Cavs vs Knicks Behind the Box Score: Not the start we were hoping for
October 31, 2014LeBron returns home: WFNY On Location
October 31, 2014Happy LeBron morning after folks. I have no idea if the Cavs won or not. Here’s a little inside info. I write these ahead of time. Shhh! Don’t tell anyone! Here’s hoping it’s a great day and a great weekend.
“F**K! (pause) HEY!”
Adrenaline dump. Tachypsychia, is the technical term, but I’ll just call it an adrenaline dump. That’s what happened to me on what I’m going to assume is my last day running on the streets that I’ve been running on since we moved to Russell Ohio in 2008. We’re moving a few miles south in a couple weeks and one thing that will definitely change is my various paths and courses for running in the mornings, and it can’t come soon enough because I was *THIS* close to getting smashed into a million pieces by a car this morning. You never know what the appropriate response to nearly getting hit by a car might be, but apparently it’s “F**K! (pause) HEY!” screamed from the depths of your all-too-mortal soul.In a lot of ways it’s my own fault. Sure, I do have a right to run on the roads. Sure, I was wearing a hyper-green-yellow reflective jacket made by UnderArmour while also wearing a headlamp. (Think miner’s light, except without the hard hat helmet.) Still, this time of year at 6 a.m. while it’s dark as night out, I can’t possibly expect to run on a street combination consisting of Caves Road and Fairmount Road – even in country-ish Russell Ohio – and expect perfect safety. At some point, regardless of my rights and what I should be allowed to do, I know I’m flirting with danger. Why else would I wear that jacket and the headlamp?
I spoke with TD on the podcast the other day and we were talking about the volatility of NFL crowds and all the fight videos that show up on Monday mornings throughout an NFL season. I’ve still never been punched in the face during a fight.1 I’ve been close to fights before and it always ends up with me getting emotional like uncontrollable crying. And there I was trying to finish my run after an adrenaline dump, whimpering with tears rolling down my face in the cold dark morning of October in Ohio.
Here’s to new neighborhoods with some bike lanes and sidewalks.2
The younger the players, the more I feel sorry for them when they commit bloopers
If I really really feel sorry for a guy, I probably shouldn’t post his video for you all to see, but alas, I am going to show it anyway. Most people have seen it around the web by now, I’m sure. It’s gone “viral” as the kids say. This quarterback had a brain fart. He was running out the clock to win the game and he forgot to run out of bounds or take a knee after the clock expired. Instead, what should have been a game-winning moment for the kid went awfully wrong and he fumbled and he gave away the game. I really hate to see stuff like this with high school players. Now that we live in this new ever-connected world, this kid gets the same blooper treatment that was once reserved for pros like Bill Buckner.
Your weekly moment of soccer zen…
Love the camera angle on this goal. Awesome.
Capping my month of music with Minus the Bear
I had quite the month of music here in Cleveland. I saw The Appleseed Cast, J Mascis and then capped it off with Minus the Bear. It was an even crazier Fall season for me including Deafheaven, Mineral and a bunch of others. It felt like I was living part time at the Grog Shop and I loved every minute of it. Minus the Bear came to town and played one of their EPs from ten years ago from front to back. I knew I had to go see that show because that includes what is likely my favorite tune by the band, “I’m Totally Not Down with Rob’s Alien.” It’s a song that goes back to when they still insisted on goofy song titles, but it’s just so damn pretty. It’s on the mix of songs that I put on my kid playlist that plays in my kids rooms when they go to sleep.
That’s it folks. That’s all I’ve got other than to recommend (again) Loom by Pompeii. I recommended it last week and I’m still totally enthralled by it. It gets better and better with every listen for me. Especially the song “So Close.” There’s something about the vocals toward the end of that one that just gets me every time.
- There was that one hardcore show in Boston when I saw Candiria and a dude who was “dancing” hit me with a swinging backfist right to the bridge of the nose, but that doesn’t count. [↩]
- These kinds of stories are lies of omission between my wife and me. She’ll only find out about this if she reads my WWW this week. She’s scared enough for me when I go out running amongst the traffic. [↩]
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I do have a right to run on the roads
Public service announcement: not in Ohio you don’t. unless Russell has different laws from the state laws, if there is no sidewalk, then you are to remain as far away on the shoulder as possible and you must (not the car) yield and get out of the way to all traffic.
I say this as someone who once ran those roads myself and was notified by a policeman (rather politely) that Ohio laws are pretty strictly against pedestrians/runners. And, it doesn’t look like that has changed since I left:
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4511.50
Well thank god that we didn’t go all in emotionally and proclaim historical significance, with towering heaps of pomp. That would have been devastatingly deflating. Good thing.
I didn’t know it was possible to kick oneself in the junk…
don’t worry man. OKC will be okay though it’s going to be awfully tough for them to make the playoffs with Durant out for weeks and now Westbrook possibly done for 2014.
this was supposed to be their year too. SA never repeats, Cleveland has the 1st year with all it’s guys, the Clips are still the Clippers. It was setup for them. I guess it’s a little karmic kickback on stealing the Sonics from Seattle.
Pretty quiet around here for Friday.
C’mon, it was only one game.
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Part II of the Nike commercial series? It does not give me chills.
I know, but we all wanted Louisville to pull it off. Really frustrating to see the Seminoles copying the 2002 Buckeyes patented method of coming back to win a bunch of games after digging themselves a hole.
Well that’s discouraging, but I was far into the shoulder and the car that almost hit me was over the white line denoting the shoulder. So this car was actually into the shoulder and not between their lines.
Yeah, it is discouraging. I just wanted to make sure you knew the law because the motorists are protected in Ohio more than almost any other state. So, you have to be extra careful (as it does seem you do). Not trying to assign fault in your particular or any other case.
Glad to hear you are moving to a place with sidewalks though. It makes for a less stressful run 🙂
4, 5, 6. Together!
” made by UnderArmour”
what, are you getting paid for product placement?
Your Honuh,
Ah submit that my client, Mr. Lyndall, was not “walking,” as clea-uhly stated, duhlineated, and specified by the statute in question. Rathuh, he was clearly runnin’, and ah am prepared to present ah-witness eviduhnce to the fact that not only was Mr. Lyndall runnin’, but he was runnin’ at uh high rate of speed, roughly equivuhlent to uh cheetuh. This code clearly does not uhply to pedestriuhns runnin’ like cheetuhs.
[Disclaimer: I am not licensed to practice law in Ohio.]
Trust me. I get it. As much as I hate it sometimes, I understand contributory negligence and things like that.
How can you disagree with a Southern accent? Though, it does seem to be a proper Southern not the preferred Nashville twang.
Woohoo!
David Brandon is resigning!
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2014/10/michigan_ad_dave_brandon_to_re.html
I love that resigning and re-signing mean the opposite things but use the exact same letters in the same order.
It was more of a deep Alabama/Mississippi drawl. And you couldn’t even see the seersucker suit I put on just to type that. Basically, a slam dunk, open and shut case.
True. I was really hoping that he would resign, not resign.
Great. Now I have to wash and sanitize my mouse cursor after clicking on a M*ch*g*n link.
We have similar laws in PA. That does not, however, prevent me from running on the road (inside of the shoulder) and doing everything I can to get cars to move over. I frankly feel much safer running in the road than I do running on the shoulder, and I don’t feel safe yielding (yeah, I’m “that guy”), so I take my own safety and legal protection into my own hands. It scares me to even attempt to run in the dark or twilight, though. There are so many people that simply don’t pay attention to the road – and you see it more when you run than ever. It’s scary. Glad you’re going to have a place to run safely. Wish I had the same.
During my daily . . . um, walk, I sometimes visit neighborhoods without sidewalks just for variety and I have to step it out on the shoulder. What scares me the most are drivers who are texting or otherwise fiddling with their phones. You can see their downcast eyelids as they whiz by. I want to throw a rock at them.
I’ve often thought about tapping these cars as they go by, and then falling on the side of the road, writhing in false agony, just to prove a point. But then I think of the actual laws and stuff, and the fact that I honestly try to not be that big of a d!@#, and always refrain. Still think it would be high comedy, though.
Hmmm, by proper Southern, I thought it was Georgian. My mistake. I think it was in the “duhlineated” that threw me off. That and not being able to hear if the accent peaked on the upper octaves or lower.
If I tried that here, then I would run the risk of hearing “honeh, I dun hit anotta won” and the terrifying response of “y’all bedda put it outta is miss airy”
well worth it to see that team up North bellyaching.
There’s more of a “roar” to prohpoh Geo-oar-gian Southron talk. I was definitely going for the more lazy, drawn-out, Gulf-watuhs speak. My favorite, though, has got to be the Virginian tidewater dialect, but it’s hard to spell out that easy-flowin’, aristrocratic staccato.
Yeah. Understood.
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You didn’t expect me to post a link from the 4-letter, did you/
There is nothing better than hearing a real live born ‘n bred Cajun talk the language. And no, I’m not even going to attempt it here.
Au contraire mon frere.
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Ya got blood on ma truck boy.
Definitely. The only thing better is that real Texan garble – like Boomhauer from King of the Hill. I didn’t know the language actually existed until I heard if for myself. It’s like the first group of people to move there took the Cajun roll, mixed it with Kentucky/Tennessee mountain twang, Mississippi/Alabama drawl, and Georgian roar, the seasoned it with Mexican spice and just a pinch of sharp Yankee ingenuity, and then just said, “aw hell, we quit.” It is purely and utterly indecipherable.
Right now it seems that people are bellyaching. It doesn’t seem the outright rejoice that we had when the Browns released Weeden. Perhaps it’s just my outsider’s perspective.
Regardless, you have been here before. AD fired because the football team isn’t doing well, new AD brought in to hire a new FB coach. I’d say Brady (C)Hoke didn’t pan out and RichRod before him has done just fine since leaving that state up North.
Until the internal conflict that is undermining the program is resolved (and doesn’t have much to do with the actual team), then this issue is just getting a makeover.
Do you think that they are actually fixing issues? (I honestly don’t know, so curious if there are signs of it)
I thought it was indecipherable the first several times I heard it too. If you hear it enough though, then you actually can make out most of the words while they are talking (they make the best homemade XMAS stuff out on those farms), which is actually terrifying when you realize you understand them.
Oh, and it comes down to being just mumbling, fast redneck in dialect. So, lots of “Hadens” and “Idens” and “Wadens” mixed in with the Y’alls and Sometins and such. Just done really fast and soft with giggling mixed in to throw you off.
First that, and now French?
No, no, no. That’s Northwest Texas where they are so crude.
I’m in the pleasant “Heart of Texas” where they’ll be as polite as they can be right up until the point where you get shot. If you are lucky, then you might even get a delightful sip of sweet tea before they shoot you..
Brandon’s biggest mistake is that he has alienated students as well as alumni, by turning the “football experience” into a corporate event.
The failure of his hire, Hoke, to even show improvement has just exacerbated the situation.
And for the record, I liked the RR hire. He would have eventually fixed his defensive woes.
Savannah has it’s own accent. It’s more of a smooth low tonal thing. Charleston is the same way.
Atlanta has no such accents.
As the saying goes…”When you leave Atlanta, you’re in Georgia.”
Since we are airing grievances against motorists let me add people that make right hand turns without ever looking left. I was running one time and ended squarely on the hood of a girls car who took off from a drive throuhh window and never turned her head past 4 ocllock. Living in a college town you take your life in your hands doing anything in te streets. Ive talen to rapping the hoods of
Cars waiting to turn left at stoplights because they never look both ways. Ohio hates outdoor physical fitness
The Semenoles who cares I’m not excited for the next penal league player in Winston to fake becoming a professional when it’s all about the $$$$$!
Dude!
You have laws in PA? HA. now that’s a good one.
SI.com ranks all NBA teams based on celebrity fans:
http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2014/10/30/ranking-every-nba-team-their-celebrity-fans
I don’t know why I said that. I like my jacket, I guess. Plus, I was looking for a picture as well to show everyone just how reflective and bright it is.
Yeah, as a Buckeye fan, I hated the RichRod hire. He’s a really good football coach. As it wore on, he ended up being the exactly wrong hire because his people skills are not great and they really needed someone to win over the Bo-crowd guys since he was an outsider.
It will be interesting to see where you go from here.
as someone who lived 8 years in Atlanta, I concur. I once had a job in college delivering TVs and appliances. I worked in Stone Mountain with a guy named Buster and his wife Dot. I once answered the phone and got hung up on only to learn that my Yankee accent threw off the caller. Atlanta is definitely not Georgia.
I like Atlanta, because it’s full of yankees.
Love “They Make Beer Commercials Like This” and “Dog Park” is by far my favorite track on it. “Menos El Oso” is probably my favorite album of theirs, front-to-back.
MTB made me sad, though, as starting with “Planet of Ice” they drifted away from what made them unique and great. “OMNI” was a terrible, terrible album, and I have almost no interest in anything they’ve done since.
http://youtu.be/6PcZqpOba60