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UpperWestside

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  1. If you subscribe to Defector you are familiar with Drew Magary. He writes mainly about football and sometimes politics, but this is one that he does every year for this catalog. Honest to God I am not certain I want to ever meet some of the folks who buy the high end stuff. Here’s a gift link to the article. He really went hard in the paint this year. Makes me laugh every single year. https://defector.com/the-2025-haters-guide-to-the-williams-sonoma-catalog?giftLink=e8d2de5c79ea2b424ab23269773aec27
  2. These guys always make me laugh with their recaps, especially of NBA games. Here’s most of what you missed.
  3. I thought about this battle today. I worked for a bit with McAuliffe’s great nephew out here. Looks just like him, but didn’t follow in his footsteps and join the military. He really doesn’t like Patton. I may have posted a little about this, but I met a woman out here whose father was one of the Battered Bastards of Bastogne. She does not know a great deal about his service because he was mostly quiet about it. The chance encounter with her and her sister and helping them get back to their cruise ship on time got her to do something unexpected. She gave me a small booklet produced at the war’s conclusion about the service the 101st performed in the war. She also gave me the only notes she took from the onetime her father talked about his war experience. She asked me to help piece together where and when he was at a place going by her notes. I had told her why I was out here and she sent me that stuff saying that β€œI hope it can help you out on your journey.” One of the coolest things a person has ever given me.
  4. My 2nd Christmas now off the mainland. With any luck next year will be the final Christmas I spend on American soil. For this year I’ll work, maybe go see a movie and get my fishing gear together to go early next week for a couple of days of fishing and swimming. Today I am just going to remember that my Oma, all of 18 years old was spending her first year since she was 5 without having the Nazis in power in Germany. She was pregnant with my dad. She had a sister that survived the war, but she lost her brother at Stalingrad. She would turn 19 on January 24, 1946 and my dad was born the next day. He was one of the 250,000 German children who were born with American GI’s for dads at the end of the war. My dad never met his real father. I do kinda wonder what Christmas was like for my Oma in 1945 in her hometown in Eschwege. I’ll think of her today and how much I still miss her 35 years after she passed away from Ovarian cancer. So many good memories with her at Christmas. I’ll call my mom and talk to my niece and nephew to see what Santa brought them as well. They’re 6 and 3 so it should be fun to listen to them.
  5. To me that's part of the allure. If they wanted to make an interactive Avatar World for people to explore I'd do that all day long. Movies like this help to bring out the inner child. I believe that's a really good thing for all of us.
  6. Once Chang let Micah be Micah and turned him loose the game changed. He has had some great coaching long before he got to Hawai’i and it shows in how he moves on the run, but still looks downfield. The QB he was at the beginning of the season to now is like night and day. The game slowed down and boy does Hawai’i have a talent on their hands. Wish he was 6’3”, but if he was he’d be playing for a top 15-20 team right now. It’s hard to describe how good he is to most folks because he plays more than half his games 3000 miles from the mainland and it’s always late at night. Alejado just has it. Same thing as what Vince had when Texas decided to let Vince be Vince. He’s obviously not VY, but it’s the comparing coaches letting their guy do what they do so well. Can’t wait to see him next season.
  7. The joy of watching all these kids get to talk to their favorite players and get autographs after the game is really cool. Man it just makes you feel good about things. You can understand why this is Hawaii’s team when you see this.
  8. Pofele Ashlock, Euless Trinity’s finest, is the MVP of the game. Well earned! Man that was so cool to watch. I will NEVER forget this game.
  9. I’m laughing, but yeah don’t mess with people from there.
  10. Christ what an ending. That I got to watch it right in the middle of a bunch of Hawaiians that know these guys because so many are from here was so, so, so MUCH FUN. I highly suggest watching a game here when you get the chance!
  11. Yeah I might not be attempting to pick a fight when you’re in a stadium filled with Hawaiians.
  12. My God what a game. Best game I have ever watched in person.
  13. That was insane to watch from about 15 yards away!
  14. OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  15. Time to see if Micah can end this. This would be the best possible ending I can think of if he does this against Sagapolutele.
  16. If he had done this to begin the game this game looks a lot different. Three offside calls on ONE DRIVE. That’s just brutal right now. I have never seen that before.
  17. I would take Ashlock as well.
  18. Holy hell that throw and catch. That’s the best catch of the whole year right there there.
  19. That’s a freaking TOUCHDOWN!
  20. Alejado’s turn to see if he can put points on the board again. This is when he usually plays his best ball. Like watching Flutie out there at times.
  21. I will take the hold there to three.
  22. I won’t fault you for that.
  23. Man is it. The Warriors usually play better once it cools down. Sagapolutele isn’t done though.
  24. New game! Helluva catch from Ashlock. This game has had some ridiculously great catches from both teams. That’s two Hawaiian to Tongan TD connections tonight. Anyone who skipped out on this game at 21-0 is missing some great football!
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