which female tv stars daughter is this?
remember that thing from that time? yeah, that was cool.
the bridge returns tonight for season two on fx. ive seen mostly positive reviews after a first season that was a mixed bag but former tv reviewer for the av club and now culture editor for vox isnt completely convinced.
argentina v. netherlands seems like a more difficult match up to predict than yesterdays though im sure no one expected the drubbing that brasil endured. ill vote with my heart and take argentina though the loss of playmaker angel di maria will make messi's task more difficult. their defense was pretty stout in shutting down belgiums many attacking options but none of which were as decisive and determined as arjen robben has been for the dutch. something about an all european final in brasil seems wrong so root for la albiceleste so they can persist only to get mowed down by the germans on sunday.
semifinal match between brasil and germany today. got my money on germany but as i only bet myself im assured a win though my bookie still took his vig. seems like i could have worked that out better but i just couldnt trust myself to pay up without the lingering threat of reprisal.
25 thoughts on the 25th anniversary of seinfeld
at the ripe old age of 32 the tennis gods granted roger federer one last shot at a wimbledon title. currently slugging it out in a first set tiebreaker with djokovic on espn. and, federer takes the first set....
kind of put the world cup out of my mind since the unfortunate events on tuesday. but here we are in the quarterfinals with france v. germany on now and columbia v. brasil later. somehow i think germany will get through though i guess im rooting for france. note to american uniform makers: that is a much better red, white and blue look.
as for the later game, i guess im all in on columbia though i have no problem with brasil continuing on. they must have a transcendent game in them at some point in this tournament despite an underwhelming striker who goes by the singular "fred".
aaaaand germany goes up 1-0.
welcome to post world cup soccer!
not all of these reports pan out but this one seems pretty confident that everybodys favorite vampire will be joining the team i have a rooting interest for once his suspension is lifted. suarez will join messi and neymar on barcelonas front line. theres no assurance that they will mesh (as messi and neymar last season did not necessarily bring out the best in each other) but "on paper" it is a scary proposition.
st marks bookstore out of astor, pierogies store closes on first ave., bereket shuttered.
france and germany up today facing the only two teams remaining with longer odds than the us of progressing, nigeria and algeria respectively. lets hope the big upset is kept on ice until tomorrow.
anybody catch the leftovers premiere on hbo last night? a small town in the southwest deals with the aftermath of a world wide rapture-like experience. its full of cult-y weirdoes and latter day messiahs. its a co-adaptation between the author of the source material, tom perotta, and damon lindelof of lost infamy, which is a shadow that the show will fall under. already it seems that the central mystery of what happened will never be answered which is sure to frustrate if that is your expectation.
i wasnt completely smitten but it seems like an interesting enough concept to see where its headed if only to be told later that it is ultimately a family drama riven with symbolic intent.
more importantly i just read that the angsty daughter from the family at the center of the drama is andie mcdowell's daughter. upon verifying this fact i came upon this photo verifying that andie mcdowell's genes are well cared for heading into the future. hopefully whoever delivered the xy chromosome brought along some acting ability to add to the mix.
if only he could appreciate the irony:
Luis Suarez: 'I lost my balance'
they just threw up scaffolding in the building next door which has shrouded my kitchen in a pall for the unforeseeable future. my only solace is knowing my topless morning perambulations will afford them far less than the cheapest of thrills unless hairy and pauchy is their idea of an adonis.
OMG baby loons are cute (and tiny) scroll through
if you had asked me if i knew anyone that would deliver a ted talk (even one aimed at youths) i would have been hard pressed to name anyone. not that the world doesnt want to hear what all of you have to say. but it has happened or i can only assume it has as it is in spanish and "tedtalk" may mean something else entirely in that language. maybe they were talking about world cup highlights, ya know, the important stuff. this is my friend from puerto rico, at least ill claim she is my friend, though i havent spoken to her in a number of years, as i still am on the mailing list for her business.
Found this WaPo story, from 2007, buried in a long comment thread:
Even in a country gripped by daily bloodshed, the possibility of a catastrophic failure of the Mosul Dam has alarmed American officials, who have concluded that it could lead to as many as 500,000 civilian deaths by drowning Mosul under 65 feet of water and parts of Baghdad under 15 feet, said Abdulkhalik Thanoon Ayoub, the dam manager. "The Mosul dam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability," in the dry wording of an Army Corps of Engineers draft report.
Haven't seen any mention of it anywhere else. If the described scenario is correct (both in ease of destroying the dam and the size of the resulting catastrophe,) it would seem like an easy way for ISIS to keep at bay any attempt to get them out of Mosul. Just wire up the dam and say "If you come for us, and we need to retreat, we will blow it up."
