Bought the ocean plastic jersey. They will do numbers (zz top only) for 40 dollars. It looks better in person
This just reminded me of a time when I was at a bar with some random Crew fans and one of them was telling us about the time his van broke down and all of a sudden, here's Marcelo Carrera to give the guy the help to get back on the road again. (I think I have the story right. It was close to 20 years ago.)
I remembered his name, but couldn't remember if he posted here. There was that other guy once known as Froggy's New Pants, but he seemed to have changed his SN. He may or may not have been the guy who owns (owned?) Roots Records. I wonder what happened to him. I haven't seen him around in a while.
I believe something happened between him and Asher Mendolson. I think Asher went off on him for trying to attend training when Gregg closed the doors to fans. I think he had enough at that point and hasn't been around since.
I remember that now. He was definitely involved for a little bit after, as I remember hearing that from him at a Crew event. He did have some sort of special arrangement/VIP treatment with Robert to watch practice. Obviously, Asher/3G wanted to end that arrangement. I can't tell people how to spend their money. It's their money. But one thing that does seem odd to me to is when people harbor grudges against former employees but still have the company in that same mindset. If there was a restaurant and I didn't like a certain waiter, but if I learned the waiter left the position, would I go back? Depending on the circumstances, I might. But that's me and my money. For others, it's a "fool me once" situation.
Photo from 11 months ago pic.twitter.com/BLNeE8ttvb— Jim Early ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@saturn500f) May 27, 2021 The shape of the sign outside the experience center in the Short North from close to a year ago. A basic design decision re: the new crest didn't happen recently.
A couple of weeks ago, SNL did a trailer send-up of Mare of Easttown. Now, I've never spent any time in Philly (but I've heard people from there talk and I know a little of the geography), but I was laughing hysterically at this as I watched it live on TV! I'm really interested on KGilbert's take on this parody! "Would youse guys stop eatin Wawa hoagies ouver de body, pleass?"
I liked the Tina Fey one before the Iggles Super Bowl win better. But this one made me laugh. Some of it was spot on. Some was not. And Wawa wasn't that big when I was a kid, as least in my part of the Delaware Valley. The Biden comment was funny too (I mean, I remember him when he was young). But they missed a couple--like "yo" and "jeet" (which means "did you eat"). There's also "jawn", which I have no idea about as it came into the vernacular after I moved to Ohio. I may have noted this before, but I've found it funny that my sister now has an accent (it's not that she's changed, but that I have and can hear it now). https://matadornetwork.com/read/expressions-learn-visit-philadelphia/ https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/philadelphia-slang-pa/ There's a few they missed (and some may have vanished over the years). serve = deliver (used in standard English for things like a court summons but more general in Philly). When I was a paper boy a a kid, my mom would tell me to "go serve your papers". Mare = mayor (the title of the show may be a actually be a pun) "in town" = downtown (as in "I'm going in town") soda = pop (this is East Coast, but it comes out "soder" or "sody") "juwanna" = "do you want to" (a close relative of "jeet"). "Mom mom and pop pop" = grandparents "stoop" = steps/stairs into a house (often fairly high, as Philly has a a lot of hills). You hang out on the "front stoop" when the weather is good. The one about the ATM I never used either, as ATM's came into wider use after I left (it was called "Rosy" at Penn State--though most of us just used checks--some stores had a special office to cash checks for students, with, of course, a small fee).
I like Mare of Easttown, though I'm not sure how much they'll tie up in the last episode since the murder has already been solved. IMO a better cop show is the British show Line of Duty which aired season 6 recently but it isn't available in the US yet. Anyway for fans of that show, here's a parody featuring the real actors.
The British have this kind of show down to a science. These programs have made up an unusually high percentage of our TV watching during the pandemic.
The Germans do a pretty good job with police procedurals too--but there's very few in translation. One of the NE Ohio PBS stations used to show some on (I think) Saturday evenings--We'd see them occasionally when we were up in Avon Lake as one of the cable systems had that particular station. I always liked SK Koelsch, for example (one episode was soccer related as Hennes (the live 1 FC Koeln mascot) was murdered).
Not to belabor this topic about which relatively few care but I recently moved back to Ohio after living roughly ten years in Central, rural PA (Bloomsburg). Shamokin, Schuylkill, Berwick, a dozen towns that look exactly like Easttown.with exactly those people. People certainly have a distinct patois but it's not nearly as Philadelphia as some here think. Several of the actors, including Winslet and Julianne Nicholson, have it down
One of the more enjoyable TV detours I took this past year were a bunch of YouTube videos featuring Erik Singer, who's a dialect coach. He produced a bunch of videos for WIRED where he assessed the quality of accents used by actors in movies and on TV, as well as a three part series on regional dialects in the US. He also has his own channel about how you teach and learn accents. Sounds boring to a lot of people, but if you find this kind of thing interesting, check him out: https://www.eriksinger.com/