The Commentariat there is top flight and really funny most of the time, but especially on this. Some longtime people in those comments going back to the Deadspin days.
Itโs about never forgetting the joy you had as a kid. Too many folks lose this part of themselves. A lot of folks wind up going through some extensive therapy to rediscover their inner child. John Bradshaw, a Texan, did some great pioneering work in this area. Kinda feel like the last two Avatar movies are something he wouldโve enjoyed. I have always tried to remember how cool it was as a kid to experience cool things. This movie, for me, made me feel like a kid again. That is a good thing to stay in touch with your inner child emotionally. Itโs why movies like this never get old to me.
Saw this a couple of weeks ago and it really hit home. Watching people pursue the thing they love to do most was pretty cool. It has parts that just tug at your heart with what happens to both of them, but man I loved it. Hugh Jackman really did Neil Diamond justice in my opinion. Would and will watch again. Jackman and Hudson also have really good chemistry as well. It was just a good freaking film that we need more of.
I donโt know the best place to put this, but Mike Robinson passed away this morning. His final coaching job was as head coach at Desoto in 2018 before a rare disease forced him into an early retirement. I have been friends with his family for 25 years now. He was a giant of a man physically and literally. I met him for the first time at the Church of Christ in Gainesville back in early 2002. He swore by that church from my recollections. I remember him saying something along the lines of thereโs the Church of Christ and then every other church. I say that to say he was principled in the right way. He coached at Hutch when they had shut down before the 2005 season. He lost all his guys to SOC that season, but never complained about it. He was big on his family and I know he treated his players over the years like his own kids, many of which came from some rough backgrounds. I met a woman out here who remembered โMr. Robinsonโ from when she was a student at Hutch. Her face lit up when I mentioned him. She hadnโt seen him since then, but he was Mr. Robinson to her and she did not say a bad word about him. I know @Pancho and his family are close friends with their family as well up in Gainesville. Sad to know heโs gone, but man the best thing you can ever say about a human being is they did right by others and helped as many people as they could while they could. He looked tough because he always had the same expression on his face, but I know he was good to everyone he crossed paths with. That was him in a nutshell. Gone way, way earlier than he should have been.
So he is kicked off aggy for a restraining order violation and now he's out here sucker punching a guy with no helmet on? I can't imagine that Cal is going to keep him on scholarship after seeing that. He should be sitting in a jail cell right now. That's pretty cowardly.
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. Hereโs 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
I thought about this battle today. I worked for a bit with McAuliffeโs great nephew out here. Looks just like him, but didnโt follow in his footsteps and join the military. He really doesnโt 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 warโs 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 โI hope it can help you out on your journey.โ One of the coolest things a person has ever given me.
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 Iโll 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 GIโs 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. Iโll 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. Iโll call my mom and talk to my niece and nephew to see what Santa brought them as well. Theyโre 6 and 3 so it should be fun to listen to them.
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.
Once Chang let Micah be Micah and turned him loose the game changed. He has had some great coaching long before he got to Hawaiโi 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 Hawaiโi have a talent on their hands. Wish he was 6โ3โ, but if he was heโd be playing for a top 15-20 team right now.
Itโs hard to describe how good he is to most folks because he plays more than half his games 3000 miles from the mainland and itโs always late at night. Alejado just has it. Same thing as what Vince had when Texas decided to let Vince be Vince. Heโs obviously not VY, but itโs the comparing coaches letting their guy do what they do so well. Canโt wait to see him next season.
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 Hawaiiโs team when you see this.
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!
If he had done this to begin the game this game looks a lot different.
Three offside calls on ONE DRIVE. Thatโs just brutal right now. I have never seen that before.