Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This is all too absurd to be reality, right?

Fuck if i know. i just get yelled at when i try it.

Something seems odd about that, but i have been drinking.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I’m only here for the duck photos.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

There’s some extremely good trouble headed their way.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Shock troops for the Unitarian Jihad.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Just a few bad apples.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

This blog goes to 11…

Shelter in place is one thing. Shelter in pants is quite another.

… makes me wish i had hoarded more linguine

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

I did not have this on my fuck 2020 bingo card.

This is how realignments happen…

Tick tock motherfuckers! Tick fucking tock!

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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It is Friday and I find myself with some free time between meetings. I also find myself not wanting to use it for work, or to discuss politics or disease. But you know what’s always nice? Music! What’s everybody been listening to lately?

I’ll start. I’ve been hitting the J-pop pretty hard. Here are a couple songs I’ve enjoyed lately, picked somewhat haphazardly.

Friendly reminder that this is a respite thread. Have at it!

(rescued from Tuesday, when I posted it immediately before the VP announcement…)

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  3. 3.

    laura

    Lots and lots and lots of John Prine. He was a beautiful songwriting singer and he was murdered by he who shan’t be named in the early days of the plague.

  4. 4.

    LuciaMia

    The t-shirt I got for my BIL’s birthday:
    “A day without music won’t kill me, but why risk it?”

  5. 5.

    Mary G

    Kamala’s debut has got me listening to Sly and the Family Stone, got Dance to the Music playing right now.

  6. 6.

    Gin & Tonic

    I’ve been listening to WBGO on-line while WFH here for a while now. Jazz station out of Newark.

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    Sports in the bubble, porous bubble edition. Kids, don’t try this at hometraining camp.

    The #Seahawks cut rookie CB Kemah Siverand this week after he was caught on video trying to sneak a female visitor into the team hotel, per sources.

    Clear message on the responsibility everyone has in the NFL’s COVID-19 world: Put the team at risk, suffer the consequences.

    The woman was wearing #Seahawks gear in an attempt to disguise her as a player, I’m told. It did not work.

  8. 8.

    Lyrebird

    Aleta posted that blue-footed booby dancing deliberately, that was great, and mrmoshpotato continued my mental-health-boosting doggerel, hooray.

    And thanks@Major Major Major Major  for the J Pop.

    I did some hopefully not too excessive retail therapy, because I found some softer masks that might be better for when I am running meetings in person.

    Not proud of myself on the public safety front. A neighbor of mine was at the same Target, she was on the phone, and she had her mask down. I did not know what to say, and I did not do anything to remind her. First time I have gone to the in-person store in a few months, maybe 80% of customers with their masks on right, but not 100%. Sigh.

  10. 10.

    Lyrebird

    @Mary G: Oh Dance to the Music is great!

    I have also been re-playing the clip of Kamala marching in step with the drum majors… now I can’t find it, I must have a word wrong.

     

    Best wishes to all Juicers!

  13. 13.

    MoxieM

    There’s a great article in the Boston Globe (no, really? really) about how and why the city no longer has an active underground scene that produces breakthrough bands. Of course it’s missing a bunch of stuff, but I think the analysis of factors is pretty good. Also, nostalgic for Rat denizens.  And Maxanne! Plus music snippets.  The article 

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Lyrebird: Oops.  Sorry. 😁

    I went to check the Shedd Aquarium’s twitter account for more otters or penguins on the loose, and well…

    Literally 🎶baby shark🎶

    Checking in with the baby bonnethead sharks behind the scenes! 🦈 It's easy to mistake bonnetheads for baby hammerheads, and for good reason—they are one of the smallest members of the hammerhead genus! pic.twitter.com/1YV2yjxi6A— Shedd Aquarium (@shedd_aquarium) August 13, 2020

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    When I was eight going on nine, my dad went on a month-long work trip to Japan. Among his souvenirs was a cassette tape with a couple of Japanese pop songs. One of the songs had a chorus that dwelt on “bru raito Yokohama”.  (Apparently, the blue lights of Yokohama harbour are famously romantic or melancholy or something.)

    This new stuff is way better.

  18. 18.

    les

    Blues. Electric guitar blues. Dion (remember him, fellow olds?) just released a blues album, each song with a different guitarist/accompaniment. Delightful.

  20. 20.

    piratedan

    well…. if you’re gonna play the J-Pop card, I’m gonna have to go for the block with Female Japanese Rockabilly Surf….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luV9HOmOAGc

    great story behind the band and their inclusion in the movie… Tarantino heard their song in a Japanese airport clothing store while scouting for locations for KB #1 and KB #2.  The guy in the store was a friend of the band, Tarantino offered him an outlandish sum to get the whole CD.  Reluctantly sold to him, Tarantino listens to the CD on the flight to Australia.  Upon landing calls the band’s manager for getting the band into his movie.  Rewrites the club scene to include the group as the house band, girls say cool, we got our own warddrobe, what do you want us to do… Tarantino says just play your set for the crew, we’ll run some scenes in the background and cut in what we want.

     

    rest is movie history

  21. 21.

    dmsilev

    An amusing read, about the challenges of designing the Biden/Harris logo without knowing the “Harris” part ahead of time:

    I can’t remember an election in which so much attention (and speculation) has surrounded the choice of a running mate, nor having such a large field of eminently qualified candidates to choose from. A consequential decision at an unpredictable time, conducted under absolute secrecy, poses an interesting dilemma to the typographer: how do you create a logo without knowing for certain what the words will say? Logos, after all, are meaningfully informed by the shapes of their letters, and a logo designed for an eisenhower will hardly work for a taft. The solution, naturally, involves the absurd application of brute force: you just design all the logos you can think of, based on whatever public information you can gather. Every credible suggestion spotted in an op-ed was added to the list that we designers maintained, and not once did the campaign even hint at a preference for one name over another.

    While the press debated the merits of the candidates’ backgrounds, my discussions concerned the shapes of their names.

  26. 26.

    Gravenstone

    Thought my reply to your previous posting to this was lost when you pulled it. Instead it appears simply to have vanished. So once more, gonna stan for a J-rock band I stumbled across a couple years ago, Band Maid.

    Here’s a selection from their live stuff.

    Play

    Freedom

    Onset (instrumental)

    I have been well and truly hooked. Hopefully a few of you will enjoy them as well.

  30. 30.

    The Moar You Know

    The guy playing the fretless bass in the Gen Hoshino vid is a monster.  That’s some tasty material he’s throwing down.

  34. 34.

    Kent

    So in a couple of days daughter #2 and I are heading out for a college visit road trip of some CA colleges.  Is that completely stupid?   Something we had been planning pre-pandemic.  But instead of doing the official tours which are all closed, just bring the iPad along and do our own DIY walking tours of closed campuses, not getting close to anyone.  We’ve done a couple of those already close to home.   Most campuses are shut down but you can still just walk around and explore on your own and get a feel for the place.  Frankly about as good of a feel as you can on the scripted tours they normally run all summer.  I figure if we stay outside and more than 6 ft away from anyone it is as safe as staying home and going to parks and walking the dog here at home.   I hate having everything about her senior year of HS ruined.

    Probably going to visit the four Catholic universities (USF, Santa Clara, LMU and SDU) as well as Occidental (Obama’s alma matter) and the Claremont Colleges.  She’s not really interested in Stanford or USC.  And we probably won’t look at any of the UC schools because they are ridiculously expensive for out of state students.  f she decides she wants the big flagship public university experience we have UW close to home at 1/2 the price.

    Any other schools we should look at while we are down there?  She’s a bright 4.0 student, politically woke, LGBT, Hispanic (at least on paper) and interested in *maybe* studying molecular biology and genetics as well as digital arts.

    Someone suggested to us Chapman but it seems sort of Trumpy.  I don’t know much about it.  She’s probably not that likely to go all the way to CA for school unless she decides she really can’t get what she wants here in the Northwest with the big publics (UW, UO, WSU, WWU) or the good privates (Lewis & Clark, Whitman, Reed, University of Puget Sound, Gonzaga).  Her top three schools right now are UW, University of Puget Sound, and Lewis & Clark.  She still hasn’t decided if she wants a big school big city experience at UW where she wants to do marching band and has lots of friends and family, or the small liberal arts college experience.

  36. 36.

    Kristine

    I watched the Go-Go’s documentary on Showtime a few days ago, and now I’m listening to them again. Also Black Keys, Patti Smith’s cover of Gimme Shelter on repeat, and other songs. Lately, it’s been individual songs more than artists.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    M4, you destroyed all the proof that it was Subaru Diane who first broke the news about the Kamala Harris VP pick on BJ.  She may have something to say about that!  :-)

  39. 39.

    UncleEbeneezer

    I still only know a tiny bit of the vast amount of J-Pop out there, but I really love this tune by Official Higa Dandism.  It has almost a Doobies funk feel.  And the dude can seriously sing!

  41. 41.

    dmsilev

    @Kent: Does she have even a rough sense as to what she wants to major in? For the smaller schools especially, that can help narrow things down since they don’t have the wide range of majors that a USC or Stanford can offer.

  44. 44.

    Lyrebird

    @mrmoshpotato: @Lyrebird: Oops.  Sorry. 😁

    Oh goodie!  Thanks for the baby shark.  And for the smile yesterday.

    Contemplated making a Fillet o’ Pence t shirt design, but didn’t that LGM writer get in all sorts of trouble talking in jest about heads on pikes?  Who knows, I do not wish Pence harm, I wish him removed from a position of harming us!

    Some debate humiliation along the way would be great.

  46. 46.

    Mike in NC

    I recently put on Anna Nalick’s debut CD “Wreck of the Day” (2005) and my wife was blown away by her voice. So I just got a later CD called “The Blackest Crow” (2019), which is covers of popular songs from the 1940s to the 1990s.

  50. 50.

    Kent

    @dmsilev:@Kent: Does she have even a rough sense as to what she wants to major in? For the smaller schools especially, that can help narrow things down since they don’t have the wide range of majors that a USC or Stanford can offer.

    She is interested in biology and especially molecular biology and genetics.  She thinks she could maybe become a geneticist.   She is NOT interested in a medical career.  My wife is a doctor and daughter wants no part of that life.  She sees the toll it takes on my wife.

    She is also interested in the whole field of digital arts and animation.  Maybe there is some sort of possibility of merging those two fields with something in 3-D molecular modeling and imaging, I don’t know.

    Having attended both a small liberal arts college and massive state school myself I honestly think she would be well served by a liberal arts college that gives her the flexibility to explore a lot of options before settling on a major.  She also wants to do study abroad, maybe for an extended period in Latin America.  She is a dual citizen (Chile and US) so she can go study anywhere in the Mercosur countries without needing visas or anything.    But she is a very self-reliant kid and will be just fine in pretty much any environment.

    She has mentioned that she is kind of weary of the competitive rat race required to get into the Ivies and places like Stanford and USC and thinks she would be happier at some place that is decent but not so full of hyper-competitive types.  She doesn’t even want to try getting into places like Stanford partly because she doesn’t really like the over-achiever types at her own HS who try for those places and get 60 different leadership things on their HS portfolios all for the sake of college admissions.   I honestly don’t blame her.

  53. 53.

    Westlake

    “I Will Spite Survive” by Deerhoof, which begins with the mysteriously optimistic line, “You could outlive your executioners”

  57. 57.

    Martin

    @Kent: Chapman is kind of Trumpy, but give it a tour while you are here. I would lean hard into the Claremont colleges. Harvey Mudd is  the best undergraduate engineering school in the country. I know that’s not her interest, but Claremont has some outstanding programs, and it’s a rather nice environment. I think 3 of the Claremont schools are ranked above Berkeley for undergraduate Bio.

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    @Kent:

    The kid ultimately decided against Cal for basically that reason. The pre-med track has a reputation of being brutally competitive in that not-beneficial sense. She can always change her mind and transfer in.

    Was hoping she’d say yes to UCSB or Cal Poly but they don’t have strong enough undergrad psychiatry programs. “But you’ll be on the ocean in a town you’ll never be able to afford later” did not carry the day. Unsaid was “But I want to visit you there!”

  60. 60.

    Kent

    @laura:@Kent: St Mary’s may be worth checking out along with Dominican.

    I’m not really familiar with either one.  What would they offer over the larger and better known west coast Catholic schools like Gonzaga, Santa Clara, or LMU?

    We are not a religious family but my wife’s entire clan in Chile is of Catholic heritage and my wife attended private Catholic schools and universities in Chile.  Grandma in Chile is the only one who is really religious anymore.   Daughter would be OK with attending a liberal Jesuit type west coast university if it was LGBT friendly and liberal.  And picking up a bit of that culture wouldn’t hurt her, as long as it wasn’t too oppressive, because it is part of her heritage.    I don’t think the Catholic schools are at the top of her list but we are at least looking at them.  They seem to fill sort of a niche on the west coast between the small liberal arts schools and the big publics.  Most are in the 5,000 student range so not too small or too big.  And not quite to ultra-competitive and affluent as USC and Stanford.

  61. 61.

    laura

    @Kent: Seriously – check out St Mary’s: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/

    Poet Laureate’s, economists, sciences and Oscar Winners cough Mahershala Ali cough.

    I’d had about a dozen St Mary’s alums in law school and they were deep and never missed a chance to brag on the intimate experience of small class sizes and intellectual rigor. In turn, they satisfied my need to be surrounded and challenged by seriously smart and engaged people unlike the Federalist society douche bros who went on to do the devil’s work such as Prop 8.

  64. 64.

    dmsilev

    @Kent: If she’s interested, I could give you an (appropriately distanced) tour of Caltech. I’m not a biologist, so for details of both curriculum and research, I’d have to just point you to the website, but certainly could show you around campus and talk generally about the place. It is a high-pressure environment though, so from what you say might not be what she wants.

  66. 66.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Kent:

    3-D molecular modeling and imaging, I don’t know.

    This was a *long* time ago, but I had a roommate who loved, *loved* organic chem, which nearly everyone hated and feared. He took to it like a duck to water, saying that he visualized everything. So there is definitely an imaging component.

    I took no chem or biology, so I could be talking out of my hat.

  67. 67.

    Kent

    @trollhattan: Where did she end up going then?

    Right now I think UW, Lewis & Clark, and University of Puget Sound are her top three choices, with Western Washington in Bellingham her safety school.  I would be utterly shocked if she didn’t get into both Lewis & Clark and University of Puget Sound but they may not offer merit aid and we won’t qualify for need-based aid.

    We will see if anything we see in CA upends those choices.  The Claremont Colleges and Occidental are very popular choices with the prep school set up here in the PNW for those who don’t send their kids to east coast schools like Swarthmore or Williams.   So we want to at least see them.  Scripps is intriguing to her as she isn’t into boys and it seems the least brutally competitive of the Claremonts.

  70. 70.

    Kent

    @laura: OK, we will.  It’s on the list.   It must not be very well known outside of CA because I haven’t heard of it before and I’m a HS teacher who has gone to a bazillion college fairs here in the WA and previously in TX.  And I don’t recall ever seeing St. Mary before.

  71. 71.

    Martin

    @trollhattan: Yeah, for Bio programs, it’s really important to get a sense of the degree to which it’s a premed program. LOTS of schools have bio programs that exist solely to get students to med school, and they suck. They suck to be in, and generally med schools don’t like them on top of that. But they work by sheer volume.

    I’d suggest Scripps, though. The bio courses are largely shared across the 5Cs but Scripps has the least competitive environment.

  74. 74.

    Barbara

    @trollhattan: I have been told that if you are serious about trying to get into medical school you should go to college where any math and science standardized scores put you in the top quartile of the student body.  Being able to stand out to faculty in your major will be more likely to net you the kinds of out of classroom experience that medical schools like to see — e.g., research assistant, etc.   Getting into Stanford is hard, an achievement in and of itself, but it’s hard to stand out given the nature of the competition.

  76. 76.

    laura

    @Kent: what it lacks in size is often what makes it just right. I understand that it really develops one to find the fullness within themselves and builds a firm ground for their area of interest. I’m glad that you’ll check it out and hope that you two enjoy this special time together. My dad would occasionally take me with him to classes at our JC – I miss him so much and would give the world for a road trip together.

  77. 77.

    Kent

    @dmsilev:@Kent: If she’s interested, I could give you an (appropriately distanced) tour of Caltech. I’m not a biologist, so for details of both curriculum and research, I’d have to just point you to the website, but certainly could show you around campus and talk generally about the place. It is a high-pressure environment though, so from what you say might not be what she wants.

    Thanks for the offer.   She is a giant Big Bang Theory fan so would be intrigued by CalTech but it’s not really on her list.  I think she is looking for a more well-rounded college experience rather than just intensive science and engineering.  She’s only moderately into biology and interested in a lot of other things as well.  Kind of needs a place to find herself rather than a pressure cooker.  Maybe a place where she has flexibility to come and go, spend some time studying down in Chile, and do the 5 year plan or something.  That’s also why my alma matter Reed is not higher on her list.  They are almost overly regimented about academics to the point that things like study abroad are difficult and have to be fit in with all their academic demands.

  78. 78.

    Mary G

    @Lyrebird: Here’s one of Kamala in Iowa, and if you Google her with “drumline”  you will probably find more.

    Watch @KamalaHarris dance to the stage with a drumline ahead of a campaign rally in Iowa pic.twitter.com/jcFklimRCW— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 4, 2019

    @Kent: I know at least three Republican ladies who want to make their grandkids go to Chapman because it’s a good wholesome Christian school with no socialists or hippies, so unless you want that, give it a pass.

  79. 79.

    Peale

    My musical playlist is retro these days.

    heres Seth Fedeline singing a Tagalog number that reminds me of the Beatles
    here’s Jaylerr and Paris singing a Thai R&B summer hit 

    and since we are limited to three here’s some more theatrical J-Pop from miyakawa taisei

  80. 80.

    dmsilev

    @Kent: Fair enough. It’s a great place to be if your interests align with what we have to offer. If not, then it’s a recipe for unhappiness.

    And sitcoms are great, but should not be taken as representative of reality…

  81. 81.

    Kent

    @Barbara:@trollhattan: I have been told that if you are serious about trying to get into medical school you should go to college where any math and science standardized scores put you in the top quartile of the student body.  Being able to stand out to faculty in your major will be more likely to net you the kinds of out of classroom experience that medical schools like to see — e.g., research assistant, etc.   Getting into Stanford is hard, an achievement in and of itself, but it’s hard to stand out given the nature of the competition.

    My understanding of med school admissions is that it is almost entirely based on GPA and MCATs.  They don’t dive deep into the nuances of your college experience because they are overwhelmed by numbers of applicants.

    The reason that places like Stanford and Harvard do so well in med school admissions is that they pre-select for students who have the most talent at standardized testing and maintaining high GPAs.   If your Ivy league undergrad bio department is full of students who scored 1550+ on their SATs they are much more likely to score high on the MCAT four years later than a random state school where the bio department is full of 1100-1200 SAT students.   Even if the actual undergrad science education is identical (which it isn’t).

    But yes, the extent to which the UW biology programs are tilted towards pre-med is a concern.  But they do have vast life science offerings and a huge amount of original research going on from virology to oceanography.  So I expect she could find her niche.

  82. 82.

    trollhattan

    @Kent:

    Co-ink-identally, she’s headed to the abovementioned St. Mary’s. (The California edition, turns out there is more than one.)

    It was not on the radar but they recruited her to run and their pitch and total package ultimately carried the day. They have a surprisingly broad psych program and lots of opportunities for internships and research at Bay Area med institutions.

    IIUC Gonzaga is their top competition in sportsball and for what it’s worth, Moraga is nicer than Spokane, if too damn close to the Hayward Fault. The campus “looks like California.”

  83. 83.

    Sab

    @Gin & Tonic: That is very interesting. My dad was pathologist and loved organic chemistry in college. My mother was a chemistry major who hated it. A lot of the pathologists’ kids I know are either artists or art historians.

  86. 86.

    trollhattan

    @Kent:

    Brown has an undergrad premed program that brings them straight into their med school w/ no MCAT needed, but they only accept a limited number of students and mine didn’t make the cut. [insert grumpy face here]. Among her senior friends, three were accepted to Ivies and not for lack of trying amongst the group. I tell myself that we’re saving a TON of money this year because club soccer and college apps are off budget. Then I remember the kid is going to college….

  87. 87.

    trollhattan

    @Sab:

    My bro went to MIT for chemistry and ended up concentrating in metals. IDK why and his attempts at ‘splaining it to me whoosh right over my noggin. His degree has served himself well as a programmer; he has been a professional chemist exactly zero days of his life. Ya just never know.

  92. 92.

    Gin & Tonic

    @trollhattan: One of my daughter’s good friends did that program. It’s 8 years, IIRC, undergrad and med school, but you know you’re in it when you’re a HS senior. I’m sure that saves a lot of angst, but boy, you really need to be sure you want to be a doctor.

  94. 94.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Amir Khalid:

    My dad’s trip to Japan was in early 1970. The songs were probably from the late 1960s.

    Oh okay. I’m not very familiar w/ 60s J-Pop so I’ll take your word for it that the newer stuff is better than it. I’ll take a wild guess and say that Japanese pop music still had more traditional influences at the time

  96. 96.

    Ruckus

    I find that most pop music drives me battier than normal. I know, how can you tell?

    But I like an internet radio station called Soma FM

  97. 97.

    Kent

    @dmsilev: Fair enough. It’s a great place to be if your interests align with what we have to offer. If not, then it’s a recipe for unhappiness.

    And sitcoms are great, but should not be taken as representative of reality…

    Of course not!   I’m just saying she would probably be more interested in touring Cal-Tech to see where Sheldon worked, rather than because it is a school she is actually interested in.

  98. 98.

    raven

    @Ruckus:  Man I’ve been trying to install a “mini-“starter” in my Chevy for three days. I’m trying every combination of shims to get the bendix to mesh properly with the flywheel with little luck!

  99. 99.

    The Pale Scot

    @MoxieM:

    We’re privileged to have lived in an era that had a scene

    1981

    Thu -Twisted Sister @ the Arrow Lounge in Plainfield

    Fri – Yasgur’s Farm @ the Goose & Gander in Somerville

    Sat – David Johansson @ CBGB

    Sun – Dead @ RFK in Philly

    All done on a half of a week’s pay

    That was a great week with lotsa close runner ups

    Bye bye Miss American Pie

  101. 101.

    trollhattan

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Right?

    “Your reward for [checks notes] thirteen years of school is another eight years of school, only harder. You sure about this”

  102. 102.

    Martin

    @Mary G: Hugh Hewitt is on the faculty at Chapman, as was John Yoo, so calibrate accordingly.

    That said, John Yoo is now at Berkeley where Erwin Chemerinsky is dean, so those things don’t necessarily correlate.

  106. 106.

    raven

    You are supposed to measure the space between the bendix gear and the flywheel teeth with a paper clip but I’ll be damned if I can see in there!

  107. 107.

    BruceFromOhio

    In This Moment dropped a new album, Mother, a couple of months back, that’s been in rotation.

    The Pretty Reckless dropped a new single, Death By Rock & Roll, an ode to the band’s deceased producer, that’s pretty awesome.

    Halestorm drops an EP of remakes of some of their own songs TODAY, one (“Break In”) which features a duet with Lzzy Hale and Amy Lee of Evanescence that just gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

    Recently started following @ciaraloves.u on IG, dancer who hosts virtual shuffle classes for her TikTok crew, and some cray hiphop accompaniments to her blazingly energetic performances. Can’t name a single artist or band, but the stuff is hooky and addictive and lots of fun. Gaia knows I can use some fun.

    Have been on a heavy run of testing this week, plodding through scripts and marking up results. I’ve gone all over the map on Pandora with it, from Zero 7 to DeadMau3 to Staind to Disturbed, with some Nicola Benedetti violin thrown in.

    Dinnertime, it’s Red Garland Trio. No horns, please, MrsFromOhio doesn’t like them.

  109. 109.

    Origuy

    @Kent: I was going to mention St. Mary’s, too, but I wasn’t quick enough. All I know is that it’s a beautiful campus.

  110. 110.

    Kent

    @Martin:

    @Mary G: Hugh Hewitt is on the faculty at Chapman, as was John Yoo, so calibrate accordingly.

    That said, John Yoo is now at Berkeley where Erwin Chemerinsky is dean, so those things don’t necessarily correlate.

    I believe that the scumbag who tried to stir up birther shit with the Newsweek article about Kamala Harris is also a Chapman professor.

  114. 114.

    Barbara

    @Kent: Interesting.  I will go out on a limb and state that maintaining a high GPA is more feasible at some schools than others.  Either way, you want to be in a position to excel in your undergraduate environment, and not be in the middle of the pack.

  116. 116.

    Mary G

    @Kent: It’s been almost twenty years, so things may have changed, but when I was going to Saddleback Community College, they did a lot of heavy high pressure recruiting with the likes of the University of Phoenix and the career counselors rolled their eyes when kids brought them up.

  117. 117.

    raven

    @BruceFromOhio:  The one I took out must weight 40 lbs and the new one is 11. I may have to put the old one back in but I won’t be able to lift it into place by myself. I was having problems with what I thing called “heat soak”. It just wouldn’t start from time-to-time. I actually enjoy this even thought it’s a cluster fuck.

  119. 119.

    dmsilev

    @Kent: Unfortunately, I doubt I’d be able to deliver on that. I certainly have access to the physics buildings so under normal circumstances I’d be happy to exhibit Homo Physicist in its natural habitat, but I’m afraid we’re under a strict “no visitors inside” policy until the pandemic subsides.

  122. 122.

    Mo MacArbie

    Gillian Welch started emptying out the vault. She hasn’t released much in the last twenty years, so I’m lapping it up. Hell, she put out a covers album last month that I didn’t even know about until getting links for this comment. Better go buy that now.

  125. 125.

    Martin

    @Kent: Probably, Chapman is kinda old-school OC

    [Edit] That includes the part about denying that Oakland is part of the US, as has been OC tradition.

  126. 126.

    trollhattan

    @Mo MacArbie:

    I have Boots #1, which is alt takes, etc. worth having and presume Boots #2 is also worth chasing down.

    Few years ago a lucky jackal posted a selfie taken with her from outside a show. She be tall.

  129. 129.

    trollhattan

    California made it through summer 2020 without a lingering stretch with the heat guns set to “Kill.” Until now:

    This Afternoon
    Sunny and hot, with a high near 108. North northwest wind around 10 mph.
    Tonight
    Clear, with a low around 75. North northwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable.
    Saturday
    Sunny and hot, with a high near 107. Southwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
    Saturday Night
    Partly cloudy, with a low around 73. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph.
    Sunday
    Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 106. Light and variable wind becoming west southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.
    Sunday Night
    Mostly cloudy, with a low around 75.
    Monday
    Partly sunny and hot, with a high near 109.
    Monday Night
    Partly cloudy, with a low around 75.
    Tuesday
    Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 109.
    Tuesday Night
    Mostly clear, with a low around 72.
    Wednesday
    Sunny and hot, with a high near 105.
    Wednesday Night
    Clear, with a low around 67.
    Thursday
    Sunny and hot, with a high near 101.

    Frickin’ Redding, Bakersfield, Palm Springs et al, I can’t begin to imagine.

  130. 130.

    David C

    @Kent: I was more east almost-coast so no specific college recommendations, but if she is interested in grad school, find out about undergrad research opportunities and the ability to snag good recommendations. Molecular or cellular biology are the basic fields these days but breadth of biology class experience is always good. Lots of lab courses so she can see if she really loves it. Writing, communication skills, business acumen (like supervisory skills) are essential these days. Grad school tended to prepare one for academia, but that’s a tough life. Biotech, pharmaceuticals, alt-sci are worthy goals.

    Did Ivy biology degree and PhD in toxicology/immunology, with pharmaceutical and now government (NIAID/NIH) job, but much of the experience was in the olden days.

  133. 133.

    Lyrebird

    @Mary G: @laura:

    Thanks thanks!!!

    and hey @mrmoshpotato: someone already made a Trumpfish – really a Trump anemone, but it’s ugly, so don’t bother clicking unless you have a good tolerance for nature made ugly with his foul visage.

    And for more respite in my world, my kids are teaching me how to make a farm in Stardew Valley.  I aspire to Ozark Hillbilly’s gardening but not this year.

  136. 136.

    duckrabbit

    @Kent

    Of the Claremonts, I think Pomona would be a better fit than HMC.  Pomona has a mo-bio major as well as regular biology, and a media studies major as well as an art program.

  137. 137.

    MoxieM

    @The Pale Scot: My lord you have a memory. I can tell you about the NY Dolls at various places, usually openers the Real Keds (led by John Felice, the “Hippy Johnny” of Modern Lovers’ songs.) and shows at the Orpheum, as well as the club on Main st in Cambridge that was the Club at one point in its life. I think the last show I saw there was the Pixies with Treat Her Right. God I hated Treat Her Right. zzzz. Then they morphed into Morphine with the one good song. DMZ at Cantones. All the bands at the Channel, good God.  All the bands at the Rat–more Good God!  Then the Middle East scene and TT the Bears. Not to mention Bunrattys.  So much stuff left out of that article, and it was all fun.  Good times.

    But yeah, cheap apartments, food, good college radio, ‘BCN and Maxanne. The Phoenix, Real Paper… Rounder records in S’ville. Fort Apache Studios (where the Throwing Muses, Pixies and all those 4AD bands made their first demos.) All those things made the scene possible.

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