Channel 5 is stuck with this turkey, but channel 2 can feel free to switch from Johnny Football getting his ass kicked to the excellent GB @ BUF game any time.
For fk’s sake, they have a 23 pt lead and the ball with 3 minutes left and someone just called time out. Why is this still being shown anywhere outside Ohio?
I’m rooting for it to be over…a win over Denver would be fun. The main thing is I need this house to be cleaned. There must be major changes from top to bottom.
Their fans seem awfully cultish and obsessive. They don’t seem like the same relatively chill people who root for the Mariners and rooted for the Sonics.
until one day, he pulled his drawers down… when they were all alone…
(verse 3)
(verse 4)
(profit)
that’s the waaaaaay, we became the braided pubic hair bunch…
(horn outro)
\"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
\"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
\"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
Yeah, I have to say, he’s the only professional or college football coach I’ve ever looked at and thought “this seems like a fairly normal, decent guy.”
I guess my grandpa will be pleased to know that his niece and her entire family are now alive and living on some sort of Lost-type island, hidden away by the US government.
i shaved the mustache for swimming. just holds extra water and drips it over your mouth while you’re trying to get a breath.
also found out that with a jaw wired, breast is surprisingly the most difficult stroke (didn’t attempt butterfly). since you breathe forward, water drops in sheets evenly down your face, teeth even, and you can’t open your mouth enough to disrupt the sheet and get air till the water’s out of the way. it’s basically waterboarding yourself with every stroke.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
\"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
Such an easy fix. Any foul that’s called or not call that would result in a 15 yard penalty or more should be reviewable/assessed on review. Those are the ones that have the most impact on the game.
Not booth reviewed, would need to be a coaches challenge and be obvious. We’re not talking 10 yard holding calls or flips, etc. here, we’re talking Personal Foul shit.
Serious question: How do you all continue following a sport with such arbitrary application of its rules? It seems like there isn’t a single close game where the officiating isn’t a major talking point after the fact.
Is there any team sport where application of the rules isn’t “arbitrary”? In baseball it revolves around the strike zone; in most other sports, penalty or foul calls. It’s part of the package if you follow sports.
Yes, but it seems more impactful in the NFL. More so now because the attempts to de-violence the game. In baseball and basketball you don’t have good plays called back because someone did an otherwise legal thing with excessive force. Also, in those sports the bad officiating is usually more of a death by a thousand cuts thing, rather than one call that changes everything.
I get all of that. I guess I just think there are too many damn rules. The frequency with which seemingly good plays are called back because of something I can’t see on TV or because someone tried a little too hard would drive me crazy.
\"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
I will grant you that there are definite inconsistencies with regards to defensive holding and pass interference, but by and large, the NFL officiating seems relatively consistent to the outside eye.
Just using hockey as an example, certain refs absolutely have their own distinct styles with regards to how tight they will officiate a game. Very reminiscent to a each ump having their own strike zone. I do not really read up on NFL officiating to know if that is an issue within football as well.
And while I do not follow basketball as closely as any of the three other major sports, that to me seems to be the sport where the officiating is the most suspect.
Yeah, arbitrary was the wrong word. NBA reffing can be quite arbitrary, it’s just that it usually evens out over so many plays each game (with a few notable exceptions).
I think my (admittedly uninformed) beef with NFL reffing is that it’s so front and center to the experience. Arguing about officiating decisions seems like too big a part of the sport. When you have to have a retired referee miked up in the studio so that you can go to him when the inevitable game-changing decision happens, the sport has a problem in my eyes.
Crazy at it sounds, this may be the most impressive game of the streak. Second game of a back to back on the road, down eight in the fourth quarter, you’re supposed to lose.
congrats diego “the prince” milito for bringing the team who signed him back to the top after 13 years without a title. though i’m not sure why he couldn’t have stayed at inter one more year before coming back to racing…
the rest of racing can go fuck itself with the only fanbase in argentina who’s adopted the puto chant.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Goats of the four-legged and sycophantic varieties are not developed enough to be capable of informed consent, therefore neither would be allowed in any respectable sex club.
\"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
shave most of your legs, but leave a furry backseam, like you’re wearing trendy Japanese stockings.
\"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
What type of surgery are you having? The least invasive procedure appears to be zapping the stone with shock waves and breaking it into little pieces which can be passed, but there are also methods which involve going in there with a tool and grabbing the thing.
It’s no fun moving around with something stuck in your pee pipe. Good luck, but based on my experience with a related issue you’ll make ample use of your prescription painkillers over the next few days.
\"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
Actually, Bed, that’s the cheat code to become invisible.
\"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
At least it only got hit by a thrown shell. If that bullet had actually been fired from a gun, the moon would be a goner for sure!
\"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
I’m in Minnesota visiting the family for a few days. All the presents I bought are wrong, but fortunately the children destroy them so fast it doesn’t matter. I deviated from the equal-if-not-identical-for-each rule because I found a tiny adorable snow globe for the five-year-old, who collects them, and did not find a similarly adorable paperweight for the eight-year-old, who collects them. The eight-year-old solved that problem within 10 minutes by asking her sister to let her look at the snow globe, holding it upside-down over my coffee cup to watch the snow collect at the top of the globe, and then dropping it, which not only deprived the five-year-old of the gift but filled my coffee with broken glass and glitter. It was an accident but a pretty brilliant maneuver.
For those keeping score at home I got an A in School Organization and Administration…and yes, the class was as fun as it sounds. Only 21 more hours to go until Dr. Bed…it’s 50-50 I make it through this alive.
Ed…I know I haven’t given you much material for the twitter feed. We need to bring in a Free Kraut intern to go back and comb through all the silly posts in past lounges.
I just got back around to reading this, it’s fantastic. Susie Cagle is really clever, talented enough to make a big breakthrough as a comic/graphic novelist. The gentrification story she tells is fresh and open-minded, avoids the formulaic preachiness that dominates most such narratives. Also:
* I love the Urban Stratgeies Council, whose data she uses, they do great work.
* I wish Elaine Brown would go away.
* That doesn’t look much like Libby.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I liked the ending. But I never had any expectations that she would solve the case. I liked the show for the ambiguity and way it brought us inside the head of a journalist.
There comes a moment in every man’s life when he must decide what’s wrong and what’s right. I knew my moment had come, so I stood up and looked God right in the face and said no…no, I was not going to pay seven dollars for half a gallon of organic orange juice. I stood there defiant, shaking with righteous anger, I stood there and made my stand. This seven dollar a half gallon organic orange juice shall not pass through these lips…not now, not ever. I, a simple man, and of sound mind, will be content to buy the 99 cent orange juice concentrate. I will buy it, bring it to my humble home, open the can by peeling the paper off, and dump it into a plastic jug, and then mix in some of the finest tap water this great country of ours has to offer. I will be content with this murky, orange juice like drink because I am a man…a man who has decided what’s wrong, and what’s right.
I’ve had zero sleep, but OMG I feel so much better. I’ve cleaned the whole house, cleaned out my email (back to 2008), and completed like, six craft projects already. Rescheduled appointments. Made appointments. Finally fixed my bank statement shit (over 1 year going now). Concert tickets go on sale at 1300. I hope I don’t crash before then.
i shoulda taken a shot the first day i could open my mouth when you could see the buildup of 6 weeks not brushing on the inside of the teeth, even on my tongue with nubbins of black stuff worn shiny against the roof of my mouth, and which frankly must have said fuck it and peeled a bit, so every so often during that day i’d suddenly feel something in my mouth and wonder… did i eat some old prosciutto a few minutes go?
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
So, medical question: Why would you be intubated for kidney stone removal? The only thing I can think of is you have something like sleep apnea and might stop breathing while under anesthesia?
Googling “general anesthesia” indicates that the tube is more common than I thought. My thinking was that the anesthesiologist monitors the breathing carefully and is ready to deal with cessation. The last surgery I had, there was the intravenous sedative first and then the mask to KO me once I was in the OR, but no tube (to my knowledge, I guess). I hope not to have too much firsthand experience with this subject.
Specifically, we would spend the day putting up our Christmas tree while Daryle Lamonica, Jim Otto, Fred Dryer, and others mooed Christmas carols from an old LP called The Oakland Raiders Present: Holiday Halftime that popped and crackled on my mom’s old record player.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Take my advice…never play Truth of Dare with Henrik Ibsen. That guy will do anything and I mean anything on a dare. I just got back from taking him to the emergency room after he broke his foot jumping off my roof.
I saw this show on Sunday night in Minneapolis, and it was awesome. The opening song, “It’s a Very Die Hard Christmas”, is sung to the tune of “It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas”.
\"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
Like most people I’ve learned all my personal philosophies from late 80’s HBO movies. So, remember you only have to be dead solid perfect just one time.
Well, no one is here which means it’s a perfect time to talk about the time I got to the second level on Donkey Kong back in 1984. It was a warm, sunny day in Sacramento. I was at Adam Bailey’s birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. I stood before the machine and made history. I…(www.freekraut.net is shut down so no one will have to read the rest of this story)
If he did, he should come to MO and hang out with me for the winter. It’s pretty easy. We get the eggs every day. Take pain meds. Let the dogs out. Nap. Do some online shopping. Make some crafts. Cook dinner. Throw the dog some crackers while watching Food Network. It will be fun.
Look! Ozzie is already ready for you to toss him a treat!
Cal, desperate to recoup the staggering losses from the Memorial Stadium renovation and subsequent poor ticket sales, will convert it to a multipurpose venue and host both the A’s and the Raiders.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
No, I got a qualifying offer. Amusingly, now that I’ve inked a deal to play elsewhere my original team wonders if it could have offered more to keep me.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Do you have an option to take a lump sum and roll it over into an IRA? Because public employee pension obligations, you know, that’s not a controversial subject at all. My kneejerk thought is to take the money and run so it’s under your control even if present value projects out a little less that way.
the miami herald reader comments weren’t nearly as interesting as i predicted. pretty good, but not historic good. but score one for this universal truth: if you con’t know there’s supposed to be, or how to put, a space after (and probably the same space you somehow put before) a period or comma, you’re probably nuts.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
This is such great news, and so overdue. I also think the political power of anti-Castro Cubans in Florida is in sharp decline, so there shouldn’t be too much of an electoral price to pay (and if Jeb’s on the ticket it wouldn’t matter anyway).
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Pretty much. The single entity bullshit is holding the league back. When good young national team players are refusing to sign with teams because of the shitty way the league operates, there need to be changes made.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
Fine. I’ll do it.
What the hell was that?
a bull fight?
Never bring a goat to a bull fight.
That kid is holding on to the ball better than the Chiefs TE.
Channel 5 is stuck with this turkey, but channel 2 can feel free to switch from Johnny Football getting his ass kicked to the excellent GB @ BUF game any time.
For fk’s sake, they have a 23 pt lead and the ball with 3 minutes left and someone just called time out. Why is this still being shown anywhere outside Ohio?
Finally.
Can you guys do me a solid and beat the Pats? KTHXBAI
Honestly? Probably not.
The State of Missouri 83
Oakland Raiders 6
Any time I see this ref crew I know to expect a lot of penalties and long meetings were nothing is called…really bad crew.
The state of Missouri 83
Oakland Raiders 13
Much, much better.
Heck of a win for the Bills…that team plays hard.
Great defense. Great special teams. If only the offense were merely adequate … sigh.
Their best game of the year, so I guess I should just enjoy it.
Your team is a quarterback away from being really good. With the new ownership we’ll see how they go about their business in the off-season.
Want Kaepernick?
SeaBass really sucks at onside kicks.
Two more weeks of this crap…and then slumber.
You rooting for wins or losses?
I’m rooting for it to be over…a win over Denver would be fun. The main thing is I need this house to be cleaned. There must be major changes from top to bottom.
It must get cleaned and it must get cleaned hard.
Excellent
The “Thursday Night Football” commercials for games being played on Saturday made me giggle.
I hate the Seahawks. No real reason.
I think their uniforms are brutal. They’re really good at cheating on defense though so I’ll give them that.
The day before Thanksgiving I saw a guy walking around downtown SF in a Seawahks jersey with the number 7 and the name “Kap.” I was very confused.
He probably had an Elway jersey in silver and black too.
If I were to actually see such a thing, I would probably commit an act of extreme violence right there on the spot.
You and me both.
Their fans seem awfully cultish and obsessive. They don’t seem like the same relatively chill people who root for the Mariners and rooted for the Sonics.
I wonder if that’s because it’s only 8 home games a year…it’s hard to get that crazy for 41 or 81 home games.
Pete Carroll seems like a douche nozzle, too. My Seattle hatred began around the time Trent Dilfer was QB.
I thought only fans of teams Dilfer was the quarterback of hated him.
I was never a fan of Difford without tilbrook
He’s actually an amazingly cool guy. He just coaches evil teams.
Thanks, and go As.
What, are you two BFFs? You get facials and braid each other’s hair?
Wouldn’t you like to know
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No.
liar.
Thanks, and go As.
Babe, you don’t even have hair.
here’s a story
of two men self braiding
and one of them didn’t have haa-air of his own.
until one day, he pulled his drawers down… when they were all alone…
(verse 3)
(verse 4)
(profit)
that’s the waaaaaay, we became the braided pubic hair bunch…
(horn outro)
Never bring a goat to a yes/no fight.
Not just meta, but surreal meta…
Surreal meta is my corner.
I just pee in it.
I like Pete Carroll. I like how he coaches and I like the fact he realizes he coaches football and isn’t some World War II general.
Exactly. And I think we’d all like to know what Harbaugh’s deal is.
Yeah, I have to say, he’s the only professional or college football coach I’ve ever looked at and thought “this seems like a fairly normal, decent guy.”
plus he’s a bay area guy and there is a ton of stories about him doing stuff like bringing sick kids in to be with the team for a day etc
Thanks, and go As.
A fairly normal, decent guy.
He’s a bay area hippie. It makes sense that he’d question govt.
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There is a difference between skepticism and lunacy.
I don’t click links. I don’t need evidence.
I play the links…I eat links…I don’t click the links.
Wait, 9/11 truthers think the Pentagon wasn’t hit by a plane? What the hell do they think happened?
I believe their theory is that it was a missile which the US fired on itself.
WHERE ARE THE WING HOLES??
I guess my grandpa will be pleased to know that his niece and her entire family are now alive and living on some sort of Lost-type island, hidden away by the US government.
sigh
Their fans are way more annoying than Raider fans.
Raiders fans have been put through a lot and they still do a pretty good job of showing up.
Anytime you drink low fat egg nog the terrorists win.
Bed takes pictures of lots
First ones here!
Looks like the crowd for an A’s vs Mariners game in May.
Park’s closed. Moose outside should have told you.
I love you
It made me giggle when I posted it…I’m glad you liked it.
Bed takes pictures of lots
Hmm…not sure why that posted twice. I also realize this joke is only funny to me but hey my football team is 2-12 so I need to numb the pain.
Pete Carroll chews gum like a cow eats grass.
Jennifer: She hates onions, Pete Carroll, and kidney stones.
Damn right.
All three are ugly to look at and taste like shit.
That describes my first three wives.
That Papa John’s creeper too.
I got a horrible case of food poisoning from Papa Johns once.
swallows it, brings it up, ruminates, swallows, brings it up, ruminates, and twice again?
Does anyone actually work 9 to 5?
Many, many government workers
7-4:30
Thanks, and go As.
My mom’s a banker and she works 8-5.
Suddenly I’m thinking about motor boating.
You and Mike.
I was thinking about Dabney Coleman’s mustache.
Suddenly, I’m thinking about riding Dabney Coleman’s mustache.
Funny thing I just recently realized. If you have thick mustache, you can’t snorkel or dive well, because water will keep sneaking under your mask.
i shaved the mustache for swimming. just holds extra water and drips it over your mouth while you’re trying to get a breath.
also found out that with a jaw wired, breast is surprisingly the most difficult stroke (didn’t attempt butterfly). since you breathe forward, water drops in sheets evenly down your face, teeth even, and you can’t open your mouth enough to disrupt the sheet and get air till the water’s out of the way. it’s basically waterboarding yourself with every stroke.
Sexist egotistical lying hypocriitcal bigot.
I’m not a bigot!
or really very egotistical!
Thanks, and go As.
I do, on Fridays.
Best half of football SF have played in weeks.
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Ouch.
I just got a text from the NIners asking if I could play LB or RB.
Thanks, and go As.
I just got one reminding me that the fix is on.
I don’t understand how hitting a guy in the chest is a penalty. That pretty much swayed the game.
Thanks, and go As.
Or blocking from behind and hurting that player isn’t.
Although the roughing call was absurd, the Niners offense wasn’t going to break through to double digits anyway.
I didn’t expect them to win anyway, but making it a 2 possession game massively changed things.
Thanks, and go As.
Such an easy fix. Any foul that’s called or not call that would result in a 15 yard penalty or more should be reviewable/assessed on review. Those are the ones that have the most impact on the game.
get ready for 4 hour games.
Thanks, and go As.
Not booth reviewed, would need to be a coaches challenge and be obvious. We’re not talking 10 yard holding calls or flips, etc. here, we’re talking Personal Foul shit.
Serious question: How do you all continue following a sport with such arbitrary application of its rules? It seems like there isn’t a single close game where the officiating isn’t a major talking point after the fact.
I follow it a lot less closely than I used to.
Thanks, and go As.
Is there any team sport where application of the rules isn’t “arbitrary”? In baseball it revolves around the strike zone; in most other sports, penalty or foul calls. It’s part of the package if you follow sports.
Yes, but it seems more impactful in the NFL. More so now because the attempts to de-violence the game. In baseball and basketball you don’t have good plays called back because someone did an otherwise legal thing with excessive force. Also, in those sports the bad officiating is usually more of a death by a thousand cuts thing, rather than one call that changes everything.
Skiing
I find football to be the most interesting and exciting sport. The drama, the strategy, and yes…the violence make it something I love.
I get all of that. I guess I just think there are too many damn rules. The frequency with which seemingly good plays are called back because of something I can’t see on TV or because someone tried a little too hard would drive me crazy.
I guess being a Raiders fan I’m just used to games with a lot of head scratching penalties being called.
How much is a penalty for head scratching?
five yards and repeat the down.
I will grant you that there are definite inconsistencies with regards to defensive holding and pass interference, but by and large, the NFL officiating seems relatively consistent to the outside eye.
Just using hockey as an example, certain refs absolutely have their own distinct styles with regards to how tight they will officiate a game. Very reminiscent to a each ump having their own strike zone. I do not really read up on NFL officiating to know if that is an issue within football as well.
And while I do not follow basketball as closely as any of the three other major sports, that to me seems to be the sport where the officiating is the most suspect.
Yeah, arbitrary was the wrong word. NBA reffing can be quite arbitrary, it’s just that it usually evens out over so many plays each game (with a few notable exceptions).
I think my (admittedly uninformed) beef with NFL reffing is that it’s so front and center to the experience. Arguing about officiating decisions seems like too big a part of the sport. When you have to have a retired referee miked up in the studio so that you can go to him when the inevitable game-changing decision happens, the sport has a problem in my eyes.
So, only left or right? Don’t they realize you have the range to be centerback?
pfffft.
I try to not even be on the defensive half of the pitch.
Thanks, and go As.
Warriors heading to OT to try to extend their streak to 16 in a building called the Smoothie King Center.
funny. that’s what i’d been calling the toilet during my liquid diet.
Crazy at it sounds, this may be the most impressive game of the streak. Second game of a back to back on the road, down eight in the fourth quarter, you’re supposed to lose.
Scary combination of talent and heart on this team.
congrats diego “the prince” milito for bringing the team who signed him back to the top after 13 years without a title. though i’m not sure why he couldn’t have stayed at inter one more year before coming back to racing…
the rest of racing can go fuck itself with the only fanbase in argentina who’s adopted the puto chant.
milito? I know someone who is intrigued…
teito?
oooooh. i didn’t get who ed was talking about last night.
Never bring a goat to a sex club…unless…well, you know.
Goats of the four-legged and sycophantic varieties are not developed enough to be capable of informed consent, therefore neither would be allowed in any respectable sex club.
Little known fact…the song Sara Smile is about France’s war in Vietnam.
That third 12 pack of Coke may have been a mistake.
Should I shave my legs for tomorrow?
Just one of them.
OMG. That’s such a wonderful idea.
shave most of your legs, but leave a furry backseam, like you’re wearing trendy Japanese stockings.
What type of surgery are you having? The least invasive procedure appears to be zapping the stone with shock waves and breaking it into little pieces which can be passed, but there are also methods which involve going in there with a tool and grabbing the thing.
They are going in to get it, with possible stent placement.
I had clinical in urology and I’ve seen a few of these procedures/stents. I’m terrified.
It’s no fun moving around with something stuck in your pee pipe. Good luck, but based on my experience with a related issue you’ll make ample use of your prescription painkillers over the next few days.
The pain pills haven’t really been helping so far. I’ve had severe nausea too.
They told me I’m supposed to take the stent out myself later. Um… no.
Yikes. That definitely sounds like a job for a nurse.
The cheat code to become invincible in this lounge is…A, X, Y, RB, UP, LEFT, DOWN, B
Actually, Bed, that’s the cheat code to become invisible.
asvd
Excellent.
Jennifer…good luck with your procedure. I hope you feel better soon…B
Thank you
I’m alive. Lots of pain. Required a stent
am ouching in sympathy. get well!
I posted a photo of the stone on the book of faces.
—
and drink more water!
At least it only got hit by a thrown shell. If that bullet had actually been fired from a gun, the moon would be a goner for sure!
Hang tough! Speedy recovery.
do you still have to remove it yourself
Thanks, and go As.
Yes, all 24 inches of it. The end string is taped to my leg.
TWSS
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Mine’s bigger than yours
I know
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no
Yes?
Wait…I’ll go get the goat.
And what was the outcome on the legs?
I shaved both. Thank goodness too. I had to wear TED hose and putting them on against the grain of leg hair is torture.
Ouch. Heal fast Jennifer.
Alive approved.
Get well soon.
I’m checking in primarily to see how Jennifer is doing…it looks like it went well.
Aww, thanks
the man with the rubber gloves was surprisingly gentle
Thanks, and go As.
I did have a male nurse. I wasn’t impressed with his nursing.
I hope you gave him real time critiques
I’m in Minnesota visiting the family for a few days. All the presents I bought are wrong, but fortunately the children destroy them so fast it doesn’t matter. I deviated from the equal-if-not-identical-for-each rule because I found a tiny adorable snow globe for the five-year-old, who collects them, and did not find a similarly adorable paperweight for the eight-year-old, who collects them. The eight-year-old solved that problem within 10 minutes by asking her sister to let her look at the snow globe, holding it upside-down over my coffee cup to watch the snow collect at the top of the globe, and then dropping it, which not only deprived the five-year-old of the gift but filled my coffee with broken glass and glitter. It was an accident but a pretty brilliant maneuver.
A child from Mankedo collects snow globes?
For those keeping score at home I got an A in School Organization and Administration…and yes, the class was as fun as it sounds. Only 21 more hours to go until Dr. Bed…it’s 50-50 I make it through this alive.
I look forward to reading your thesis on Recess and Lunch Period Management.
I’m pretty sure everyone is looking forward to reading that.
fresno or bridgeport, vis a vis finding time within the existing number of hours during the schoolday for more group PD…
GO!
Sorry, my brain is on break until the middle of next month.
\m/ as FK
We need more news stories quoting Judy Bunce of West Des Moines.
Ed…I know I haven’t given you much material for the twitter feed. We need to bring in a Free Kraut intern to go back and comb through all the silly posts in past lounges.
Free Kraut intern is still busy doing nevermoor’s taxes.
A more worthy task to be sure.
As if we could afford TurboTax money for an intern!
I have been in and out.
there is plenty of backdated material. I will never run out
Yes, I am cool enough to wear jorts but I’m still not cool enough to watch The Mentalist.
Someone want to watch Christmas Vacation with me? Has to be the small spoon or get forked.
Do people really put pickle ornaments on Christmas trees?
oakland is the next san francisco.
I just got back around to reading this, it’s fantastic. Susie Cagle is really clever, talented enough to make a big breakthrough as a comic/graphic novelist. The gentrification story she tells is fresh and open-minded, avoids the formulaic preachiness that dominates most such narratives. Also:
* I love the Urban Stratgeies Council, whose data she uses, they do great work.
* I wish Elaine Brown would go away.
* That doesn’t look much like Libby.
I really liked it too, as someone who doesn’t even live in the area. It struck me as a bit optimistic, but I wouldn’t really know.
Also, Oakland would probably be better served if their city council members didn’t use a non-profit to fund house-flippers.
I don’t think I’m going to find the ending of Serial very satisfying.
I mean, assuming they don’t have Adnan confessing on tape, what could they possibly wrap up with besides a “who knows?”
“Tune in next year for Season 2, the continuing saga of Adnan.”
As long as I never have to hear that defense lawyer’s voice again.
OMG absolutely. My friend and I are convinced that she lost the trial based on her voice alone.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that was true.
I liked the ending. But I never had any expectations that she would solve the case. I liked the show for the ambiguity and way it brought us inside the head of a journalist.
It was pretty much what I was expecting, which isn’t a bad thing
Jon Gruden signs a contract extension to stay at ESPN through 2021. The dream of the return is dead. Bring on the bloated corpse of Mike Holmgren.
There comes a moment in every man’s life when he must decide what’s wrong and what’s right. I knew my moment had come, so I stood up and looked God right in the face and said no…no, I was not going to pay seven dollars for half a gallon of organic orange juice. I stood there defiant, shaking with righteous anger, I stood there and made my stand. This seven dollar a half gallon organic orange juice shall not pass through these lips…not now, not ever. I, a simple man, and of sound mind, will be content to buy the 99 cent orange juice concentrate. I will buy it, bring it to my humble home, open the can by peeling the paper off, and dump it into a plastic jug, and then mix in some of the finest tap water this great country of ours has to offer. I will be content with this murky, orange juice like drink because I am a man…a man who has decided what’s wrong, and what’s right.
You sure are an odd walla.
at least he’s not a looza. (i won’t ask if he’s naked.)
#illridewithyou
Meanwhile Uber jacked their price up to $100 for a cab out of downtown Sydney.
FK that company so hard.
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Yeah Uber really is terrible
Not Xenophobic Enough.
This is true friendship.
She broke the invisibility code
Thanks for fixing that someone. Also a sign of friendship.
I guess I don’t know how to post YouTube from my phone.
Wouldn’t be the first thing I’ve broken.
Always good:
So good
I read that as “Pretzel and a dress.”
Very good, heh.
” Many executives say their reliance on text messaging and email for negotiations has become so prevalent that even when they are in the same building as their counterparts, they don’t necessarily feel the need to talk in person.”
Billy: John can I have Upton pls? U can have Kazmir.
John: LOL OK but u haf 2 take BJ too.
Billy: Sry. No.
John: Billy pls.
Billy: No. G2G I M giving Shark 2 Chisox.
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Alex: Can we have JD
Billy: No that would be dum
Alex: Lawrie tho
Billy: K
Indians: we can haz Moss?
Billy: no
Indians: plz?
Billy: k
Billy: Checking in again on J-Roll
Ruben: {poop emoji}
HT DrK below.
I’ve had zero sleep, but OMG I feel so much better. I’ve cleaned the whole house, cleaned out my email (back to 2008), and completed like, six craft projects already. Rescheduled appointments. Made appointments. Finally fixed my bank statement shit (over 1 year going now). Concert tickets go on sale at 1300. I hope I don’t crash before then.
What kind of painkillers did they give you? Speed?
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More Norco, but double the dose. After weeks of nausea, HOLY fuck nuggets, I am finally feeling relief. Need me to fold some clothes? Vacuum?
Actually, yes. My house is disgracefully messy.
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Never mind. I’m starting to crash.
I’ll put back the maid outfit.
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Keep it. You can wear it for me.
its way too small.
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Well then I sure as fuck can’t wear it.
lies.
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We sold our vacuum cleaner … it was just gathering dust.
That sucks.
I found photos of me with my natural hair color. That’s how old the emails were.
Do you guys want to see a disgusting photo? I’m guessing they had problems intubating me yesterday and it tore up my throat.
No.
Boo.
[checks facebook]
A link for the curious.
http://oi57.tinypic.com/dmci38.jpg
That is a huge, disgusting photo.
pretty gross.
i shoulda taken a shot the first day i could open my mouth when you could see the buildup of 6 weeks not brushing on the inside of the teeth, even on my tongue with nubbins of black stuff worn shiny against the roof of my mouth, and which frankly must have said fuck it and peeled a bit, so every so often during that day i’d suddenly feel something in my mouth and wonder… did i eat some old prosciutto a few minutes go?
LOL! Ew and awesome.
So, medical question: Why would you be intubated for kidney stone removal? The only thing I can think of is you have something like sleep apnea and might stop breathing while under anesthesia?
The procedure was under general anesthesia because of the pain and length of the procedure. I think anyway….
Googling “general anesthesia” indicates that the tube is more common than I thought. My thinking was that the anesthesiologist monitors the breathing carefully and is ready to deal with cessation. The last surgery I had, there was the intravenous sedative first and then the mask to KO me once I was in the OR, but no tube (to my knowledge, I guess). I hope not to have too much firsthand experience with this subject.
Theo must have felt bad for us.
I don’t have a post comment box anymore, only a reply box, so I’m replying.
HOW THE FK DO GREEN DAY, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN AND JOAN JETT GET IN THE HOF BEFORE THE SMITHS? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
Morrissey shouldn’t done all those roids.
rtt, ed
Heaven knows you’re miserable now about this.
and when you say now, how soon is that?
What difference does it make?
This Charming Man thinks it could matter a lot.
I guess they just haven’t earned it yet, baby.
Wait…Joan Jett had more than one song? I did like her work as a wide receiver for the Raiders however.
yes, but zero (ZERO!!) hendrix covers. i don’t understand how she even got on the radio.
no seriously, SRV got over 30% of the fan vote. lou reed got like 5.
i am complaining to a voting member, right? i assume you’re the 98.9% who didn’t know who kraftwerk was.
Genesis is in so I’m cool. I’d love to go there one day I just wish it wasn’t in Cleveland.
Rock’n’roll Hall of Fame is terrible, but it’s also an impossible concept. It’s just way too broad of a category with no clear criteria for greatness.
PEDs?
but, joan jett? come on, she is a saint. “Rock and Roll” “hall of fame” is beneath her.
She should have been the first.
The Who should be opening for her! (September 23: A’s-Rangers at the Coliseum, Joan Jett with Special Guests The Who at Oracle Arena.)
This can’t be real, can it?
The nose picking exhibit is sure to be a hit with the kids.
OH YEAH. Red Rocks ordered. For me, hitchhiker Bobby Ray, and his daughter Millie June. In THREE different transactions. I’m on a fucking roll today.
Bed bait.
i realize it’s a bit of a pro forma tournament, but cruz azul just got dismantled by real madrid in the club world cup.
Real Madrid has some OK players.
and then Messi is just like “k”
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wow. final aggregate, 12-1. barça fielded 5 players from the B team and messi not in the lineup.
huesca had interesting jerseys though.
That one guy from a 3rd division squad that scored against Barca at Camp Nou…
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his money is no good at any bar in huesca for the rest of his life.
Hope to run into him for a round of drinks next week, when I’m there
Awesome.
I expect a signed photo that says “Mike, you would have scored that too.”
Thanks.
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at least viggo didn’t fly to morocco for nothing. san lorenzo ekes out a place at the final in overtime.
If I had to describe what a stupid, ignorant cop sounds and looks like, I could probably not do better than this
I literally chortled when I saw what the cop looked like.
This Hawkins fellow is wonderful though.
I really like that Thinking Out Loud song by Ed Sheeran.
I really like to think out loud…not sure if that helps.
Take my advice…never play Truth of Dare with Henrik Ibsen. That guy will do anything and I mean anything on a dare. I just got back from taking him to the emergency room after he broke his foot jumping off my roof.
Favorite Christmas song?
Die Hard for me…and yes, it’s a Christmas song.
Hells Bells
That’s very Christian of you.
That’s what the C in AC/DC stands for.
Seems plausible enough for me.
Both of them!
Jolly Old Sadist
LOL
I saw this show on Sunday night in Minneapolis, and it was awesome. The opening song, “It’s a Very Die Hard Christmas”, is sung to the tune of “It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas”.
monkey for christmas
“Father Christmas” by the Kinks.
Agreed.
that’s the thing about xmas songs. technically, they’re all listenable, even good. as long as you don’t hear them in december.
ok, fine, i’ll bite: you mean you forgot cranberries too?
I love that one too!
Fairytale Of New York
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White (Xmas) Riot
“Marshmallow World.” But my new super favorite is “I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.” It is incredible.
Not only that, it got the OKC zoo an actual Hippo.
Exactly!
fuck christmas?
Like most people I’ve learned all my personal philosophies from late 80’s HBO movies. So, remember you only have to be dead solid perfect just one time.
I am so tired that I plan to sleep the entire weekend…this of course will never happen but it’s good to dream
The soundtrack for tonight’s lounge was done by Tangerine Dream.
Any favorites by them?
The Kings lost tonight so I’ll just assume they fired the new coach.
It’s great when your teams owner thinks the strategies he used coaching youth basketball will work in the NBA.
At the end of the day I’m a simple man. All I want is money, fame, sex with no strings attached, and some really good bean dip.
I wonder if when Coldplay sings the song Yellow in Oakland if they call it Gold instead?
Have I mentioned how passionate I am about the price of organic orange juice?
Well, no one is here which means it’s a perfect time to talk about the time I got to the second level on Donkey Kong back in 1984. It was a warm, sunny day in Sacramento. I was at Adam Bailey’s birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. I stood before the machine and made history. I…(www.freekraut.net is shut down so no one will have to read the rest of this story)
i was looking forward to this. it was going to make perfect sense. next to this disco adam and eve allegory i started watching.
“I’ve never been higher in my life.” A quote from the film and what I assume the studio chief who green-lit that thing was feeling at the time.
Best ring entrance music for a wrestler?
If the lead character in House was more casual I assume the show would have been called Home.
It takes love to make a House a Home
I live my life by one simple rule…what would Sophie B. Hawkins do?
Thank you and goodnight and may God bless America.
(Now blank)
I ain’t gonna work on
Jerry’sRon’sJean’sLibby’s farm no more!Does this mean you’re quitting your job?
yeah, WTF? where the F stands for farm.
OMG. QUESTION MARK!EXCLAMATION POINT?
LOUD NOISES?!
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Maybe.
I LOVE LAMP!
If he did, he should come to MO and hang out with me for the winter. It’s pretty easy. We get the eggs every day. Take pain meds. Let the dogs out. Nap. Do some online shopping. Make some crafts. Cook dinner. Throw the dog some crackers while watching Food Network. It will be fun.
Look! Ozzie is already ready for you to toss him a treat!
So it WAS you who let the dogs out!
Who?
Ozzie is now sad. We’re going to watch NCIS all day now to relieve our depression.
Farms in Berkeley, perhaps? MOOOOO…
Clever, and correct.
I didn’t think you’d go too far. Congratulations.
Ditto that. Though the real question is how you’ll continue to deliver the inside scoop on our imminent new ballpark
Cal, desperate to recoup the staggering losses from the Memorial Stadium renovation and subsequent poor ticket sales, will convert it to a multipurpose venue and host both the A’s and the Raiders.
Memorial Stadium is kind of big. Evans Diamond has more of the intimate feel that ownership has been trying to cultivate.
Only if they tarp the upper benches
Congrats.
Excellent news.
I don’t get it, but congrats!
Neither do I, but it seems it is something good, so yeah
I think FSU got traded.
Free agent. Once I hired Scott Boras the offers flocked in.
Were you nontendered first?
No, I got a qualifying offer. Amusingly, now that I’ve inked a deal to play elsewhere my original team wonders if it could have offered more to keep me.
Did you respond: “Suuuuuuck iiiitt.”?
No. I might work with some of these people again. I’m a pro. You know, except for the posting on an A’s blog part.
Did the old team lose contractual control of you after 6 years per the cba?
The pension vested after 10 years, reasonably analogous in that my freedom to look elsewhere was significantly enhanced.
Do you have an option to take a lump sum and roll it over into an IRA? Because public employee pension obligations, you know, that’s not a controversial subject at all. My kneejerk thought is to take the money and run so it’s under your control even if present value projects out a little less that way.
Funny how often that happens.
I have colleagues who have courted offers elsewhere with no intention of moving but simply to get the attention of their current department.
SO, the next thing we can expect is a full page ad in the Chronicle thanking your former fans
East Bay Express, please.
and nearly simultaneously, oakland gov improves the city slightly, and in a limited way… coincidence??
check out what the cuban market is doing…
the miami herald reader comments weren’t nearly as interesting as i predicted. pretty good, but not historic good. but score one for this universal truth: if you con’t know there’s supposed to be, or how to put, a space after (and probably the same space you somehow put before) a period or comma, you’re probably nuts.
meanwhile, the FARC declares a unilateral ceasefire.
…will the last latin american comunista please turn out the lights?
This is such great news, and so overdue. I also think the political power of anti-Castro Cubans in Florida is in sharp decline, so there shouldn’t be too much of an electoral price to pay (and if Jeb’s on the ticket it wouldn’t matter anyway).
Obama doesn’t have to do the hard part anyway. Though he will get blamed regardless.
the relevant article finally comes out at 5pm.
Didn’t he learn the first time?
Niners released him.
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And the hits keep coming. Really sucks that we couldn’t get Gore a ring.
yeah, I can’t think of a more deserving player without one right now
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Justin Smith.
Ernie Banks.
Nah. As great as Cowboy has been, he took a huge FA offer to come to SF from Buffalo.
Gore has been in SF his whole career, including the shit years.
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It blows my mind he can still walk after the Singletary-era pounding he took behind a shit-OL with no passing game.
came from cincy… but agree.
HA! HA!
For all you Athletics fans (Post Rock)
Happy birthday Poppy!
Yay!
:(
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I’m sort of happy about that. The Xolos are like the Team USA of Mexico.
In the end, it seems clear that MIx wanted nothing to do with the way MLS operates.
Pretty much. The single entity bullshit is holding the league back. When good young national team players are refusing to sign with teams because of the shitty way the league operates, there need to be changes made.
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i’m gonna take some liberties with the translation: “i’d rather be in tijuana.”
A+ NFL rant from Magary
With bonus coverage regarding the Catalonian practice of beating the shit log.
I’m always nervous to link to Deadspin because I just assume both myself and my computer will catch some disease.
Less than 72 hours until Raiders vs Bills at the Coliseum. I can only imagine that the whole world is as excited as I am!
So glad not to be stuck with that. Reno gave up on the Raiders a month ago. The only reason we got one was, it was a Niners game.
“I wish I had taken a picture of my hot dog to post on this review, it looked really weird. WEIRDER than a 7-11 dog, if you can believe it.”
So I took my stent out. It was weird. I got a little woozy.
respect.
I don’t believe what I just lost!
that’s the one he wears?
The list of 16 Players I Really Don’t Want The A’s to Trade, which I made when Donaldson was traded, is (reportedly) down to 13:
For all the leaks coming out of the Padres for Kemp, there was not a peep about this. Apparently the return is “one or two minor league arms.”
Um, okay…
Not buying that one without confirmation.
I’m not sure I could name 16 A’s players…in my defense no one stays for long on this team.
One of y’all liked Streich, no?
Well, until he got hurt, he was interesting.
We need a new lounge again?
I could also use a new Fresca,
What is everyone’s favorite Norris memory?
For me, it is easily the walk-off he hit against Casilla in 2012 with 2 outs and 2 strikes.
Um, is there another Norris memory to choose?
The AL Wild Card game will linger for a while too though.
Also, the 2 3-0 HRs off Gio.
minnesota jim johnson HR
the hulk smash thrown out stealing rawr thing he did.
the walkoff was badass too though.
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That time when his beard defeated the Kaiser in the War to End All Wars.
His three-run bomb that happened in the 8th inning of my 50th birthday party game, right after I donned the Rally doctorK wig.
good one
When he went through the windshield feet first in Good Guys Wear Black…in slo mo no less.
Walk off caught stealing orioles 2012