For her birthday, my brother shared this photo of my mom and him from (I'm gonna guess) 1982-83. She looks like the bassist for a band you were not cool enough to see and which broke up before they got a major label deal.
Her and my dad when they got married in 1967. She was still 18. He was 23. I show them photos from this day when they're being lame and ask them what happened to these people.
Cat on the right, just this morning, had strong opinions about geese. Chick on the left, just this morning, told me that her big birthday plan was Dairy Queen. God love 'em.
Probably my favorite pic of my mom. And yeah, that's me. She was 100% over my shit as early as 1974 and has been over it ever since.
This is probably my favorite pic of both of my parents. That was my dad's boss' desk, BTW. The photo there was President Lyndon Johnson, and yes, my dad put his own Navy photo over it.
This was a weather station in McGrath, Alaska in 1968. My parents could only bring essentials and had to have supplies air-dropped in. Yet my dad brought an 11x14 photo of himself with him for pranks. Kinda tells ya how he rolls.
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So Ohtani's position is the "Ippei straight-up-stole money-from-me" scenario. Which puts the wire transfers at the forefront. The feds/forensic investigation can figure that out. If it's born out, Shohei is in the clear and Ippei is in tons of serious trouble.
If true, Ippei gave a 90-minute interview to ESPN of straight up lies, backed up by Ohtani's PR/crisis communications people, all while his agent stood by.
May be time for some personnel changes!
If this is NOT true, Ippei has every incentive to tell that to anyone who would listen to save his own skin. So, unlike the mess of the last week, we at least have clear battle lines drawn.
No holiday comes within ten miles of Thanksgiving.
The best weather for a major holiday. Chill pace which lends itself to a nice multi-hour buzz. A lotta great sports on TV. No gifts, no bullshit. What's not to like.
Anyone who says this hasn't had my turkey, which objectively owns.
I never watch football anymore but I like turning on the Lions game on Thanksgiving.
One of the best Thanksgivings ever involved my parents taking my brother and I to the Lions game -- they beat the Cliff Stoudt Steelers 45-3 in the Silverdome -- and then we had dinner at an aunt's house down near Detroit.
My brother had a Lynn Swan Steelers replica jersey. He didn't care much but he liked black and a lot of kids wore those then. He turned it inside out some point during the third quarter.
"Andor" Season 1 was absolutely amazing. But low-key the best part of it is just how readily Cassian is to straight up shoot a motherfucker with no warning because it simply makes sense to do it. Just cuts through all the usual bullshit in the best way.
He was already great in Rogue One, but the way they've made Andor such a hero while simultaneously making him a ruthless pragmatist takes it to the next level. Such a great character and so perfectly acted by Diego Luna.
Also: at some point we all need to have a serious talk about how much mid-season Andor looked like 1970s Paul McCartney. If they ever make a Wings-era McCarthney biopic, Luna is the only choice for the role.
Ever have a dream in which your brain tries to keep you from accessing information? The weirdest kind of anxiety dream. Had one last night.
I was certain, in the dream, that there was a ballplayer for the 1970s Orioles who kinda looked like Paul Newman and who, actually, had a minor acting career too. He hit 38 homers in 1975, that much I knew. So in the dream I kept trying to remember his name.
I went to my laptop to get on Baseball-Reference, but each time I tried to access Orioles team pages I'd get errors. I had a hard copy of some Total Baseball-style book, but the relevant pages were ripped out.
A lot of people have pinged me this week re: the This American Life stuff about Ohio gerrymandering. It's jarring how eye-opening it is to everyone -- as it should be! -- but how it's no longer news in Ohio. Republican lawlessness is simply a fact of life here now.
Not hyperbole. If you're unaware, over 70% of the population passed an anti-gerrymandering amendment. The GOP ignored it and gerrymandered severely. A GOP Supreme Court struck it down multiple times. The GOP imposed it anyway, daring someone to stop them. No one did.
It is 100% fact that, in Ohio, the Republican Party can do whatever it wants and no court can stop it. If it tries, as it has, the GOP will simply ignore the law. You cannot vote your way out of that. It's literally impossible.