When I was maybe 8 I realized that all the boxing matches on TV, and there were still a lot of them back then, featured guys with records like 22-3 or 19-2. It may have been on a day when the pro football game was between a 2-7 team and a 4-6 team. It got me wondering, where were the boxers with losing records. When I asked my dad and his friends, they all laughed. One of them said, "you don't want to know." Like these guys. . . https://boxstat.co/boxer/18105-arnold-sam https://boxstat.co/boxer/19370-jordan-keepers
So I’ve been drinking a lot less since the summer, and I made a conscious decision to drink better stuff and when I do, I try to support local brewers, so without further ado, I give you my fave Toronto West End brewers: Bellwoods Brewery - their Jelly King variety is pretty widely available in southern ON, and I like all the different in season fruit versions as well. Halo Brewery - my true local brewery and pub, it’s a short walk from my place, fond of their Magic Missile and various Shape Shifter varieties. Bandit Brewery - easily the best patio around, and the Wizard of Gose is my go to. Blood Brothers Brewing - their Paradise Lost sours are fantastic, but their Blood Light wins best beer name IMO. There are around a dozen or so in my neighbourhood vicinity - Henderson’s, People’s Pint, and Junction Craft get honourable mentions.
This one has it all. Parking in Flushing, screaming, a baseball bat, martial arts and an irate NJ driver who will get an attempted murder charge. This parking spot fight in Flushing (NY) escalated quickly. 2020 is lit.Wait for all of it...https://t.co/sXHvQuvU7a— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 17, 2020
Damn. Time was when they'd hire somebody to whack the folks they didn't like. Now it's become all DIY up there...
I'm encouraged to see that whole bunch of people think this is bad. hopefully that will remain the case as years go by, but I wouldn't want to bet on it. Mad Max just popped into my head.
I decided to outright give up drinking a while back. But what I was drinking was local. Brew Detroit and Griffinclaw along with Japanese beer if I was eating ramen. A particular favorite from Detroit City games. Mexican friend of mine commented it was like being back home.
Apart from the one Presidential cult member, I like my facebook feed. Even the right is funny sometimes. One gave me this: As a side note, I met a guy who use to go to the same bar and met Dahmer. Said he was a nice guy.
After retiring from the RAF my brother has worked as a manager of a halfway house for paroled prisoners. At a family get together he almost caused a riot with the females present when he unthinkingly described one of the parolees - an infamous serial rapist - as "a nice bloke".
I have three species of woodpeckers (including some lovely redheaded woodpeckers) enjoying the woodpecker cake in the new birdfeeder I hung outside my home office last week. They seem pretty cool. Now, red squirrels, they are little bastages. The little jerk keeps trying to chase the much bigger grey and black squirrels.
47 years ago a 19 year old took over for a tranquilized Keith Moon The night in question was November 20th 1973, a time when one teenage fan managed to live out his dream and become, if only for a short while, the drummer in The Who. For one night only at the esteemed San Francisco’s Cow Palace in front of 14,000 fans, one Who fan lived out every fan’s fantasy. Scott Halpin didn’t even have a ticket before he and his friend made the trek from Monterey but even after snagging a ticket from outside the venue from a tout, nobody could have predicted the fairytale ending for the 19-year-old. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/who-keith-moon-replaced-audience-member/amp/
So, for those who watch F1, holy crap! I am glad Grosjean only has a few burns. For those who have not see it:
@Auriaprottu I share this re: Thriller as well. Will also add that I somewhat harbor this for Purple Rain. Great album but nowhere near Sign O The Times. Though with Purple Rain you have Computer Blue.