Saturday, August 31, 2024
The point of this is that the game cannot resume until 30' after the last lightning flash.
Rich Scarcella
@nittanyrich
The delay here is now 90 minutes old. And we just saw another lightning bolt. #PennState
3:34 PM · Aug 31, 2024
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So this means the game cannot restart until 4:04 at the earliest.
Pushing Buttons
“Donald Trump is surrendering to his advisors who won’t allow him to debate with a live microphone. If his own team doesn’t have confidence in him, the American people definitely can’t. We are running for President of the United States. Let’s debate in a transparent way — with the microphones on the whole time.”-Kamala on X.
“The memo sent by ABC is a draft set of rules that both campaigns need to sign off on and indicate agreement. We have not done so because we think both candidates have expressed a clear desire to have hot mics. Not clear why Trump staff is overruling their principal, who should be capable of making up his own mind.”-Harris spokesperson Brian Fallon wrote on X.
I LOVE it.
Pitt 42 Kent 24, 3:34 3Q
They've been in delay down Morgantown way since 2:04 ET. It's weird that this game, played "in a lonely field beyond Fort Pitt" is not delayed and that one is. Pittsburgh and Couch Burn are 90 miles apart as they swing from tree to tree and the storm cell causing the lightning is a little closer to us than is is to them.
Hammerheads 1 City 2, 53'
Erling with both our goals.
FT Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Nottingham Forest Sheriffs 1
Tackle
Jawja (1) 6 It's Probation Time Again Y'all (14) 0, HT
Couch Burn 6 Paterno-Sandusky (8) 20, HT
The Powerful "Panthers" of Pittsburgh 28 THE Kent State "Golden Flashes" 14, HT
I believe Bleak House, yes, I am reading it again, to be Dickens' finest work, and chapter one to be the finest chapter in his finest work. I lost my original, tattered paperback a month or so ago and bought a new one. The new had the effect of a first reading, without the underlining and dog-eared pages of my original copy. I saw different things. Thought I saw other things that weren't there. For somehow, I restarted reading not with chapter one and got all the way up to page 155. I thought I had found a mistake on the master's part, a mention of Mr. Tulkinghorn before he had been introduced. I realize that seems conceited on my part but. Dickens wrote this and other of his books in serial fashion in periodicals. That mode gives the book a herky-jerky feel, as if he forgot what he wrote two or three weeks before. There is no doubt that the mode of serialization does give that disjointed feel to Bleak House, also to account for its 850-page length but I was wrong, as I discovered re-reading from the beginning, that he had made the glaring mistake with Tulkinghorn.
What I have noticed on this re-read are certain consistent themes woven in and out of the various chapters. Children are a prominent, often dominant, theme in many of Dickens' works. Children are not, I would say, the red-lights-blaring dominant theme of Bleak House, as they are in, e.g. David Copperfield or Oliver Twist. Children are colored a bit more subtly in Bleak House. There is the man-child Harold Skimpole, a man who uses his child-like breezy carelessness as a mask for the devious man concealed beneath. Don't ever remember a real child in Dickens colored darkly with some black.
There is Esther Summerson, of course, her surname a play on her disposition. But in Esther's mother, Lady Honoria Dedlock, all stern, elite mask, very early on Dickens' glimpses us a look at children and Lady Dedlock. From her window in Chesney Wold, "My Lady Dedlock (who is childless)..." sees a young child of estate workers running in the rain to greet her father as her mother gives chase. This puts Lady Dedlock "quite out of temper" and she says she has been 'bored to death'. For what reason she and her husband, Sir Leicester, go (flee) to Paris. That's on pages 10 and 11. Much later on, p. 152, in Paris, Lady Dedlock sees the poor "gay...playing with children" and is "bored to death". Even her own maid is having fun, for which Lady Dedlock "almost hated her". "She cannot, therefore, go too fast from Paris...the imperfect remedy is always to fly".Lady Dedlock continues to flee throughout the novel, flees to her own child, Esther, and then flees away from all, child and adult, to her death in the graveyard where Esther's father was buried.
I didn't notice on prior readings how subtly Dickens uses children to color Lady Dedlock's character.
This Morning
Biased RCP's biased average of the good, bad, and biased polls has Kamala up a smidge to +1.8 nationally, +0.2 over all swings, ahead in three, behind in three, tied in Nevada, 270 EVs and the presidency.
And Nevada investors putting a leetle more money on the blues to win the White House, 49.5%-49.3%.
538 has the Kama Walz +3.3 nationally.
You see this skit all the time truncated at the end of the original joke. But the shortened version doesn't do Louis' comedic genius full credit. He finishes original gag and then walks to his stool. "Well, it didn't really happen." Audience laughs. Pauses, picks up water bottle, takes a swig. Audience laughs and claps. "This is what really happened, I'm not going to lie to you again." He ADMITS to the audience that he just lied to them! You get to see how his mind work. He tells the audience how his mind works. "We're really the same people, it's kind of hard to lose an argument when rhe other person is you too." A comedian telling an audience how his mind works...Admitting to his audience that he lied because, "It's as true as anything that really did happen." "Anybody somebody says something to me I just decide what they said anyway." Rare, rare, rare, that.
Louis CK, "My neighbor George", live in Arizona.
The Little Engine That Can't
Sorry, sorry Arsenal are choking a little early this season. A 1-1 draw with Brighton AND Hove White People sticks in their craw.
Pitt leading rusher Rodney Hammond Jr. declared ineligible--Espo
Gonna be a longgg season for mi el "panteras."
