Well, it’s the final weekend of the summer. As an “essential service”, it’s back into the actual classroom. You’ve no doubt heard stories in your own region about people freaking out about cohort groups, expanded bubbles and COVID clusters. We have them here too. And while most of my colleagues are “virtual” for the month of September – teachers in school; students at home – I will have actual kids in the classroom since I work with at-risk learners that require one-to-one contact.
I have to say that I am looking forward to it.
Maybe it’s been the relative isolation I’ve lived in for the last five months, but I’ve physically dealt with relatively few groups of people since this whole thing started. I probably just need the interaction with people that aren’t my immediate family.
I went in Thursday to set up my classroom:
- ten tables – down from 15
- ten chairs – down from 30
- all the sanitation products a germophobe could ever want
- an entrance & exit plan to minimize student-to-student contact
- where to store my tea kettle & cookies – so I don’t have to use the staffroom
I’m hoping it will be quite civilized. I’m predicting that it will all be shot to hell by week two.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Vegas vs. Dallas – 8:00PM | NBC / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Rockets vs. Lakers – 8:30PM | ABC / TSN4
- MLB:
- Cardinals at Cubs – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Question: Can this intolerable rivalry be made tolerable without fans?
- Cardinals at Cubs – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Left turns:
- NASCAR Cup Series:
- Southern 500 – 6:00PM | NBCSN / TSN5
- It’s no Truck Roadeo, but it’ll do.
- NASCAR Cup Series:
- Pugilism:
- FOX PBC Fight Night:
- Yordenis Ugas vs. Abel Ramos (welterweights) – 8:00PM | FOX
- FOX PBC Fight Night:
- MLS:
- Inter Miami CF vs. Nashville SC – 8:00PM | FS1
- Seattle vs. Portland – 10:00PM | TSN3
- LA Galaxy vs. LAFC – 10:30PM | TSN2
For a Sunday evening, that’s a pretty full docket. Well done, COVID!
Twenty years ago, I used to “urban explore” downtown Los Angeles. It was mostly abandoned right after the end of World War II, and it was like a time machine. But there was a skid row on Los Angeles Street, which had several blocks of homeless people living in cardboard boxes and tents, one right next to another, as far as you could see. It was a sad sight but an impressive one nonetheless.
In the ‘oughts DTLA became a real estate hotbed that fast gentrified and those homeless just vanished (mysteriously just like Manhattan in the early 90s).
Well now, I just discovered, Venice Beach and Rose Avenue along Pen Mar golf course are lined with miles of homeless tents.
The homeless in DTLA just moved east and south. Drive 5th St and 6th St between Los Angeles Street and Central and you’ll find Ye Olde Skid Rowe.
Bud: Fucking trash. Makes you wonder how much they owe. Most of them are on the run. Don’t even use their fucking social security numbers. If there was just some way to find out how much the motherfuckers owe and making them pay.
Otto: Jesus Christ bud. They’re winos, they don’t have any money. You think they’d be bums if they did?
It’s simple, we import grizzy bears to eat all the homeless!
“Bet then we’re infested with bears!”
That’s the best part: they’ll all die once the gruesome summer heat wave comes!
Dive bar engage. Stevie Ray on the jukebox
Hopefully that’ll get covered by the deductible.
You get a windshield allowance. I don’t think there is a buttexemption in the contract.
I saw SRV open for George Thorogood in 1982 at the Ritz Theatre in Corpus Christi. I was pretty awestruck. I still think some of his most understated work was on Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” right before he broke.
Fuck this farmers’ market.
Los Angeles recorded a temperature of 121ºF today in Woodland Hills, an all-time record for L.A. County.
The lesson is: never live in Woodland Hills
I never go to Woodland Hills, except back when I was a porn star.
It’s not that much cooler where I am. I’m about to step outside for the first time all day, in the hopes that it’s tolerable enough beer-drinking weather.
It’s 80ºF here at the beach, which is completely unacceptable.
I had to go to Woodland Hills once. Right after the Northridge earthquake. One of our sister sites got hammered there and ended up being a hazmat site. This was back when I was doing microfiche so they had this massive photo-chemical spill.
Not Good.
I brought their entire ops down to my shop in Torrance and gifted them with about 1/4 of our equipment so they could keep business rolling.
Solidarity!
I think the last time they were in the news was for a MAGA motorcade, so…yeah.
That’s insane.
The good thing about this heat is that it gives me an excuse to drink beer. The problem is that I have to drink each one within five minutes or it gets warm.
Oh wait that’s not a problem.
Why is it taking that long?
That’s Jason Scott Lee’s stuntman, actually.
See below. Plus he did his own stunts for years, there is a good Netflix show on the whole Asian cinema.
Boosh! Just like that a copy of Pink Floyd Wish you were here original vinyl just sold for 20 bucks on the Buy it Now.
This move is gonna pay for itself.
If you got any basedball cards with this guy “Honus” on the front just let me know first, mmkay?
This one is the best yet.
I ran out of upvotes.
No wonder I don’t sleep.
Here’s some positive news. Since we’re moving we’re downsizing shit something serious. Eldest brother had a wife who was a collector. Think beanie babies. He had 2 pokemon cards, Charizard I believe. He had them authenticated and the first one sold for 870 bucks. Striking while the iron was hot he posted the 2nd. In 2 days someone hit the “Buy it now” button for a cool fucking grand. In 2 days he got $1,870 dollareenies for 2 pokemon cards.
Know your audience.
Do you have a Zoom meeting on Tuesday?
That was yesterday for the draft.
I guess the GIF works for work better.
I never got a Kanto starter holo. I need to find my binder of Pokemon cards, because I think I have a holo Machamp.
Shit is selling like crazy. There were at least 100 watchers and 40 plus bidders for each auction.
Time to sell yourself while the fever is high!
DFO gonna liveblog the BYU/Navy game tomorrow?
I’ll send it up the flagpole.
I hope the meteor wins.
I’m pretty sure the COVID will win.
As long as everyone there dies
NBA Cancer (aka Houston Rockets) making Bron and AD play defense.
I dont have any RBs in our DFO FFL.
Willing to trade Ertz. Please submit proposed player, head shot and photo of feet.
Throw in some Ertz on Ertz photo action and we got a deal!
/pegging of course!
//They’re married, not siblings right?
In SEC country why not both?
Sent you an offer.
This is not that type of site….. or so I thought.
yea PADRES get the win! yay!
way to go winning 2 of that 3 game series against the A’s
Update: that’s not a marine layer. It’s smoke.
Like I should expect good news this fucking year.
It’s still 13 degrees cooler though.
I almost feel like I in Cali!
*Because right now it is like being on the wrong side of the campfire.
found a funny:
Captcha: Please verify you’re not a robot. Select all boxes with a crosswalk
Me: Ok
Captcha: Select all boxes that illustrate the concept of unconditional love
Me: What?
Captcha: Cut your hand and hold it up to your webcam
Me: Wait no
Captcha: I want to see you bleed
It’s a jungle out there.
That’s why it is important to start with a balanced breakfast.
Despite all the flat-footers, a successfully completed Fronkenshteen League Draft
Auto draft did a damn fine job dealing the cards, I must say. Spur got jobbed on RBs, and people will have to pick different Head Coaches, but yeah. “Successfully completed” about covers it.
No bear nipples on this site!!
Well that shit aint working.
rolling blackouts for southern calif planned
hope you r all staying cool
Figured it would happen.
Thanks. There are a lot of good reasons to live on the beach and the marine influence is probably top 3. It’s 14 degrees cooler in just a couple of hours. Plus, we’ve got like a beach and shit so there’s that on top of it.
The marine influence is really significant at Pendleton, just south of you on I-5…
The world’s smartest Marine
Thanks for the heads up.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236711/
God Bless, WEBN and Western and Southern. Riverfest may be canceled, but they are still doing the fireworks. One brief glimpse of normalcy in this shitty, shitty year.
Also, this is Cincinnati’s official end of Summer. We’re almost done with 2020!
“Don’t listen to him Karen, it’s fine.” – IT, after activating Karen’s webcam
Just turn a little bit.
The big question becomes, “Is 2020 done with us?” We’re only 66% finished.
Karen Black Trilogy of Terror. I loved that last part of the trilogy.
Its not a bad as you think. We’re 68.3% done with the year.
Angela Lansbury was 37 when she portrayed Laurence Harvey’s mother in the original Manchurian Candidate film of the early 60s. Harvey was 35 at the time of filming. Talk about a MILF.
GILF WAP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=s89CriOU-D0&feature=emb_logo
Murder dogs. Are they Scotchy’s?
http://www.vetstreet.com/dogs/xoloitzcuintli
So I’m re-watching James May Our Man in Japan and finally made the connection between the scene introduction cards in that series and the header picture for Balls’ Eventual Thoughts weekly post. Talk about a “slap yourself in the forehead” moment. I can’t wait till I get to the one that says “Balls” in kanji.
You should raise a drink in salute when you get to it.
RàHV!
Absolutely. Probably a bong rip and eat a couple edibles too.
Take two. I think this twitbook was taken down.
Lake Travis is 80 minutes from my house. I am an ex-Navy guy and a licensed scuba diver (NAUI). I didn’t post at all here yesterday. Draw your own conclusions.
ANTIFA Navy Wave and Wind Creator!!
It was wake from larger boats.
It was a fucking joke.
It is too damn hot. I had a lovely afternoon out on a boat where it was pleasantly cool, but now I’m back in my un-air conditioned apartment which has grown hellish in my absence. Oh well, at least I have cold booze and a whole bunch of garlic stuff I picked up in Gilroy on the drive home. I got garlic chocolate chip cookies!
Not sure if you’re seeing it up in the North but we’ve got a serious marine layer rolling in as we speak. Dropped 10 degrees in the last hour.
Thank you weather gods.
https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-19-2016/USNJDc.mp4
We got haze, but that’s about it. Not supposed to cool off much tonight 🙁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=x2HUwqB5WbQ&feature=emb_logo
That dude isn’t hairy or swarthy enough to be a Greek. Unless he’s a frat Greek.
https://wiki.optimy.com/sport-sponsorship/
Sponsee: his main objective is to find a financing source.
Sponsee is the second new word I’ve learned recently. The other one is derecho.
Gentlemen! One hour till the draft for (one of) the Door Flies Open fantasy league(s), hosted by myself. Just a few reminders: There is no dedicated TE slot, although you’re welcome to use them in your flex spots. There is a linebacker slot, because it’s cool. Less cool is the Head Coach slot, where the worse the beating your coach’s team absorbs, the more points you get. Wins are penalized with negative points, based on the size of the win. And the benches in this league are short. Like 4 + an IR short. This way, if your squadoo is ravaged by illness and/or injury, the waiver wire won’t be a complete wasteland. Like last season, there’s no entry fee. Winner gets $100 US. That’s because that $100 represents FAR less then I’d lose over the course of the season with a bookie at $25 a pop. So you guys are actually doing ME a favor by playing. Human methadone. Which, thanks. And good luck!
FINISH HIM WITH THE DEADLY THUMB PUNCH!!
Priest Holmes is still a lock for #1, right?
I’m worried he may lose carries to LJ.
Oh, and no kickers. Hooray!
NO KNICKERS IS MY FAVORITE.
Hippo would be soooo happy.
Glad you reminded us. I forgot about the coach spot.
Off to the pub for the draft. I hear they serve beer there.
I just want to apologize for all the rude, insulting things I will say for the next roughly 18 weeks or so.
What will be different from everybody else? Why just 18 weeks.
Understandable. Losing brings out the worst in us.
Yes, my life is not what I’m talking about, though
Bing bing!~
Being a beer guy is also an essential service
More than essential.
found a cool:
https://infographics.economist.com/2019/AChristmasGiftForYou/AYearInGraphicDetail.pdf
That IS very cool!
Ummm Balls forgot to put his tips in!
So embarrassing…
Sybil Danning
One of the best B-movie mistress, dominatrix, evil leader, etc., etc. ever.
Fronk’s draft and another money one at the same time! I will just draft Jon Gruden in the 1st round.
Shrewd.
LOVE the Andy Sidaris movies!