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  1. This was a great photo from the DFB site after Stiller's goal to give VfB the 1-0 lead. Almost looks like they're lined up in formation, but you can see from a still from the video, just below the picture, that it was a matter of being at the right angle for the photo at the right time.
  2. Hayduke

    We got Soul?

    Great thread. Thanks, @elguapo. Grew up on military bases around the U.S. and in Germany, where virtually every one of these songs was a staple on the radio and especially on the jukeboxes of the base snack bars. My first real job was at a snack bar, where a coworker, an older Korean woman, would use her daily breaks by pulling up next to the jukebox, lighting a cigarette, and puffing away while staring into the distance and listening to this song, practically spitting out a derisive "huh" two or three times with every play. Especially during the opening spoken portion. Day after day, week after week, for an entire summer I watched this routine. Not sure I've seen that level of fixation on a song since.
  3. Watched all three of those you shared and liked them all, but I think I'm too simple to be affected in the same way that perhaps you were because of the tempo of the Arctic Monkeys and the imagery in the Death Cab for Cutie video. Old 97's had more of the combo of tempo, lyrics and overall feel to bring the sentiment. But I certainly appreciate a good relationship song that doesn't make me feel like jumping off my porch. And now I'm done with this stuff for the night or I'll never get caught up.
  4. Took our daughter to a running camp in Colorado a couple of years ago and got some much-needed alone time with my wife. Spent a little time with some of her family as well and got together with an old friend. The kind of vacation that everybody needs, and it made me start putting together a playlist that also includes some John Denver. Not many mean "Colorado" like he does. I'm sorry about your father. Sounds like you had some great memories with him, and not everybody gets those.
  5. I remember that too; that was cool. Women's sports are really fun when it gets to that stage and it's your team. It's just a different kind of emotion, and dads are just big old bags of wimpiness. The reactions of Rori Harmon and Vic Schaefer tonight, when they knew they were going back to the Final Four and there were still a few seconds left in the game, were just a blast. Don't know if you saw it, but Harmon was holding the ball and bent over toward the floor like she was going to lose it; Schaefer was squatting with his head down and looked like he was going to bawl.
  6. That was great. Sometimes I think all takes to be a screenwriter is to get a good soundtrack so all you have to do is let somebody else's words do all the work. Of course, it's a little more difficult than that, but you get the right song and you're a good way down the path. Pre-teen girls? Geez, I wish. I was an angsty soon-to-be Longhorn by then.
  7. Never heard of these guys. Listened to "Brought Me" while watching the Horns beat TCU (and Maddie Booker's dad trying to be cool watching his daughter). Now listening to the whole Cat in the Rain album and enjoying their lyrics. Love the roots rock/bluegrass/Americana instrumentation. Two great things for you, @Al_4_ISU: it's only 2025, and someday you're going to look around and realize she's brought you two or three or four more adopted daughters, and maybe more. Especially if she's playing sports, which for some reason they seem to approach quite differently. When our daughter, who's 16 now, was around your daughter's age now, I stopped thinking I needed to get a gun and started thinking, "Man, those poor boys." She was three weeks premature and of course scared us to death, so I can only imagine how you view yours after all that struggle (which my sister and her husband also went through, and they've got an in-vitro grad in her mid-20s and another adopted daughter). But girls are tough in a way that most of us dads will never be, I think. For me, it's the summer or fall of 2026 that's going to wreck me. Our son left in 2021 for boot camp and that was tough. But having her head to college, or wherever, is going to be a completely different ball game.
  8. Here's an unusual one ... imperial lager aged in bourbon barrels with hops terpenes added. Four of the six who tried this didn't like it. I did. More herbal than liquor-like to me. Louis XIII from O'So in Plover, WI in a bomber. Power out on our block because of an ice storm, so we moved up to the living room for happy hour.
  9. Didn't see this on one here. It's on my Sunday morning playlist for drinking coffee and sitting around thinking. I bought this album back when it first came out and "Alright Guy" was getting some airplay. This one probably didn't, and that's understandable, given the shock that comes at the end the first time you hear it. Hits a little harder this week because I got some insight about one of my students on Thursday from a colleague at the university -- a reminder of how difficult it is for all of us to figure stuff out in any of our relationships. Edited for a tear warning: dads and moms, this is a tough one. I hate to do that, but it feels necessary.
  10. I've got the Mainz club page in English bookmarked, but I actually don't visit it a lot -- mostly just watch the games. I visit the Bundesliga main site a couple of times a week, and the English site for the Deutsche Fußball-Bund is useful, but it used to be a lot better as a one-stop shop. Then they stopped putting the tables and a bunch of news up for the first and second divisions. Now it's third division and national team stuff, which is still good, but it was a lot better before. I think they even had all the regional stuff, but no more -- just third division, national teams and the Pokal. Since ESPN took over the Bundesliga site, it seems a little less functional in some ways, but they've improved over the last couple of years. Took me forever to see the little icon for the 2. Liga at the top of the page on their most recent makeover, though. Bummer about the red card for Stuttgart against Frankfurt today. Stuttgart made a game of it up until the end, but it was a tough spot to be in.
  11. Working out but got to the TV for the second half of the early games. Saw Augsburg sub in French-born, Congo national player Samuel Essende, who scored 17 seconds into the half to put Hoffenheim down 1-0. Then switched to BMG-Red Bull, where I watched BMG hit the posts several times but get one in to take the 1-0 win. Switched back to the end of Hoffenheim, where I had missed the penalty kick that tied it at 1-1. Apparently it was quite the second half, and both teams looked about done. BMG moves past Red Bull into fifth. Both Augsburg and Hoffenheim move up a spot, but Hoffenheim is still in a virtual tie with Union Berlin, which plays tomorrow against Freiburg in a game with implications for both ends of the table. Brunch now, Eintracht and Stuttgart coming up. Glad to see the games back on -- have some work to catch up on, so I'll watch Stuttgart in one window while grading in another.
  12. Lupulin Maximus WestCoast double IPA, O'So Brewing, Plover, WI.
  13. I've only lived here for 18 years, so I still haven't gotten a compliment yet. We've had a couple of Blackstacks at recent happy hours, although I can't recall what they were without looking them up on Untappd. But I didn't find any of them particularly memorable, which is mostly a clue that I may taste beers too indiscriminately at times. Furious is one I do favor -- the whole group does -- along with pretty much anything I've had from Toppling Goliath. That's much more helpful than what the AI gave me -- thanks for both posts of insight. Apparently the bot only visited the Great Lakes website and left it at that.
  14. That was Faulknerian. Except the part about the Colgate.
  15. Who's Tent? Why are you all up in Tent's shit? All this was not my intent.
  16. When shit's getting intense, it's probably de' railing by d' shits that makes it that way. Judy's confirmed this.
  17. Shits, getting intense, amiright?
  18. Damnit, I already fell for that once.
  19. I love IPAs but haven't really reached the point of being able to properly distinguish among/articulate the points of different sub-styles. So what's your understanding of what a Midwest IPA is -- more malt, perhaps, or different malt? The AI gives me a superficial and perhaps incorrect summary and I don't feel like talking to it any more. You seem to know your stuff (and not just username checks out and all). I'm trying to get a little further down that road but am not too far yet. I'm not even sure the photo does the beer justice in the first place. It was in my neighbor's man cave during our Sunday happy hour, a proper midwestern basement on a snowy and ill-lit day. Think I'll go see what Karben⁴ says about it, if anything.
  20. What @Derka said. He knows. Hell, we all know. Not just all these Surly folks, but every iteration of every poster who's ever been on all the Texas boards that led to this one ... sometimes flawed, but always funny, profane, human, smart as hell, accomplished, tough. Longhorns. Hook 'em, @ztejas.
  21. Shows up right away for me on ESPN app on my desktop. Also on the ESPN app on the NVIDIA Pro on my living room TV -- first time in a couple of weeks that it's worked that way (meaning properly). Still puzzled that it doesn't show up on YouTube TV on the NVIDIA, even though when I stream through ESPN, it shows the YTTV logo on the screen. Apparently SECN+ or somebody is starting to work out some of the necessary coordination. Just happy to see the game without having to work at it for 15 minutes. Chained to the desktop for now but nice to see the game when I walk from the office to the kitchen, too.
  22. That's tragic. Very sorry to hear that. My wife is a Tica and part of our honeymoon, long ago, was spent at Sí Como No in Quepos. Another portion was at Villa Caletas outside Jacó, where we had stopped for ceviche before proceeding to the hotel. The ceviche apparently was what kept me looking at a spectacular view of the Gulf of Nicoya from bed for far too long and for all the wrong reasons.
  23. The Bowie association is a little less clear, based on what that article says, but I'm going to look into it a little more -- partly because one of my students just chose "Space Oddity" as a song to analyze for relationships to some of the textbook principles in our communication class, and we're going to talk about it. Coincidentally, I was in a music studio in Australia with another class the day after Bowie died, and the studio director played "Space Oddity" on high volume with studio-quality speakers as a tribute to open our session. That was powerful. (Another aside: it was the studio where "Under the Milky Way," another '80s great, was recorded, and hearing that at the same volume, in the place where it was mixed by the guys who mixed it, was an incredible experience.) But yeah, "Major Tom" and the side story are badass. Even in German, the song is more than catchy for non-German speakers. The English version falls only a touch short and apparently it was peaking on the charts around the time Rick McIvor was taking the Aggies apart in 1983 (a game I listened to on AFN).
  24. You probably knew this, @Mittens, but I did not know that "Major Tom" had become the unofficial goal-scoring anthem for the German national team (learned this watching a replay of Sunday's Italy matchup in the Nations League quarterfinal), nor that there was a really strong Stuttgart tie. (from The Athletic -- if anyone wants the whole thing, I can post.) No idea that Peter Schilling was offered a contract by VfB Stuttgart and turned it down to follow his musical dream. Nor this from 2024: And there's a further Stuttgart tie in that Mittelstädt scored the goal when they first played it. Adidas apparently had as much to do with this as anything. The company's "Typisch Deutsch" campaign is a blast. The song was a hit when I was a student in Mainz. It's part of my German playlist, and the football tie and the story behind that make it so much more cool. Man, what a great song.
  25. Well, just to be clear, I was attempting (regardless of how successful I may not have been) to make a Big Balls joke to lower the intensity level rather than raise it. And to help establish my nonpartisan bona fides, I hereby nominate CDC as King of the World. He will provide both excellent entertainment value and economic boom times for all -- meanwhile maintaining a relatively low-key and dignified example for everyone to live by. Also, fuck OU. The King would probably let them stay in our orbit, but if he said "no," I'd be OK with that, too.
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