging by the caltrain station, and there are a bunch of people in stanford gear getting ready to ride the train to the game. One guy is getting out of a car as i whiz by, he is wearing a stanford t shirt and holding a giant ass bottle of wine.
holy stereotypes batman
Somebody else was assigned to bring the brie.
I assume you yelled NERDS!!!
I’m proud to say that I don’t know a single One Direction song.
The girls are 5:50 into the 7:00 live stream without any sign of wearying. Now a Ninja is teaching the boys how to throw those sharp metal star things.
And now the boys are performing a Bollywood dance routine.
I don’t know the name of the song, but I like their latest single.
Go Crimson!
Typical Harvardian… thinking the game itself matters.
am starting to think youtube is just another word for “group-source real-life situations to justify formerly questionable-reality dead kennedy songs.”
wow
The Smith and Wesson kill switch never fails.
learned a lesson, didn’t you buddy?
we have done a good job of not mentioning the anniversary in this thread. But I can’t stop watching this.
it is disturbing for those who are faint of heart. essentially its a stabilized zupruder film
Anyone been following this?
the ex husband is a friend of mine from elementary school. I believe I still have his copy of Berzek for the 2600. Only then he was a shy viatnamese immigrant going by his given named Tam. by high school he was a Spicoli surfer type and went by Tom. I was still friends with him, but as I am not a surfer, we didn’t hang much. around the middle 90s another friend ran into him and was proud of himself for not calling him “Tam.” only to have “tam” say, no dude, it Gianni now. he was trying to get into clothing design and though he may as well go all the way with his name.
Anyway, another friend told me about this a couple of months ago. I don’t know what to think.
Yikes. Not a good guy to be found anywhere near that story, sounds like. The wife’s story is hard to accept at face value. Nevertheless, also sounds like a massive reach by the prosecutor…special circumstances murder, after 20 years and with apparently sharply conflicting testimony?
And I don’t know, but it sounds like she had cooperated or testified previously to the grand jury
it appears, yes, she did testify before the grand jury.
something else i read elsewhere was that she did seek medical treatment for the rape the day after, but simply was given a day after pill and sent on her way. she declined to call the police
If I were going to bet on the Pacquiao-Rios fight tonight I think I’d go with the underdog Rios at between +300 and +400. That’s a pretty good price for the proposition that Manny can’t bounce right back after getting hurt as bad as he did his last time out.
Well, Rios showed a good chin…
so many Dead Kennedys, so little time…
grabbin’ it.
Sweet
Tonight is supposed to be the coldest temperatures in November on record.
Damn that was fast. Just saw a one minute “don’t lift the sanctions on Iran until the the threat from iran is COMPLETELY eliminated” ad before a you tube video
Raiders!!!
I will go into a FG contest with Seabass any day.
Typed literally as he pushes a gimmie. Will that be reviewed?
Hah, that’s exactky what I said. Notwithstanding that last one. A 15-12 win seems attainable.
Record for FG attempts in a game is 9, by Jim Bakken of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1967 (he made 7).
And the record for FGs made in a game is 8…held by none other than Rob Bironas, the Titans’ placekicker today, who did it in 2007.
I’d rather have TOUCHDOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAIDERS
Somebody who’s 5-6 after today is going to make the AFC playoffs. The Matt McGloin Experience has as good a chance as any of them.
(also, with the end of the Cal football season, fires Oski and brings back Paratrooper Vince. First ST game is 3 months from Tuesday.)
Well, that sucked.
And Chris Kluwe is just sitting around his house playing video games.
Wow. We have a very unhappy witch in our midst.
My guess is her unhappiness has very quickly been transferred to batgirl.
Oof, what a brutal loss, though Denver is still is decent shape.
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FKing team gave me a FKing migraine.
Freddie Mercury died 22 years ago today. His music isn’t going to.
Haren -> Dodgers
Thanks, and go As.
Damnit.
better than angels
or anywhere else in the AL.
Or Giants.
I want Kazmir.
Relevant.
rabbit hole on that led me to andeux’s profile “turnstiles” quote. classic. CLASSIC.
Definitely one of my all-time favorite sigquotes.
wow, that is some deep proto-FilKing going on there. I just heard the original song yesterday too.
I have a question. Does anyone know why Steamer projects Kazmir to have the best FIP in his entire career next year?
Because when he joins the A’s he’ll be inundated with our magicks.
something I never thought about. it says the angels only have $8M until they hit the tax.
They really are screwed short term.
Thanks, and go As.
Best sentence ever
and they got rid of one of their best trade chips without getting a starting pitcher.
uruguay has fun with the ghost of 1950.
The worst part of my move is done! All of my body is aching today, but at least I don’t have to carry any more furniture for a while.
Yay! Can I come over and eat pizza and drink beer now?
It is a very slow news week, which is why the Saint Paul paper wrote a story about my niece Happy Thanksgiving, and other people with holiday names. And why it got picked up by the Daily Mail, which refers to my sister and her former husband as “beatniks”.
I know tow other people named happy
two!
As she says, people don’t forget her name and she’s gotten a few job interviews from people who were just curious.
It’s gone totally viral. She’s on Good Morning America tomorrow, did NBC tonight.
Makes me wonder if British people consider beatnik and hippie to be synonyms. Nah, it’s just that the Mail is run by idiots.
I guess all those idiots have dirty fathers and clinging mothers who don’t understand.
they probably think half of all czechs live like bohemians.
Or extremely young people who can’t be bothered to fact-check, which unfortunately describes a large percentage of journalists today.
I think I’ll get my sister some bongo drums for Christmas.
The Mail is owned/run by fascist idiots.
when i’m high i am odetta. let’s get naked and smoke.
We’ve tried nothin’ and we’re all out of ideas!
Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones have released an Everly Brothers cover album together. OK.
Excitement on the home front
Maison d’Andeux, well defended by les gendarmes.
have i ever told you guys the story of when we couldn’t go home because my wife got shoo’d out of the house after cops with serious firepower swept through our house so she could lock and leave because there was an armed perp hiding in the basement and my wife made a map of the various different areas of the basement and we had to go hang out at a bar with witchy and G until it seemed like it’d been long enough and even though it happened right in our basement not the cops nor the papers had any info for us as to WTF actually happened and if we needed to be aware of anything, such as the time before when a perp had hopped one fence, ran across our yard, and hopped the other fence and maybe just maybe ditched a gun in our yard?
Whoo hoo, free gun!
I mean, yikes! It’d be hard to settle back into the home peacefully for a good long while after that.
helped us convince the landlords we needed locks in all the basement level doors.
we’re just positioned in a weird way, with freeway across the street and the configuration of fences, that if someone’s being chased and they get to the corner by our house, what seems like the best trajectory is over our fence and into the yard.
the real best trajectory is to follow the homeless path next to the offramp and go the wrong way up the freeway side. i should make signs.
that was a crazy night.
♥
Howdy.
hey. How are you?
I can’t find a live stream for the india west indies 3rd odi.
Hey Ed! I’m cold. You?
I don’t know what the second part means.
imma gonna start a cricket blog
(crickets)
mean. but nicely done.
i do like the unis. very smart.
vipbox dot tv
freevip dot eu
either one.
My relatively newfound boxing fandom has taught me that reddit always knows where the streams are.
reddit is a magical wonderful place, as long as you filter out pretty much all of the default stuff.
Thanks, and go As.
http://live.cricket-365.tv/cricket_live_streams-4.html
or that .
channel 3 has english
are they shifting the infield or something?
yes.
Slip is the position next to that of wicket-keeper. A slip position is used in cricket if the team is in need of wicket of the opposition. There can be more than one slip. If the team needs a wicket desperately then, a captain places more slip positions.
its a little early to bring the infield in, no?
THAT WAS A WICKED GOOGLY.
Thanks, and go As.
The PXP guy just quipped to the Fosse “Sorry to disturb your tea”
What’s the British equivalent of Dibs?
frozen crumpets? Are crumpets frozen?
is anybody looking confident out there? i’ve got my pinkie out and am ready to sip.
WICKET!!!!
The ewok?!
They need a shutdown over.
WI needs to pick it up.
i need a score-reading tutorial.
s africa
261/6
45/45
pakistan
262
45/45
“pakistan won by 1 run”
ok, i get the gist because 262 > 261 by 1. have no idea what the rest means. then…
india
266/5
46.1/50
windies
263/5
50/50
“india won by 5 wickets.”
HUH?? i thought we were counting runs, for one. and i don’t see a difference of 5 in anything. (is it the /5 that’s in both scores? is it that 50 – 46.1 = 3.9 which in some universe might round up to 5?)
how ’bout this one?
nepal
143/8
20/20
rhinos
144/5
20/20
“nepal won by 5 wickets.”
As you know, the first row is runs/wickets, although no wicket-count is given if the team is all-out (loses all 10 of its wickets).
The second row the number of overs used/available (these are all limited overs games).
The first two matches should have the teams listed in the other order, since in each case the second team listed actually batted first.
The 3rd one is a typo – it was Hong Kong who scored 143/8 in 20/20 overs and Nepal (a.k.a. the Rhinos) who scored 144/5 with the winning run coming on the last ball of the last over.
As for the margin of victory, the team that bats first sets a target for the other team to chase. If they don’t make it, the first team wins by the number of runs they are ahead; if the chasing team does make it, they win by the number of wickets they have remaining.
last ball of the last over! how exciting
WRONG ALREADY!
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and a lot of my typing mistakes there i attribute to http://www.icc-cricket.com/results, which listed them in that order and didn’t give the team name of the losing side, hence me guessing that nepal was the dragon icon and the rhino would be an african team.
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but seriously now, thanks. that last ¶ is what i was missing. i guess it’d be like a team walking off with 1 out in the 9th and saying they won by two outs (sorta).
imma gonna start saying that
Guessing: India by 5 wickets: India achieved more runs without using all their overs (only on bowl after 46 overs in a match that had a maximum 50 overs.) since so maybe as far as scoring goes, since not all the overs were used they only count wickets? maybe saying winning by one wicket is telling you India had room to score more?
ptbnl? you must know something about this?
But now my typing doesn’t make sense after I read the nepal/rhinos score.
But nepal didn’t score as many runs as the rhinos, but had more wickets. they both used all their overs…
I don’t know
Yeah – just added that bit!
I can’t stop watching this shit. I am going to figure it out eventually.
I had to go to bed before India came up last night. I was disapoint.
Today I spent over $100 in alcohol. I don’t really drink. I think I like shiny objects.
that’s a lot of goldschlager.
Hey, me too! Around here I call those “Tuesdays.”
I’m fairly certain the last time I drank was in the O.co parking lot with you. And the time before that was when I was in Oakland too.
If you moved here you might be in trouble.
You guys are a terrible influence.
I had to buy a bottle of bourbon today for a Thanksgiving pie. I don’t know anything about bourbon, so I bought the top bottle here for $12.
I wanted to buy something good but don’t know anything about alcohol. I almost called FSU or MikeV.
Depends on what you were buying. I’m not that much help.
Thanks, and go As.
Things in shiny bottles. I DID almost pick up some Maker’s Mark because I love the red stuff on the outside.
we in the know call it “wax”
Thanks, and go As.
Tell me more secrets.
I always wonder the level of skill required to open that “wax”. Because sometimes at work I get flustered trying to open premixed nitroglycerin bottles and want to chuck it across the room after a few seconds.
It’s got a little zip cord thingy built into it so it comes off
Thanks, and go As.
Old Crow is what I drink when I’m with my parents and subject to their penny-pinching ways. It’s not bad at all. That article’s $15 threshold really does limit you to the cheapest of the cheap; even my go-to modestly priced bourbons George Dickel and Buffalo Trace don’t make that cut.
Doesn’t make sense to spend a lot on bourbon for cooking with (or for making sweetened cocktails) anyway, since the natural taste largely gets cooked out and/or covered up.
That was my thinking. Not much of it is going in the pie, however, so I am going to have to drink it.
I decided to test it out last night before bed. For science. Pretty tasty really. With my lousy palate I’m pretty sure it’s indistinguishable from a bottle three times the price.
I saw Old Crow Medicine Show earlier this year. They were great.
We just picked up a bottle of Knob Creek. The motivation was making pecan truffles, but that only required a little bit of bourbon, so I bought something reasonably nice that I can drink the rest of.
Apparently cricket has a tradition of hardcore trash talking, which is called “sledging.” That’s not to be confused with “Percy Sledging,” which is when a man loves a woman.
FK the Giants to oblivion.
That is pathetic. The Giants are much better served in this rivalry by pretending they’re above such lowbrow behavior. They aren’t, but still, it’s a much better facade to maintain. Because if they really want to match insults, they’re in big trouble.
We saw this before, right? Or am I going crazy? Either way, in addition to being classless, it’s really ugly and clumsy. And why would they want to walk around wearing our logo?
We have.
Did we? I missed it. Anyway, Casey Pratt seems about to call them out on it.
Shit. I read that as “Chris Pratt” and got all hot and bothered for two seconds.
i think we did. and how the slogan sorta backfires, if you take the meaning about how there’s an obvious, undeniable truth being ignored.
Today I found out the Chinese restaurant by my old apartment closed shortly after I moved. Coincidence?
oh shit, chris gayle is injured.
True
AthleticWindie.WI is bleeding the indians
Wicket. Powel had a good innings (70). they need someone to take the place of
barrybondsChris GayleThe turkey is in the brine.
The negroni is in the glass.
Nice! I’m having a scotch night myself.
I have never cooked my own turkey; others have always done so for me (mother-in-law and mother mostly). I’d like to try BBQing one. And deep frying, of course. I might like fire a little too much.
I work on Thanksgiving. :-(
My brother is having the family over for smoked ham. My mom is pissed. YOU HAVE HAM AT CHRISTMAS AND TURKEY ON THANKSGIVING!
I raised heathens!
She wouldn’t know good meat if it slapped her in the face.
too easy
Thanks, and go As.
That’s an awful thing to say about her mom. True, though.
I did that on purpose.
TWSS
Thanks, and go As.
Have you ever considered that perhaps she’s never HAD good meat? Perhaps she just blisses in her ignorance.
Is that an offer to give my mom good meat?
Afraid not. While I don’t mind the idea of spanking your ass and asking “Who’s your daddy?” I’d rather the answer not be me.
Um, excuse me?
You’re excused. But really, you don’t need my permission to run away screaming. Or kneeing me in the nuts. Whichever is most convenient.
Turkey sucks, and there’s no better way to celebrate the birth of a Jew than by eating pork products.
For several years I went to TG at a friend’s who did fried turkeys. They cook really quickly, but (if you want them to be awesome) are a lot of work in advance. He injected them with a marinade, and did a dry rub under the skin.
We (mostly he) also smoked a goose one year, which was also great. Never BBQ’d or grilled a turkey though.
Here, we’ve previously bought the cheap pre-brined Trader Joe’s turkeys, and they’ve turned out pretty well, but this year we decided to try getting a fancy heritage turkey (BN ranch) and brining it ourselves.
My mom does a BBQed one every year. Yum.
Having lived in the South for 11 years, I had my share of fried turkey. It’s certainly the best way to eat that otherwise unpalatable animal.
deep frying is massively overrated, but the danger part of it is quite fun.
I smoked one on my Green Egg one year. Turned out pretty good.
We’ve done them in brine, that works pretty well too.
Frankly though, the best way I’ve come up with is to get one of those cheapo reynolds oven bags, rub the bird down with some butter, toss it in the bag, and forget about it while it’s in the oven. It bastes itself in the bag while it’s cooking.
TBH though the best thing about TG turkey is leftovers for sammiches.
Thanks, and go As.
yep. friday sammys. shit, late thursday through sunday morning sammys. i’d consider making two turkeys and leaving one just for leftovers.
weekend after = sale on turkey = MOAR SAMMICHES
Thanks, and go As.
Mom does the cooking bag method. Butter, too. She also sticks butter in the body cavity.
Too easy.
“family secrets? i’ll tell you about family secrets.”
india is fielding poorly. dropped 2 and have had a couple overthrows for runs
Sammy with a few 6s
263-5 for wi. its tea time
Oh yes, FK the NHL too.
And a very awesome 71st birthday to the Maestro, James Marshall Hendrix. Trust me… you want the compilation, largely consisting of still-unissued tracks, that accompanies this blog post.
Also check out:
Hendrix/McLaughlin/Dave Holland/Buddy Miles
That session is kind of legendary. Johnny Mac refuses to allow it to be issued because he claims his guitar was buzzy and not working right… honestly it’s because Hendrix cut his ass so bad over the course of the 42 minutes that he probably considered becoming a dentist after leaving the studios that day.
Also, Happy 60th birthday to Gos-n Boris Grebenschikov, leader of the seminal Russian group Akvarium, who was arguably the Russian equivalent of Dylan, Bowie, Smith, Byrne, Eno, Jagger, Reed, McGuinn, and T. Rex. Some may say he simply copied those musicians at their general peaks, they were one of two bands (along with DDT) that gave Soviet Russians access to western style of music with enough Russian influence to call it their own. And he’s still going strong.
NICE :)
will check out
my sis had the baby today! everett donovan. mama and baby are doing great and they hope to be back home for thanksgiving dinner. i get to go and visit them 12/8-12/14 and i can’t wait to meet my new nepphy. i cooked all day and am relaxing now with a magic hat #9.
you are all so special to me and i’m thankful for our friendship. happy thanksgiving, dear kittens! xoxoxo
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Congratulations Auntie Witch!
happy thanksgive to you and the other people (excluding Oz, naturally)
It’s now officially (as in that “after midnight where I’m at” way) Thanksgiving, and I wish you all a happy, peaceful and safe holiday, whether it’s enjoyed with the family you were born to, the family you chose, or the family that chose you. Love to all you FKwits… <3
Agreed, happy turkey day to all (coming to you from Woodstock). No snow on the ground yet but we’re still hoping for some. Safe travels for those of you on the road, and may there be much pie for all.
Going to a 25 guest vegan feast and I didn’t have to cook anything. So yeah, it’s gonna be awesome!
Thankful for all you FKers!!
If you get past the turkey fetishism, Thanksgiving really is as vegan-friendly a holiday as there is. To wit.
I love Mutts. I went to the Farm Sanctuary Celebration for the Turkeys a few weeks ago where turkeys were fed a magical feast and it was fabulous. They are such beautiful creatures.
Everything at ours was at least vegitarian except the turkey/gravy/in-bird stuffing
Happy Thanksgiving all you FKers! I’m very thankful for this place and all you wonderful folks.
I’m always glad when this day comes around that my family members live far away. The only turkeys I’m having anything to do with today are the Oakland Raiders and the Dallas Cowboys. Chicken wings and Anchor Xmas, woooooo! Have a great holiday!
Happy Thanksgiving, FKers!
I know I’m not as involved as some, and that I have been especially scarce lately, but all the same, I’m truly thankful for each of you, and for the fact that when I have shown up, you’ve welcomed me with open arms.
have you found a cricket team to join?
Not yet!
Raiders!
upon review the comment stands
I’m headed to a house where I estimate 22 of the 25 guests will be Raiders fans. Two are from Boston. And then there’s me. It’s gonna be a long afternoon.
Vegan Raiders fans?!
Crazy, right?
A Battle of Fumbles, killing time until the biggest serving of turkey, the Selena Gomez Halftime Show.
huge. world cup qualifiers apparently fixed.
(perhaps even huger. a corruption scandal and argentina is not immediately implicated.)
whoops. that was the spanish link. here, in inglés.
When I read stuff like that, it makes me wonder exactly how many and which umpires are betting the over/under on MLB (or is that “WWE”?) games (hi, Angel “El Diablo” Hernandez) and taking home millions in untraceable corruption $.
Very probably so, but it could also be a bullshitter bullshitting. There are no details in that piece at all from which to go on.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!! Happy Hannukah!!!! Happy 70th birthday, Randy Newman!!!! A complete 1979 concert, backed by a full symphony orchestra, no less, accompanies today’s bloggy posting.
I kind of liked working on Thanksgiving.
Happy day-after-thanksgiving one and all.
I was just constructing a recipe to use up the last of the fresh hops in my inventory and when I plugged the numbers into the brewing software I use it came out at 6.66% ABV, 66.6 IBUs and 6.66 SRM … beer of the beast anyone?
EBTBNL
I wish I could get a stable signal for the south africa pakistan match
got it. apparently the commentators think SA are chokers
pak lost a wicket in the first over
and a second in the third.
SA is dominating
I feel like I am the only one here watching cricket anymore
this match is tough to watch because they both have green and gold colo(u)r schemes
Jordan noberto changed his name to hashim Amla and has joined the south african cricket squad