Breaking News!!! Billy Beane has just traded all the guys he just traded for so he could get a new set of guys to trade. I think this calls for a new lounge…well, that and the other one was getting full.
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Muggy in spirit.
Druggy in execution.
Saggy in appearance.
Foggy is the new muggy here. 3 hr delay this morning and the fog really hasnt completely lifted yet.
I thought for sure I’d check back in and see at least 100 posts about soccer in here.
Who do you think Orlando will take in the expansion draft, Bed?
I’m guessing either Orlando Bloom or Orlando Pace…or Pele.
Tony Orlando is unprotected.
I think we all know why…he only plays well at Dawn.
I actually think orlando has been doing pretty well so far, better than nycfc.
Patrick Mullins should be their pick #1.
MacMath should be #2.
Thanks, and go As.
Big Mac or Whopper?
Quarter pounder with cheese, if I must.
Hmm…I’ll admit I occasionally crave a Big Mac…I can’t remember the last time I had a Whopper.
I don’t have much experience with Burger King, but from what little I had some 10 years ago the Whopper tasted weird to me. There was an off flavor every time that I couldn’t figure out.
fake smoke flavor, probably.
But, but, they cooked their burgers over an actual grill, not like those griddling commies at McDs!
that’s my probably. i only suspect it’s fake smoke somehow, just out of general fast food distrust.
Just the opposite for me: McDonalds food seems really artificial, even compared to other fast food burgers.
i’m with you.
Both pale in comparison to Wendy’s and Jack in the Box, at least according to my memories from the 90s.
In my memory Whoppers were always a little soggy.
Big Mac is too much bread and shredded lettuce.
Quarter pounder with Mac sauce.
I feel like asking for this would cause chaos in the McDs production line.
The secret sauce…aka Thousand Island Dressing…does something to me.
i’m not entirely ashamed to admit i was a bit of a whoppertunist during a time. and the only time i enjoyed the flavor of a mcd’s food-style eating item was during the mcd-l-t era. which was basically a whopper in two attached boxes.
but i drove by this school last weekend and, even though i’ve seen it before, i was aghast and enraged all anew.
I still sneak in an Egg McMuffin once or twice a month. It’s my guilty pleasure food.
Jack in the Box for me. The sourdough Jack is a reasonable burger, by fast food standards. Still, if I have time to get out of my car I’m heading to Nations.
The last time I was in Oregon visiting my Mom I made sure I hit Round Table and Jack in the Box…I miss them and Togo’s.
I wonder if J in the B still has that burger with the onions rings inside. So good…
As far as fast food goes Jack in the Box is high end.
It’s pretty good. I tend to get more excited about the ones I can’t access on the regular. Bojangles and Steak and Shake, for example.
Steak and Shake is too greasy for me and I don’t care for their fries. I’ve never heard of Bojangles. The only two fast food places I hit…well, three since Miss Hawaii must have Arby’s from time to time is Backyard Burger and Chik fil-A.
My feelings for Steak and Shake come from my midwestern grandfather taking me there whenever we visited, so it’s not about the food for me. I haven’t been there but once since I was 10.
I do like Chick fil-A quite a bit.
Yeah, food can really evoke memories. I don’t know what Chik fil-A does with their chicken but that stuff is like crack.
Has anyone been to The Smokehouse on Telegraph recently? That was my spot decades ago, but I can’t remember whether it was actually that good.
yes, and no, it’s not actually good. it’s OK fast food, and all about the experience of being there. patties are thin and dry is my main complaint.
Gotta dig the outdoor seating + lawn though. I think they still have that.
yep.
wow. i can’t remember getting a fast food chain burger that wasn’t in-n-out in the past 10 years or so.
Same, unless Five Guys counts. Or Super Duper.
i don’t know super duper but from the website i don’t think it counts.
maybe it compares with true burger, my monthly habit.
It’s very good, and they have good beer on tap.
oh, my sister took me to 5 guys to compare with in-n-out last year.
Same thing with me. In fact, In n Out (and 5 Guys) might be the only fast food burgers I’ve ever had. I always got the chicken nuggets type option at fast food places growing up
Red licorice or black licorice or licorice is the spawn of Satan?
Black licorice is the only true licorice.
I love red licorice…it’s my favorite candy.
Both are great to me. I’m bi that way.
Hawt
True, and it’s disgusting.
I can’t eat black licorice…I’ve tried. It tastes like death wrapped in disease.
Disagree.
i love these.
yes
I would like to not be kept awake by helicopters tonight please.
I don’t miss that from Sacramento. The only thing that keeps me awake at night is my family.
@FSU join them!
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich or grilled cheese sandwich?
Yes please.
grilled cheese easy
Thanks, and go As.
Grilled cheese for me…on sourdough bread with real butter and three slices of sharp cheddar.
One please.
I know…after I wrote this I started to crave one right away.
I like putting mayo or ketchup on my grilled cheese.
Inside?
Yes. Sometimes pickles too.
I cook my grilled cheese two halves at the same time, then putting them together. Right before I put them together, add whatever you want. Bacon is another good one.
There is no wrong way…whatever floats your boat or in this case your sandwich.
Sandwiches are the best. I fucking love sandwiches. I currently love burgers with bacon and an over easy egg on top. Damn, I need me some Red Robin.
Oh, look. Jennifer loves everything.
Well…uh…okay.
I’m done with this kidney stone.
Glad to hear it…I’ve heard those things can be bastards.
I’m done with it, it’s not done with me. Dr. Hottie is giving me until Thursday to pass it before we start talking about surgery.
i don’t like surgery. hope it passes.
Well, good luck…hopefully this to shall pass.
I’m about to take the journey towards becoming bilingual so get ready for Bed in Spanish.
What was a food that you loved as a kid that you no longer care for?
French toast for me…I ate so much of it as a kid that I no longer want to eat it.
i can’t really think of any.
Yeah, I love all of the stuff I loved and a lot of the stuff I hated.
thought there’d be some dessert that now tastes too sweet, but… i’m eating ice cream before dinner.
There have been times when the only thing I ate for dinner was ice cream…and that was what I like to call a great dinner.
Me too.
Has anyone tried this new nostalgia bakery yet? I used to love Ho-Ho’s but haven’t had one in years, although it’s tempting to try some from there. Was never the biggest pop-tart fan but good fresh ones could be tasty.
Stopped in yesterday. The twinkies were pretty darned good, but the pop tart was disappointing – nice crust but not enough filling. And it’s expensive.
I think I’m mostly in the same boat. A lot more adding than subtracting
I think that means you lose ten made up points, in our made up game, that has no rules, and isn’t actually a game.
i protest. seems like a non answer, but GM found statistical value.
After further review…AV gets the ten points back and Bed is docked ten points for post interference.
points! mine!!1
French toast is wonderful, but I’m not very good at making it. I never have enough of the eggy soaky stuff for all of the bread, and I start out putting too much butter in the pan and then not enough, some of it comes out soggy and some dry…it’s a mess.
My pancakes and waffles kick ass though.
When I was little, right after my parents got divorced, one of the things my mom could afford to make was French toast so we had it all the time. I have a soft spot for it in my heart because it reminds me of all the sacrifices my mom made for me back then. She often wouldn’t eat anything. Luckily things turned around but in the interim we ate a lot of French toast and I got burned out on it.
Things I used to like but no longer care for:
Campbell’s soup (any flavor but chowder)
tomato slices
cheese in a salad
strawberries
grapes
pickles
corn bread
*I still eat most of the above, but only in certain preparations
Things I used to hate but now eat:
spaghetti
celery
raw bell peppers
pork products
hamburgers
pancakes
Things I still don’t eat:
raw onions (certain cooked onions are okay)
cooked bell peppers
ham and beans
bananas
coffee in any form, including desserts
I’m with you on coffee. I think you might be the first person I’ve ever heard of who didn’t like spaghetti as a kid. I think for some kids that’s pretty much all they’ll eat.
It had onions in it. I REALLY hate onions.
Well, it’s easy enough to make spaghetti without onions in the sauce. Little Miss Arkansas loves macaroni with red sauce.
The eldest Ace has a thing against sauces. He would eat noodles, but not it you put sauce on them. He also liked rice, but only plain. And he still hates any sort of salad dressing. We actually tried for a long time to get him to try ranch with things. Finally we realized “hey, maybe its ok if the kid doesnt want a bunch of fat and oil…”
I hated salad dressing so much as a kid. I would eat dry salad all the time.
Little Miss Arkansas is not a picky eater. Sadly this means she also likes to nibble on her Mom’s Arby’s “food”. Baby Phil just eats raw meat that he tracks down and kills himself.
LOL
My son cracks me up…he’s lot of fun for a one year old.
This summer I was babysitting a little girl who would eat tomatoes raw like an apple. She was about 4. After her second tomato, she suddenly stops what she’s doing, stands still for a few seconds, and says, “I have to pee!”
I can hear the aftermath from the next room. She yells down the hall, “I’m not peeing and I don’t know how to wipe my butt!”
Kids are great.
Every day is something new and our two kids are so different. It’s an adventure.
maybe hes a super taster.
Corn bread is so awesome. I want some corn bread.
I’m not big on corn bread or biscuits…this makes me not quite fit in here in the South.
Things that I use to dislike when I was a kid but now eat:
Kraut
Beets
Anchovies
Capers
taragon
Asparagus
Smoked salmon
tofu
Things that I use to eat and now hate:
Things that I still don’t like:
Sardines
Things I used to love to eat, but no longer do:
Meat
Fish
My wife would divorce me if I said I was getting rid of fish in our house…I would do the same if she got rid of steak.
No longer love or no longer eat
Players choice.
A couple of my KC friends are trying to get me to come up for the Raiders game this Sunday…life if going to get in the way this time though.
I know I’m a nurse. I’ve had kidney stones before. But I googled “how to pass a kidney stone” just in case there was something I didn’t know. This is what the first page said.
I’ll start praying to my lord and savior Al Davis right away…that kidney stone must go down and it must go down hard. Just pass the stone, baby!
Great, now she’ll try to pass it, but some former sprinter will drop it.
Well, hopefully she’ll get someone from the 67-85 vintage. She’ll be fine unless there are any Steelers in there.
BwaHaHa
ASVD
The Power of Davis compels you to go deep…and to sue the NFL.
The PowerPoint of Davis compels you to coach at the University of Tennessee
Glorious Mundy not only wins the lounge…he may have just won the year.
Good grief…I can’t even vote for the winner in special elections anymore. Sad day for Fayetteville.
Man…this whole state is going hard red.
That time of the month, eh?
It would appear so. Oh well…lose some and lose some others. I think I’m going to skip the news and watch more movies.
I just watched The Nightmare Before Christmas (Mike told me to) and 22 Jump Street. They were both okay.
We just watched Guardians of the Galaxy…it was fun. I thought 21 Jump Street was a lot of fun so I’d like to see the sequel.
22 Jump Street makes fun of itself a lot.
I like that in a movie.
For a comedy sequel, 22 Jump Street acquits itself fantastically. I’m not sure I can think of a better comedy sequel off the top of my head.
Evil Dead 2?
That’s a comedy remake of a non-comedy. But yeah, super awesome.
True, true.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK
Thanks, and go As.
I love that all the kids still love to watch Rudolph. And no child wants to play with a Charlie-In-The-Box.
We’ve got to get the women and children back to Christmas Town!
Best Christmas movie?
Too hard to decide.
It’s a tough one…I’m not sure how I’d answer it.
The Santa Clause
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
It’s A Wonderful Life
The Polar Express
Ernest Saves Christmas
Elf
Cool list…here’s mine.
A Christmas Story
It’s A Wonderful Life
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Scrooged
Die Hard…yes, it’s a Christmas movie
Bad Santa
Die Hard
best? the dead.
favorite? metropolitan.
that i really like and is actually appropriate to watch with family on xmas day? the man who came to dinner.
Gotta throw Eyes Wide Shut in there.
definitely worth mentioning in that, yes it’s actually an xmas movie, kind of way. and i was going to, but then i remembered i didn’t actually like it. (based on only one viewing, in which kidman’s acting made me want to leave the room whenever she came in. i may feel different if i see it again. but that’s a huge if.)
I ended up enjoying it the first and only time I saw it. Mainly for the visuals and score, though I thought Cruise was pretty solid. Some day I’ll have to watch it again, hopefully on the big screen. Kubrick films tend to improve in reception with age so EWS’ 1999 release doesn’t do it any favors with viewers at large. It probably isn’t among his top tier movies, but on the whole I think it’s above average and worth watching to understand the guy’s diverse craft.
Then there’s Marty:
MARTIN SCORSESE: “Remarkable film, remarkable. And the more you see Eyes Wide Shut, the more you get involved in that world. At certain points you don’t want to, because it’s too painful, but it’s…and Bernardo Bertolucci was saying this in Rome, he said “Eyes Wide Shut is really good, he puts you into his world!” and I said “yeah, I really know!”
Another interesting fact, just looking at the wiki page: “The film spent a long time in production, and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous film shoot period, at 400 days.” Whoa.
i knew it took forever to shoot, didn’t know it made guinness. there’s a line somewhere that the best thing about EWS is that it kept cruise from making another movie for a year and a half.
this is also part of the lore.
I have a feeling wrangling with Kirk Douglas back in 1960 resolved whatever control issues Kubrick had dealing with high powered actors. He completely controlled the creation of the movies he made after that, albeit with careful attention to feedback from just about anyone working on the set.
Also, Kubrick didn’t really maintain ties all the much with actors (including R Lee Ermey probably) following the creation of his films… that combined with the fact that others haven’t come out to agree with the notion that Kubrick was bullied makes me think that Ermey was either embellishing or expressing his dislike of the film through tall tales.
Another view, from Jan Harlan, his executive producer:
Q: Of all Kubrick’s movies, was there any one that he personally was most satisfied with or held higher up than any of his other films?
“Well I think he particularly liked Eyes Wide Shut. Yes. He really was happy with that. Probably because it was the hardest film to do for him. It was such a struggle and such a difficult topic. It was a hidden film. There were so many things the audience had to really decipher for themselves. And tremendous performances by everybody, and he was very happy with it. But obviously I think the audience didn’t share his enthusiasm in the Northern European Anglo-Saxon world. In Japan they did. And in Italy, Spain and France they did. But you know that’s just what you get to do. That’s how it is.”
Source
Which could just be a reflection of Kubrick’s intense investment on current projects. Still, I’d be more inclined to trust Harlan than Ermey, personally.
well, fuck.
now i have to watch it again just to see what there is to decipher. the apollo landing was actually clipped from outtakes of a frontscreen projected porn movie with CGI characters spliced in to cover up buzz aldrin’s boner!
or i could let it stand as one of those movies from a director whose work i otherwise thoroughly love and admire, and that i know is deeper than what i’m getting, but that grates so much i don’t want to sit though it to figure it out. #inlandempire
The Moon Landing stuff is always funny, ha ha.
More seriously though, whether you love or hate it, your opinion has merit since it’s such a damn odd flick. Hard to judge, and perhaps even unfinished if Lynch’s and Cronenberg’s judgements are to be believed.
Def better than Fear and Desire though.
did i say moon? i meant memeplex.
interesting. not sure he takes it anywhere fully, but interesting. also, a bit compulsive.
Not 100% sure I have the capacity to grasp the article’s message, but I suppose the never ending queries of Kubrick’s films fit his point well… It’s obvious that Kubrick consistently made use of ambiguity to preserve the longevity of his movies, and it seems to have worked.
Hal definitely does cheat in that chess game and it’s always interesting to think about his motivation for doing so.
It’s kind of crazy how new Kubrick related articles and art pop up all the time. I guess that speaks to the “obsessive fan” audience, it just surprises me that you can’t really find same devotion for a filmmaker like Scorsese or Gilliam.
One thing is for sure, this is making me wish I had the time to go over some of MGU’s Kubrick series again… worth a listen.
there might be a difference in the kinds of films that stanley made. way more open, with a bigger gap between the clues and their eventual meaning. that’s what i’m taking away from the article. and this sorta explains why scorsese and gilliam fans don’t have as much playground for their devotions, with the resulting new articles being a sort of measure of that gap, with perhaps closer-to-kubrick examples of that lyricism of un-indexical filmic meaning, such as roeg or altman, showing up with some persistence at any moment in the rethink-o-sphere.
Mmm, good insight. I wonder if Lynch’s films have retained a significant following across the web as well, given that he may be the most comparable director to Kubrick.
The Ref. Great quotable movie as well.
I’ve heard good things about The Muppet Christmas Carol, though I’ve never seen it because post-Jim Henson Kermit gives me the creeps.
It’s a Wonderful Life. Anyone who thinks differently is wrong and the world would be better if they had never been born.
Lil Miss Aces when she was about 6 did a dead on* Jimmy Stewart that blew me away. I didn’t even know she had seen any of the movie when she started going “thats right…attaboy Clerence..”
*As dead on as a 6 year old girl can do.
Die Hard
heh
Christmas Vacation
Scrooged
Santa Claus: The Movie (It’s so twistedly awful and my mom watches it every year)
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (Original)
A Christmas Story
Muppet Christmas Carol
Nightmare Before Christmas
Elf
Bad Santa
Die Hard has the distinction of being both terrible AND not a christmas movie.
Die Hard happens DURING a Christmas party AND is AWESOME.
The dancing baby Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen.
The most overrated stat for an NFL quarterback is his win loss record. The Browns were winning some of these games in spite of Brian Hoyer not because of him. Some clown on ESPN just said Russell Wilson is better than Aaron Rodgers because he wins…well, they both win and Rodgers has twice as many TD’s and close to a thousand more yards in passing. No one in their right mind would take Wilson over Rodgers.
Seriously. I mean it wasn’t Mr. “Wilson” in his blood stained sweater who was the only one standing at the end of the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
wassup Loungers
you dint git traded didja?
Who would want us?
You know you have a seriously sore throat when your spits start to bounce
I’m more of a dribbler when it comes to spit.
KLM – where flight attendants go to die
Delta Airlines: Where they toe tag you before you get on board.
I wanted to watch Frozen, but it’s not available to rent on Google Play, Amazon, etc.
Spoiler Alert!…they leg that gets frozen is amputated and used to feed the survivors from the plane crash.
Should’ve used the arm, it would have been more… humerus.
Hey-O!
EXPANSION DRAFT TIME!
Thanks, and go As.
you just lost a defender.
Yeah, Hernandez is ok but he was expensive. He’s also a New York native so kind of a homecoming for him.
Thanks, and go As.
Are Messi and Zlatan available.
They’re busy playing.
Thanks, and go As.
and it’s a good game.
masche – suarez – messi just combined to answer zlatan.
at least i think it’s zlatan…
did sharkmargarine get traded to PSG?
NYCFC did way better than Orlando IMO.
I don’t know what the FK Orlando was thinking taking Donovan Ricketts #1 overall while MacMath didn’t get taken at all.
Thanks, and go As.
two things this lounge has made me question desperately:
where did dial C go that he was out of the country?
why do we say margarine with a soft G when the G is followed by an A? (are there any other english words with a soft G followed by A, O, or U?)
I think it’s more of influenced by “r” before it. The “r” being hard and the “g” being hard would be a rough way to pronounce something.
:/
bargain. targa. argyle. fargo.
All of those end with the use of the hard g. Margarine doesn’t.
bargaining. gargantuan. morganfairchild.
First and last don’t really count but that was funny.
Bergamot. Purgatory.
(Argument! Counterargument!)
I think I’ve determined the reason why we do it. Inconsistency!
this one seems key. and it has a pronunciation button.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/margaric
I see you’re talking about my wife…yeah…thats the ticket!
that’s exactly what came to mind!!
Heh
My first instinct was to blame the French, but this link suggests that we’re the ones who screwed it up.
interesting. by which i mean, stupid french people! i blame them for not being able to blame them. they really make me so mad.
and gaol. that’s a good one.
Near my office there’s a building that used to have a huge mural painted on the side of the wall saying the building was an old Durkee’s Margarine factory. I say used to because the stupid people who are building a new building next door painted over it solid gray.
heh, I didn’t even read the link, but I blame the French
I was rather stunned when I saw the title. Bed knows of music that was written outside the 1977-1986 time frame?
It comes from Pink Cadillac which was originally a B-Side on the Born in the USA album from 1984 so I’m in the zone.
Ah, I wasn’t thinking of that; I thought it was a twist on NFA (Buddy Holly –> Stones –> Dead).
Yeah, it’s not one of Springsteen’s bigger hits but it’s one of my favorites.
I certainly remember the Springsteen song and without doing any research I assume that specific line was intended as an homage to Not Fade Away.
You may be right. I just remember he uses Honda and Subaru in comparison to her Pink Cadillac.
To be clear where I’m coming from on this…Grateful Dead version here.
I’d take an ’84 Subaru over an ’84 Cadillac every day and twice on Sunday.
No one notices my obscure lyric lounge titles.
It’s because you’re so young and edgy.
I was in Barcelona for a week or so
The local ABC affiliate’s website says tonight’s storm is expected to “brutalize power lines.”
I feel like people here are jealous of east coasters and midwesterners getting to hype storms and they want in on the action.
A friend of mine (native Chicagoan, now Oaklander) has been posting things like this to facebook:
Point well taken, of course. OTOH, some of the forecasts I’ve seen for tomorrow are for like 4 inches of rain in 24 hours, which is quite a lot by pretty much any standards.
Thanks, and go As.
stormstrong.
Bay Vortex! Bay Vortex!!
It sounds like one of the big worries is the wind, and given the drought the trees are likely more susceptible to falling over as the roots aren’t fully healthy.
Yeah. If they can whine about 5.X earthquakes, we can whine about what will likely be loss of power, freeway flooding, and mudslides.
I’m sure parents are thrilled to pieces about those school district closings. What wimps we have become.
Yep. They just closed our office for tomorrow (with the work from home mandate). It’s laughable though I’ll gladly work without pants tomorrow.
That’s unfortunate.
Thus far Berkeley’s schools still open tomorrow, Oakland’s closed.
This sort of reminds me of the DC area, which famously gets completely paralyzed by as little as an inch of snow, to the derision of every other place that ever gets real snow.
closed. SF too.
I’m sure our Seattle and Portland FKers will relate their cities’ struggles with ice storms (Portland) and oh good grief Seattle (snow).
Tahoe schools pretty much never declare a closure the day before based on a forecast. When that has happened, it’s almost assured the 2 feet will become 2 inches. They typically make a decision at around 6 a.m., usually a 2-hour delay, full closure only a couple times each winter. Of course if you can’t deal with weather this is not a good place to make your fulltime home.
Ha, that’s what our VP in KC said about us and them. He (and I quite frankly) find it funny, but whatever.
The VP in KC said OMG and LOL and we were like WTF and told him to GTFO.
and bring BBQ PDQ.
The only thing that really shuts us down are the ice storms. If you get more than an inch glaze it’s almost impossible to drive or do anything else.
I don’t imagine anybody in Arkansas puts winter tires on their car. That helps enormously. Now, the last couple days, I did a fairly long drive and thought, “wow, my gas mileage sucks”. But that’s because of the additional friction generated by the winter tires.
We don’t get the ice storms every year and when they do hit it’s often out of nowhere. The weather is nutty here and not consistent enough to use things like winter tires.
Based on my time in the south, right now is when everyone would be ransacking the Kroger or the Harris Teeter for every remaining morsel of bread and drop of milk.
Our kitchen has a pantry that’s bigger than many of the apartments I’ve lived in so we’re all set no matter what happens. If anyone needs 6 boxes of Wheat Thins we have you covered.
I’ve driven in all kinds of crazy weather conditions, but by far the most dangerously undrive-able situation I’ve ever seen was in a ice storm in North Carolina. Beautiful to look at, every tree and railing a building facade glistening with a layer of clear ice. But suicide to drive in.
The SF Unified press release quoted the superintendent as being concerned both that kids would have a hard time getting to schools, but also that not enough staff would make it to look after the kids who did. Which makes me think he knows that many of San Francisco’s teachers and custodians and lunch ladies live in Hayward or Richmond or Antioch.
schools…closed?
the fuck?
We were delayed 3 hrs on Tuesday for fog so I wont say anything.
It’s Wednesday and time for a trip into the heart of the sound of modern electronic music, via the men who got the ball rolling in the 1970s and ’80s. Get ready for some vintage KLING UND KLANG as we blog on to a set recorded this day in the Netherlands in 1981, and featuring the fathers of modern techno and electronica, Kraftwerk.
Well, you stumped me on this one. I’ve never heard of this band.
Don’t blame me. I voted for KLING.
I think most of the cool kids did.
Dude… Some Kraftwerk and Human League would be good for you. You’ll hear what Phil Collins was salivating over in the early 80’s before he started dabbling in electronic composition himself.
If Jack Del Rio is the next head coach of the Raiders I will be very disappointed. If this next M&M I eat isn’t a peanut M&M I’ll be even more disappointed.
Is that the guy who looks like Eddie Money and wears a leather jacket on the sideline?
That would be him yes…he of the 68-71 record with one whole playoff win in 9 seasons.
And convinces his kicker to try to chop his own leg off in the locker room.
Yeah, he’s another one of these tough guy coaches. Give me a smart coach please.
I thought that was Jerry Glanville. But maybe now it’s Jack Del Rio.
Heck, if we brought in Glanville at least it would be weird. Del Rio is just a dullard.
My wife is taking an algebra class at the U of A next semester…here textbooks cost FOR ONE CLASS!!!…$549. The cost of higher education is becoming beyond stupid.
She should take an algebra class at the local community college and have the credits transferred. No way a community college charges that much for textbooks.
Nope…I have several friends who work at the CC here and their books are the same ones used at the U of A. For some reason a new textbook is being used in algebra this semester because math changed so much in the last six months.
Well, OK. The general principle of algebra, setting up an equation and solving for the unknown, I’ve found to be one of my more useful life skills. I went ahead and took a year of high school calculus, passed the AP which was worth one quarter of credit at Cal and put me ahead of the game in the second quarter. I did fine there, but in the third quarter I looked around the class and all I saw was engineers. Oh shit. I’ve always regarded my calculus classes as about the biggest waste of time in my higher education career; have never made the slightest use of whatever I learned there.
I’ve never used algebra once in life. I doubt I could pass a college algebra class now. She’s getting a degree in Social Work so I doubt she’ll be using algebra much either. My main thing is the cost for everything for college just keeps going up and up. It’s insane the amount of debt some people take on from college.
Calculus is awesome.
But for basic numeracy, the thing that really should be required, for college students and maybe even high school students, and isn’t is basic statistics.
My college math classes were filled with dread, hatred, and tutors. I sometimes still have nightmares about it.
The problem is that you use a lot of calculus for statistics.
The ability to lay out multiple-variable problems in one’s own head is invaluable.
I lay them out synesthetically by color and use a color wheel in my mind to determine estimates of outcome ranges.
I’m going to assume everyone west of Colorado is now dead.
As long as the Denver Broncos were killed I find this acceptable.
river plate wins the home leg 2-0 and the sudamericana, undefeated through the tournament. their local championship hangs in the balance, 2 points behind with one date to go, so they depend on racing losing their game.
ha! gallardo just burst into tears mid-interview and dove into the chest of titi who was interviewing him.
Uh…yay? or is it boo?
neutral really. they’re my team’s arch rivals, but i’m not affected by that very much. and i guess i want river to win the local championship since i want racing to lose because they do piss me off (as arch rivals of my other team, and i’m affected by how their fans behaved when my other team got relegated to the 2nd category).
I have 3.5 hours to pass this stone.
A person’s average daily urine output: 800 to 2000 mL
Mine so far today: 4785 mL
The more you know…From Free Kraut.
But what’s your daily average?
I’d say <800mL
Hence the stones.
If she had taken basic statistics in high school we’d know the standard deviation and could offer more substantial commentary.
asvd
I claim the assist.
Well time has passed, if not the stone. I would have drunk a 12-pack of PBR in that time, but whatever it takes…
Nothing. On to see urology. :(
I plan on appointing myself FKing Emperor when California dies tomorrow.
NowBodhi lives on a very high hill in Richmond, the safest city in America (at least from the cops).
I don’t think you’ll be displacing him anytime soon.
well, he lives in the flats right in the middle of the soon-to-rust iron triangle, but at least his bedroom’s on the 2nd story. he’ll be a’ight.
and in other supripses, the richmond police chief is OK with me.
Dammit, my florid language was lighting up a cloudy day, but now I’m back on the ground.
I hope your lunch sandwich has a talking slice of cheese in it that sasses you back as you chew.
if i can chew at all at any time today it’ll be a huge victory and i’ll have a bratty steak to accompany the sassy cheese with relish. today’s the day i’m supposed to get my jaw unwired if the fracture’s healed. appointment at noon. fingers crossed.
Big hugs for you. I hope everything works out as well as possible.
thank you. it did. i’m biting like quips!
this got ironical.
he’s in trouble for holding the sign while in uniform.
apparently there’s a law that says you can’t do that.
police union atty says: “Police chiefs are not above the law.â€
take out the chiefs part (or not) and, iSN’T THAT EXACTLY WHAT THE PROTESTORS ARE SAYING???
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no, not entirely. some protestors think it’s totally OK to justify an inequality of power and act violently on it. in fact, they’re willing to do it themselves. (this guy’s attitude is incredible. nobody’d blame him if he went all vengeful/blameful lizard brain, but he doesn’t, not one bit.)
apparently, being as insensitive to the concept you’re protesting for as the people you’re protesting against is the new strategy. see, greepeace. nice line here, “and the irony is thick. the future may be renewable, but these fragile, ancient drawings are not.”
DFWAS
Warriors
I mean, we know about the A’s.
The Sharks.. well… choked.
The Quakes are one of the worst teams in MLS (I find it interesting that Lew owns them but doesn’t have a good GM like Beane, Doyle is terrible.)
Fuck the Giants.
Niners are falling apart, Raiders are a hot mess. CAN THE WARRIORS JUST BE FUCKING GOOD PLEASE FOR REAL?
Thanks, and go As.
They’re good. For real.
Bogut getting hurt (again) scares me.
Thanks, and go As.
It begins. He’s missing at least the next two after getting his knee drained.
Today was crazy.
I mean if you want to be miserable…The Sharks jumped to a 3-0 lead, the A’s had the best record in baseball, the Warriors are sitting pretty…and now Bogut missed a game…
19-2! I mean, holy shit!!
shucks. missed it. just about every other day is a tougher schedule to remember than you would think.
Talk me out of becoming a Dodger fan right now.
They have an old stadium that’s not going anywhere. They’ve got the smartest GM/President and the most money and the face of ownership is a man of color who’s publicly cool with his queer child’s lifestyle, and the best announcer in National League history, and they’re not hatable like the Giants and Red Sox are (yet).
1988
Thanks, and go As.
He Who Shall Not Be Named.
um…kay hass this history with not being named like that
you mean herstory.
I know. They’ve been already been my secret mlb.tv crush because of how pretty their park is and because Giants fans hate them.
Astonishingly tone-deaf honoring of the President of Mexico?
Good one.
Their stadium was created by razing the homes of poor latinos, and you said it best… they have the most money.
Ah. I forgot about that part. That was pretty awful.
Walter O’Malley was a bastard too.
they still employ Tom Lasorda who still doesn’t have a dead gay son
Yeah, but I think they employ him to do unspeakable things as the executive washroom toilet attendant, so we might have poetic justice there.
They are in LA. All the other reasons to hate them are secondary.
reversed, fuckers.
Owned. Well done!
It annoys me that California appellate courts hand down meaty opinions like this and don’t publish them. There’s no reason this shouldn’t be citeable.
As I’ve always said, if you’re going to commit one crime a year, possession is the one to commit.
Also, start big and work your way down.
(lets not talk about the homicide)
Reading that stuff, it kind of got a weird sense that the spouse was involved in that. Though I know nothing about your client, the situation, or any evidence. I’m purely a TV Detective.
did you read the part where she elluded a police pursuit by shooting at them out of a sunroof? Or that she was eventually apprehended after a shootout with police where she caught a bullet in her leg, or the part where she hanged herself in jail?
Lol, yes. Yes I did. And if I were his lawyer and he got charged with homicide, I’d be using that shit like there’s no tomorrow for reasonable doubt.
He is never ever getting charged with murder
Well, that’s because his lawyer happens to be awesome.
Yeah!
The main sewer line from Richmond to Oakland is currently at 320 million gallons/day flow. That is max flow through the treatment plant.
an increase would result in the (currently empty) storage being used which wouldn’t take long to fill. Then manhole covers start popping off the street.
Thanks, and go As.
I hope no one is trapped in the A’s clubhouse. Somebody better run downstairs and check.
Pray for Stomper
After last night’s pruno binge he’ll be passed-out under the 3rd deck tarps.
Should be safe at high ground.
Which was what the third deck was called from the 70s on to their closing
Bacon makes everything better.
A worthy competitor to Turtle Man.
…damn, that’s pretty fucking good
Everybody you meet knows something you don’t.
-Bill Nye
Thanks, and go As.
In Croatia we have a saying, “covik i tovar znaju vise od covika” (A man and a donkey know more than a man)
It’s probably completely wrong because the only other language I (kinda) know is Spanish — I have no idea how to pronounce what you wrote hahah
Thanks, and go As.
Surgery is Monday. :(
So you’ve got the weekend to pass it.
Have you seen Deadwood?
No, why?
There’s an episode early in season 2 about having (19th century) surgery for gleets.
You still have 2 and a half days to pass it then. Push it out, shove it out, WAY OUT!
I guess the Goddess of Bodily Functions checked that link I sent after all.
Would it be wrong to show up to the hospital Christmas party for a few minutes tomorrow if I called in to work?
Two words: free steak.
Make sure to cough on all the food so they know that you really are sick.
I just can’t work because I’m on narcotics.
Brett Lawrie is hella cool.
Thanks, and go As.
canadians are nice.
You can stream a live Avett Brothers concert tonight on Yahoo.
I’ve decided to stay at home, watch the concert, and eat drugs and tacos in my underwear.
My hitchhiker and I are headed to Red Rocks this summer now, too.
I think I have a new BFF.
People you meet on the internet are too bland. Focusing on people you pick up on the side of the road instead is sure to add excitement to your life.
How have I not been murdered?
I am doing the slow play.
Wait till you come back and find out i rented a family
Ed, you’re awesome.
No way that family was rented. Your three daughters were so nice.
Red Rocks is awesome. I used to go there all the time in jr. high and high school.
Three day run with John Prine and Lake Street Dive. Pumped.
I’m big in the Carolinas.
I’m small in the Home Counties.
I’m big everywhere I go. That’s just how my fat rolls.
Same.
I wonder if Paula Cole ever found out what happened to all the cowboys.
Who are you and what have you done to Bed?
Oh yeah! I get watch the Chiefs and Raiders tomorrow.
yay?
Thanks, and go As.
Sarcasm font.
Booze.
Thanks, and go As.
Norco.
Raiders D missing a couple key guys today, I am concerned.
Chefs should have gotten a flag on that return on the second take down of the punter. Also, it’s kind of sickening here’s the “WeeeeEeeeee Eeeee Eeee Arrrre Racccisst” chant.
This expression of subaru seems to belong here.
this is exactly like seattle.
part of the reason I love the show
We should watch it together sometime… or drink a beer.
yessir
I’ve probably only really “vented” about this on Twitter, but I kid you not – this is a thing that’s been going on for years. There’s a certain baseball player I’ve got a lot of photos of on my site, and this one player gets a lot of views. There’s even a part of me that’s tempted to remove all of his photos. The following Flickr mail exchange will make it clear why.
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Unnamed: I noticed you have a lot of pics of baseball player Anthony Recker. I’ve been a fan of his for years since he was with the River Cats. This is a weird question, but did you ever hear anyone say his butt looks like a woman’s butt? I heard people say that at games. Did you too?
Me: I’ve heard it, and for whatever reason it seems to lead to an abnormally high number of views of the photos I have up.
Unnamed: Thanks for the replies. Did you hear it at games or from his teammates? His butt is deserving of high views. You should put his pics up for sale. You’d make quite a bit of money, I’m sure.
Me: To be honest, I only heard about it from random fans online. I don’t think his teammates cared or even thought about it. Selling any photos based on what some people think of a part of his body is not something I’m really interested in doing, but thanks for the suggestion.
Then again, I guess women infatuated with Anthony Recker’s ass is a little better than the people who like to swipe photos of people with bulges from athletic cups.
You’re sure the infatuated pic clickers are women, are you?
I seem to remember some Recker ass obsession back at the Old Country.
there was one person in particular that show up when he came in the game, just to talk ass
1) it’s not.
2) cassie? that was an oddity. one, maybe two posters, who appeared only to ask if anybody else thought his butt was womanlike, would comment constantly about it, and made it seem like there was a section of the population larger than just one or two obsessed people who were thinking the same thing.
and 3) enjoy the added traffic to your site. it’s not like anybody’s stealing your work. oh wait…
heh
4) Moneybutt!
5) “Recker ass”? …
Recker? Damn near killed ‘er!
I think the Raiders best chance in this game is to run the four corners offense and keep the score way down, win by a final of 12-9 or so.
Someone make a new lounge.
it wouldn’t be a true dr K bait if i put it in the correct thread, so…
I feel a great movement in the Schwartz.