31Oct

Happy Halloween from me and the Feminist Sticker Club

I love the Feminist Sticker Club. This month’s is an all-time favorite. I am running out of things to put them on, but it’s going somewhere.

30Oct

People are remembering Vin Scully’s words, but let’s not forget his well-timed silence

Here’s a World Series bonus blog post for you before the Dodgers and Yankees play Game 5.

30Oct

My nails and I are ready for whatever’s next

These are my nails until Christmas week. What do you think?

28Oct

Jayden Daniels’ Hail Mary pass reminded me (and many others) of LSU’s Bluegrass Miracle

From Wikipedia: The Bluegrass Miracle was a 74-yard game-winning touchdown pass by the No. 16 LSU Tigers with no time left on the clock against the Kentucky Wildcats on November 9, 2002, at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky. The ball was tipped by a Kentucky player before being caught at the 15-yard line by Devery Henderson of LSU, who ran it in for the score. Background Kentucky, the home team, was the underdog to the defending SEC champion Tigers. LSU was ahead by as many as 14 points at one point and led 24–14 after a field goal with 13:58 left in the fourth quarter, but Kentucky came back with a 13–3 run to tie it at 27. However, a Kentucky player called the Wildcats' last timeout on first down from the LSU 11 with 15 seconds left on the clock, and rather than risking a turnover or a tackle within the field of play that would leave the clock running and the Wildcats unable to line up to spike the football, head coach Guy Morriss opted to send kicker Taylor Begley out to kick a 29-yard field goal, giving the Wildcats a 30–27 lead with 11 seconds left on the clock. LSU got the ball back, but the ensuing kickoff pinned the team at its own 9-yard line. On the first play of the series, the Tigers quickly got the ball to their own 26-yard line on a pass from quarterback Marcus Randall to wide receiver Michael Clayton. An LSU timeout stopped the clock with 2 seconds left, and set up a desperation Hail Mary pass. The chances for success were considered slim because Randall's arm was not strong enough to reach the opponent's end zone from 70+ yards away. Kentucky players were so confident that they had won the game that they gave Morriss a Gatorade bath before the final play had taken place.

The way the football game in suburban D.C. ended yesterday brought back memories of a game 22 years ago in Lexington, Kentucky.

26Oct

The ‘biological males’ commercials are ruining sports on TV for me

The use of “biological male” is smart when your target audience hasn’t learned much about biology since sleeping through class in school.

25Oct

‘Aw but he can’t take you any way you don’t already know how to go’

He’s just bringing it out of people. It was already in them.

23Oct

Few things are as satisfying to me as when someone gets the details right

The one where we learn what I have in common with Crash Davis (except, in all honesty, I get the words wrong on a lot of songs). Still …

22Oct

More gun violence, pain and terror as my nightmares continue

I try to write the headlines to these as their own content warning, so you won’t read them if they’d upset you. But this is no way to live.

21Oct

Happy Wonder Woman Day!

Happy Wonder Woman Day! Tag yourself! Which one are you?

21Oct

A partial list of the things I didn’t do or have or know in the early to mid-1980s

This is not one of those “what have we lost that we used to have” essays, although it started out with that as a possibility. Just a list.

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Month: October 2024

Happy Halloween from me and the Feminist Sticker Club

People are remembering Vin Scully’s words, but let’s not forget his well-timed silence

My nails and I are ready for whatever’s next

Jayden Daniels’ Hail Mary pass reminded me (and many others) of LSU’s Bluegrass Miracle

The ‘biological males’ commercials are ruining sports on TV for me

‘Aw but he can’t take you any way you don’t already know how to go’

Few things are as satisfying to me as when someone gets the details right

More gun violence, pain and terror as my nightmares continue

Happy Wonder Woman Day!

A partial list of the things I didn’t do or have or know in the early to mid-1980s