They are talking about bringing Kershaw back in game five, I think that means they will consider using him for game 7 for at least some innings. I remember the Dodgers pitching the hell of out Orel Hersheiser in a world series — and he was fabulous– but he came to spring traing with a sore arm and was never the same. I hope the same does not happen to Kershaw.
No. Especially not a 28 year old who is going to have some very good years in front of him.
Well, on the plus side (so to speak), if they burn him, the Mets will be more than happy to pick him up.
Actually, that’s the Mets of 10-plus years ago, picking up a former-great for top Yankee dollah. (No, not “Yankees.”) They seem to be doing a little better these days, although they do seem to be going through good pitchers at an abnormally high burn rate.
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Gemina13
C’mon, Cubs. Your owners are assholes; don’t follow in their footsteps.
Heh, none of that happened. I grew up in a family with a grandfather who was a Presbyterian minister (although an atheist); he and all the other men in the family disappeared through death or divorce within about an 18 month period (1946-47); and it ended up being a household consisting of a recently-widowed great-grandmother, a recently-widowed grandmother, a recently-divorced mother and aunt, and us five little kids. We owned a bookstore. The only military guy in the family (my uncle, who was at Pearl when it was attacked) might have taught us some salty language, but he and my aunt had split by the time I turned four.
Nice reference. That Andrews Sisters 45 was one of three non-polka tunes on the jukebox at a tavern we sometimes haunted in NE Pennsylvania back in the 70s.
One of my greatest pleasures — not shameful enough to be a “guilty pleasure” — is listening to the ’40s channel on Sirius XM in the car. Lots of WWII hits, ranging from quirky and funny (The Hut-Sut Song, e.g.) to the great sexy romantic big band numbers, and everything in between. I adore that era of pop culture, if it weren’t for all the, you know, death and destruction that was going on.
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raven
@redshirt: I didn’t even know it until a couple of days ago.
37.
Baud
@redshirt: I wish you hadn’t told me. I was rooting for the Cubs.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Another fan of 40s popular music. Also too, 30s and 20s.
40.
PsiFighter37
Why did the DSCC just got bait in FL? Murphy’s within MoE…no love for him, but taking out Rubio is icing on the cake. Surprised that they would rather spend in NC and MO…
Yeah, unfortunately I’ve known that for a while. But I pretty much assume that anyone rich enough to own a sports team probably has wingnutty tendencies to begin with. (I really regret that Ted Turner lost ownership of the Braves. He’s crazy, but he’s our kind of crazy, and I like to think that a lot of the bad stuff in recent years wouldn’t have happened if Ted were still in charge of the pursestrings.)
@JMG: One of the worst fist fights I’ve ever seen was after a Phillies game. This was when I was living in Elkins Park. We were leaving the game and two guys in the parking lot got into it because one was wearing a regular red Phillies cap and the other was wearing the special, green St. Patrick’s Day Phillies cap. We were not there on St. Patricks Day. So the former decided to go after the later because he’d violated Phillies cap protocol.
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: Sure, the odds that some rich team owner will be some Conservative asshole is pretty high. But there are exceptions – Mark Cuban seems pretty cool. But I’ll even take old school rich Republican asshole who’s not a total nutjob over the Cubs ownership.
For instance, the Patriots owner Bob Kraft as been known to pal around with Trump before he ran for President. I don’t like it. But since he’s run for President, he’s had nothing to do with him, even if he is a secret supporter.
Just be smart about it is all I ask, I guess.
51.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: I was at a Steelers-Raiders playoff game in the Coliseum in 85. Some dumbass Steeler fan was wearing a Bradshaw jersey and one of those hats with a fuck you hand on the bill. I don’t think he died but they did the three minute motherfucker oh his ass.
Used to know a passel of Quaker families who lived in either Elkins Park or Wissahickon.
57.
JMG
@redshirt: Kraft has also been a big Democratic donor. Don’t mistake pal around photos for real support. Kraft’s late wife Myra was a super big Mass Democrat, and they were a real loving couple.
@redshirt: These are professional sports franchises. Why did you expect them to be owned by normal people?
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NotMax
Caption is “fivethrityeight. com Senior Political Writer” for guy appearing on Maddow’s show right now.
Who looks to be 16 or17.
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: She is sure stylin’! Like WaterGirl, I’m very impressed with how well she accessorizes to complete the ensemble. Mrs. raven is a gifted stylist.
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WaterGirl
@raven: I loved the blog article and the photos (130 or so) but I was too late to the threads to say anything. I am blown away by what a success that was, your bride and everyone who put it together must have been over the moon. Probably still are! And raising 4,000? That’s amazing!
All she was missing was a couple of tiny stuffed Corgis at her feet.
;)
65.
raven
@WaterGirl: We just came from the wrap-up pot luck (she made me go). They actually raised closed to $5k. She was great and being at the wrap up confirmed that it wasn’t for me.
@raven: Everybody has their passions, this just wasn’t yours. Or maybe nothing in common with the organizers? (the ones that weren’t your wife, of course!)
But it looked like the event was a ton of fun, wish I could have gone.
72.
ThresherK (GPad)
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: I feasted on WNEW-AM 1130 in New York when it was the only proprietor around of that music. Except for indie efforts, varying greatly, there’s little left on terrestrial radio like that.
I’m not ready to ante up for Sirius, but the 1920s Radio Network is up that alley.
He’s gonna get home kind of late for a school night.
74.
Lizzy L
@Adam L Silverman: Ed DeBartolo Jr, who owned the 49s franchise for nearly 3 decades, treated the players with respect and was beloved by players and fans. He was not a normal person — no one whose net worth is measured in billions is a normal person — but he was close.
Another fan of 40s popular music. Also too, 30s and 20s.
Me too. That entire interwar period in Britain and the US just fascinates me. Literature, social change, music and films and women’s rights, the changing status of the working man, fashion, technology…. Just a mesmerising period.
If you’ve never read it, I highly recommend Robert Graves’ and Alan Hodge’s The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939. And then, if you’re a Dorothy L. Sayers fan (which I seem to recall you are), follow it up with Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey, by Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis.
@Adam L Silverman: Rich people don’t have to be Wingnuts. Sure, they can be conservative for FYIGM reasons, but actively engaging in the madness is a different ballgame. I have no idea of the politics of Red Sox owner John Henry for example. He’s super rich and I assume a Repuke, but I never hear about it. There’s a difference.
78.
raven
@WaterGirl: I had my fill of community events. We used to have what was called the C-U Parks Classic. It was a 10k that started in front of the stadium and, before they fucking ruined it and took out the track and grass, ended inside. We had 5,000 runners and 147 intersections in the Twin Cities. Like the dog parade it was a year long planning process. When you are in Parks and Rec you do that shit all the time. I did mine.
79.
WaterGirl
I’m still kind of crushing on this little one from a link or a BJ post earlier this week.
edit: she really knows how to accessorize, who knew a sock could look that good?
I attended a game at Wrigley once, back in 1990. The devotion of Cubs fans is something to see. They’ve been waiting so damn long, have been on the verge so many times, and disappointed, my heart goes out to them. I hope the Mariners do not think of them as role models, even though both teams both won 116 games in a single season.
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WaterGirl
@raven: Cute kitty with dead chipmunk, now that’s not a combination I would have thought of pairing together. Link?
89.
raven
@WaterGirl: I went, put out all the recycling containers, carried tables, picked all the stuff up and walked the dogs. I just am not interested in the interaction it requires to put the thing together. The princess is great at it.
90.
Schlemazel
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch:
I love big band swing. My folks got a box set of Glenn Miller sometime in the late 40s and I wore those records out as a kid. That led to Arti Shaw, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and many many others. The best is just fun to listen to, I have a bunch on the iPod.
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Villago Delenda Est
@redshirt: Knows better than to deliberately offend potential paying customers. Unlike a guy with a hotel chain that is in the process of going bankrupt.
Oh please. We’re talking about sportsfansmanshipdomhood here. There’s no “being smart” in sportsfansmanshipdomhood. FFS.
93.
WaterGirl
@raven: I probably wouldn’t be able to tolerate all the meetings it would take to pull that together. I had more than enough meetings when I worked at the university.
I do a lot of long-haul driving, and the swing and big band music of the 30s-40s is the best road trip music you can imagine.
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ThresherK (GPad)
@NotMax: I don’t Roku ( or even Netflix or Hulu for the TV so every year at Emmy time it’s like looking thru a pastry shop window). But I’ll keep that in mind, thanks.
@redshirt: not quite pure. one of the Ricketts is a lesbian and a big Hillary supporter. in fact, she wore a Hillary ball cap to one of the first playoff games.
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: That’s cool! I (we) are invited to a Halloween party, and I’ve wanted to be the Notorious RBG since I saw someone in Cleveland do it last year. I can get big glasses and a lace collar and borrow a spare robe from one of my judge buddies. But when I told the guy who invited us, he said “who?” and that’s when I knew a bunch of 25-35 year olds were not going to get it. So I need to see who’s having a dealio with people who will! I imagine I’ll find one at either the of the upcoming juvie court CLE or non-profit MH advocacy coalition meeting.
My own mix tapes are eclectic and idiosyncratic, to say the least. Lots of Gilbert and Sullivan, a ton of classical music (mainly, but not exclusively, 19th-century orchestral and chamber music), some pre-1965 Broadway musicals, traditional folk songs, jazz and pop standards from the 1920s-60s, including the bulk of the Great American Song Book, and a lot of British regimental marches, just because I like the tunes.
Yes, absolutely to both! There’s an album’s worth of Joplin rags and much of “Treemonisha,” which breaks my heart every time I hear it. And I adore Gottschalk, and yes, he is well represented. As is Ives. And as is Delius, another underappreciated composer.
Another I neglected to mention is Alan Hovhaness. I never tire of listening to him, even though there’s always a whiff of “Ah, Hovhaness has composed a new title” about his works. But I love him, love his orchestration and that Scottish-Armenian fusion.
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ThresherK (GPad)
@NotMax: Oh, Coleman and Comden and Green were on fire for that show. But it was something of the good old school of musical comedy, wasn’t it? Certainly loads of fun, but not mindless, pre-Oklahoma plotlessness.
Yup. Pulled out all the stops, but with style and panache.
Was fortunate to have seen it on stage before Madeline Kahn left early in the run. Not that her replacement was in any sense inferior, but Madeline Kahn.
Turina and Satie are both great in smallish doses or as palate-cleansers. They get a bit tiresome when unrelieved for more than 20-30 minutes at a whack, especially Satie.
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Steve in the ATL
@redshirt: Bob Kraft has Rush Limbaugh in his luxury box. Fuck that guy.
When one lives way, way out in the boonies, the choices are somewhat limited.
Also too, 10¢ draft beer.
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Steve in the ATL
@NotMax: Ok that’s cool. I retract my earlier comment.
Cheapest beer I ever had was 25¢ at the Memphis Chicks stadium watching, among others, Tim Raines and Bo Jackson playing AA ball. Good times! That awful stadium organ music, but no polka.
Well, how about their greedhead ownership fixing it so only 40% of the fan base in LA can see their games on TV? Or the last time Hubby Dearest and I went to Dodger Stadium and paid forty-five freakin’ dollars for 2 hot dogs, 2 fries, and 2 soft drinks? Or the fact that now that Vinny’s retired, we only have Charley Steiner and Rick Monday to listen to? (To be fair, Steiner isn’t too bad, but Monday is a total idiot). Also what Steve at 124 said about Chavez Ravine.
@Villago Delenda Est: And ironically, neither of them won the World Series in the seasons in which they won 116 games. To be fair to the hated Cubbies, their 116 win season was more impressive, because they did it in 10 fewer games than the M’s.
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redshirt
I heard on the radio today the Cubs are going to choke because they can’t hit lefties. Confirm/deny.
raven
Go Cubbies!!
Gravenstone
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo
Please. I love ya Betty, but your endorsements appear to be the kiss of death here.
JMG
It’s a great graphic. That is all. I’m a Phillies fan. We’re taught from birth to hate all other teams. No sentimental favorites for us.
janelle
Cuck the Fubs
Signed,
-A lifelong fan of the 11-time World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals
raven
@janelle: eat shit and die motherfucker
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
cubbiescubbiescubbiescubbiescubbiescubbiescubbiescubbiescubbies
ohplsohplsohplsohplsohplsohplsohplsohplsohpls
Feebog
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@raven:
Cosign. Jesus fuck, I wish I had your way with words.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: Years of practice.
patrick II
They are talking about bringing Kershaw back in game five, I think that means they will consider using him for game 7 for at least some innings. I remember the Dodgers pitching the hell of out Orel Hersheiser in a world series — and he was fabulous– but he came to spring traing with a sore arm and was never the same. I hope the same does not happen to Kershaw.
redshirt
@patrick II: Would you burn your ace for a World Series title?
patrick II
@redshirt:
No. Especially not a 28 year old who is going to have some very good years in front of him.
lamh36
Since we talking sports…new documentary…
@usainbolt
Excited to share the trailer for @IAmBoltFilm, coming to cinemas everywhere November 28 #IAMBOLT
Love him or hate him, there’ll never be another like him.
And his middle name is St Leo…how cool is that.?
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@raven:
I’m older than you, but I came later to invective.
redshirt
@patrick II: Isn’t that what aces are for? To win the WS? Isn’t the point of everything?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@janelle:
Brutal.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: You needed to grow up in a Navy family, spend 3 years in the US Army and 25 years on the basketball court.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
My mom was a life-long Cubs fan. I grew up in SoCal… Can I root for the guys in the blue and white unis and leave it at that?
SFAW
@patrick II:
Well, on the plus side (so to speak), if they burn him, the Mets will be more than happy to pick him up.
Actually, that’s the Mets of 10-plus years ago, picking up a former-great for top Yankee dollah. (No, not “Yankees.”) They seem to be doing a little better these days, although they do seem to be going through good pitchers at an abnormally high burn rate.
Gemina13
C’mon, Cubs. Your owners are assholes; don’t follow in their footsteps.
SFAW
@janelle:
Doubtless they’ll be meeting the 27-time World Series Champion Yankees this year.
raven
Check out this NYT article about surfing in Norway!
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@raven:
Heh, none of that happened. I grew up in a family with a grandfather who was a Presbyterian minister (although an atheist); he and all the other men in the family disappeared through death or divorce within about an 18 month period (1946-47); and it ended up being a household consisting of a recently-widowed great-grandmother, a recently-widowed grandmother, a recently-divorced mother and aunt, and us five little kids. We owned a bookstore. The only military guy in the family (my uncle, who was at Pearl when it was attacked) might have taught us some salty language, but he and my aunt had split by the time I turned four.
(Edited to delete an extraneous parenthesis.)
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch:
I’m younger than you, but I give a Remedial course in Invective. If you’d like, you can audit it, i.e., free of charge.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch:
Open the door and
lie on the floor
I’m Barnacle Bill the sailor!!!
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@SFAW:
Rum and Coca-Cola.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@raven:
“Who’s that knocking at my door?” cried the fair young maiden.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@SFAW:
Senior discount? Fuck, I’m in!
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
Nice reference. That Andrews Sisters 45 was one of three non-polka tunes on the jukebox at a tavern we sometimes haunted in NE Pennsylvania back in the 70s.
NotMax
@raven
Aboard the ship named Venus…
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Nice article. Beautiful photos.
Mary G
Vin Scully wouldn’t approve that head-first slide.
redshirt
Since I learned the Cubs ownership is Pure Billionaire Wingnut, I must say my fondness for the team has faded considerably.
Someone tell me something bad about the Dodgers.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@NotMax:
One of my greatest pleasures — not shameful enough to be a “guilty pleasure” — is listening to the ’40s channel on Sirius XM in the car. Lots of WWII hits, ranging from quirky and funny (The Hut-Sut Song, e.g.) to the great sexy romantic big band numbers, and everything in between. I adore that era of pop culture, if it weren’t for all the, you know, death and destruction that was going on.
raven
@redshirt: I didn’t even know it until a couple of days ago.
Baud
@redshirt: I wish you hadn’t told me. I was rooting for the Cubs.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@raven:
Very cool!
Literally.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Another fan of 40s popular music. Also too, 30s and 20s.
PsiFighter37
Why did the DSCC just got bait in FL? Murphy’s within MoE…no love for him, but taking out Rubio is icing on the cake. Surprised that they would rather spend in NC and MO…
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@redshirt:
Yeah, unfortunately I’ve known that for a while. But I pretty much assume that anyone rich enough to own a sports team probably has wingnutty tendencies to begin with. (I really regret that Ted Turner lost ownership of the Braves. He’s crazy, but he’s our kind of crazy, and I like to think that a lot of the bad stuff in recent years wouldn’t have happened if Ted were still in charge of the pursestrings.)
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: .175 against lefties.
NotMax
@redshirt
The abandoned Brooklyn, da bums.
redshirt
@NotMax: Heh. Still burns.
raven
Someone sent me a pic of my Lil Bit.
mellowjohn
of course. let’s make cub fans even more insufferable than they already are.
redshirt
@raven: I wish I didn’t know, but not really.
Still sucks though.
Adam L Silverman
@JMG: One of the worst fist fights I’ve ever seen was after a Phillies game. This was when I was living in Elkins Park. We were leaving the game and two guys in the parking lot got into it because one was wearing a regular red Phillies cap and the other was wearing the special, green St. Patrick’s Day Phillies cap. We were not there on St. Patricks Day. So the former decided to go after the later because he’d violated Phillies cap protocol.
Baud
@raven: Great pic!
redshirt
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: Sure, the odds that some rich team owner will be some Conservative asshole is pretty high. But there are exceptions – Mark Cuban seems pretty cool. But I’ll even take old school rich Republican asshole who’s not a total nutjob over the Cubs ownership.
For instance, the Patriots owner Bob Kraft as been known to pal around with Trump before he ran for President. I don’t like it. But since he’s run for President, he’s had nothing to do with him, even if he is a secret supporter.
Just be smart about it is all I ask, I guess.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: I was at a Steelers-Raiders playoff game in the Coliseum in 85. Some dumbass Steeler fan was wearing a Bradshaw jersey and one of those hats with a fuck you hand on the bill. I don’t think he died but they did the three minute motherfucker oh his ass.
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37: That’s disappointing news.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Steelers ownership is pretty cool*.
*Spits!
WaterGirl
@raven: The pearls are a nice touch! Cockers really know how to accessorize.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: And the Dodgers have a lot of quality lefties.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Used to know a passel of Quaker families who lived in either Elkins Park or Wissahickon.
JMG
@redshirt: Kraft has also been a big Democratic donor. Don’t mistake pal around photos for real support. Kraft’s late wife Myra was a super big Mass Democrat, and they were a real loving couple.
raven
@WaterGirl: And her cape and crown!
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: These are professional sports franchises. Why did you expect them to be owned by normal people?
NotMax
Caption is “fivethrityeight. com Senior Political Writer” for guy appearing on Maddow’s show right now.
Who looks to be 16 or17.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: She is sure stylin’! Like WaterGirl, I’m very impressed with how well she accessorizes to complete the ensemble. Mrs. raven is a gifted stylist.
WaterGirl
@raven: I loved the blog article and the photos (130 or so) but I was too late to the threads to say anything. I am blown away by what a success that was, your bride and everyone who put it together must have been over the moon. Probably still are! And raising 4,000? That’s amazing!
WaterGirl
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Accessories make the outfit, am I right?
(Of course, I learned that phrase, but I am so not a stylish dresser.)
NotMax
@raven
All she was missing was a couple of tiny stuffed Corgis at her feet.
;)
raven
@WaterGirl: We just came from the wrap-up pot luck (she made me go). They actually raised closed to $5k. She was great and being at the wrap up confirmed that it wasn’t for me.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: Good times!
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Oh yea, she loves this stuff. This is next
The Wild Rumpus is an annual Halloween Event in Athens, GA… a small city known worldwide for it’s music, art, and creative energy. All are invited to be a part of the Wild Rumpus Parade by showing up in costume and romping through the streets of downtown with thousands of other Wild Things… shouting at the sky, pounding drums, and howling by the light of the Moon in the dark night!!!
prob50
Family moved here to LA in 1959 when I was 9. Bums won WS that year. Been a Dodger fan ever since. 1-0 in 4th, Go Dodgers!
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: That’s probably Enten. Got black hair?
raven
@prob50: We moved to Whittier in 57.
WaterGirl
@raven: Everybody has their passions, this just wasn’t yours. Or maybe nothing in common with the organizers? (the ones that weren’t your wife, of course!)
But it looked like the event was a ton of fun, wish I could have gone.
ThresherK (GPad)
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: I feasted on WNEW-AM 1130 in New York when it was the only proprietor around of that music. Except for indie efforts, varying greatly, there’s little left on terrestrial radio like that.
I’m not ready to ante up for Sirius, but the 1920s Radio Network is up that alley.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Yuppers, That was the name.
He’s gonna get home kind of late for a school night.
Lizzy L
@Adam L Silverman: Ed DeBartolo Jr, who owned the 49s franchise for nearly 3 decades, treated the players with respect and was beloved by players and fans. He was not a normal person — no one whose net worth is measured in billions is a normal person — but he was close.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: He has a permission slip from his mom.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@NotMax:
Me too. That entire interwar period in Britain and the US just fascinates me. Literature, social change, music and films and women’s rights, the changing status of the working man, fashion, technology…. Just a mesmerising period.
If you’ve never read it, I highly recommend Robert Graves’ and Alan Hodge’s The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939. And then, if you’re a Dorothy L. Sayers fan (which I seem to recall you are), follow it up with Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey, by Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis.
(Edited to fix out-of-control italics.)
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: Rich people don’t have to be Wingnuts. Sure, they can be conservative for FYIGM reasons, but actively engaging in the madness is a different ballgame. I have no idea of the politics of Red Sox owner John Henry for example. He’s super rich and I assume a Repuke, but I never hear about it. There’s a difference.
raven
@WaterGirl: I had my fill of community events. We used to have what was called the C-U Parks Classic. It was a 10k that started in front of the stadium and, before they fucking ruined it and took out the track and grass, ended inside. We had 5,000 runners and 147 intersections in the Twin Cities. Like the dog parade it was a year long planning process. When you are in Parks and Rec you do that shit all the time. I did mine.
WaterGirl
I’m still kind of crushing on this little one from a link or a BJ post earlier this week.
edit: she really knows how to accessorize, who knew a sock could look that good?
NotMax
@ThresherK
No Sirius either. Do find many of the choices of channel on the free AccuRadio stream available through the Roku quite listenable.
JCJ
@redshirt: The owner of the Milwaukee Bucks used to be Senator Herb Kohl. The new owners are friends with Bill Clinton.
raven
@WaterGirl: I got a shot of the cute little kitty across the street in my yard with a dead chimpmunk. Awwwww.
WaterGirl
@raven: You’ve done your time, and now you are free! :-)
hovercraft
@NotMax:
Harry Enten
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Rruh-rroh… 3-0.
redshirt
@JCJ: See? It happens. Rarely, but it happens!
Liberals with money!
Villago Delenda Est
I attended a game at Wrigley once, back in 1990. The devotion of Cubs fans is something to see. They’ve been waiting so damn long, have been on the verge so many times, and disappointed, my heart goes out to them. I hope the Mariners do not think of them as role models, even though both teams both won 116 games in a single season.
WaterGirl
@raven: Cute kitty with dead chipmunk, now that’s not a combination I would have thought of pairing together. Link?
raven
@WaterGirl: I went, put out all the recycling containers, carried tables, picked all the stuff up and walked the dogs. I just am not interested in the interaction it requires to put the thing together. The princess is great at it.
Schlemazel
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch:
I love big band swing. My folks got a box set of Glenn Miller sometime in the late 40s and I wore those records out as a kid. That led to Arti Shaw, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and many many others. The best is just fun to listen to, I have a bunch on the iPod.
Villago Delenda Est
@redshirt: Knows better than to deliberately offend potential paying customers. Unlike a guy with a hotel chain that is in the process of going bankrupt.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@redshirt:
Oh please. We’re talking about sportsfansmanshipdomhood here. There’s no “being smart” in sportsfansmanshipdomhood. FFS.
WaterGirl
@raven: I probably wouldn’t be able to tolerate all the meetings it would take to pull that together. I had more than enough meetings when I worked at the university.
NotMax
@raven
Post-op recovery in full, then?
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@Schlemazel:
I do a lot of long-haul driving, and the swing and big band music of the 30s-40s is the best road trip music you can imagine.
ThresherK (GPad)
@NotMax: I don’t Roku ( or even Netflix or Hulu for the TV so every year at Emmy time it’s like looking thru a pastry shop window). But I’ll keep that in mind, thanks.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: Running on Empty by Jackson Browne used to be my favorite road trip album.
raven
@WaterGirl: I had my auto focus off so it’s not very good.
M. Bouffant
Current Dodger ownership:
No obvious baddies there, ‘though Patton looks like a Texas oil billionaire, which isn’t usually good.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@raven:
Oh no. Did the kitty invade the chipmonastery?
raven
@NotMax: Yea, I’m fine. Gearing up for 2 weeks surf fishing next month.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: Beats me.
Schlemazel
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch:
Yeah, we never listen to the radio on trips any more.
WaterGirl
@raven: Oh my gosh, I pictured the kitty quizzically looking at the chipmunk, but she’s taking that baby off somewhere to eat it, isn’t she?
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
Can certainly see that as being so.
Used to have two preferred cassettes for long drives.
For daytime: original cast album of “On the 20th Century.”
For nighttime: “Dark Side of the Moon.”
Adam L Silverman
@Lizzy L: Yep.
mellowjohn
@redshirt: not quite pure. one of the Ricketts is a lesbian and a big Hillary supporter. in fact, she wore a Hillary ball cap to one of the first playoff games.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: That’s cool! I (we) are invited to a Halloween party, and I’ve wanted to be the Notorious RBG since I saw someone in Cleveland do it last year. I can get big glasses and a lace collar and borrow a spare robe from one of my judge buddies. But when I told the guy who invited us, he said “who?” and that’s when I knew a bunch of 25-35 year olds were not going to get it. So I need to see who’s having a dealio with people who will! I imagine I’ll find one at either the of the upcoming juvie court CLE or non-profit MH advocacy coalition meeting.
Adam L Silverman
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Or the local Assisted Living Facility…
NotMax
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
If you were really in Idaho, more people would recognize someone costumed as Eva Braun.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@NotMax:
My own mix tapes are eclectic and idiosyncratic, to say the least. Lots of Gilbert and Sullivan, a ton of classical music (mainly, but not exclusively, 19th-century orchestral and chamber music), some pre-1965 Broadway musicals, traditional folk songs, jazz and pop standards from the 1920s-60s, including the bulk of the Great American Song Book, and a lot of British regimental marches, just because I like the tunes.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
Hope there’s a piece or two by Gottschalk among the 19th century mix. Underrated and rarely performed artist.
Joplin or other pre-20s ragtime?
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@NotMax:
Yes, absolutely to both! There’s an album’s worth of Joplin rags and much of “Treemonisha,” which breaks my heart every time I hear it. And I adore Gottschalk, and yes, he is well represented. As is Ives. And as is Delius, another underappreciated composer.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@NotMax:
Another I neglected to mention is Alan Hovhaness. I never tire of listening to him, even though there’s always a whiff of “Ah, Hovhaness has composed a new title” about his works. But I love him, love his orchestration and that Scottish-Armenian fusion.
ThresherK (GPad)
@NotMax: Oh, Coleman and Comden and Green were on fire for that show. But it was something of the good old school of musical comedy, wasn’t it? Certainly loads of fun, but not mindless, pre-Oklahoma plotlessness.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
IIRC, you also have a liking of Turina.
Not everyone’s cuppa; have an entire album of Satie on cassette which used to put in the car player as a change of pace.
NotMax
@ThresherK
Yup. Pulled out all the stops, but with style and panache.
Was fortunate to have seen it on stage before Madeline Kahn left early in the run. Not that her replacement was in any sense inferior, but Madeline Kahn.
Steve in the ATL
@NotMax:
Late to the thread, but why the fuck would you hang out a place like that???
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@efgoldman:
The “Florida Suite” is wonderful.
Steve in the ATL
@redshirt:
A lot of poor people of color were forcibly removed from Chavez Ravine so the Dodgers could build a stadium there
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@NotMax:
Turina and Satie are both great in smallish doses or as palate-cleansers. They get a bit tiresome when unrelieved for more than 20-30 minutes at a whack, especially Satie.
Steve in the ATL
@redshirt: Bob Kraft has Rush Limbaugh in his luxury box. Fuck that guy.
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
When one lives way, way out in the boonies, the choices are somewhat limited.
Also too, 10¢ draft beer.
Steve in the ATL
@NotMax: Ok that’s cool. I retract my earlier comment.
Cheapest beer I ever had was 25¢ at the Memphis Chicks stadium watching, among others, Tim Raines and Bo Jackson playing AA ball. Good times! That awful stadium organ music, but no polka.
ThresherK (GPad)
@NotMax: Wow.
Tehanu
@redshirt:
Well, how about their greedhead ownership fixing it so only 40% of the fan base in LA can see their games on TV? Or the last time Hubby Dearest and I went to Dodger Stadium and paid forty-five freakin’ dollars for 2 hot dogs, 2 fries, and 2 soft drinks? Or the fact that now that Vinny’s retired, we only have Charley Steiner and Rick Monday to listen to? (To be fair, Steiner isn’t too bad, but Monday is a total idiot). Also what Steve at 124 said about Chavez Ravine.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch:
Siriusly Sinatra is a good channel—not just Frank but also others doing the “great American songbook” genre.
janelle
@raven: Meow.
janelle
@Villago Delenda Est: And ironically, neither of them won the World Series in the seasons in which they won 116 games. To be fair to the hated Cubbies, their 116 win season was more impressive, because they did it in 10 fewer games than the M’s.