College in-conference games are more fun than the NBA, and less pricey as well. Skip most non-conference college games, when your local team has scheduled Northeast Wyoming Teachers College in order to pad its W/L record.
12 point lead at half. From what i can glean from my soundless phone broadcast at the restaurant celebrating Primera’s graduation from 8th grade, the W’s defense has been outstanding.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Nate Thurmond points out that this small Warriors lineup had Lebron and Dellavedova completely done with exhaustion. There is just no way Cleveland can hang with this pace. I say the Warriors don’t lose again.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
LeBron has bonked a little at the end of every game in this series, and this time he just completely collapsed. He’s been carrying way too much load, playing way too many minutes, and only got this far with it because of the week off before the series.
Empty stadium qualifier going on in Zagreb on the ESPN2. Good chance to bone up on your Croatian swear words since you can hear everything they players and coaches are yelling (when the Italians aren’t shouting over them).
Booked on the 7:30 flight, arrive *just* early enough to transfer to the 5:30.
Sit on tarmac for half an hour while they try to fix the air-conditioning. End result is 100F in the way back, 40F up front, and water vapor pouring from all the vents.
Bail on the 5:30 (which eventually leaves at 9:30), transfer back to the 7:30 albeit in a back-row middle seat instead of my original front-row window.
Direct TV available for purchase and scads of drink tickets in hand, I figure I’ll watch the Warriors game and drink all the Goose Island IPA United now carries.
Once we’re airborne, ABC goes out for the duration so I have to fall back on mlb.tv and the Giants/Mets game. Unbelievably horrible coverage, including missing an entire inning so Smoltz can chat about nothing with Hudson.
Then their version of Baseball Tonight spends half its time re-covering the Giants/Mets and it’s an hour before we get 30 seconds of the A’s game.
Even with the late switches it must be tough for a cagey veteran like yourself to get stuck in a middle seat for cross-country.
On Southwest, on any flight longer than about 90 minutes I pay the $12.50 early boarding fee to make sure that doesn’t happen. Occasionally I’ll be in 20D, the wife is in 20E and the hubby is in 21C; I trade with the hubby as long as I wind up in an aisle seat.
I’m a big Copa America fan, but the CONCACAF guest teams always take something away since they have to save their real players for the Gold Cup. That team Mexico sent is garbage, yet again. I wish we could drop to one Gold Cup, move it to the even year, and send real deal Mexico, USA, Costa Rica etc. teams to the Copa on a rotating basis.
since we’re dreaming, i’d like CONCACAF and CONMEBOL to unite. have one big continental 4-group tournament for this. and even out a WC qualification that pretty much means US + MEX + 1.5 on one end, and on the other end, a de facto 50% of south american teams.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
my parents always told a story about taking a slow train with their choir up to antofagasta to sing the 9th. it’s how they met. or maybe they’d already met and that’s when they started doing it. i don’t know; parental euphemisms. anyway, this is my first view of it. it’s brown.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Both Paraguay goals were really excellent. Sad your guys didn’t score on that one in the second half where Messi danced through four defenders and sent it rolling across the goal mouth.
that one, or the one masche shot and messi tried to change posts on but did too far, or the one with messi in the net but not the ball, or the one he shot right at the feet of the goalie.
the team looked fluid and was able to create lots of chances. romero saved a 4-2 loss. i’m going record shopping or swimming and la-la-la-la la-la-la.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Do you ever find something that they all like the first time? I’m so tired of trying something new and having 1 I like it, 1 I guess its alright, and 1 it tastes like barf.
People “should not be forced to […] golf on brown courses
(as in: forced. to golf.)
set…
It angers me because people aren’t looking at the overall picture,†Butler said. “What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?â€
go fuck yourselves!
“I’m a conservative, so this is strange, but I defend Barbra Streisand’s right to have a green lawn,†said Yuhas, who splits his time between Rancho Santa Fe and Los Angeles. “When we bought, we didn’t plan on getting a place that looks like we’re living in an African savanna.â€
WaPo link (i say aloud in case half way through you catch yourself thinking you’re reading the onion).
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Barbre sits on the 37-member board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a huge water wholesaler serving 17 million customers. He is fond of referring to his watering hose with Charlton Heston’s famous quote about guns: “They’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.â€
“You could put 20 houses on my property, and they’d have families of at least four. In my house, there is only two of us,†Butler said. So “they’d be using a hell of a lot more water than we’re using.â€
are you kidding? proletariats double-you oh are kay, pardon my french. like, almost every day. do you know how much water it takes to clean up 80 sweaty, grimy laborers in overcrowded conditions?
a quick apres-piscine outdoor shower only takes a minute, runs off right into your personal putting green, AND ensures the evening tub is free of chlorine, so you can drink the water as you bathe.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
I’m a conservative, so this is strange, but I defend the state’s right to regulate a scarce natural resource that the entire state needs to survive. If some selfish gated-community assholes have to go with dead gardens and empty swimming pools, tough shit.
And I wouldn’t rely on fines – I would put a ration on these people, so that when they exceed the ration, they go without water for the rest of the month. Then, I’d fine them.
I agree in principle, but water rights are a real problem because generations have bought and sold farmland paying (massively) for the water rights included in the parcel. Would be really expensive (though maybe necessary) to eminent-domain those rights back.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
I’m talking more about conspicuous-consumption types such as those in Rancho Santa Fe, who don’t have those types of water rights but feel like they can just buy as much as they want without consequence. These people should be told how much water they get to use per month, and when they hit the max, off it goes.
The fact that California water rights are still governed by 19th-century laws is a completely different matter.
When I was at Davis, we used to have to put up with smoke from the rice farmers burning off their fields every fall and spring. Just intolerable. Thankfully, this is no longer legal unless the farmers can prove their fields are diseased or infested.
Much more perspective from knowing that California produces 5B lbs of rice, of which 80% is exported and 20% goes to Japan – so that Japan eats as much California rice as the USA as a whole.
i am trying to wrap my head around the idea that it is more cost effective for japan to import rice from california rather than closer tropical regions.
It’s Monday. I’m broke, starving and pissed off cuz no medicine and zero hope. You don’t care. That makes two of us. I have 7 TB of unreleased music in these here vaults, so WTF, right? Especially on an occasion such as today’s, where I get to share a birthday concert recorded on someone’s actual birthday. He passed in 2002 after cramming several hundred lifetimes into one of his own… but then he always said he Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This. I can relate, believe me. So blog on the Outlaw side with us this Monday for a stunning birthday show in celebration of the irreplaceable Waylon Jennings, who would have been 78 today.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
totally after-thoughting this, but i’m not sure that i did go, there.
look who combined for the goal… zabaleta (the right back, out of nowhere playing the right front corner, when there was no lack of big name forwards) and kun, his man-city teammate, for a totally english cross-n-header. impossible to prove, but if anybody else had been in zabaleta’s spot right there, they probably wouldn’t have anticipated kun’s run like a true teammate can, and would have given a safer pass back to the middle line to re-try penetration there.
just the nature of all-star teams, i know. still, frustrating to have a battleship when the crew hardly ever sails together. messi and masche joined the team 2 days, tevez 4 days, before the tournament…
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
* re-watched this last night. i swear it’s a completely different game rooting heart/soul live vs once you know the score.
zabaleta was not there out of nowhere. he’d been winging up for a while. he even tried the exact same cross a few minutes earlier but the kick was blocked by his defender.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
ouch vidal. top-2 star in the home team (by name at least, maybe 1st by current performance, right alexis?). top scorer of the tournament so far. scored 2 for chile in that 3-3 against mexico. coach gives the team the day off after that game.
so he goes to a casino, drinks all day with his wife, an hour before he’s due back at team HG, gets in his ferrari and…
3-cars totaled. ends up in jail for drunk driving. puts out video where he claims, “not my fault.” is due before judge today.
What are the mathematical implications here, other than Brazil not winning its group screwing over the winners of the other groups? Is Colombia effectively out if they lose?
if colombia loses, venezuela has to lose its next 2, meaning peru would have won 1, and colombia would have to win the last one by a larger goal margin than both VEN and PER.
if brazil loses, venezuela has a chance to be 1st after 2 games in the group. peru’s probably out, and then the 3rd date is a free4all.
i can’t even think about the elimination matchups.
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HOLY FK HOW DID COL GET OUT OF THAT??
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
3 points all around now. That makes the last round in the group pretty fun. Brazil and Peru with a tie break edge over the other two for now in goals scored, Brazil with the edge over Peru on head to head. Two damn hard for me to figure out whether whoever finishes third will go through.
I think Neymar’s only missing one match, unless the Brazilian check doesn’t clear they change their mind again based on a thorough review of the evidence.
i see. in the obviously biased articles i read this morning, it was not that far along already and neymar had to appeal to not realizing the game was over when he nailed that guy. plus the linesman kept calling him a diver.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
am wondering how it breaks down if brazil is eliminated along the way. 4 dates total, as many served during CA + remaining dates during qualifiers? or just for the remainder of brazil’s CA run?
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
It looks like the only ways Argentina can face Brazil in the quarters are:
1) Brazil wins group and Argentina finishes second
2) Argentina wins group and Brazil advances from third place and the other third place qualifier comes from Argentina’s group.
ugh. totally. #6 and #11 in colombia are out for blood or something, and my guys don’t do well when hot under the collar. meanwhile, brazil seems to’ve found teamwork.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
jara getting suspended helped me off the fix-is-in ledge, though i still think the ref acted somewhere in the biased-to-bought spectrum. and i’m wondering if another ref might have stopped the play when muslera collided with a chilean, even though he didn’t fall, in the sequence leading to the goal.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
I don’t know if I love all of the implications of this ruling, especially on things like overtime pay. But I do love the Plaintiff:
Berwick said she was disappointed not to have been awarded overtime pay after clocking many long days behind the wheel. Berwick said she drove for Uber to be around people. Financially, she is “set for life,†she said, with residuals from her former work running an adult-entertainment telephone enterprise.
fools be driving like idiots on my (admittedly late and wary thanks to an ill-advised OITNB binge) commute to work this morning. worse than graduation days at the fox.
got a free monster iced coffee though!
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Festival at the Lake was a big deal for quite a few years. Then there were some violent incidents, attendance plummeted and it was no longer sustainable financially.
It’s much nicer now that they’ve worked on the whole west side of the lake across from the Kaiser. But it was so crowded today that you couldn’t even get through across the bike/pedestrian bridge. Fun to be with the crowd today though.
huh. so i think i lost my flickr account because i didn’t pay attention to their “we’re not with google anymore” warnings. i mean, the acct is still there, but i can’t log in. gonna have to start new.
what’s everybody doing for photo sharing/uploading these days? anything better than flickr out there?
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
i just don’t understand how they can get away with it. I mean I know, i do, people with money like to keep as much of it as possible and people with a dream will play for nothing if they have to.
had to open my mouth. sitting here after midnight darning my speedos so i can go to the pool in the morning. the seam just happened to split the day after i endorsed them. well, no more! i’m getting nylon dolphins. stupid speedo and sewing their pool resistant fabrics with lycra thread or whatever this crap is that melts in chlorine. grrrr.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
i was upstairs at, fuck, i can’t remember the name, records on washington? pico? record surplus? fuck. when an after shock of the northridge quake hit. of the 8 or so sweaty nerds up there digging through the dollar bin, none of us move more than to put our hands on the section we were currently flipping through and look up to see if anyone would gove up their spot during the quake.
whpk, the radio station I dj’ed at in Chicago, was on the second floor of an old building in the uchicago quad. Supposedly they had to do a floor reinforcement a while back for the record library.
It was always fun to just hang out in the library and read the reviews on random records. I was pretty happy when they started up that tumblr, though it’s not clear that it will keep going because it’s run by students and they graduate pretty frequently.
A rare few things in life are properly rated. Babe Ruth, properly rated. John Bonham, properly rated. Laying around on your day off doing fuck all, under-rated. Stealing bases, over-rated, catcher defense, under-rated. Backing vocals, probably number one most over-rated thing ever on earth. If there is a great celestial price/performance curve for every artistic endeavor, backing vocals are way out there on the continental shelf next to southern accent vocal coaches and gold plated toilets. Toast, the food item, is sadly under-rated. It may be the most under-rated food.
Happy Saturday and welcome to today’s birthday party. Today was a toss-up between two seminal figures, but I went with the road less traveled cuz you know that’s how I roll. Born this day in 1928, he only lived to be 36 years and 9 days old, and you or I should only make as exquisite use of our limited time as he did. Blog with us now back to June 1964 and the very last recordings ever made by one of the most revered musicians in American history — or world history for that matter — when it comes to other musicians: the extraordinary Eric Dolphy. :)
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
catching up on replay while listening to violent femmes albums.
i am rooting for the babyhorse (god i love babyhorse) and i called the colombian goalie some seriously bad things for doing what she did to my babyhorse.
but i can’t get over my dislike for lloyd even though i can’t quite figure out what i dislike.
when i have to state my case to the INS to allow me citizenship, i’ll show tapes of me watching USWNT and it’ll trump any questions they have about 2/3s ratification or whatever..
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
but i can’t get over my dislike for lloyd even though i can’t quite figure out what i dislike.
she’s a terrible center mid?
Honestly if the US win this thing, it’s going to be because of the individual efforts of a couple players on offense every now and then and the defense being badass. Jill Ellis seems to have NO idea WTF she’s doing coaching, she’s been very clearly overruled by Wambach, Rapinoe, etc. The “tactics” have got to be more than just hoof longballs toward Abby and Morgan
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
1) i can handle terrible. terrible and a jerk too, that’s another thing. i might be over reading it, but is there something not entirely accidental about this? like, if i follow where the ball’s gonna be without the swedish player deflecting it, that’s not where lloyd is going.
Yes, born in Germany but moved to the US when he was still a toddler.
Played for De Anza Force, captained the U17 World Cup team, signed with Liverpool, broke his leg.
Apparently he could have stayed at Liverpool for another year but chose to come back so he could play first team somewhere.
He just played with the US U23s in the Toulon tournament, and just so happened to be playing with Quakes CDM Fatai Alashe. So there’s that.
He’s also a lefty comfortable both at left wing and left back, which are spots that the Quakes have massive issues with depth at. The current starting LB is 33 year old Jordan Stewart, and the left mid is 28 year old Shea Salinas (but he’s honestly not that good)
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
Every time he is in CA I either hear about it after the fact, or have some sort of non negotiable engagement. I will count it among my biggest regrets if I never see him pitch.
The chickens just killed a baby animal in the yard. I’m disgusted.
had too much time invested in the netherland/china match. exciting finish.
Nervous about the basketball
how ya doing now?
Overconfident.
THERE’S NO MIDDLE GROUND IN THE FINALS!!!
Nervous again
Why was I nervous? That was stupid. When’s the parade?
lol
Bogut benched for Iguodala. This should be interesting.
And, they’re still playing like ass.
I think I’d like to attend a basketball game sometime.
College in-conference games are more fun than the NBA, and less pricey as well. Skip most non-conference college games, when your local team has scheduled Northeast Wyoming Teachers College in order to pad its W/L record.
I don’t really like college sports. :(
@Jennifer: Wichita, Lawrence, and whatever shithole town K-State is in offer strong hoops experiences.
Fuck Kansas.
hi i’m kansas
Thanks, and go As.
Silly rabbit.
Jennifer wins the thread.
In related news, it’s legally OK to be drunk on your porch in Iowa. In Kansas they probably make you go to mandatory Bible school.
That ruling is clearly correct; however, I’d say that in illegally arresting the 0.267-blowing Ms. Paye the cops did her a pretty big favor.
The Little Apple!
12 point lead at half. From what i can glean from my soundless phone broadcast at the restaurant celebrating Primera’s graduation from 8th grade, the W’s defense has been outstanding.
did they just interview nathan thurm at halftime?
(he really lost a lot of hair. still lying through his teeth.)
Well, I saw LeBron’s penis.
nah, that was his mom.
Close. Similar hairstyles.
Are you Rihanna??
I work in oncology tomorrow. First time. I’m slightly nervous.
Aussie Eckstein might be turning back into a pumpkin finally.
Our Aussie win on Croatianism. Championship, baby.
Watching Sportscenter: “Here’s a Matthew Dellavadova-type baseball player. Dustin Pedroia.”
Billy Burns #s 1 and 2 on the Top 10 plays FYI.
That is so wrong. Pederast is actually good at his sport.
Nice win, and with McAdoo time to ice it.
Nate Thurmond points out that this small Warriors lineup had Lebron and Dellavedova completely done with exhaustion. There is just no way Cleveland can hang with this pace. I say the Warriors don’t lose again.
LeBron has bonked a little at the end of every game in this series, and this time he just completely collapsed. He’s been carrying way too much load, playing way too many minutes, and only got this far with it because of the week off before the series.
Also, again, the Warriors won’t keep shooting as badly as they’ve been.
AND
Cleveland won’t shoot as well as they’ve been.
Thanks, and go As.
cuz the best player always gotta show his junk behind a TV graphic
this is America
His Grace is showing us his scepter!
It’s really hard to stop watching. Ironically, it’s flaccid.
Which game did this happen in? They wore yellow shorts last night.
Last night. That’s his spanx under his shorts.
He pulled his shorts completely down.
As one does when on TV.
The Guardian’s coverage of this wins:
court commenting
Empty stadium qualifier going on in Zagreb on the ESPN2. Good chance to bone up on your Croatian swear words since you can hear everything they players and coaches are yelling (when the Italians aren’t shouting over them).
Flew back from DC last night.
Booked on the 7:30 flight, arrive *just* early enough to transfer to the 5:30.
Sit on tarmac for half an hour while they try to fix the air-conditioning. End result is 100F in the way back, 40F up front, and water vapor pouring from all the vents.
Bail on the 5:30 (which eventually leaves at 9:30), transfer back to the 7:30 albeit in a back-row middle seat instead of my original front-row window.
Direct TV available for purchase and scads of drink tickets in hand, I figure I’ll watch the Warriors game and drink all the Goose Island IPA United now carries.
Once we’re airborne, ABC goes out for the duration so I have to fall back on mlb.tv and the Giants/Mets game. Unbelievably horrible coverage, including missing an entire inning so Smoltz can chat about nothing with Hudson.
Then their version of Baseball Tonight spends half its time re-covering the Giants/Mets and it’s an hour before we get 30 seconds of the A’s game.
At least the Mets won.
Even with the late switches it must be tough for a cagey veteran like yourself to get stuck in a middle seat for cross-country.
On Southwest, on any flight longer than about 90 minutes I pay the $12.50 early boarding fee to make sure that doesn’t happen. Occasionally I’ll be in 20D, the wife is in 20E and the hubby is in 21C; I trade with the hubby as long as I wind up in an aisle seat.
As disappointed as we are in the A’s, it must be nothing compared to what Mariners fans feel about their team.
Felix gave up 8 runs and got one out.
And Chris Carter just killed one off the train on Furbush.
watching the highlight of the correa HR, they have trumbo in right! Mark trumbo in right field playing “defense” in right field
their moves they were excited about, ours we hated
From reading LL the past few months, they hated the one move that actually worked out so far (Cruz) and liked pretty much everything else.
They had a lot more of the hype cycle going for them pre-season
Are the Astros good? It kind of seems like they might be good.
Joe Blanton looks svelte.
The toddler is melting down, and the design team is worried about the usability of requiring passwords to access one’s own medical information.
so. much. soccer.
I’m a big Copa America fan, but the CONCACAF guest teams always take something away since they have to save their real players for the Gold Cup. That team Mexico sent is garbage, yet again. I wish we could drop to one Gold Cup, move it to the even year, and send real deal Mexico, USA, Costa Rica etc. teams to the Copa on a rotating basis.
since we’re dreaming, i’d like CONCACAF and CONMEBOL to unite. have one big continental 4-group tournament for this. and even out a WC qualification that pretty much means US + MEX + 1.5 on one end, and on the other end, a de facto 50% of south american teams.
Fine by me. Let’s kick out the Caribbean islands while we’re at it.
Anyway, Chile looked amazing on Thursday, didn’t they?
my parents always told a story about taking a slow train with their choir up to antofagasta to sing the 9th. it’s how they met. or maybe they’d already met and that’s when they started doing it. i don’t know; parental euphemisms. anyway, this is my first view of it. it’s brown.
That’s a cute story. I was always falling for girls on chorus trips too, but it never worked out like that. Maybe it was the slow train I was missing.
Lotta good seats still available.
the randomly placed colored seat-backs are not fooling you!
You’re in Chile? I never got out to Antofagasta on the coast, but spent time between Calama and San Pedro. Brown is an understatement.
close, i’m chilln’ in cali.
was looking at the TV shots whenever they overlooked the stadium.
jamaica is so frustrating. if it weren’t for ganja, there’d be no explanation how they end up in front of an open goal and finish it like that.
Just saw it. That was terrible.
the uruguayan goalie goes for a stroll to see if it’s raining down the block… jamaican shoots it wide.
Tevez….
(The great Ray Hudson’s call: “A free header. And Tevez fills his pants.”)
(sorry av)
what was that burn looking thing on his face?
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ugh. 2 completely different halves. and i have to admit paraguay’s goals were real, actual goals. not the happenstancy tide-me-overs that we got.
Both Paraguay goals were really excellent. Sad your guys didn’t score on that one in the second half where Messi danced through four defenders and sent it rolling across the goal mouth.
that one, or the one masche shot and messi tried to change posts on but did too far, or the one with messi in the net but not the ball, or the one he shot right at the feet of the goalie.
the team looked fluid and was able to create lots of chances. romero saved a 4-2 loss. i’m going record shopping or swimming and la-la-la-la la-la-la.
missed the add-on.
the saga continues. if you’re gonna chip it to neymar instead of just chipping it in… go ahead and chip it TO neymar.
neymar. it’s the literally the last minute. did you forget what team you’re playing for?
there it is. LMB in effect.
goyco! looking fit too.
Last night I shopped in my sleep. Amazon 1-click will be the death of me.
What did you buy?
I’d looked at it while I was awake, but don’t remember buying it.
everyone ready to put on their shocked face?
FKers who make meals for multiple kids:
Do you ever find something that they all like the first time? I’m so tired of trying something new and having 1 I like it, 1 I guess its alright, and 1 it tastes like barf.
pizza
Thanks, and go As.
Why are there so many days off between NBA Finals games?
TV. When in doubt, the answer is always TV.
ready…
(as in: forced. to golf.)
set…
go fuck yourselves!
WaPo link (i say aloud in case half way through you catch yourself thinking you’re reading the onion).
good god
Tempting to take him up on that arrangement.
my take is NorCal should be saying that to them.
whoever has controls the water has the power
Christ, what a hoser.
The article was awesome. Here’s my fav:
And they’d be wasting a whole hell of a lot less than he is.
are you kidding? proletariats double-you oh are kay, pardon my french. like, almost every day. do you know how much water it takes to clean up 80 sweaty, grimy laborers in overcrowded conditions?
a quick apres-piscine outdoor shower only takes a minute, runs off right into your personal putting green, AND ensures the evening tub is free of chlorine, so you can drink the water as you bathe.
Wait, that’s not a parody quote?
The people in that article were all quoted with first and last names. I wonder what kind of fallout they are getting now. I almost feel bad for them…
I’m a conservative, so this is strange, but I defend the state’s right to regulate a scarce natural resource that the entire state needs to survive. If some selfish gated-community assholes have to go with dead gardens and empty swimming pools, tough shit.
And I wouldn’t rely on fines – I would put a ration on these people, so that when they exceed the ration, they go without water for the rest of the month. Then, I’d fine them.
I agree in principle, but water rights are a real problem because generations have bought and sold farmland paying (massively) for the water rights included in the parcel. Would be really expensive (though maybe necessary) to eminent-domain those rights back.
I’m talking more about conspicuous-consumption types such as those in Rancho Santa Fe, who don’t have those types of water rights but feel like they can just buy as much as they want without consequence. These people should be told how much water they get to use per month, and when they hit the max, off it goes.
The fact that California water rights are still governed by 19th-century laws is a completely different matter.
True, though apparently it is unconstitutional to dramatically over-charge per-gallon at higher uses, so that’s a problem too.
Image provided without comment.
Good info.
mfing rice?
whatever dudes.
technically, it’s grown. not manufactured.
lawn dart!
also, alfalfa? where do we live, in some sandwich shop from the 80s?
It’s sent to China to feed their livestock. On this point I highly recommend the movie Cowspiracy.
I read somewhere that a lot of the rice is grown for export too.
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When I was at Davis, we used to have to put up with smoke from the rice farmers burning off their fields every fall and spring. Just intolerable. Thankfully, this is no longer legal unless the farmers can prove their fields are diseased or infested.
The use of pounds then tons then pounds in three sentences is really pissing me off.
that is really deceptive
is 5B lbs, 2.5 M tons?
Yeah – it’s absurd.
Much more perspective from knowing that California produces 5B lbs of rice, of which 80% is exported and 20% goes to Japan – so that Japan eats as much California rice as the USA as a whole.
i am trying to wrap my head around the idea that it is more cost effective for japan to import rice from california rather than closer tropical regions.
Maybe our rice is simply that good.
Using all the lawns as pasture would save 3+ MAF.
related and infallible..
It’s Monday. I’m broke, starving and pissed off cuz no medicine and zero hope. You don’t care. That makes two of us. I have 7 TB of unreleased music in these here vaults, so WTF, right? Especially on an occasion such as today’s, where I get to share a birthday concert recorded on someone’s actual birthday. He passed in 2002 after cramming several hundred lifetimes into one of his own… but then he always said he Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This. I can relate, believe me. So blog on the Outlaw side with us this Monday for a stunning birthday show in celebration of the irreplaceable Waylon Jennings, who would have been 78 today.
My job can have a lot of lows to it. Today, though, I saved a life.
Way to go, Jennifer.
You go girl!
woohoo
Fantastic!
That’s something to be proud of!
Also, my new dress is sexy as fuck. And work gave me a cool new job.
pix or…
Thanks, and go As.
My first presentation is tomorrow… for hospitals in three different states.
What are you presenting?
The hospital’s EMR system to potential buyers.
her dress.
Thanks, and go As.
Paris, Dublin, Tenerife, Leeds & London … see y’all in 2 weeks.
good luck
sound rough. persevere!
*sounds
Have a Guinness for me!
You really are a mad scientist. I’m sure others have so remarked.
jamaica me laugh.
screw it. take messi out. build a team already. #dreamteam2004 or whatever.
and my other conflicted emotion:
yes i hope to be proven stupid and shortsighted before the next 45 minutes are up.
there you go
totally after-thoughting this, but i’m not sure that i did go, there.
look who combined for the goal… zabaleta (the right back, out of nowhere playing the right front corner, when there was no lack of big name forwards) and kun, his man-city teammate, for a totally english cross-n-header. impossible to prove, but if anybody else had been in zabaleta’s spot right there, they probably wouldn’t have anticipated kun’s run like a true teammate can, and would have given a safer pass back to the middle line to re-try penetration there.
just the nature of all-star teams, i know. still, frustrating to have a battleship when the crew hardly ever sails together. messi and masche joined the team 2 days, tevez 4 days, before the tournament…
* re-watched this last night. i swear it’s a completely different game rooting heart/soul live vs once you know the score.
zabaleta was not there out of nowhere. he’d been winging up for a while. he even tried the exact same cross a few minutes earlier but the kick was blocked by his defender.
kun!
and i lost my tea glass. it was here on my desk a minute ago. WTF?
Uh oh. Hope that goal was worth it. (Kun, not your tea glass)
i can’t figure out when he got hurt.
my glass was behind the trash can. i punched it and didn’t notice.
goals = anesthesia.
He did look fine celebrating.
so. much. suffering.
(whew.)
ouch vidal. top-2 star in the home team (by name at least, maybe 1st by current performance, right alexis?). top scorer of the tournament so far. scored 2 for chile in that 3-3 against mexico. coach gives the team the day off after that game.
so he goes to a casino, drinks all day with his wife, an hour before he’s due back at team HG, gets in his ferrari and…
3-cars totaled. ends up in jail for drunk driving. puts out video where he claims, “not my fault.” is due before judge today.
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in happier news. forget paul the octopus. mikebait oracle boobs. (NSFW)
Ban his sorry ass and throw him into jail.
Instead, he’s starting the very next game.
This is just reprehensible
and after the game the president takes a picture with him.
(north of the border protip: the prez is the woman.)
early still, but brazil – colombia is looking like one of those top-flight games we haven’t seen since the WC. even with falcao off the boil.
i have to go at halftime unfort.
What are the mathematical implications here, other than Brazil not winning its group screwing over the winners of the other groups? Is Colombia effectively out if they lose?
you’re gonna make me dizzy with math questions…
if colombia loses, venezuela has to lose its next 2, meaning peru would have won 1, and colombia would have to win the last one by a larger goal margin than both VEN and PER.
if brazil loses, venezuela has a chance to be 1st after 2 games in the group. peru’s probably out, and then the 3rd date is a free4all.
i can’t even think about the elimination matchups.
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HOLY FK HOW DID COL GET OUT OF THAT??
oh, i see. hand of ney. now he’s out for venezuela…
3 points all around now. That makes the last round in the group pretty fun. Brazil and Peru with a tie break edge over the other two for now in goals scored, Brazil with the edge over Peru on head to head. Two damn hard for me to figure out whether whoever finishes third will go through.
yeah, what you said.
this group is crazy. after the second round, all teams have exactly 3 pts, and a 0 in goal difference.
i think next deciding factor would be goals in favor, but wiki updated after the game and lists, in order,
VEN 1 goal in favor
BRA 2 GF
COL 1 GF
PER 2 GF
after that, it’s head-to-head results, so really it should be
BRA
PER
VEN
COL
the third matches are COL–PER and BRA- VEN.
and don’t want to forget to mention that 2 of the 3 third-placers go through, facing the first-place team of a group they’re not in.
too many moving pieces still, but if ARG has to face BRA, i would not mind having it be at quarters, with neymar still out.
I think Neymar’s only missing one match, unless
the Brazilian check doesn’t clearthey change their mind again based on a thorough review of the evidence.i see. in the obviously biased articles i read this morning, it was not that far along already and neymar had to appeal to not realizing the game was over when he nailed that guy. plus the linesman kept calling him a diver.
Well,
the funds were wildly insufficienta formal investigation led CONMEBOL to suspend him for THE REST OF THE TOURNAMENT.am wondering how it breaks down if brazil is eliminated along the way. 4 dates total, as many served during CA + remaining dates during qualifiers? or just for the remainder of brazil’s CA run?
neymar getting 2 games, yeah?
Wiki already fixed it:
Brazil
Peru
Venezuela
Colombia
Edit: Venezuela and Uruguay currently the third place teams going through.
the official CA2015 site has colombia 3rd!
Listen, looking at all of this now is premature. None of the checks have cleared yet.
lol
wrong. obviously.
It looks like the only ways Argentina can face Brazil in the quarters are:
1) Brazil wins group and Argentina finishes second
2) Argentina wins group and Brazil advances from third place and the other third place qualifier comes from Argentina’s group.
2 is what i was hoping for. in the current 3rds, uruguay looks stronger than mexico to make it.
Rough draw for you guys. You had to have been hoping for Peru.
ugh. totally. #6 and #11 in colombia are out for blood or something, and my guys don’t do well when hot under the collar. meanwhile, brazil seems to’ve found teamwork.
Chile is looking like the smart bet. Hard not to see them in the final.
yep.
you see the game today? talk to me. i need to hear the rational point of view. i sure don’t have it.
I did not see it.
the basics.
jara getting suspended helped me off the fix-is-in ledge, though i still think the ref acted somewhere in the biased-to-bought spectrum. and i’m wondering if another ref might have stopped the play when muslera collided with a chilean, even though he didn’t fall, in the sequence leading to the goal.
Unbelievable. That is the sleaziest thing I have seen in a soccer game since the Chilean goalkeeper and his razor blade.
hate to say it, but this cup’s been kind of a shitshow so far.
“There’s a bitter taste in our mouths,â€
stop sucking jara’s fingers.
also, “shit show,” asvd
didn’t even notice the pun. i’m either off my game or it’s reached subconscious levels.
Wouldn’t video review of bookings (like NBA and flagrants) solve a lot of this crap?
Instantly I regret not being a professional footballer.
Thanks, and go As.
you’re reading that wrong. he wants to ball more than their feet.
too lazy to look for a grill. I hope this is the start of something good
Yup
I don’t know if I love all of the implications of this ruling, especially on things like overtime pay. But I do love the Plaintiff:
Speaking of law, the MLB brief to SCOTUS is out and Wendy Thurm and Nathaniel Grow are parsing it on Twitter.
And speaking of Twitter, Sexual Assault Panda, ladies and gentlemen!
I hope the Sawx enjoy paying every penny of that contract out.
lol
KOTD: Kraut saves! Pickles Kill!
Oakland provides a much more attractive parade backdrop than SF. We should do this more often.
:/
fools be driving like idiots on my (admittedly late and wary thanks to an ill-advised OITNB binge) commute to work this morning. worse than graduation days at the fox.
got a free monster iced coffee though!
Back from the parade and watching the taped broadcast. Joe Lacob’s speech making style is a bit on the angry side. And why on earth is his fiancé wearing a tee that says “trophy girlfriend”?! Ew
Oh my god, I didn’t notice that t shirt. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Potiche
Oakland is a GREAT place for a parade. Great weather, lots of trees and vibrant, fun loving fans.
didn’t make it to the lake, but yeah, i had fun. once i woke up.
Festival at the Lake was a big deal for quite a few years. Then there were some violent incidents, attendance plummeted and it was no longer sustainable financially.
It’s much nicer now that they’ve worked on the whole west side of the lake across from the Kaiser. But it was so crowded today that you couldn’t even get through across the bike/pedestrian bridge. Fun to be with the crowd today though.
huh. so i think i lost my flickr account because i didn’t pay attention to their “we’re not with google anymore” warnings. i mean, the acct is still there, but i can’t log in. gonna have to start new.
what’s everybody doing for photo sharing/uploading these days? anything better than flickr out there?
С Ч П ?
OJ WAS RIGHT!
Good read, cheap bastards
You’d giving them better pay would take a lot of unnecessary stress off them.
He got a $60K signing bonus in 2008 and he’s in A ball?
i just don’t understand how they can get away with it. I mean I know, i do, people with money like to keep as much of it as possible and people with a dream will play for nothing if they have to.
just gross
It really is a pathetic way to operate.
Libby Schaaf riding with MC Hammer in a fire-breathing snail car from Burning Man was definitely a highlight of the parade.
That was awesome!
Huh. I did not peg Braden as a speedo guy.
is that a bad thing? i’m a speedo guy.
You could tell me a speedo has never entered the Stockton city limits and I’d say that sounds legit.
damn foreigner
had to open my mouth. sitting here after midnight darning my speedos so i can go to the pool in the morning. the seam just happened to split the day after i endorsed them. well, no more! i’m getting nylon dolphins. stupid speedo and sewing their pool resistant fabrics with lycra thread or whatever this crap is that melts in chlorine. grrrr.
If you told me the phrase “darning my speedo” has never in the history of the Internet been typed, I’d say that sounds legit.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22darning%20my%20speedo%22
Actually, at his house I imagine he is a nothing guy usually, but the Speedo was for all of our protection.
rekkidnerd facepalm.
http://www.discogs.com/Sublime-40oz-To-Freedom/release/2629879
ha! shoulda marked your dotted records cheaper, you hoarders!
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/jun/22/hillcrest-building-collapses-vinyl-records/
i was upstairs at, fuck, i can’t remember the name, records on washington? pico? record surplus? fuck. when an after shock of the northridge quake hit. of the 8 or so sweaty nerds up there digging through the dollar bin, none of us move more than to put our hands on the section we were currently flipping through and look up to see if anyone would gove up their spot during the quake.
whpk, the radio station I dj’ed at in Chicago, was on the second floor of an old building in the uchicago quad. Supposedly they had to do a floor reinforcement a while back for the record library.
Also, the tumblr with scans of record reviews is pretty ace.
thanks for that. amazing and hilarious.
rush, power windows: who the fuck cares? the day we start playing this product, i quit.
It was always fun to just hang out in the library and read the reviews on random records. I was pretty happy when they started up that tumblr, though it’s not clear that it will keep going because it’s run by students and they graduate pretty frequently.
Not really related, but I just discovered (rediscovered?) that Albini has a food blog!
Happy Saturday and welcome to today’s birthday party. Today was a toss-up between two seminal figures, but I went with the road less traveled cuz you know that’s how I roll. Born this day in 1928, he only lived to be 36 years and 9 days old, and you or I should only make as exquisite use of our limited time as he did. Blog with us now back to June 1964 and the very last recordings ever made by one of the most revered musicians in American history — or world history for that matter — when it comes to other musicians: the extraordinary Eric Dolphy. :)
no. no no no. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
and if i’m not being clear, i mean, maradoNO!!
I am rooting for the underdog, so i don’t care that that penalty shot went wide
catching up on replay while listening to violent femmes albums.
i am rooting for the babyhorse (god i love babyhorse) and i called the colombian goalie some seriously bad things for doing what she did to my babyhorse.
but i can’t get over my dislike for lloyd even though i can’t quite figure out what i dislike.
when i have to state my case to the INS to allow me citizenship, i’ll show tapes of me watching USWNT and it’ll trump any questions they have about 2/3s ratification or whatever..
she’s a terrible center mid?
Honestly if the US win this thing, it’s going to be because of the individual efforts of a couple players on offense every now and then and the defense being badass. Jill Ellis seems to have NO idea WTF she’s doing coaching, she’s been very clearly overruled by Wambach, Rapinoe, etc. The “tactics” have got to be more than just hoof longballs toward Abby and Morgan
Thanks, and go As.
1) i can handle terrible. terrible and a jerk too, that’s another thing. i might be over reading it, but is there something not entirely accidental about this? like, if i follow where the ball’s gonna be without the swedish player deflecting it, that’s not where lloyd is going.
2) ouch.
I love that Akers is calling it out, cause WTF are people gonna say?
Thanks, and go As.
I like it.
Thanks, and go As.
he looks good on video. confused by bio. is he local? but born in germany?
Yes, born in Germany but moved to the US when he was still a toddler.
Played for De Anza Force, captained the U17 World Cup team, signed with Liverpool, broke his leg.
Apparently he could have stayed at Liverpool for another year but chose to come back so he could play first team somewhere.
He just played with the US U23s in the Toulon tournament, and just so happened to be playing with Quakes CDM Fatai Alashe. So there’s that.
He’s also a lefty comfortable both at left wing and left back, which are spots that the Quakes have massive issues with depth at. The current starting LB is 33 year old Jordan Stewart, and the left mid is 28 year old Shea Salinas (but he’s honestly not that good)
Thanks, and go As.
it was 25 years ago today
diego set cani up with this play.
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AV bait
oh man. i knew there was a leak in my goggles.
If I were English I would be a raging supporter of the Women’s World Cup team.
Every time he is in CA I either hear about it after the fact, or have some sort of non negotiable engagement. I will count it among my biggest regrets if I never see him pitch.
As always, a great read about Bill Lee.