Mostly Hinged Titans Preview (2023) and Week 1 (Woo Hoo!) Open Thread

First of all, happy LaboUr Day. I hope you have a totally, not-communist holiday experience, unlike those inopportune May Days over at Michael Flynn's. But there's a bit of class struggle thingy that merits consideration. This RBs are interchangeable narrative is... I hate it. It's a self-fulfilling capitalist market prophecy, of

CFL Beat: Week 10

Well, hello. Your friendly neighboUrhood Maestro is on sabbatical in Europe with Lady Maestro. You get me for a sub on this instalment of CFL Beat, for which I gladly volunteered my talent. Which won’t be necessary after all. Maestro, being generous and dutiful, left a post skeleton (great), and

Mind Reboot – PRESEASON Open Thread

Training camps are underway and the Hall of Fame Game is next Thursday. Call me Rod Stewart’s stomach ‘cause I’m pumpT. Mental preparations and rationing the dopamine after Nuk Hopkins signed with TEN is already underway. Inwardly, I have cleared headspace and restored Fantasías to NFL settings. Outwardly, yesterday I started vibing

Alone: A Pre-Preseason Tale and Open Thread

It is the Sunday morning before the start of NFL training camps. (Ed. note: Woooo!) Roger Goodell goes to the underground pool of NFL headquarters to work out some stuff. He carries a canvas tote bag with the NFL logo, takes a tablet out and places it on a stand,

Art Talk, Gimme a Break It’s Still July – Offseason Sunday Open Thread

I have dedicated much of my life to useless pursuits and I have the liberal arts degree to prove it. Let’s set aside the liberal and focus on the aggrandizing, classist, hazy, subjective, undefinable and worthless “art”. It’s not Science nor Technology nor Engineering nor Mathematics. Nor Accounting nor Business

Summer Reading – Offseason Sunday Open Thread

[Opens book] The village of Carrasco de la Virgen settled by the banks of the river Torrente as if preordained by an indifferent god. It fell on a valley brimming with all kinds of animal life and vegetation.   Ooh... Angry leopards maybe?   Humble olive trees overwhelmed in number but there were all kinds

A Bathroom Full of Secrets – Offseason Sunday Open Thread

I am still shaken over a couple of things about the indictment against Trump for keeping, stealing, and hiding intelligence documents on U.S. nukes and other countries' military capabilities. Although “hiding” might be giving too much credit to Trump. Those confidential papers were kept in open boxes stacked around a

Ungovernable – Offseason Sunday Open Thread

We enter summer, always a good time to stir shit up. School is out, kids run rampant (especially the ones in summer school), folks are traveling, absenteeism gets frequenter… These circumstances are ripe for upending authority and get revolts cookin’. Just off the top of my head, these are three