@meispeter
Black Lives Matter. Trans people are who they say. Cis/He. Geek. Polyamorous. Humanist. Imperfect. Baseball (SABR). Star Trek. Music. Animation. Muppets. Fountain pens. "Non-traditional" (read: "old") student. Relentlessly forgetful. AKA sliver7.
I wonder how Italian players (i.e., Italian nationals/citizens, esp. those playing in Italy's Serie A) feel about being left off the World #Baseball Classic roster in favor of a bunch of (mostly) Americans with Italian last names.
It's giving, "YOU'LL JUST SCREW UP THE #WBC! LEMME DO IT!"
IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD TOLD THEM THEY NEEDED TO WIN ALL THEIR GAMES TO BE GUARANTEED TO ADVANCE! 😱
🙄
Or that Dodge "WE THREW TEA INTO THE HARBOR SO BUY A RAM TRUCK!" one.
They do.
I propose we refer to them as Team Olive Garden.
Like… Nothing wrong with some Olive Garden now and then. Goodness knows I'm not opposed.
Just don't expect traditional Italian food when you go. It's Italian-themed American food.
That "UH-MERIKA! FUCK YEAH!" Budweiser ad with the horse and the eagle?
I'm so tired of the pandering.
Teenage crush which never ended.
Wouldn't you rather be at this beautiful ballpark on a gorgeous day watching a baseball game? I bet it's a lot nicer than whatever you're doing at work.
Greetings (for the final time on this trip) from Hiram Bithorn Stadium in beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Today's World #Baseball Classic matchup features #Colombia 🇨🇴 vs #Panama 🇵🇦
#WBC
It's the ballpark! With rain! No lightning or thunder, at least, and the weather is really pleasant otherwise.
Didn't start on time, and it's not gonna finish without an interruption.
Top of the 9th, and we got a rain delay.
#Baseball #WBC
Did you know that Puerto Rico gets rain? I had no idea this tropical island was so prone to getting wet!
Greetings, once again from Hiram Bithorn Stadium in beautiful San Juan Puerto Rico, where tonight's World #Baseball Classic game between Panama and Canada is not starting on time.
#WBC
Just look at this nearly perfect sight. Beautiful stadium. Wonderful weather. Ahhh... Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks
Greetings from Hiram Bithorn Stadium in beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico, where this afternoon @spoiledprincess.bsky.social and I are here to witness a World #Baseball Classic matchup between Colombia and Cuba!
#WBC
Think it'll work?
A view from a starboard window just behind the wing of a Southwest Airlines 787-800, en route over an ocean with light clouds. In the top right corner of the image is the moon
Greetings from somewhere over the Bahamas, where @spoiledprincess.bsky.social and I are on our way to Puerto Rico for a few days.
Fixing good?
Has he tried turning it off and back on again?
I have spoken
the words
that were in
your dictionary
and which
you were probably
saving
for discourse
Forgive me
they were confusing
so unsure
and so imprecise
(With apologies to William Carlos Wiiliams)
And who defines the dictionary? Are they allowed to change/evolve with language? What allowances do you make for regional dialects?
Is it so hard to simply ask for clarification if you don't understand immediately?
Clearly, any mere plebs without a perfect grasp of language and nuance — as this particular paramount of perfection defines it — deserve to be neither seen nor heard.
'Star Trek: The Next Generation' clip #OfTheDay, from season 4, episode 21, "The Drumhead".
No reason except that it seems relevant.
Tonight's "near-past classic" #kpop #music #parody, feat. a wonderful cameo by the immortal James Hong.
I feel bad for the family of Nancy Guthrie. Didn't know who she is or why anyone would know her before her apparent kidnapping.
But, holy shit, can we get even half this amount of press coverage and concern for the tens of thousands of non-white people who go missing in the US every single year‽
A tabby cat, lounging on a concrete slab under a picnic table. Looks like she's been groomed recently.
I like finding random #cats. Or, rather, when random cats find me. Though in this case, it was @spoiledprincess.bsky.social that got found by this little cutie.
Of course, a domestic cat still shouldn't be allowed to roam freely outside, but at least she was friendly and personable.
Happy Birthday to everyone's favorite porcine superstar, Porky Pig!
#Porky debuted on this day 91 years ago (2 March 1935), in the Merrie Melodies short, "I Haven't Got a Hat" (excerpted here), becoming one of Warner Bros.' first true break-out #animated stars.
Observation of the day:
Roger Rabbit was a glorified stunt man, but Baby Herman was a real actor.
#OfTheDay
So... does she want someone to throw a damn party for her?
It is, as the kids might say, "a banger".
Archival photos of Calamity Jane, dated 1885. Acquired via Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CalamityJane.JPG
Calamity Jane is also worth looking up. She, too, was connected to both Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody.
Who knows how accurate the doctor's watch (or the hospital's clock) was on that cold fall day so many years ago, or if the subsequent recording of that time even matched it in the first place? 🤷🏼♂️
Random memory of the day:
As a teenager, I once traded my CD of Guns N' Roses' 'Use Your Illusion II' (1991) for the Ren & Stimpy album, 'You Eediot!' (1993).
To this day, I feel I got the better end of that trade by a wide margin.
#Music #MusicSky #OfTheDay
If there's one thing about this I absolutely do NOT have, it's an abundance of overconfidence.
And I'm sure @spoiledprincess.bsky.social will have other perspectives about how stubborn I am (or am not).