totally forgot. had many errands that were on my mind.
I remembered when after I finished playing tennis with Milo. Some guy was there with his kids, he gave me these balls that are “40%” of regular balls. When we used them, our rallys increased by 60%.
I can’t be held liable for any of my posts tonight because I’m in Oklahoma. Like they always say, what gets posted on an Oakland A’s related baseball blog in Oklahoma stays on an Oakland A’s related baseball blog in Oklahoma.
The first kid usually let me get a few hours of sleep a night…the new one thinks a few hours of sleep is for losers (not my first word choice)…a third kid would likely kill me.
I just got a text from Bridget the Midget…she is super pissed that she didn’t get the SI Swimsuit cover. She plans to kidnap Peter King as revenge…I fear he may end up buried next to Robert Wuhl.
This has been a test of the Emergency Bed Broadcast System…this has only been a test…if there was an actual Bed emergency…well, that would be surprising, and probably random, and somewhat weird, and it would likely involve Phil Collins, and some racist comments about the Dutch oh, and run on sentences…this has only been a test…we now take you back to your normally scheduled programming.
This studio condo I’m staying in did not have wireless Internet. It had the cable company’s modem and an ethernet cable.
My Chromebook does not have an ethernet port.
A trip to Office Max later, this studio condo now has wireless Internet. At $60/12 nights = $5/night, blah, that’s less than your “resort fee”. The owner says she’ll add the $60 back to my deposit refund but whatever.
On the 13th, I had a three hour early afternoon flight from South Pole to McMurdo and then I promptly got drunk. On the 14th, I got to sleep in, then had a shuttle to the airfield around noon followed by an eight-hour flight to Christchurch. By the time we landed in Christchurch, got through customs, dropped off extreme cold weather gear, and made it to my hotel, it was 12:30 am on the 15th. That gave me enough time to shower, check email, repack my bag, and then get a whopping 45 minutes of sleep before I had to check out of my hotel room and go back to the airport. From the Christchurch airport, I had a ~3 hour flight to Sydney. Then about a 3 hour layover followed by the 13 hour flight to LAX. That flight crossed the dateline, so it was still early morning on the 15th when I landed. Cleared customs in LA, then waited around for ~45 minutes to get on the continuation of that flight which will take me to JFK. Just before getting on that flight, I got notification from American Airlines that my JFK to Boston flight had already been canceled due to impending snow in Boston (which turned out to be two measly inches). But I had already checked all 130 lbs of luggage, so I texted some friends in New York and got on that flight. I also got American to rebook me on a flight from New York to Boston for early morning on the 16th. At JFK, only one of my three bags showed up. So I spent a while talking with the British Airways/Qantas lost luggage department, then took a cab into Manhattan where I managed to have a fun evening, despite lack of sleep. I got to bed around midnight, then woke up a little after 5 to take a cab back to the airport and catch my flight to Boston. When I landed at Logan, one of the two lost items was there waiting for me, which is good because I now have both boxes of extremely hard to replace telescope calibration equipment. But the problem is that I’m still missing a duffle bag that contains at least half of all clothing that I own (and a much higher fraction of my socks/underwear).
I had to meet someone at Starbucks today, and they didn’t leave enough room in my glass of iced coffee to add half and half, so I had to drink some without milk first. Basically, same thing. I feel your pain. Anyway, welcome home! Hey, how do time zones work in Antarctica? I could probably Google that, but I’d rather ask you.
To get to South Pole, you travel through New Zealand and then McMurdo (which is on the New Zealand side of the continent). So they just stay on New Zealand time, since that is what everyone is used to by the time they get there.
I saw that and it is hilarious. I can’t figure out how you would even use your phone down there. I guess some buildings at McMurdo have wifi, but a field camp in the dry valleys??
Been home for about an hour now after seeing Folsom and Oroville yesterday, Shasta today. All three reservoirs are obviously still very low, but that also made for some pretty interesting visits.
* At Folsom Lake, even though it’s gone up about 25 feet following the storms 10 days ago, it’s still low enough that you could spend 15-20 minutes going far out onto the land that’s still sticking out. Ended up relatively close to the lake side of the dam, as well. I was hardly the only one wandering around there. Also got to see the work they’re doing toward essentially building a second dam to improve the flood safety measures in the entire region.
* Lake Oroville is extremely low. When I was there about 2.5 years ago it was full to about 90% capacity. Right now it’s at 39% and that means it’d have to go up maybe 100 feet or so just to reach the gates. Last time I was there, people could launch boats from the upper boat ramp. Now there’s an entire lower ramp visible and even then the water doesn’t quite reach it – and this is after it went up about 13 feet from the same storms.
* This morning I headed up to Shasta Dam and unfortunately more bad timing got me because the visitor’s center (and tours) were closed because of President’s Day. Well, another reason to go back, which I’ll do anyway once water levels are back to normal. Still spent a while walking around, including down to the water level on the opposite end from where you park, which was pretty neat. The level hasn’t changed much in the last few weeks, and that meant I got to see a good deal of the main tower that was used during construction.
* After that I went up to the Lakehead area of Shasta Lake, then made my way back south while checking stuff out around Sugarloaf Marina, Salt Creek Inlet and O’Brien Inlet. With the water levels as low as they were, I saw a couple small old bridges and a train tunnel that can only be spotted when the water’s this low. There were a couple other spots I was hoping to see but I didn’t really know where they were. Still, some of this stuff dated back to 1925 so it was neat to see.
barça did? but micho plays for city. i see the funny in what you’re saying, but i don’t totally believe it. because he did pretty well until that. actually, since he was the last man with messi running away, he pretty much did the right thing there too.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
we get the luxury of time to rewind the replay and slice this up a million ways, when he had half a second to decide… but i bet micho thought he could knock messi down before they got to the box. and maybe he even did. seems that’s what pellegrini was upset with the ref about, anyway.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Even assuming he does get him outside the box, he’s still getting red carded. Best case scenario from that tackle is 0-0 (pending super dangerous free kick) and down a man with 35 minutes to go. Is that better than 0-1 at full strength? Maybe, maybe not. When you take into account that it’s probably a coin flip whether a penalty is awarded that close to the line, it’s a pretty bad gamble.
i missed bits of the first half. was he carrying a yellow already? ie., does this come into play?
but i agree with both of you overall. i’m just saying, hey, what can you do? it’s an argentine defensive player against an argentine forward. that’s like a 3rd grader doing math against einstein.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
It was a straight red, I think for the situation described in your link. Presumably those rules haven’t taken effect. Can UEFA just change a rule like that without FIFA approval? Seems shady.
Bob Casale — Bob 2 — has left us, so it’s a very sad day. Here are 2 appearances on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert from 1979/1980, by way of fond remembrance of one of the founding members of Akron’s foremost exponents of De-evolutionary vision.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
Admit it, you woke up today needing to celebrate the acknowledged inventor of heavy metal, and this was before you even put on your spandex-and-studs work outfit for the day. Add a 1975 appearance on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert and you’re apt to go Snowblind even if you don’t live in a cold climate.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
That is a great photo. Also a great title for your blog post. Though Jerry Garcia fans might argue that he’s also in the conversation for best guitar player missing finger pieces.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Not fret hand in Jerry’s case (unless that was a later edit by n.i.p. (hey that’s almost a Black Sabbath song)).
There was also Django Reinhardt, though he and Jerry also both fail to meet the “on earth” criterion.
Good. It’s a bad place to start that. NY to LA would be a much better move and well worth the multi-Trillion+ $ cost. Once completed it would allow a ton a spur lines to access the rest of country including an SF to LA link.
I’m not a fan of the CA project, but a cross-country line makes even less sense. HSR is best for places with high population densities, not for crossing big mostly empty spaces.
It’s less about actually *getting* from LA to NY by train so much connecting the major populations between the two. The goal would be the connections like LA to LV, etc. while also capturing the longer distance train travelers to boost overall ridership.
I agree that SF LA could work. But I really don’t like the measures of ridership and cost/revenue.
I think of it as a long term environmental/cost/revenue/development issue. I don’t care if it is ever “cost effective” in the sense newsom is talking about.
I think this country badly needs more transit infrastructure, and HSR could really help in a lot of ways that aren’t captured in $ paid by riders / cost of building+operating rail.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
—there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: i simply am not there.
—if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. no… one… would… care.
—all it comes down to is this: i feel like shit but look great.
—i have to return some videotapes.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
dude supported gutting public employee pensions and ran with Nader. Despite his mayor’s race being the first campiagn I ever worked on Im done with him.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
I like Gavin, but only as a candidate for statewide or national office. To me he is the classic example of someone that is found lacking by the most pure of leftists, but who by a broader measuring stick (much more reflective of actual voters) could be a spectacular combination of highly electable while still being mostly quite progressive. I think he has a chance to be governor/senator/president some day, and in any of these capacities he would be better from a liberal point of view than 95% of the other options.
(and yes I now see you’re talking about Gonzales so my reply is inaptly located. And Gonzales has always creeped me out, not exactly sure why)
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
that’s how I feel too. Honestly I don’t know how care not cash panned out, but that proposal soured me forever on him locally. It did inspire SLF to be Gavin Gruesome for Halloween that year, so there’s that.
Once he did the Gay marriage thing, I stopped paying attention because I knew he sewed up whatever elective office he wanted in SF forever.
Matt Gonzalez is a smarmy guy. A poorly dressed public defender, so I have to support him. Although its tempered by the pension thing (less so the nader thing cuz it was not 2000 and nader is irrelevant now)
He definitely wasn’t friends w/ Bustamante, guy left a crock pot full of moldy beans in the Lt Gov’s office, man it fucking stank! None of the windows in the office opened either…
Only if he hires enough good people to actually do the work. He was an empty-suit headline-chaser as mayor of SF, and didn’t have enough underlings to actually make the city run well.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
been traipsing the boys of summer shirt from uptown to marigny, to much laud (and one rangers-capped glare). even mrs AV appreciates it more than usual. IIRC, the exact words were something like, “finally, more creepy mccreepers looking at your chest than at mine.”
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Today is Jerry Harrison’s 65th b’day…. just the reasoning I’ve been seeking to post one of my all-time favorites from the archives. If your dig the “big band,” Fear of Music/Remain In Light era funkified Talking Heads, then please go nuts with this sort-of video companion to THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS…, live on German TV in December 1980. According to David Byrne, if you dance you might understand the words better.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
I got a couple of super nice bookcases here (warning: probably not relevant unless you live in Chicago), but the movers lost one of them on the way out to Boston.
Whoa, Season 2 of The Americans starts this Wednesday?! Hot damn. I haven’t stopped hearing “Games Without Frontiers” in my head since the end of the first season.
No doubt, it was a real longshot. Just ticks me off that I successfully tuned out a whole universe of spoil-ridden media all day long, only to be foiled by a source I could not have possibly expected or prevented.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Woohoo, folks have been asking where you where, we might be at the opposite field if our usual one is taken, we’ve been having some competition lately.
It is not clear to me what is so newsworthy about a water main break that it warrants a news helicopter hovering over my neighborhood for more than an hour (so far).
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I actually remember him hitting a pretty good shot to CF last year, granted it was easily caught, but it was a good knock nevertheless. Gawd I’ll miss that shit-eating grin of his… :(
Start off your weekend in an ECM-jazzy mode with this concert, recorded 22 years ago today, and featuring Jack DeJohnette’s star-studded ensemble New Directions. I remastered it especially for its birthday, and all four galactic-class players blow out the candles with skill and enthusiasm :)
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
I saw Lester Bowie the year after that. Summer in between college and my move to CA, he was commissioned to write music for the World University Games in Buffalo. This gig with some local musicians cost $5, and my (possibly faulty at this point) memory is that there were only a handful of people there. Sad that such an amazing musician couldn’t draw a crowd, but very cool to see in a small venue. His chops were just unfkingreal.
Happy Ragnarök, everyone! It’s been nice knowing you in this life; I’ll keep an eye out for you in Nirvana, where the A’s retain their stars for all eternity.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Ragnarok, I think that’s your nickname now, gonna have to retire Hippy Jim, sorry, but you’re around +12-15 UZR in LF, the death of right handed sluggers.
Well, those defensive metrics are notoriously misleading. Just happy to be in the lineup. Also it feels like I bruised a kidney on that one tumble I took.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
George would have been 71 today. He might have only lived to be 58, but he enjoyed what I’m certain you’ll agree was a high impact existence in his limited time down here. Venture with me over to the blog, where I have gathered his Beatles era compositions together to form a cohesive chronicle of his colossal creativity in the 1960s.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
So I’ve had shoulder pain for 4 months now. I had a falling out with one of the doctors I work with because I was told it was “inflammation somewhere” in my body. They told me to eat more protein. I laughed, then went to Dr. Hottie. Immediate X ray, which revealed scoliosis. MRI soon after revealed a pinched nerve and a thoracic disc herniation. Fucking eat more protein. Assholes.
The lesson, of course, is to go to the hottest doctor available right away.
Why would eating more protein help with an “inflammation somewhere” anyway? And is there some reason to think you were protein-deficient? You live in Missouri!
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I’m on drugs too. Bruised ribs from softball last week, it hurts to breathe or sleep. It’s agony to cough or sneeze. So I got scrips for pain killers and muscle relaxants. Still trying to figure out how to be an old guy and an athlete at the same time.
If the field’s dry enough Saturday I’m still playing softball, though.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
This is my 4th herniated disc. The first three happened at the same time, and I couldn’t move. I took Vicodin and Soma. One night I woke up naked, standing in my bed, with my face shoved between the blinds of the window behind my head board.
Feeling better? I suggested to Aaron today that we should bring a broom to sweep the puddles and goose poop off the infield if need be, I’m too pumped to go without playing another week.
I would just like to comment that it really is true that after a man turns 50, every doctor in town gets in line to shove something up your asshole. It’s like they think there’s a gold mine up there. The highlight is coming on Tuesday, a TMI-ectomy. Had the pre-surgery consult with the guy today; his best (also TMI) line was “your first bowel movement after this procedure will certainly be memorable!” Thanks Doc! (I do have some Norco in anticipation of that.)
I’m giving myself an A for effort on this lounge posting.
BED!
ED!
DMOAS.
I never remember to expect this, and I never don’t snot
snoRt
For those keeping score at home Baby Bed II is alive and kicking and yes…he has more hair than I do.
how is little Ed?
Are you really asking yourself, online, how your penis is doing?
that is what the lounge is for, yeah?
Absolutely. I was just checking. I’d like to know the answer, btw.
little ed is excited (not like that, perv). Little ed heard about joey pouch underwear tonight
Your boys would have had buddies today, next time?
totally forgot. had many errands that were on my mind.
I remembered when after I finished playing tennis with Milo. Some guy was there with his kids, he gave me these balls that are “40%” of regular balls. When we used them, our rallys increased by 60%.
40% pressure? volume? density?
I am not sure. they are about the same size, maybe a little smaller. the don’t bounce as high
green and gold ones
Ha!
Anybody like Chicha?i
Its the jams for the night.
I can’t be held liable for any of my posts tonight because I’m in Oklahoma. Like they always say, what gets posted on an Oakland A’s related baseball blog in Oklahoma stays on an Oakland A’s related baseball blog in Oklahoma.
Oaklandhomeoftha A’s
There’s a post called “Pitchers and Catchers”…what’s that all about?
Sex.
I’m on a DSL line for the first time in about a decade…yep, I’m in Oklahoma.
So, it turns out having a two year old, and an infant at home makes people want to take trips to Oklahoma…allegedly.
Oklahoma
I’m on a DSL…video links are out. Might be a slow porn night.
you wouldn’t chase them in arkansas? kansas? iowa? where is it you live?
I live by the groove, Ed.
nobody bait
I’m glad the Winter Olympics are back for me to ignore.
Did you know Oklahoma backwards is…well, actually nothing is as backwards as Oklahoma.
amohalkO
the beauty is I know bed won’t follow the liinks
I follow them in spirit, Ed.
Tulsa backward is a slut, does this help?
A slut was I ere I saw Tulsa. Andeux taught me that.
I hope you’ve all been following me on Twitter, as I tweet out pictures of my one man revival on Broadway of Cats.
I am motivated. I will start the @sirbedofthelittlerockbeds soon
I keep hoping they’ll change the name of Little Rock to Soft Rock and have REO Speedwagon as the new mayor.
Speaking of REO Speedwagon and slow porn nights…I feel like I should have posted something negative about the Dutch by now.
I started to worry about my financial planner when he said I should invest all my money in vintage Middle School yearbooks.
my financial planner has 6 different pockets
The first kid usually let me get a few hours of sleep a night…the new one thinks a few hours of sleep is for losers (not my first word choice)…a third kid would likely kill me.
I don’t want to get all political here but…celery adds good crunch to any salad.
crunchy
I just got a text from Bridget the Midget…she is super pissed that she didn’t get the SI Swimsuit cover. She plans to kidnap Peter King as revenge…I fear he may end up buried next to Robert Wuhl.
Where are all the posts about Charles Horton Cooley and his looking-glass self theory?
This has been a test of the Emergency Bed Broadcast System…this has only been a test…if there was an actual Bed emergency…well, that would be surprising, and probably random, and somewhat weird, and it would likely involve Phil Collins, and some racist comments about the Dutch oh, and run on sentences…this has only been a test…we now take you back to your normally scheduled programming.
So the new Robocop was better than expected. Of course I had 0 expectations so this just means I did not die while viewing it.
Sure, I go to Maui and then Bed comes back.
Also, contrary to Bed’s previous representations Hawaii does so have the internet.
This studio condo I’m staying in did not have wireless Internet. It had the cable company’s modem and an ethernet cable.
My Chromebook does not have an ethernet port.
A trip to Office Max later, this studio condo now has wireless Internet. At $60/12 nights = $5/night, blah, that’s less than your “resort fee”. The owner says she’ll add the $60 back to my deposit refund but whatever.
Who let the fertile, bald, white dude in here? He’s classin’ up the joint, and I’ll have none of that.
The Lego flick was really good. “Everything is Awesome” may never leave my head.
I’m finally home!
On the 13th, I had a three hour early afternoon flight from South Pole to McMurdo and then I promptly got drunk. On the 14th, I got to sleep in, then had a shuttle to the airfield around noon followed by an eight-hour flight to Christchurch. By the time we landed in Christchurch, got through customs, dropped off extreme cold weather gear, and made it to my hotel, it was 12:30 am on the 15th. That gave me enough time to shower, check email, repack my bag, and then get a whopping 45 minutes of sleep before I had to check out of my hotel room and go back to the airport. From the Christchurch airport, I had a ~3 hour flight to Sydney. Then about a 3 hour layover followed by the 13 hour flight to LAX. That flight crossed the dateline, so it was still early morning on the 15th when I landed. Cleared customs in LA, then waited around for ~45 minutes to get on the continuation of that flight which will take me to JFK. Just before getting on that flight, I got notification from American Airlines that my JFK to Boston flight had already been canceled due to impending snow in Boston (which turned out to be two measly inches). But I had already checked all 130 lbs of luggage, so I texted some friends in New York and got on that flight. I also got American to rebook me on a flight from New York to Boston for early morning on the 16th. At JFK, only one of my three bags showed up. So I spent a while talking with the British Airways/Qantas lost luggage department, then took a cab into Manhattan where I managed to have a fun evening, despite lack of sleep. I got to bed around midnight, then woke up a little after 5 to take a cab back to the airport and catch my flight to Boston. When I landed at Logan, one of the two lost items was there waiting for me, which is good because I now have both boxes of extremely hard to replace telescope calibration equipment. But the problem is that I’m still missing a duffle bag that contains at least half of all clothing that I own (and a much higher fraction of my socks/underwear).
I had to meet someone at Starbucks today, and they didn’t leave enough room in my glass of iced coffee to add half and half, so I had to drink some without milk first. Basically, same thing. I feel your pain. Anyway, welcome home! Hey, how do time zones work in Antarctica? I could probably Google that, but I’d rather ask you.
To get to South Pole, you travel through New Zealand and then McMurdo (which is on the New Zealand side of the continent). So they just stay on New Zealand time, since that is what everyone is used to by the time they get there.
Seems logical enough. I want to go to there someday.
a friend of mine went as a cook. she had fun.
scroll to the bottom. you’ll see it.
I feel your pain
and boy your arms must be tired.
Welcome back!
Welcome home colin. Although apparently you left just as things were starting to heat up down there.
I saw that and it is hilarious. I can’t figure out how you would even use your phone down there. I guess some buildings at McMurdo have wifi, but a field camp in the dry valleys??
Bed missed my blog extravaganza with 3 G birthday posts in just two weeks.
Phil
PG
Hackett
The usual.
Been home for about an hour now after seeing Folsom and Oroville yesterday, Shasta today. All three reservoirs are obviously still very low, but that also made for some pretty interesting visits.
* At Folsom Lake, even though it’s gone up about 25 feet following the storms 10 days ago, it’s still low enough that you could spend 15-20 minutes going far out onto the land that’s still sticking out. Ended up relatively close to the lake side of the dam, as well. I was hardly the only one wandering around there. Also got to see the work they’re doing toward essentially building a second dam to improve the flood safety measures in the entire region.
* Lake Oroville is extremely low. When I was there about 2.5 years ago it was full to about 90% capacity. Right now it’s at 39% and that means it’d have to go up maybe 100 feet or so just to reach the gates. Last time I was there, people could launch boats from the upper boat ramp. Now there’s an entire lower ramp visible and even then the water doesn’t quite reach it – and this is after it went up about 13 feet from the same storms.
* This morning I headed up to Shasta Dam and unfortunately more bad timing got me because the visitor’s center (and tours) were closed because of President’s Day. Well, another reason to go back, which I’ll do anyway once water levels are back to normal. Still spent a while walking around, including down to the water level on the opposite end from where you park, which was pretty neat. The level hasn’t changed much in the last few weeks, and that meant I got to see a good deal of the main tower that was used during construction.
* After that I went up to the Lakehead area of Shasta Lake, then made my way back south while checking stuff out around Sugarloaf Marina, Salt Creek Inlet and O’Brien Inlet. With the water levels as low as they were, I saw a couple small old bridges and a train tunnel that can only be spotted when the water’s this low. There were a couple other spots I was hoping to see but I didn’t really know where they were. Still, some of this stuff dated back to 1925 so it was neat to see.
photos?
Close to 500 to go through, along with a dozen videos I’m uploading.
Videos are up here. There are 12 new ones.
What asshole parks RIGHT IN FRONT of Coco’s minivan when he’s trying to take a picture of it?
Thanks, and go As.
IK,R? You should totally twit your condolences to him.
Then theres fucking this…
Twitter thingy broken?
Yes, the just-paste-the-url Twitter thingy is broken.
It still works if you use the embed code.
Thx
I don’t see it. Is it inside that armored transporter?
That’s insane.
That is monstrous and obscene. I assume his new house is a fortified concrete bunker. Not unlike his new home stadium.
road rage.
Gross.
Maybe one of you two fellows standing at the top of the box watching the ball should consider marking Zlatan instead? Oops too late.
Thanks, and go As.
Apparently Barcelona have appealed Demichelis’ red card so that he can play in the second leg.
barça did? but micho plays for city. i see the funny in what you’re saying, but i don’t totally believe it. because he did pretty well until that. actually, since he was the last man with messi running away, he pretty much did the right thing there too.
Yeah – just going for the cheap laugh. He’s taking all the blame, though Kompany left him horribly exposed for the penalty.
I don’t agree the lunge was the right decision though – either way they’re likely a goal down, but his way they’re a player down too.
we get the luxury of time to rewind the replay and slice this up a million ways, when he had half a second to decide… but i bet micho thought he could knock messi down before they got to the box. and maybe he even did. seems that’s what pellegrini was upset with the ref about, anyway.
Even assuming he does get him outside the box, he’s still getting red carded. Best case scenario from that tackle is 0-0 (pending super dangerous free kick) and down a man with 35 minutes to go. Is that better than 0-1 at full strength? Maybe, maybe not. When you take into account that it’s probably a coin flip whether a penalty is awarded that close to the line, it’s a pretty bad gamble.
i missed bits of the first half. was he carrying a yellow already? ie., does this come into play?
but i agree with both of you overall. i’m just saying, hey, what can you do? it’s an argentine defensive player against an argentine forward. that’s like a 3rd grader doing math against einstein.
It was a straight red, I think for the situation described in your link. Presumably those rules haven’t taken effect. Can UEFA just change a rule like that without FIFA approval? Seems shady.
Bob Casale — Bob 2 — has left us, so it’s a very sad day. Here are 2 appearances on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert from 1979/1980, by way of fond remembrance of one of the founding members of Akron’s foremost exponents of De-evolutionary vision.
Admit it, you woke up today needing to celebrate the acknowledged inventor of heavy metal, and this was before you even put on your spandex-and-studs work outfit for the day. Add a 1975 appearance on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert and you’re apt to go Snowblind even if you don’t live in a cold climate.
That is a great photo. Also a great title for your blog post. Though Jerry Garcia fans might argue that he’s also in the conversation for best guitar player missing finger pieces.
Not fret hand in Jerry’s case (unless that was a later edit by n.i.p. (hey that’s almost a Black Sabbath song)).
There was also Django Reinhardt, though he and Jerry also both fail to meet the “on earth” criterion.
i read it as: though JG fans might argue that [jerry’s] also in the conversation, [along with django and tommy,] for BGPMFP.
I meant of guys who are alive now.
must be because there’s nothing else for me to do, but sure seems to take the mrs a lot longer to take a shower when we’re on vacation.
…and there she is. perfumed with turnip greens.
later y’all!
Ed bait
Sounds like HSR will be dead soon.
Good. It’s a bad place to start that. NY to LA would be a much better move and well worth the multi-Trillion+ $ cost. Once completed it would allow a ton a spur lines to access the rest of country including an SF to LA link.
I’m not a fan of the CA project, but a cross-country line makes even less sense. HSR is best for places with high population densities, not for crossing big mostly empty spaces.
Also you can’t cross mountains by HSR.
It’s less about actually *getting* from LA to NY by train so much connecting the major populations between the two. The goal would be the connections like LA to LV, etc. while also capturing the longer distance train travelers to boost overall ridership.
The point is that there aren’t enough people between the Las Vegas or Phoenix and St Louis or Chicago to make that segment work economically.
SF/LA could work, although I’ve never really believed the numbers that supporters of the current project use.
I agree that SF LA could work. But I really don’t like the measures of ridership and cost/revenue.
I think of it as a long term environmental/cost/revenue/development issue. I don’t care if it is ever “cost effective” in the sense newsom is talking about.
I do realize I am in the minority.
I’m with you on that.
I think this country badly needs more transit infrastructure, and HSR could really help in a lot of ways that aren’t captured in $ paid by riders / cost of building+operating rail.
Hyperloop, yo.
The jerk stole the idea from someone else and then gave it a shitty name. It’s a Tube. Call it a fking Tube.
Seems like NY – LA is a hell of a lot easier in the air, and way more of a straight shot.
Thanks, and go As.
He looks like a dead ringer for Patrick Bateman in that pic.
Thanks, and go As.
all the possible captions fit too:
—there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: i simply am not there.
—if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. no… one… would… care.
—all it comes down to is this: i feel like shit but look great.
—i have to return some videotapes.
newsom. grrr. Should have elected Matt Gonzalez Lt. Governor.
Sure, you can trust me.
Is he giving a lap dance to that other guy?
After he removes the ice pack he uses a deep pore cleansing lotion.
dude supported gutting public employee pensions and ran with Nader. Despite his mayor’s race being the first campiagn I ever worked on Im done with him.
I like Gavin, but only as a candidate for statewide or national office. To me he is the classic example of someone that is found lacking by the most pure of leftists, but who by a broader measuring stick (much more reflective of actual voters) could be a spectacular combination of highly electable while still being mostly quite progressive. I think he has a chance to be governor/senator/president some day, and in any of these capacities he would be better from a liberal point of view than 95% of the other options.
(and yes I now see you’re talking about Gonzales so my reply is inaptly located. And Gonzales has always creeped me out, not exactly sure why)
that’s how I feel too. Honestly I don’t know how care not cash panned out, but that proposal soured me forever on him locally. It did inspire SLF to be Gavin Gruesome for Halloween that year, so there’s that.
Once he did the Gay marriage thing, I stopped paying attention because I knew he sewed up whatever elective office he wanted in SF forever.
Matt Gonzalez is a smarmy guy. A poorly dressed public defender, so I have to support him. Although its tempered by the pension thing (less so the nader thing cuz it was not 2000 and nader is irrelevant now)
He definitely wasn’t friends w/ Bustamante, guy left a crock pot full of moldy beans in the Lt Gov’s office, man it fucking stank! None of the windows in the office opened either…
is that a metaphor?
Only if he hires enough good people to actually do the work. He was an empty-suit headline-chaser as mayor of SF, and didn’t have enough underlings to actually make the city run well.
yeah, him and adachi went a little nutso, huh?
So, I accidentally went to a pta meeting. The kids smelled pizza, chased it and we ended up talking about budgets and stuff.
I purchased an SUV. This means no CA again for years. It’s been fun.
Bull. It means “ROAD TRIP!”
Even with the free flight, accommodation and chauffeur service … jeez you’re hard to please!
I think she is holding out for a basement here to call her own and a couple of Rivercats to get it started…
Can I email you?
call him.
Thanks, and go As.
Maybe.
You must bring him a shrubbery.
Apparently :-)
Tar! Heels!
hurray! my first tornado watch.
been traipsing the boys of summer shirt from uptown to marigny, to much laud (and one rangers-capped glare). even mrs AV appreciates it more than usual. IIRC, the exact words were something like, “finally, more creepy mccreepers looking at your chest than at mine.”
Hah, great shirt, sadly mines a bit snug around the waist, hence-
This one goes out to AV and EN, late night wierdos por vida!
Today is Jerry Harrison’s 65th b’day…. just the reasoning I’ve been seeking to post one of my all-time favorites from the archives. If your dig the “big band,” Fear of Music/Remain In Light era funkified Talking Heads, then please go nuts with this sort-of video companion to THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS…, live on German TV in December 1980. According to David Byrne, if you dance you might understand the words better.
Vinyl people relax
I keep some of my records in a couple slots of an Expedit (which is devoted mostly to books), but most are in a set of shelves that I built myself.
I will not kallax.
seriously I get my shelving here
I got a couple of super nice bookcases here (warning: probably not relevant unless you live in Chicago), but the movers lost one of them on the way out to Boston.
Whoa, Season 2 of The Americans starts this Wednesday?! Hot damn. I haven’t stopped hearing “Games Without Frontiers” in my head since the end of the first season.
I won’t get to watch the Olympic hockey games until this evening, please no spoilers, at least here in the Lounge, most appreciated.
OK, no problem
Goddamn it, spoiled by a fucking coworker who doesn’t even care about sports. Argh! Sounds like it was a boring game anyway.
Ha!
I think you were a little overambitious there, kind of like asking for no spoilers for the first round of the Big Dance.
No doubt, it was a real longshot. Just ticks me off that I successfully tuned out a whole universe of spoil-ridden media all day long, only to be foiled by a source I could not have possibly expected or prevented.
Brian.only, after two weeks off I am really looking forward to softball tomorrow. Also I think my pulled quad muscle is finally healed.
After two days of skiing I think my quads have gone on strike.
Woohoo, folks have been asking where you where, we might be at the opposite field if our usual one is taken, we’ve been having some competition lately.
Milo stayed home sick today. I think we are out. their baseball season starts next weekend, so it may be no go till june
Bummer, hope he gets better soon!
It is not clear to me what is so newsworthy about a water main break that it warrants a news helicopter hovering over my neighborhood for more than an hour (so far).
Almost certainly a noise violation – report it.
They’re gone now, I guess the darkness makes their camera shots less useful. I’m not really the civic complaint type, though.
Understood – I just get pissed off by the news helicopters. During the Oakland Occupy we had 2-3 overhead for several hours at a time every night.
Crap that was horrible… Funny though, it’s how I found out AV & I were close neighbors.
several hours? it was from first light till the protesters went to sleep!
some people have “jobs” that they go to for about 9 or 10 hours during daylight…so “several hours” seems about right.
hell, anybody can get a job. it takes a man to make it without working.
I’m officially bored.
You have a new SUV. Certainly there are some exciting weekend trips within a reasonable distance. (Looks at Google Maps…hmmm. Memphis?)
I work every weekend.
4-wheelin in the local mud flats?
Donuts in the hospital parking lot? (Both.)
How redneck do you think she is?
He’s met me, you haven’t. He brushed my mullet.
I might have bought your redneck credentials if you’d corrected FSU and pointed out that it’s simply called “muddin'”. Alas, you failed.
You guys aren’t helping. I show up every few weeks and I want to be entertained! Yes, Mike, I’m bitching again.
If you’re only showing up every few weeks shouldn’t you be entertaining us?
I’m naked.
I am always something-ed
Pics or STFU.
My panoramic camera is broken.
I laughed cause it’s true. It is broken.
This is tough to look at:
1- I’ll miss his happy-go-lucky manatee ways.
2- He’s a Met…
I will also miss Bartolo, he just seems so irrepressibly sweet no matter what the situation.
Also, this picture reminds me that the Mets colors aren’t mentioned nearly enough on most hideous uniform color combo lists.
i am surprised at how much I liked bartolo colon. I never paid attention to him except when he was an angel. And they all suffer from the angel taint.
the only agels I have tolerated are Don baylor and dave chalk.
(non legacy divisoin, so excluding bobby bonds, joe rudi, reggie jackson)
I like dave chalk because this 1978 topps card was the coolest thing teh age 8 Ed had ever seen.
That may be the coolest thing age 48 FSU has ever seen (non-naked division).
that’s not a funny. now this is funny.
I actually remember him hitting a pretty good shot to CF last year, granted it was easily caught, but it was a good knock nevertheless. Gawd I’ll miss that shit-eating grin of his… :(
It really is too bad the A’s missed the opportunity for a Bartolo Laughing Buddha Statue giveaway.
Start off your weekend in an ECM-jazzy mode with this concert, recorded 22 years ago today, and featuring Jack DeJohnette’s star-studded ensemble New Directions. I remastered it especially for its birthday, and all four galactic-class players blow out the candles with skill and enthusiasm :)
Sounds interesting, downloading it now.
I saw Lester Bowie the year after that. Summer in between college and my move to CA, he was commissioned to write music for the World University Games in Buffalo. This gig with some local musicians cost $5, and my (possibly faulty at this point) memory is that there were only a handful of people there. Sad that such an amazing musician couldn’t draw a crowd, but very cool to see in a small venue. His chops were just unfkingreal.
Happy Ragnarök, everyone! It’s been nice knowing you in this life; I’ll keep an eye out for you in Nirvana, where the A’s retain their stars for all eternity.
Speaking of, Vikings returns the 27th.
Ragnarok, I think that’s your nickname now, gonna have to retire Hippy Jim, sorry, but you’re around +12-15 UZR in LF, the death of right handed sluggers.
Well, those defensive metrics are notoriously misleading. Just happy to be in the lineup. Also it feels like I bruised a kidney on that one tumble I took.
Video or STFU
Here’s a pic from when I actually deserved the nickname, at least:
Lies. That’s actually Weird Al.
It was more like Howard Stern, or Kenny G.
Is that a perm?
All natural, baby. A cascade of curls you could swim in.
I regret asking for video.
Look at that mane!
Also, the Hippy Jim nickname brings me more delight than I can possibly express.
Yay!
ITYM “Hippie.” At least I hope so.
hyphy
Hippy – as in the old bastard broke his
Sometimes I can’t tell if I’m watching a commercial for Chevy or Viagra.
yes
Thanks, and go As.
I have the same problem with Ford vs vasectomy commercials.
What channel is that?!
All of ’em (just trying to make a lame Chevy rocks/Ford sucks joke).
This looks like it might be really awesome. Honestly, though, they had me at “Mike Judge workplace comedy.”
George would have been 71 today. He might have only lived to be 58, but he enjoyed what I’m certain you’ll agree was a high impact existence in his limited time down here. Venture with me over to the blog, where I have gathered his Beatles era compositions together to form a cohesive chronicle of his colossal creativity in the 1960s.
if george harrison didn’t die when he did, he would be dead by now.
new orleans needs a baseball team. the city colors are green and gold (and purple). and the A’s are used to playing a few feet under sea level.
JUS’ SAYING!!!
n’awlins, how i hate to leave you. but soon i will come again. and forever i will be your friend. please please don’t forget you saw me.
So I’ve had shoulder pain for 4 months now. I had a falling out with one of the doctors I work with because I was told it was “inflammation somewhere” in my body. They told me to eat more protein. I laughed, then went to Dr. Hottie. Immediate X ray, which revealed scoliosis. MRI soon after revealed a pinched nerve and a thoracic disc herniation. Fucking eat more protein. Assholes.
The lesson, of course, is to go to the hottest doctor available right away.
Why would eating more protein help with an “inflammation somewhere” anyway? And is there some reason to think you were protein-deficient? You live in Missouri!
It doesn’t. I rolled my eyes over that. If the visit was fucking free I would’ve raised hell. Have they seen me? Do I look deficient in anything?
Now I’m on drugs and start therapy Friday. The drugs are good.
It makes me want to lick your face.
Then I go unconscious.
My face? Those drugs must be really good.
Like a dog.
Or hump your leg.
I’m on drugs too. Bruised ribs from softball last week, it hurts to breathe or sleep. It’s agony to cough or sneeze. So I got scrips for pain killers and muscle relaxants. Still trying to figure out how to be an old guy and an athlete at the same time.
If the field’s dry enough Saturday I’m still playing softball, though.
Do they make you want to lick people’s faces?
This is my 4th herniated disc. The first three happened at the same time, and I couldn’t move. I took Vicodin and Soma. One night I woke up naked, standing in my bed, with my face shoved between the blinds of the window behind my head board.
I stayed up all Monday night before I was on drugs. Got caught up on The Walking Dead.
I was up all Monday night too. Gas and shitting.
Swoon.
swim.
Or golf.
wait is it on saturday or sunday?
I might make an appearance
Saturdays at noon, Lowell Field in West Oakland (14th and Filbert). But the forecast looks pretty wet for this week.
TWSS
yeah… twould have been nice if it wasn’t though.
Should be back for a bit in april including my birthday weekend 18-20
You should come!
Man I was so bummed we got rained out this week…
Looks like you guys are having fun right now!
Feeling better? I suggested to Aaron today that we should bring a broom to sweep the puddles and goose poop off the infield if need be, I’m too pumped to go without playing another week.
Eat more protein? I laughed at them.
I would just like to comment that it really is true that after a man turns 50, every doctor in town gets in line to shove something up your asshole. It’s like they think there’s a gold mine up there. The highlight is coming on Tuesday, a TMI-ectomy. Had the pre-surgery consult with the guy today; his best (also TMI) line was “your first bowel movement after this procedure will certainly be memorable!” Thanks Doc! (I do have some Norco in anticipation of that.)
Nothing is TMI to me, honey. I ask people about their poo erry day. I gots to. You don’t poo, I get skurred. Erry time my pt pees, I smell it.
Sorry, folks. I know there was a line last time, too, but my Oakland dance card has already filled up.
Those stupid things almost make me wish I had a family. Instead I just put a stick nurse on my window.
Awe, cute!
Stick Guurty
Cute! Also I’m afraid a single misstep and it’s going to crush California (I will resize).
Thanks, I’m on my phone and it autocorrects all the images so I can’t tell if it’s too large.
The one with the bat reminds me of you or Ed.
why is the dad always bald?
He needs a hat.
The kid with the glove is totally Milo.
hee
That kid is so damned cute.
My favorite one of those was one where the stick guy was dogging a stick woman with a note of something to the effect “I fk your stick family”
You sick bastard!
You stick bastard!
You sick bastard!
http://www.streetfx.com.au/product/making-my-family-anti-my-stick-figure-family-parody-shirt/
The image looked like that, but the text was “Fuck you and your stick figure family”
I want a stick Thor.
You misspelled “fuck.”
I got a Thor keychain for the new ride!
I scared everyone away.
I hit the unconscious phase suddenly. Fear not, I’ve returned.