Friday Free For All

10/5/24 KeitelBlacksmith 25

Hockey

Panthers even series

Rangers cruising along

Basketball

Knicks up 2 games to none

Mavericks get the win

Baseball

Tigers starting to play bad ball

Ghostlight

Treasure

Good One

Thelma

Handling The Undead

Real Estate Porn

Scotland

How do they make that?

Bagpipes

Watcha got?

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25 Comments

  1. The NBA draft lottery is this weekend, an unlike last year, there is no obvious #1 pick. I’m betting a lot of teams would love to trade down if they got it, but I’m not sure who would want to trade up for it.

  4. Here’s something: The Wind That Shakes The Barley (whatever that means)

    • …iirc…which it’s quite possible I don’t…some several hundred years ago when someone first put the line in their song it was & (if I’m right that this would be a cover) would be here a reference to a rebellion in ireland 50-odd years before that?

      …it’s a bit roundabout…but the rebels tended to have barley (& probably/possibly oats or other cereal crops) in their pockets for the obvious purpose of sustenance…but after it got put down somewhat more people took to planting barley…sometimes just as a sort of nod towards it…but in some cases literally over mass graves…which I’m pretty sure is the part the reference intends to be invoking?

      …ken loach made a movie with the same name, too

      • I had a feeling it had something to do with Irish nationalism and rebellion but it just popped up on this Youtube mix and I had no idea why. I figured someone here would know.

    • Wait, Colorado has other celebrity animals? Why was I not aware of this?

    • Move to Philly! When they had the bridge collapse shut down I 95, they got the repairs done in under two weeks.

      https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/business/i95-philadelphia-reopening-fast/index.html

      That Gothamist article is nuts – it sounds like NYC has elected officials approve all of its construction contracts. It also says that of course the legislature made contracting easier in a piecemeal way five years ago instead of just fixing it all at once across the board and the city is stuck with a convoluted process.

    • Don’t move to Seattle!

      https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2024/05/next-up-for-the-2-line-linking-redmond-and-bellevues-downtowns-to-seattles-via-the-homer-m-hadley-memorial-bridge.html

      My civil engineer friend, who’s worked on bridges in Montreal the city of the mass public works corruption, was like “Wtf? If no one is getting sued for this, you know there are brown envelopes being handed out.”

      • …I don’t know if it’s the same section…but I assume it must be…either way I was talking to someone from your part of the world the other day & they told me a tale of woe about a mass transit train line in two sections that were due to be one…only they hadn’t been joined up on schedule & they were due to open as two parts…but only one has a railyard…so they don’t have anywhere to park the rolling stock on the other bit?

        …would make sense if that were two sections either side of that bridge…& if not…seattle has more issues with trains than I realized…which I hope not…since I mostly seemed to be able to get the places I tried to using public transport the times I’ve got to enjoy it so I like to think it has a pretty good game in that respect

        …I know LA was a lot less forgiving of pedestrians, for a start?

      • I love the caption for one of the photos: “The original Murrow bridge sank in 1990 during a mismanaged reconstruction project”

        I’m actually pretty impressed by that project, even with the delays. I’m especially impressed that there’s dedicated space for mass transit alongside the road bridges. In NY Robert Moses was notorious for project design choices that deliberately sabotaged opportunities for mass transit.

      • They delayed the part we wanted most (Northgate to Lynnwood) so they could do the techi-train that only takes Microsofties from town to work!  Bastards!  Now Lynnwood is not opening until the end of summer even though they are already running test trains.  All roadwork/I5 closures are in the summer.  You would think they might have got it open early to make the roadwork easier to digest?  I avoid going into Seattle in the summer by car unless it is super early in the morning, I would rather park at N.Gate and take the light rail in.  I just wish it went to Ballard where all the breweries are, that is what we really need to be done!

        • …by the sounds of it it probably would have been that northgate/lynwood stretch that had them muttering…so maybe not directly the bridge but the same dog’s breakfast?

  8. …ok…I’m realizing I missed at least one of these so I have more trailers to catch up on…but from today’s

    …the first one looks like a good film…in the sense that coda was a good film…rather than looking like it’d be a fun flick, necessarily

    …polish is not the accent my brain tells me should be coming out of stephen fry but I bet I’d get used to it & that’s probably in the same “good film” running

    …the good one…might be that rare beast that actually does leave enough out of the trailer that it could be a movie with more to it than it advertises…& for that alone I’d probably give it a shot

    …thelma looks like an absolute hoot…so, yes…please & thank you

    …& an a-typical zombie movie from the people who made the least-typical vampire movie I can think of off the top of my head…ok, you twisted my arm…you can chalk me up for that one, too

    …so you seem to have got my number since that sounds like a full boat?

  9. eurovision tomorow….looks like it should be entertaining this year far as acts go

    also kinda looks like we might be disqualified already

    little unclear about the details…..but kinda sounds like our dude took a swing at someone….

    little dude doesnt look like a punchy type….but what do i know

    welp whatever…im on irelands side this year anyways

    • …in interviews they sound…uh…gentler?

      …not a big one for keeping up with the eurovision but unless it’s changed more than I thought over the years that seems like an outlier…quite a performance, though…good luck to ’em, I guess?

      • it is an outlier…..but not the only one this year…..by eurovision standards this one looks quite lively…lol

        • …maybe I should make an exception & tune in this time

          …I don’t know how good/bad the presenters are in your patch but back in the day I thought some people slept on how wogan wasn’t as respectful as he managed to sound about everyone…& I know a lot of people love that graham norton suffers from no such qualms…plus I heard a rumor they’d got joanna lumley to sign up as the announcer, maybe?

          …so…if I do I imagine I’ll be picking the UK feed?

          • terry wogan was hilarious as a eurovision presenter…im not sure his commentary would fly nowadays…

            graham norton is just a bit catty at times…i like him….but it does kinda feel like we got the kid friendly commentary nowadays

            anyways yeah…the bbc is your best bet if you watch….might be your only bet in english tbh….unless the strayans have their own broadcast…

            *pictures ozzy man does eurovision*

            okay…..i’d watch that

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