Cool, maybe raining. Hope not, because it’s D1’s school beach day… I hope it’s like yesterday, which got hot and sunny, before finally cooling off with some big fat rain drops after dark. I guess we’ll see.
Did my errands yesterday, interrupted and bracketed by school events. 6th grade honors in the morning, 8th grade in the evening. Oh, and an eye exam for D2 in the afternoon. Some days, the more I have to do, the more I get done, some days it’s the opposite.
I did a bit of social study during the school stuff. What did the teachers value for their teacher’s choice awards? (quiet, tries hard, uses all the resources available, kind, helpful) Why were girls featured at about a 3:1 or more ratio in all the pix and video? (they might actually outnumber the boys) Why if so? (no sports might mean boys self select to not attend this school) 30% of 8th graders were taking dance classes. Only one was male. Salud and valedictorians were all girls. 3rd year for one of the girls. Couple kids had three years of straight As, 95% or better As at that. Pretty much everyone in the school would have been on the honor roll in a regular district school, so they made the honor roll harder, and made another level above that too. Interesting stuff.
Saw a couple of parents I haven’t seen in a while, since we didn’t do swim team with them last year. Our pool’s team was a great crossroads for several neighborhood groups. In theory, we’re doing swim team this year, but D2 isn’t going to enough practices, so I don’t think it will happen. I miss seeing some of the other dads at practices and meets. It would be nice to see them again.
Today I’m trying to head to my client’s place. At least do some work. No kid stuff with afternoon appointments on the calendar. I usually spend the afternoon there, and into the evening when my client comes home and we meet. He’s out of town though, so I should be able to ‘down tools’ and head home at a decent time. We’ll see. Hope to get some stuff done.
And maybe stack some greenbacks. They are as much a prep as anything, and I’ve been using stacks to buy some needful things lately. Need to replenish what got used.
Stack some resources. They always come in handy.
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Looks like it’s going to be a nice day for the beach. Sunny, sky is clearing. Shirtsleeves out now but will get hotter if the sun stays out.
Time to wake the sleeping beauties.
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Ah the name calling…
– the left, which only sees groups and not the people that make them up, only cares about anti- semitism when they can use it as a stick to beat someone.
Hello mental midgets, it’s possible to be critical of the person, and not the group.
Is anyone surprised that the left defends their sugar daddy?
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I may have missed it yesterday, but Disney is reported to be closing it’s Star Wars hotel. What did they expect with stays running in the thousands. I’d just got to the Atlantis hotel for a week at that rate.
Posting from a Chrome browser. Some of the work I’m doing requires some extensions Safari doesn’t support. I’ve also changed to Chrome on my other devices. Interesting, Google takes a piece of my life.
That’s what stimulus packages, government-corporate partnerships, subsidies, preferred vendor status, and bailouts are for. Only for selected companies, of course, tho$e who$e $upport i$ nece$$ary to the $tatu$ of our $ociety.
It is 58 F or 44 F up here in Craig, Montana, depending on the microclimates in the canyons. Staying in a AirBnB house out here in the sticks. Smoky as all get out from the Canadian wildfires. We spent five hours in two planes getting up here from Houston via Salt Lake City. The plane said it was -73 F outside at 38,000 feet.
My brother is frying some bacon up. It smells real good. But the 1940 house is freaking cold. We had to drive down a dirt road five miles to get here, across a mountain and under a Freeway bridge.
@Lynn, enjoy the fishing, and the company!
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Yeah the hotel thing, either has to be borderline secret and crazy expensive (like Club 33) or has to be aspirational but reachable and available.
How many super fans are there with the money? Especially after all the destruction of the fanbase woke disney has been doing? Triggleypuff might WANT to do the hotel thing, but it doesn’t have the money.
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@greg, if you don’t have customers, you better have a patron, and then you dance to the patron’s tune. Seems to have happened that way for far too many formerly well run companies.
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Disney is out of time and money. Among other pending expenses, Comcast may force The Mouse to buy out the rest of Hulu, and that number could be as much as $30 billion.
Probably more my generation than most of y’alls
– they sure did some iconic songs of the era.
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Someone is defending Disney’s stock price in a huge way, and I think Nissan put up the cash for “The Marvels” to stay on the 2023 schedule since Brie Larson is such a huge part of the car company’s “empowerment” ad agenda as of late.
The big problem with the Galactic Starcruiser was that it offered an authentic “Star Trek” experience.
That point was driven home this Spring with Mike and Denise Okuda pulled out of retirement for the big ticket set built for the finale of “Picard”, perfect down to the faux neon backlighting of the controls and painted wood grain of the “arch” which dominates the design.
The Starcruiser theming had the obvious influence of the Okudas. The only element missing from the bar was Whoopi in a funny hat serving drinks.
The Starcruiser didn’t looked “lived in” like most of pre-Disney “Star Wars”, and if you’re going to do “clean” to the level of what people traditionally expect from The Mouse along with a low Bob Cheapek budget, you’ll end up with a mix of “The Orville” — which Disney now owns BTW — and Stage 8/9 “Star Trek”.
Not that the parks are that clean any more. Like I said, DeSantis knows where they are weak when the inspections start.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Beautiful World, live 2010
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L4bnS7nFXZg
Disney could still make a few bucks off of the Galactic Starcruiser by retheming to “The Orville” on the cheap and cutting the price.
Skip the concentration camp box car -er- truck- -er- “shuttle” to Galaxy’s Edge.
Well, isn’t that special. How woke.
Google and The (formerly St. Petersburg) Times.
Never forget that Politifact is a corporate sibling of The Times, under the umbrella of ownership by the Poynter Institute. Both “news” organizations have an agenda.
https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/2023/05/18/google-doodle-florida-st-petersburg-muslim/
I wonder how the fundraiser is going at The Times.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/tampa-bay-times-launches-fundraiser-to-raise-money-for-local-news/ar-AA1badur
For good or for evil, ”roll your own” chatGPT style AI:
https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models
– so not exactly “home schooling”.
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She’s got a point… several in fact, and they may result in her walking on the charges. THAT would be a miscarriage of justice as by law and custom, the responsibility rests with her.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12102937/Rust-armorer-Hannah-Gutierrez-Reed-asks-judge-dismiss-involuntary-manslaughter-charges.html
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Tyler Durden cowardice protecting another mainstream reporter not wanting to be the bearer of bad news.
Foot Locker is what used to be the Woolworth/Woolco chain before management closed the last mainstream department stores to focus on sneakers.
In other words, the people there know something about retail in the US.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wrong-foot-foot-locker-shares-crater-consumers-pull-back
Footlocker chose to cater to an “urban” crowd. People that were not “urban” stayed away in droves.
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Typical Times. They only tell half of the story. It isn’t even about selling papers like The Mail. The entire organization is agenda driven.
The mosque is in what is (or used to be) a cr*phole neighborhood, but a quick search of property records shows a house in the father’s name in Northwest, near “Lealman” – not great living, but definitely not a cr*phole like St. Petersburg south of Central Avenue.
San Francisco Office Values Collapse 75%
I linked to the HotAir stub with the quote from Ed Morrissey because he makes the point more explicitly than Newsmax, which includes:
The SF valuation board is going to be working overtime, and moving too slowly will land them in court. You can bet that other properties will be sold quickly, with some doing so as part of a real estate/retail business effort to drive the point home as their bottom lines are already bleeding. Another sale at 25% of the valuation is going to bypass the death spiral and put things right into free fall. Hard to see an outcome other than “splatt!!” With Cali’s state budget destroyed by Newsome he has no prospect of providing assistance–which he will desperately want to do because the fall will ruin his own aspirations to be president: Even Kamala is smart enough to look at him and say “When I left for Washington the state had a surplus and everything was fine. Maybe you should have paid more attention.”
Pity the poor voters in SF. They are going to get exactly what they voted for… good and hard…
No, don’t pity them. The Dems are either going to try to bail them out with blue state money ahead of a pivotal election, or bite the bullet and let them crash. Pass the popcorn.
CA, IL, and NY were all bailed out in 2021. The earliest CA could get another big handout is January 2025.
House leadership along with Gaetz and The Witch aren’t going to give CA anything right now,, and that’s enough.
The Congressional session will effectively end at the Thanksgiving break if not sooner, when everyone starts the fundraising cycle for next year.
>> The report’s finding noted the former Union Bank building, located in the center of San Francisco financial district, was auctioned off last week for $65 million — 75% less on a per-square-foot basis than comparable building sales just prior to the pandemic.
Yeah, bought at a huge discount… but for what use? New homeless shelters? Who’s gonna pay for that?
Soon the drip will turn into a flood.
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–why are people still vacationing in Mexico?
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An illegal alien, released by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the United States at the southern border, has been charged with the brutal rape of a teenage girl in Alabama.
–why are people still vacationing in Mexico?
Because FJB is working hard to make it look safe?
Safer than US metropolitan cities?
I’ve got an extra child for the night, same one as before. Hope stuff improves at her house soon.
And I’m pulling a bidden and calling it a night.
I’m beat. I’ll see you on the weekend.
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Queries:
Thanks.
Professor of Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzBiHJEgdRA
Reading the comments, there are a lot of good suggestions, including Blue Oyster Cult and Steppenwolf.
Here’s a fan snub list from 2017:
https://www.culturesonar.com/fans-top-ten-rock-roll-hall-fame-snubs/
Which finally gets to Three Dog Night:
https://www.threedognight.com/bio
It’s a shame that Chuck couldn’t keep the monkey off his back. But when they kicked him out of the band, Cory took over most of his lead vocals and didn’t just cover them, he nailed them. Danny was (and is) no slacker, either.
It’s a very typical monkey mentality: Those that cannot do strive to be the gatekeepers, the petty dictators, the plain petty dicks, and the silly….