Because we were making Jennifer sad…
Here is a cover tune that got me playing all my Neil Young records last weekend. But this version has unbeatable crowd reactions.
I escaped from the requirement to go to the South Pole (a.k.a. ice prison) this year. But the downside is that I won’t be stopping through New Zealand, where I always hold out unrealistic hopes of discovering a treasure trove of old Flying Nun LPs.
My wife is running the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. I tried to keep up with just part of her training for a while but first I got calf tendonitis and then I destroyed my lower back. So being almost 34 is awesome.
Ok, that’s all I got. Hopefully Bed will show up to bail me out.
boo!
Are they saying “boo-olin”?
they? there is only me, sir.
[stops googling]
You didn’t make it all the way to the first link?
i’m guessing this.
there is a first link?
bullpen roles are bochy’s undoing. afelt was ready, right?
i wonder how pixies’ two covers of neil young were about waiting.
Down at the South Pole, the winterlong just ended.
and my favorite NY song is only covered by mercury rev? (i don’t remember liking them.) can’t find a video of it though.
It’s not Neil Young, but I spent a while earlier today trying to find a good youtube for Sleater-Kinney’s cover of Fortunate Son. The only one I found had pretty terrible sound.
there is a difference between CCR and NY?
Huh.
Nice choice for a favorite. I love that whole album.
Uncle Tupelo covered that one (among many other Neil songs) too.
This is one of my favorite Neil covers though:
those are pretty good songs up there, C. i don’t know anything about flying nun.
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a record nerd who doesn’t worship at the altar of kiwi pop?!?
i… yeah. no excuse i guess.
different pockets of knowledge.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/789603/tall_dwarfs.tar.gz
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/789603/the_clean.tar.gz
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/789603/the_bats.tar.gz
I can’t stop listening to that Verlaines song now.
how long are these good for? i need to upload in the background most of the day today. don’t want to miss the chance with these.
I’ll leave em there for several days / until I need dropbox space for something else.
thanks!
got ’em. thanks!
sometimes if there’s a return after the link and before the ” i get a [?].
Yuuuuhhhhssss!
I love me some cover tunes. Lake Street Dive has an entire album of covers.
I was trying to guess where Lake Street Dive was from just based on the name. But lots and lots of cities have Lake Streets. Turns out to be Boston, in their case.
I keep mistakenly calling them Lake Street Drive or Lake Shore Drive.
Yeah. I lived in Chicago for eight years — I want to say Lake Shore Drive every time.
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you guys get tekton down there??
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Do you mean the tools? We have a lot of tools.
i think i meant techron. or something.
some product/additive/meaningless marketing word that bill king would read much better than it deserved. techron with vroooooom!
Even better than techron, we use JP8 (jet fuel) in everything because it doesn’t freeze.
these managers in both nlds’s know that they can remove a pitcher when the opposite handed hitter comes up, rith?
yeah, they think it’s gonna be a bunt anyway.
best cover song.
i don’t get it. those old guys are covering a rezillos song?
I don’t know if that is a joke, but, if not, get a load of this song by the “king”
quit fucking with me. elvis would never do a cover and fleetwood mac is that band with the girls in it.
ok. i’m outta here before i have to see the SFG* hop around like they earned something.
* stupid fucking giants.
Hate hate hate hate hate hate
i’m going to contradict myself below, but don’t hate. giants fans really are the best. they root, cheer for pop flies, and wear special hats during every single one of the 20 games in the season, if necessary.
(I think the people who posted this image were thinking of the other Giants. But I’m using it anyway.)
If this were us we’d never hear the end of it:
Sounds like they’re all set for the matchup vs. St. Louis.
Of course you come up with the witty response.
too bad its not walnut creek
I was just about to say how much this all fking sucks and how fking tired I am of sports and what they do to us, and now this. I obviously don’t know what happened, but it’s really sad it gets so out of hand sometimes. Now I feel bad for all concerned. Screw baseball.
Yabut, they didn’t shoot the parking lot owners who set the price at $100, that’s the real crime.
typical giants fans! leave the game early and instigate a gun fight against law enforcement just because the cops wear blue! and the dodgers weren’t even playing. this is how simple minded these criminals are.
oddities when politics and sports collide…
if cataluña votes for independence from spain (referendum a month from now), la liga announced that barcelona, espanyol, and three 2nd-dividion teams would not be able to remain in la liga.
and carrying the thought through, would cataluña have a wildly uneven 5-team league?
andorra is the only non-spanish territory allowed in la liga, and it sows the seed toward another non-spanish exception, but still, not guaranteed, and might take a while.
and then you gotta add the cynical thought that, what if spain is using this to get people to vote against independence?
It would be kinda weird to not have Barca in La Liga. I mean, that’s one of the largest revenue teams in the world.
Thanks, and go As.
from the $$ angle, there’s no way it’s ousted.
It’s absolutely Spain using it to vote against independence. I don’t even understand their league structure, but it reeks of it.
Because it’s home grown starsm managing, and teamowrk. No luck involved whatsoever.
I’m gonna go wash my eyes out with Tabasco now…
seriously fuck sports. I’m so fucking sick of this shit. those fucking idiots hit the ball a total of about 80 feet and got 3 goddamn runs out of it. Fuck anybody who says it’s not luck. Gio gets a double play ball up the middle OOPS IT HIT THE PITCHING RUBBER
whatever. Fuck that team and their condescending as fuck fans.
Thanks, and go As.
Pretty much
What’s up with Giants fans piling on Harper today? Did he say something dickish last night? Because otherwise they just sound like a bunch of graceless winners kicking the other team’s best player for no reason.
the way he fucking ragged on the fans and the giants endlessly is indefensible.
oh wait. and wait some more.
unless he’s being sarcastic. in which case i want to defend him and like him.
The way the camera is positioned you can’t see him doing the wanking motion with his hand.
Norway has rad new banknotes.
I would spend the heck out of that money.
can i have femhundre kroner?
Nailed it, Danny.
Considering watching hockey tonight. That’s how bad things have gotten.
So tell me, what teams/players am I supposed to hate? Also who’s really good? I have no idea who any of these guys are except that guy with the Polish surname who seems to be on a lot of Sharks ads, and those twins on Vancouver (?), and Sidney Crosby.
Full disclosure: I will abandon the sport like it never existed once the NBA starts.
The Minnesota Wild have cool jerseys, and also a Swiss player named Nino Niederreiter who was acquired in a trade for Cal Clutterbuck.
Those are hot.
The Wild’s dark green and red is perhaps the ugliest color palette in all professional sports.
That’s Green? Wow, I need to do some adjusting on the old monitor. I love the look of that sweater (Hockey jerseys are sweaters, right?)but if they cant get green right I don’t know if I can trust them.
I’m thinking about hockey, but honestly if I do I’m jumping on a bandwagon since I don’t REALLY have a team and I could actually feel less disgusted with myself for following the equiv of the Yankees.
no. jorge and campos is.
i like the dark green better when i think it’s velour.
Here’s how much of a sporting purist I am. I have never cared about hockey, but as one of my first memories of hockey existing was a brief clip of a (I think) Stanley Cup Finals involving the Minnesota North Stars in the mid-80s, it annoys me to this day that the Wild aren’t called the North Stars, which I remember thinking was such a cool name and logo. It also bothers me that there is no team in Quebec City, which struck me as an impossibly exotic locale for a North American sports franchise back then, and that the conferences and divisions are no longer named after random Canadians I’ve never heard of.
your
smytheAdams division championCalgary flamesQuebec Nordiques!FTFY
The North Stars also had a great color palette.
I’m sure it was part of the Dallas Stars deal that a future MN hockey team couldn’t reclaim the name. At least the Stars made sense when it to changed from North Star to Lone Star, unlike the other Minnesota team that took its name when it left town, the Lakers.
So that’s why I liked them.
The thing now where team moves but town keeps the name (e.g. Browns, Earthquakes, Sonics) is a nice development, as these things go.
At least when the name is regional specific. I can’t imagine the “A’s” being particularly regionally relevant to Philly, KC, or Oakland for instance. Nor the Giants from NY to SF. The Dodgers, on the other hand…
LA trolley dodgers is perfectly fine.
—
utah jazz though…
Yeah, I always thought LA and SLC should swap franchise names.
shorty rogers approves.
Mingus.
Dolphy.
I can dig it.
Quakes/Timbers tonight, yo.
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t get that channel.
I don’t have cable. MLS Live FTW.
Quakes: No blackouts.
Thanks, and go As.
One day I might pay for MLS Live. But today is not that day.
Honestly it’s a fantastic value. Like 50 bucks for the whole season.
Thanks, and go As.
18 now
is there a spanish language option?
That’s a good question that I can’t answer. It’s not as robust as MLB’s TV or Audio, you can’t switch feeds or anything like that.
Thanks, and go As.
the monitor over the goal seems a bit low.
the EQs aren’t a joy to watch.
wait. the timbers weren’t even above the playoff line! (but are now?) oh, EQs, that was bad.
SLIGHT defense for the Quakes:
Last night they were missing 5 players because of international callups. They only had 3 guys on the bench, period, and M. Perez Garcia didn’t play because he’s still coming back from that knee injury.
That said, they do suck. There have been calls for Watson (coach), Doyle (GM), and Kaval (Pres) to all get replaced. There have been multiple moves that are OBVIOUSLY stupid yet still made.
Thanks, and go As.
they can only get better!
That would be the hope. The new rumor is Dominic Kinnear is possibly coming back to coach next year which would be nice.
Djalo, the attacker on loan from Benfica, is kind of made of glass and the team is getting tired of him not staying healthy. With MLS, all player loans come with an option to buy but I think (hope) that they will just return him at the end of the season.
What they REALLY need is a creative attacking midfielder. They need Mix Diskerud. It makes so much sense it’s just too easy, and Mix has almost come to MLS a few times already but 11th hour issues about money (supposedly) kept him from signing. SJ need to give him a blank check, make him their 3rd Designated Player, and bring him in.
Thanks, and go As.
Whoa whoa whoa-oh-oh whoa-whoa whoa-oh-oh
The Sharks scored two goals in the 30 seconds since I started typing this comment. And the average game between teams I don’t care about is 97% more exciting in the NHL than the NBA. But if you’re bailing on hockey in a few weeks there’s not much to be said. Do come back for the playoffs, though.
Obligatory: I forget, are the NHL playoffs 6 months long or 8?
Thanks, and go As.
Obligatory: the NHL’s “pre-season” is waaaaay too long. What 80 something games???
The pre-playoffs started last night.
I kind of enjoy Hockey but I don’t understand the strategy at all. To my untrained eye it just looks like a bunch of guys skating around in vaguely defined patterns trying to avoid being offsides and firing shots on goal whenever possible hoping to get lucky. And when there’s a penalty it looks the same as when guys are legally knocked over. Also the rink seems too small. P.S. I am not a crackpot.
I’ve heard the rink is too small thing a number of times. I think it comes down to the fact that no one wants to remove x seats/rebuild arenas for everyone to make it bigger, but to my untrained eye it does seem like it would give more room for players to create.
the word puck makes me giggle. i AM a crackpot.
This guy still has the capacity to enrage me. I’m just remembering the episode where they tried to make him look like a human person because he returned someone’s lost dog or something, and now I’m looking around for something to punch.
no idea what’s going on here. who is this?
wiki
My googling also reveals that his object of affection Rachel is now married to some other Real World guy who is now a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin and she has six kids and is a Fox News personality because of course she is.
oh. there were 5 years or so there in late college / early adulthood i didn’t see a single TV show. missing a ref like this is like receiving residuals on that blissful run.
amen.
I look forward to all the How I Met Your Big Bang Theory references that will go over my head.
Funny thing is I never saw a single episode of Real World for pretty much the same reason. I worked with a girl who loved the show and loved/hated the guy and endlessly talked about whatever he did that week. I couldnt tell you anything other than I think he was a dick and maybe they kicked him out? Oh, and there was something about a dude with AIDS I think.
I dated a woman who really loved the show, but I didn’t really have a tv for those years. When I did I never had cable and the tv was basically something that you turned on after the VCR started playing the endless SLP quality simpsons that one of the roommates obsessively taped. even then there were countless hours to watch.
That is to say, I knew who it was from context and what his name was. Also I understand he was a dick.
I doubt I would have even read this article if I hadn’t read these comments. At least something good came out of it.
nice looptail.
If I get sick, I may need a lawyer, because I fully intend to beat the crap out of my coworker. Holy shit. He can’t fking do ANYTHING quietly like a normal person. And fking doesn’t have to be here, but oh, he’s sick, so yes, let’s come in and instead of work from home so the pregnant chick next to me and myself can get it too. Asshole.
Dude. I fell ill last night. Did you coworker and I make out? Also, I just mixed Nyquil and alcohol. I could be done for the night.
I’d need to wear gloves to touch this kid. He looks all “pretty and preppy” but I’ve seen what he does to the men’s room. There’s nothing clean about him. Make out with him? Oh HELLLLL no.
Me or you?
I’d like to think you have better taste than this kid. You’re not desperate enough to make out with him.
Aww. That’s one of the nicest things you’ve ever said to me.
You sure you dont just have Ebola?
After trying Nyquil, I wish I had Ebola. Who knew the “original flavor” was death? I was expecting to drool and sleep for 12 hours. All I got was a stomachache.
needs more purple drank.
You rang? Is it 2nd dinner already?
I thought that has been common knowledge for at least 15-20:
I had like, a dose and a half with my amaretto/long island hot tea and NOTHING.
I think it has something to do with metabolism.
If that stuff is fat-solubule, you may be in for a long ride.
Did you just call me fat?
I got sick Monday night too
all-a-you and your neighbors can SUCK IT!!
(though, since it mentions the murmur, i’m sure they meant to include the block just north of grand, where i’m sitting right now, heart of the art scene that spearheads every good
gentrificationwhatever they call it.)((yeah yeah, nice half-cuppied apartment buildings, but it sure woulda been nice to have a ball park here too, jerry.))
SFGate has this story on its landing page, but the headline is “Local area among U.S. “great neighborhoods”, since nothing positive can be written about Oakland there.
as evidenced by the reader comments there…
Ha, on there front page “Most Viewed” or whatever, they’ve fixed it to specific “Oakland’s Uptown”
Don’t worry, when they post the “Oakland among the U.S. ‘worst neighborhoods'” they’ll make sure to feature it prominently.
Let’s go Slovakia!
Bah! Offside goal, it looked like.
Wow wow wow wow wow
¿por qué tienes que odiar?
how ’bout them poles?
Oh wow, I missed that one. I’m kind of annoyed that Platini and his band of fools expanded the Euro field. These results would be way more meaningful if they hadn’t.
oh i don’t know. makes it more likely the better, not luckier, teams go further. (right?)
Probably? I mean, you’re not going to have any potential semifinalists or whatever miss the tournament anymore. But it makes the stakes of the qualifiers much lower for the big countries.
That said, Belgium x Bosnia is a nice one today on Espn2
wanted to watch some replays but am having a tough time with the ESPN app today. maybe tonight instead of silver linings playbook.
Iceland – Holland
and, of course,
Bojan – ‘Baijan
I guess I should look at it as transferring the drama further down the standings. And if it means getting Gareth Bale to a major tournament, it’s not all bad.
there you go.
Again, a problem well-solved by introducing the “Rest of … ” team.
it’s a good idea drawn in the air, but a bunch of questions pop out.
what entity assumes the cost, and selects the manager (is there a conflict of interest if a fifa committee has to select a manager to play against its name-brand teams) and when (assuming only non-qualifiying teams would be eligible to provide a manager, do you wait to know who the eligible countries are and prepare a team from the head down at that time)?
how are the players picked / is there a limit on number of players per country?
and when do they get picked? after the various countries are eliminated, presumably, but, again, wouldn’t that put the rest-of team at a disadvantage of experience as a team?
it seems the result would be really nice for the exhibition but not that great an addition to the competition. like, there’d be this team that always makes it difficult for the other teams in one group of the early round, but never really goes anywhere after that. (insert england / USA / mexico / chile / countryTBNL joke here.)
Since being a citizen of the country is no longer a requirement, the manager could be from any country and appointed well in advance (and keep the role long-term since the Rest team will always qualify).
Players picked by the manager, no limit per country, no (formally) required representation.
Players are picked only after the tournament is set of course, but I think you’d have a pretty decent idea somewhat in advance – especially for the World Cup.
Certainly there would be some disadvantage in not having played together, but the value of that may be overestimated … certainly England look no more like a team no matter how often they play together.
i could go along with that, for the most part.
it kinda bothers me that the manager wouldn’t be from a rest-of country. yes, the US has a german manager, but the US made that decision itself. in the rest-of case, that’d be a decision imposed from outside.
not playing together bothers me a little more. the few friendlies after qualification is over don’t seem enough. other countries are seeing if option A or B is better for specific positions or for specific tactical plans at that point. the rest-of team would be seeing what the options even are (even with player names earmarked earlier on).
but perhaps there would be some continuity with enough bales to offset the tournament-to-tournament availability of the zlatans.
Plenty of countries have non-native managers these days. What you really want to avoid is some kind of committee drawn from the FAs that was more caught up in representation than fielding the best team.
For a manager I can see this being quite an attractive gig, without having a national press to deal with (for example), though they would have all the different non-qualifying national FAs on their case.
Certainly for the World Cup you could imaging some significant continuity in the Best/Giggs/Bale mold.
indeed, plenty. i only mentioned one example so’s not to get mired in the list of argentine exports. my point is that if it’s taken as a issue of pride to go outside the local talent pool, each individual country makes that decision on its own. instead of having fifa tell the rest-of team members that not only are they second-best as a player-producing nation, they don’t rate as a managing one at all.
but foreign managers have been known to endear themselves to the country they represent, especially if they do elevate the stature of the team. it’s not a deal breaker for me.
i say, let’s do it. should we call blatter now, or do we wait till after
the fifa electionhe’s confirmed for another term?though we didn’t solve who does pick the manager.
Oh, sorry, I forgot Poland.
Instant bleachers favorite!
I can’t tell if he is serious
He’s not.
I’m lost. What happened here?
Some bleacher regular with a similar name to the guy we just picked up, I think.
Aha. That’s pretty cool of Reddick then.
Yes. Based on Twitter he seems to have a friendship with him. And isnt he one of the “Lew lied he never tried” guys? (Jorge-not Reddick…though who knows..)
Isn’t he the ring leader of that?
He’s certainly one of the most prominent activists. Jorge is the one who spent part of a game with Lew in his luxury box.
Who?
When the A’s DFA-him, will he complain that Wolff lied, he didn’t try?
Oh my. We have found the ultimate platoon player.
Dan. Johnson.
That’s awesome.
Talk about retaining good names, we should start reusing Band Camp for Moss.
oh my god. SIGN HIM BILLY!!!
This is why I have dogs.
Funny. Though you probably shouldn’t count on moving back in with your dogs in your declining years.
Also, that’s quite an acronym that organization has chosen.
There is also Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Also that the page in question has its own wonderful name…
To be sure, I will likely be playing shuffleboard at Rossmoor!
Clever excuse to get someone else to pay for the Complete C&H
My wife successfully ran the marathon today and also beat her goal time of four hours! (She finished in 3:59:11)
damn. that is impressive. Congrats to her.
I can do 13 in about 2 hours. I can’t imagine going faster (nevermind the world recod times are literally twice as fast as I run)
Chicago marathon was nuts — 45000 people running. But it was perfect weather (mid 50s) and the flattest course possible.
and it drew enough kenyans to allow an argentine to win the buenos aires marathon for the first time in 10 years.
She’s a big fan of Breaking Bad, so after the race we had to track down the owner of this sign for a photo.
did you see the pawn shop thing
I haven’t watched much Breaking Bad myself. Haven’t seen that video before.
you have to wait till the end for the punchline.
wooo!
Pretty good try by the Sparanos but in the end, predictably, Oakland couldn’t stop being Oakland.
That was a pretty amazing INT to end it though.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah. I was shocked that they would make that play when they were already in FG range-ish with plenty of time left.
But if you are going to get picked off like that you just have to tip the cap.
I’d rather see them try for the win than the tie, especially with the team going nowhere this season.
Better to see them continually improve while still losing so that they secure that lucrative first pick.
I hate thinking that way, but yeah you sort of have to think that way.
A few wins so Carr isn’t completely demoralized and the 1st pick that can be traded for an RG3-type haul would probably be the best possible scenario for the Raiders.
Someone is going to fall in love with Mariota from Oregon and give up a ton for him.
Thanks, and go As.
LEW WOLFF HATE’S OAKLAND(‘S CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LAWS)
Thanks, and go As.
“The checks were being returned”? Are we supposed to believe that Kaplan, after receiving three $700 donations for the Wolffs on Aug 18, Aug 19, and Sep 3, left these checks lying around un-cashed, and that they did not use the money?
are we supposed to believe that they literally handed personal checks to Kaplan? Maybe she just didn’t get a chance to go to the bank or couldn’t find a deposit slip or something
Thanks, and go As.
The bank put a 5 month hold on the checks while they verified that the funds were paid by the bank they were written on.
Wells Fargo or Bank of America?
I’m assuming Lew banks at some Credit Union in another country so he can hold onto every penny as long as he can.
(Because baseball season is over and my Netflix account is getting used again)
Overrated Movies: Silver Linings Playbook
Very.
I was actually really enjoying it until about 2/3 of the way through, when it went completely off the rails.
ENOUGH ABOUT THE GODDAMNED 2014 A’s ALREADY.
Heh
I agree with the overrated label. It wasn’t bad, but not outstanding either.
It was pretty much just a standard romantic comedy, right?
In the end, yes. But at first I thought it was going to be a serio-comic exploration of mental illness. Then, after being mostly realistic and even a little bit disturbing, with a legitimately great performance from Cooper, it went with the full on silly contrived plot device in the “parlay” and just kind of careened into a simplistic resolution from there. That scene in the house after the fight at the Eagles game was truly terrible filmmaking.
Maybe if I had come in thinking “romantic comedy” from the jump I would have had a different reaction. I hadn’t read anything about the film, so I built up expectations during the first two acts that this was going to be a film that took itself seriously on some level, even while being pretty funny. That turned out to be wrong.