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Looks good. I went through a pizza stone phase a couple summers ago. Sam Lin is right, get the stone on the grill and heat the shit out of it, use some high heat oil. Couple of things I found: 1) use a shitload of flour to get the dough off the spatula and onto the stone, 2) put the sauce and fixing nanoseconds before putting it on the stone. If not the liquid seems to permeate the dough. Key to a great stone pizza is getting the middle part of the crust as crispy as the edge. Not easy.

Any one have any intel on this? Searched a bunch and can't find any way to watch it. Looks like it was in some art houses in September then poof.

some wee boys from Dublin

csb I went to a party at his house about a year after the movie came out IIRC. It was kind of drizzling that night, and as I walked in, Jack Nicholson was walking out to smoke a cigarette. He looked up, squinted, and said, "Fucking rain," turned and went back inside. Dick Van Patten was the host. Really odd to see the dad from Eight is Enough say wonderful things about a guy seemingly on the opposite end of the debauchery spectrum. Evans looked pretty rough back then, surprised he made it this far. RIP, interesting dude, produced some classics. /csb

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

Nice marmot, man.

Born in Greece to Nigerian parents. Moved to Texas when he was 11. I think he's DFW based. Worth a listen.

This is horrible, I can't even imagine. I'd like to add to OP's caution; kids walking while looking at their cell phones. A local teenager was killed while walking to her school bus parked across the street. She was looking at her phone and walked right into two cars taking legal right hand turns. My daughter gets a reminder of that event whenever I see her do it, which thankfully hasn't been often. Do not allow your kids to walk anywhere while looking at their phones. Period.

That's pretty funny. The guys I yelled at were also wearing jerseys, but it couldn't have been me as I didn't apologize for anything. I just exited stage left like lunatic. Embarrassing in retrospect. I guess the game was a shock to my system after getting used to kicking ass in the preceding years. Turns out the game was the canary in the coal mine.

That fucking 2010 UCLA game. I almost got into a fight watching that crap. I was in the back of a bar losing my shit when I noticed two UCLA frat bros up front. They'd look back at me now and then and giggle like schoolgirls. Finally I yelled WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING AT and got up to smack their skulls together. My wife grabbed my arm and pulled me down and dragged me out of the place. Motherfuckers I'm getting pissed all over again thinking about it.

A- It was a bend don't break type of night. I was impressed how salty his guys were in the red zone. Nothing was easy for the OSU offense, they worked hard for everything, even after the gifted muffed punts. Sanders got away here and there but the tackling in space was pretty damn good. DBs left some open receivers but closed fast. If the D keeps playing like this the rest of the season I foresee many wins the in the future.

All this Zep talk has me thinking about the Ocean

Holy shit. This is a shocker. I guess I should get used to major musicians from my youth dying as time marches on ... but I don't want to. RIP Pulled this from The Cars thread I posted awhile back. csb Got last minute tickets to Lollapalooza, about 10 years ago. Glanced at the line up and saw Big Audio Dynamite, so I was in. Met up with friends, had a shitload of drinks, and while walking to my hotel saw Ric Ocasek outside smoking. Me: Hey are you Ric Ocasek? (looking around for his wife) Ocasek: (takes a drag of his cigarette, looks away) Me: You guys playing tomorrow? Ocasek: (takes another drag, looks at me like I'm an idiot) Me: (obviously drunk) You know, you guys should tour more. Fans would love to see you. I mean, when was the last time you toured? Jesus, the number of hits you guys have. Ocasek: (throws cigarette to ground, walks away) Me: Hey man, love you guys! /csb *Forgot to add some serious thunderstorm hit Chicago and they evacuated everyone from the concert. Didn't even get to see them.

Saw it today, pretty good IMO. I really liked when they all went their separate ways and had their own crazy experiences with Pennywise. Also weren't afraid to knock off a couple of kids in some brutal ways. Hader and the dude who played Eddie were awesome. The time jumps back and forth were done very well. Knocks - too long, could have shaved 20-30 minutes easy. The whole alien/Indian ritual thing took a little away from the batshit creepy clown killing kids part of the first movie. Understand that was part of the book, but I didn't read it, so as a movie goer it kicked it down a notch from the first. Daughter said the kids were CGI'd since they've hit puberty and changed a lot since the first movie. You could tell here and there, but they did a pretty good job of keeping them looking the same age.

Packaging. Modern day fucking packaging. Why does something as innocuous as a pencil sharpener have to be vacuum sealed in military grade plastic? I swear to god that shit can stop a bullet. And the only way to get into it is by blowtorch or German shears. Since no blowtorch is handy I use the shears, which of course causes the plastic edges to turn into razor blades. Being vacuum packed the thing won't pop out so you have to dig in to get it and voila, you've sliced open your hand. Next up is the band aid. If we can put a man on the moon can't those motherfuckers at band aid make it a little easier to get at it, especially since 99% of the people needing a band aid are bleeding like a slasher film? Nope, it's a two hand job regardless if one hand is wrapped in paper towels. So get resourceful and use the teeth, which works half the time, the other half the band aid gets all twisted and useless. Next up bar soap. You evil motherfuckers, whoever you are that package this shit. You're already in the shower, wet, when you notice the soap is missing. Okay fine, get out, open cabinet, get soap, return to shower. Except the bar soap is wrapped in slick paper that defies any attempt at wet hands trying to get a grip. No rough edges, everything sealed tight like Fort fucking Knox. So again, revert to the use of teeth just to get at a bar of goddamn soap. DIAF you packaging fucks.

Never heard that one, pretty good. Might have to dig around his old stuff to see what other tunes I missed.

RIP

Now that I'm slightly more sober figured I'd circle back on this... I didn't imply they were royalty, just that they have every advantage to recruit 10-15 (as noted above) nationally and put a quality product on the field every year. What I'm seeing the last couple of years is fucking awful, and it is, indeed, a conundrum. I think of UCLA like Sneaky Bigs, a chick with really nice tits that aren't readily apparent under the sweater. Competitive in the PAC, make it to the Rose Bowl now and then and kick the shit out of a favored B10 team, put out a Heisman QB here and there. Those days seem far distant.

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yes, so what's your point

This is the equivalent of malpractice. There is no excuse for putting last night's shit stain on the field when you are a top tier school like UCLA. They have every fucking CA recruiting advantage, location, education... and they were beat soundly by a second tier school from Ohio. And it wasn't just bad QB play, they were beaten across the board. No disrespect to Cincy, seemingly well coached with kids that play hard. I'm just baffled at UCLA. OK, they went through Neuhiesel, Mora and now Kelly - shitty coaches that (ahem) a few other programs have had to go through to find the right coach. But those programs still recruited relatively well during those transitions. As I said, I'm baffled (like that word).

That photo sparked a lot of memories. My dad died when I was a few years younger than when Sam lost his. As an adult looking back, the feeling I remember most as a kid was how scared I was to move forward without a safety net (Dad). Failure was no longer an option. Anyone who bets against this guy will be sorely mistaken.

I'm a couple episodes into QB1. Rattler has a nice family, comes across reasonably here and there, but it's obvious the kernel is ready to bloom for the next, time honored tradition, of douchebag Sooner QBs.

I caught it a bit during the first season or two because I wanted to fuck Tamra.