I know from the afternoon thread, and the early part of the evening one, that some people were hyped for the Kentucky Derby.
I was gardening at the time, so I missed all the fun & betting. HAIL GAMBLOR!
But I saw the replay on the news, and a four-way run to the line seemed like something pretty exciting. But those weren’t the only show ponies on display. Aaron Rodgers showed up, looking every bit the kid who spent his gap year in Europe after finishing the part-time job his dad got him,
Does that badge say Turd Ferguson??? pic.twitter.com/6xaEiC5pth
— PFF (@PFF) May 1, 2021
if he actually showed interest in his father. Tom Brady made his usual appearance
Looks like some Toons are gonna get dipped. https://t.co/dC1MPh9mxH
— Gerry Duggan (@GerryDuggan) May 2, 2021
but he’s no fun unless he’s dragging along a drunken/concussed Gronk or Welker. So – it seemed like kind of a wash.
However, I’m proud to say I joined the ranks of the recently jabbed. As a teacher, I finally got my well-deserved place at the head of the end of the government employees line. I’m not going to say I was sceptical of the process or the vaccine, but I sure wasn’t going to be first. I just wanted to see if anyone turned into a zombie.
I was supposed to get an Astra-Zeneca, but instead got a Pfizer because I was late in the day & they had spares sitting out. Twenty-four hours later, aside from the feeling someone hit my arm with a bat I feel pretty good. I’m hoping that the eventual second dose – in four months, because the Canadian rollout is a clown show – will be about as painful with no other effects.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- no evening game scheduled
- NBA:
- Trail Blazers vs. Celtics – 7:30pm | TSN4
- Toronto vs LA Lakers – 10:00pm | NBATV / Sportsnet
- MLB:
- NY Mets at Philadelphia – 7:00pm | ESPN / TSN3
- NCAA:
- Football:
- North Dakota at James Madison – 6:00pm | ESPN2
- So. Illinois at South Dakota St. – 9:00pm | ESPN2
- Football:
- Futbol:
- MLS:
- LA Galaxy at Seattle – 9:00pm | FS1
- Whitecaps FC vs. Colorado – 10:00pm | TSN
- Liga MX:
- Pumas UNAM vs América – 10:00pm | TUDN
- MLS:
Alright, folks – get to the commentin’!
I just watched an episode of a show called Classic Albums that focussed on Beach Boys album Pet Sounds. What a fucking incredible album. Half the time I was in tears listening to that beautiful music. Sometimes I drink too much.
I love that one too. Nothing sounds like it.
San Pedro, early this morning
This is a Ford Model 48 with a flathead V-8 but the body contours have been extensively modified so it’s hard to tell what year it is (probably 1935 base)
That’s cool.
Do you guys realize that this summer is going to be one of the greatest international sports summers in history?
EURO 2020
Copa América
Concacaf Gold Cup
Olympic Games
I always watch the Olympics, but the rahrah USA coverage is gross.
NBC’s 2016 Olympics coverage – I wouldn’t call it ‘good’, but it was better that 2012 and 2008. The actually covered a sport or two, instead of three hours of human interest stories. Granted, we (I pay taxes so I can say ‘we’, right?) had some gold medal-quality gymnasts and swimmers for NBC to cover, so they didn’t have to fall back on the story of some Greco-Roman wrestler who overcame plantar warts and erysipelas to compete.
You can remember that? I am impressed! I can’t even remember where the 2016 games were held. 2012 London, I do remember.
Erysipelas, yikes! They deserve a medal, but I don’t want to see them. Unclean!
I loathe the human interest stories.
I just want to see competition, live and featuring countries other than the US. Is that so hard?
I just won an eBay auction for a Sony RX100-5A camera.
Minimum bid was $425 (a very good price) and there was only 1 bid for $425. So I got set to swoop in at the last five seconds with a $435 bid and a $450 max. So I did, right at five seconds.
The auction ended, and I discovered that the first bidder was me. I swooped in and tried to outbid myself. Fortunately eBay accepted the $425 bid.
I guess the important question is did you buy it from yourself?
It was a good deal!
Was someone talking about soup down below?
Recently re-installed Microsoft Flight simulator. I forgot how much fun pretending to travel can be
Flying a real Cessna, even on your very first intro lesson, is much easier than home computer flight simulators.
Last flight sim I was into was Lucas’s Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, 30 years ago, Man that was cool, but looking at what’s available now, it would be like having an Etch-a-Sketch or a Spirograph.
So you’re saying that my victories at Blue Max, after my Commodore 64 finished loading the cassette, wouldn’t translate to modern systems?
You might be able to fly a manned lunar mission with that software?
I came within a hair of buying Red Baron 3D from Good Old Games, but I decided I really didn’t want to make my eyes bleed.
While the goals weren’t overly ambitious I’m still happy to report that I accomplished everything I set out to do this weekend.
Small victories.
Sometimes just sticking to the plan is the plan. Well done.
Me too, but mine were eating and drinking.
I set no goals aside from going to the grocery/pharmacy. All thumbs up.
Stumbled across a 4-episode travelogue up the Nile from Alexandria, apparently to the sources of both Blue and White Niles, on Amazon Prime. Hosted by Joanna Lumley, one-time Bond Girl (OHMSS) and big time TV and movie star over the last 50 years (mostly in Britain). Just starting episode 2. Man, even at her age that is one attractive woman. And she’s pretty funny too.
I think she’s best known for Absolutely Fabulous, on which she was delightful.
Despite my being absolutely fabulous, no one has described me as either “known” or “delightful”.
While I don’t know you I find you delightful.
He’s a peach!
Well, that was on for 20 years, so that figures. Guess I’ll have to find that on some BBC channel…
Ha! Gives me some perspective on a scene from the first episode I watched this evening, when she was filming a scene on a riverboat with a big old Brit woman and they were drinking clear fluid out of a glass and joking about how it was water and not vodka they were drinking.
I give you Santos’ Laguna mascot.
That’s right. They’re the Guerreros / Warriors.
I dislike this team immensely. This game is tight.
Given the mascot, is this another team belonging to Snyder?
Hey! That guy is Italian!
—Dude on the Sopranos.
Clam chowder: New England, Manhattan, or Rhode Island?
WHO YA GOT?
New England: full cream broth
Rhode Island: half cream half broth
Manhattan: full tomato broth
Long Island: half New England half Manhattan
Carolina: full broth no cream
Charleston: Rhode Island style plus crab meat
all made with local clams
Hmm, all the Rhode Island I’ve seen has been full broth, no cream — what you’re calling Carolina. That’s what I made today.
Anyway, I think I go clear, New England, with Manhattan a very distant third.
Tomato broth? That’s like chili with fucking beans. Fuck that.
What is it with Texas and beans in chili?
Beans are fine, and properly served 5-way Cincinnati chili (not those Skyline cheese monstrosity pictures) is really good.
Remember, Texas thinks Ted Cruz is a good senator.
Not all of Texas think Cruz is worth a fuck. Just a slight majority. And they really don’t care for him, he just got a R instead of a D behind his name, which is all that’s required for the morons down here.
The beans/no-beans is a genetic thing, like back in the day when you were Chevy or Ford or Mopar, and nothing could move you from that.
New England.
Flawless victory.
grumblegrumblegoddamrightandyourmomagreesgrumblegrumble.
New England. All day.
Only about two more hours before RIB ROAST time! This afternoon I had chili with chili cheese fritos and it was divine.
Dave Matthews Band has released 40+ live albums??? Are they the new Grateful Dead?
And they’re all identical.
They just change the order that the tracks play between albums.
They might be in that superfans of both bands make me stabby.
Phish fans nod.
Amateurs.
—Jimi Hendrix (posthumously)
One of my first albums was Hendrix Band of Gypsys, back about ’70. Who Knows and Machine Gun FTW.
That band of gypsies show was fucking amazing. Best track IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGsjU3EV2OE
A SMSgt that worked for my dad gave me that album as a Christmas present Dec 1970. I guess he was kissing my dad’s ass. I think my dad made it so the guy made CMSgt, so I guess it worked. I loved that record. I think it’s still in the record stand I’m looking at right now across the room.
I definitely had the tapes and later the double CD. It is so good from start to finish.
Odd thing is the album was recorded from 4 shows over two nights around New Years 1970. The original album only contained tracks from the two second-night shows, 3 bonus tracks from the CD re-release in 1991 include one from the first show of the first night and two more from the first show of the second night. Man, the drugs must have been good back then.
Wow, I actually knew that. I am not as burnt out as I thought.
If you are using the info that I provided as a bellwether for your burnt-outedness, you might think heavily about that.
I missed The Derby, too, did Wes Welker run this year?
Race-day scratch due to concussion.
John Elway disqualified for excessive blood alcohol.
Tiz Mrs GOD’S birthday today, so currently on the couch in a food coma full of cake and beer. Cake is a banana chocolate marble cake from a local bakery. Sooooo good
Re-watching Our Man in Japan this weekend. Still looking for the Balls title card.
There it is!!! Sumo wrestling university! That guide Yujiro needs to have his own show here in the states.
Nice!
It’s pinot grigio appreciation time. Fun meal today. Chances of hearing about it in a few weeks? 100%.
Gringo appreciation time in TJ is very different.
Gringo appreciation time in TJ is very different.
—Don Winslow
My mouth still hurts from my wisdom tooth removal.
Me too, and I had mine pulled at the Navy Hospital in Yokosuka Japan in 1983.
I’ll just kill myself if this is what’s on the horizon.
The pain only returns when I think of it. So, I mostly don’t think of it. I’ve gone through a lot more painful procedures in the ensuing 4 decades.
Weirdest thing for me was the way the holes at the back of your jaw where the teeth were would fill up with mush/kernel shells when you ate popcorn. This must have gone on for a year or more till the holes filled in with living flesh. Gross.
Fuck that. Get me a noose.
You’re young, this will pass (I was kind of exaggerating, except the part about the hamster-like chewed popcorn storage pouches). Hopefully you’ll live long enough to experience the joys of cataract surgery, angiograms, endoscopies, colonoscopies yadda yadda yadda I can’t remember it all.
I feel ya. After years of pain free dental living, in the past 3 years I’ve had 5 crowns, 2 filling replacements, and a root canal. What fun.
Underrated tip: tea bags in the mouth
Not a euphemism for once.
Truth.
Pre- or post-surgery? Is this a preventative thing?
Post. Helps the healing.
Like any type of tea? What’s the reason for this?
Full mouth means less complaining. Just passing along what my priest said.
Before he fed you the eucharistic confession cracker, or before he fed you something else? Important to know.
—Josh Duggar
Maybe Brady is working on becoming Roger Stone’s understudy.