The Swamp

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This is really good. Not beautiful, elegant tennis, lots of errors, but a battle of wills. Who will crack. Sloane serving 4-5 in the third.

The players are beautiful and elegant, though.

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it's ok, white people are allowed to watch too

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That old lady is hanging tough in the semi's. Broke back to tie the third 2-2.

(better than fucking football)

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Had a colleague who lost his career, had sexual relationship with a patient. Yep, it was wrong, but it was consensual, and without acrimony from either. Shame, he was such a talented veterinarian.

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govmentchedda wrote:That is some dark red where the turnpike meets 75, south of Ocala.

the red rarely gets that dark, but the google says, west palm beach to Orlando 3:36, only 30 min longer than the reverse trip. But rush hour, and later in the week could plum new shades of red mixed with black.

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A different toned deadspin piece, a new book excerpt, by Jason Turbow, that tells the 70s Oakland A's story. Ken Holtzman, Mike Epstein, Reggie Jackson, teammates on the '72 team, and their response to the Munich Olympics massacre. Oh, Reggie and Epstein did not get along, another excerpt. The Time ...

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This weird, somewhat disjointed but interesting to me essay popped up, could fit in a number of threads but this one was nearest the top. Dude talks about college football, our current socio/cultural/political deal, and floods, ties together some interesting threads. Not super profound but I liked i...

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Never been/driven to Tucumcari, but have hit the other three garden spots. Also, never did weed, whites and wine all together. What a wonderful tune. Rumor was ol' Frank kicked him out of the band for "writing a song about dope." I heard/remember two reasons. Frank was anti-drugs (other t...

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Never been/driven to Tucumcari, but have hit the other three garden spots. Also, never did weed, whites and wine all together. What a wonderful tune.

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wlu_lax6 wrote:Bruce Arena is a good interview.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soc ... 5d177fec54

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

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fucking ugly, but that'll do I guess.

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one more, because of the look. Damn good touring band there. But the Gibson Thunderbird bass Walter is plucking is sweet. (I'll never have too much money, cuz I'll just keep buying cool old instruments that I can't play for shit.)

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

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As good a day as any to dust off some vinyl and review. Thrill, Countdown, Pretzel, Katy, Scam and Aja. Not that I don't have these old-assed records memorized. Maybe give Ed Zipper a call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sHqLe5wNec

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Look at this sucker. Practically giving it away at $3800. Comes with the less popular PR 40 reverb speaker cab, I can pick up a Leslie 122 later for not too much over $1K. Prob cost nearly as much to crate and ship from Houston. m http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Ye8AAOSwoRBZqHyg/s-l1600.jpg

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Mike Myers reaction sealed the moment

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I liked Brian Auger, had a couple of his mid-70s Oblivion Express records. DIdn't know about this earlier stuff (until the TV show Absolutely Fabulous used a tune for their theme song, below.) If my memory serves me well. I need to listen to more of hm. He was in a band called Steampacket, more swin...

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to quote a line from the novel Semi-Tough, hey, ho, who got the dough!

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I don't know where to put this, so here. I bet I'm not the only one who will find this cool.

Stream 72 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner: Relax, Go to Sleep in a Dystopian Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLsO ... 7FhEpif1cA

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yump.

til something I like better comes along

(perhaps Oppenheimer's suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac%20)

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He had a good Thump piece the other day. I've not seen a better one (well, it closely coincides with my view, but expressed much better.)

I don't go into that neighborhood, so if someone else wants to move the link to another thread.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-presi ... llity-roth

https://twitter.com/SwamperHoward/statu ... 8399480832

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TT2.0 wrote:
bfj wrote:You could have answered my text douche bag. Glad you're ok.

actually i cant. my phone has chosen this time to die and refuse to take a charge

it might be wet.

Glad yr ok dude

howard

Glad you are your family are safe.

Any and all updates you care to post will be greatly appreciated.

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sancarlos wrote:Exactly what came to my mind, too, when reading this thread.

It's a meme!

Why Are Air Conditioners Killing So Many TV Characters In 2017?

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20 inches of rain in Houston overnight and more falling now. I can't fathom such rainfall outside of the tropics, over an American urban area. And another 20" or so expected. As for some history, TS Claudette in 1979 dumped a comparable amount of rainfall (but over a much smaller area), and th...

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Ah, so if the Saudi's and Baharianis find their balls and invade, which way do you guys point your guns? That was a bizarre international incident, which I suppose is over now. Qatar seems like an interesting place; I could've been part of the medical school Cornell set up there about 15 years ago b...

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Like we aren't all concerned about giff first, our own families second.

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They didn't show the girl fight here. Chick from Hartlepool, UK (on the coast near Newcastle, hard coal country) won her pro debut. I don't blame them throwing one of these as the first bout, no one is there anyway.

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This LA Rams vs LA Chargers makes me giggle. Chargers only played one year at the Coliseum then moved south. Before my time, I was four in 1960. Chargers owner was Paris Hilton's grandfather. Coliseum looks great, but to me it always does. Then again, the Raiders played three years in San Francisco,...

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Fox is airing some prelim bouts, so why the hell not. First one pretty good scrap until the stronger young welterweight floored his opponent, who is weakening fast.

Next up is a gator and a grizzly. Ten rounds for the North American mammo-amphibio belt.

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Yeah, but they have rocking chairs in the main concourse. And someone playing the piano near the food court. That makes it better than most! And right above that area where the piano player is located, a little second floor balcony w/rocking chairs, by a little chapel. Lots of good food choices, fr...

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The Swamp has skewed so far left that this commie shit is allowed in a post? Man, imagine how much cooler the 20th century of baseball may have been had we followed this convention. Just not the American way I suppose, whatever the fuck that is, but pro/reg is arguably several steps closer to the fr...

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Bojangles in the Charlotte airport, between flights. That, my friends, is what I call living large. Don't hate.

If they opened in NYC, I could go full Homer Simpson/300# and it wouldn't take much more than a year.

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AFAIK 0bama only had a small number of special forces in Yemen, and AWACS telling the Saudi 'Air Force' where to shoot and drop (and they weren't good a following directions.) Thump has stepped it up, so I'm not sure who gets the point on this country. Let the Supreme Court decide. Johnnie, I hear K...

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If it extends, and that Doug rugby dude shows up, be sure and shine the bat signal for me and I'll join in the fun.

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So many threads this could join. feeling old thread is at the top of the page, so here it goes. shame on sabo, who follows this account if he didn't already post, shame on me if mine is a dupe. (it's actually from spring practice I think, I just stumbled on it today.). I know I met this dude back in...

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Steve of phpBB wrote:What makes me feel old is I have no idea who those guys are.

I don't know who they are. But I know what dey ain't.

(And I'm not gonna make up an acronym to spell out dey ain't nuttin ta fuk wit.)

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Subscribed to theathletic.com today, didn't realize they had launched already. The Kapernick article drew me in. $30 for a year, afaik I have access to all content, they just put my Bay Area stuff on top. Tim Kawakami is a veteran newspaper guy I've read for years, and he alone is worth $2.50 a mont...

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https://theathletic.com/89431/2017/08/25/guest-column-the-true-colin-kaepernick-from-someone-who-has-been-there-and-calls-him-a-friend/ This is a really good piece, that gets at just how intelligent and thoughtful Kaepernick is. (Not that the Wonderlic matters much, but he had one of the highest sc...

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I don't see Arsenal's draw, oh right, fuck. Friggin Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukrainian club based in the eastern part of the country that is in (currently) low-level resistance against the central government, for the past three seasons has been forced to play in Lviv, at the western end of Ukraine. As a go...

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brian wrote:I want to just crawl into a hole, smoke a bunch of weed and watch stupid TV shows.

Excellent plan. Yet you sound like this is a bad thing. Works in good times and bad.

(man, you ain't alone. strange days indeed.)

eta: fuck it, more of my posts can use a soundtrack.

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

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