The Giants are the best record in baseball and are on pace for 104 wins. Reaching 100 would be the seventh time in 120 seasons. The radio announcer said something about best record in 100 years.
They are also leading the league in homers and have nine players with double figures, starting with Yaz with 21 —Bryant has six here and 18 in Chicago.
The New York Times noted the handshakes offered by third base coach Ron Wotus:
Kris Bryant, Friday August 13
The New York Times columnist called out the University of Wisconsin performative and ludacris act of Racial equity When it dragged off into the night a 50 ton Boulder, merely because 100 years ago a newspaper article referred to the rock by the offensive vernacular term of the day “N-word head”
Immediately I also thought of Michael Heizer and his “levitated mass” which is on display in Los Angeles. People got up early to watch the transport of a giant rock. Heiser’s father was an anthropologist who studied how ancient cultures would drag giant rocks to form sacred structures like Stonehenge.
Deyoung museum had an exhibit of indigenous New World Americans of the Americas and their colossal head as also did Los Lobos.
Don was it cool hand Luke movie where prisoners had to move piles of rocks back-and-forth just for punishment ?
Is there a no hiding place down there?
Bw
Los Lobos or a support act at Greek LA sent by Earthwise affiliate Eric Cohen
warning: this might be Chinese propaganda:
“Fort Detrick, more like a witch’s cauldron. How many plots came out of your labs? How many dead bodies hanging a tag? What you’re hiding, open the door to Fort Detrick. Cause transparency is your favorite. OK, great. America first. We want, want the truth.”
A rap song created by Chinese rappers went viral on Wednesday due to its sharp lyrics taking aim at the Fort Detrick lab.
“Open the Door to Fort Detrick” was written by Chinese rap group Tianfu Shibian, or CD REV, from Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. In the song, the band urges the US government to open the Fort Detrick lab to an international investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
The lyrics in the rap song soon captured the attention of many netizens in China after the music video was reposted by Chinese media outlets such as the Xinhua News Agency on Sina Weibo. In comments under the video, Sina Weibo users called for an investigation into the Fort Detrick lab to be carried out as soon as possible, adding that the lab should cooperate if it is not trying to hide anything.
“We want the truth. Open the door to Fort Detrick. Shed light on tightly held secret. When things are stalemated, let the judges in, medical pros, they are ready for this,” the song’s lyrics go.
“It was just a sudden feeling. I felt so angry and thought we have to rap it out,” Wang Zixin, one of the members of CD REV, told the Global Times, explaining how discussion on social media that the US was not allowing an investigation into Fort Detrick inspired the group to speak out through song.
On August 11, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, forwarded the music video on Twitter, where the video has earned more than 18,000 views.
The band remarked that having such a high ranking official take notice of their song was a very proud moment for them.
“I thought he was someone who never listened to rap music, I felt interdimensional.”
A Twitter user commented under Zhao’s tweet, saying that “For the benefit of all mankind, we strongly urge the WHO to investigate Fort Detrick in the United States and the US military biological laboratories all over the world.”
It seems like if the US army as psy ops can blast AC/DC at Muslims fighters in Iraq that the Chinese government can use rap music and rappers posing as hipsters but are actually agents to try to convince people that we and not they are to blame for the coronavirus.
George H Ruth
Bw
In early work by Lava Thomas available at Brantsen Gallery at Minnesota Street its cast and it says that when Black people and white people mix they are called high yellow:
And1: As a young white baseball fan on the southside of Chicago I remember being a fan of Billy Williams and then later realizing that he was considered Black
Thanks again David hi Smith for hosting the event and taking these pictures how did you get the one of yourself? (Directly above the one of me)
And1:
Pinky Kushner mentioned that her daughter was a novelist; her career has blossomed in these 10 years. Kudos, Kushners. Highsmith mentioned to me that he has four daughters and is a new Poppa.
https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Crowd-Essays-2000-2020/dp/1982157690
Tickets at $15 at EventBrite.
Note: Sal “The Barber” Maglie was 23-6 in his best year for the Giants, in 1951 but never lived to see Barbara Manning of the SF Seals.
Barbara Manning and the SF Seals perform songs from their classic album at Mitchell Park Community Center El Palo Alto Room on Saturday, November 20, 2021, courtesy of Earthwise Productions. Tickets are $15 at EventBrite.
Note: Barbara Manning recalls that when she played in Palo Alto previously, at Earthwise Productions’ “Cubberley Sessions” at the old high school, there was a poster that featured Sal Maglie of the New York Giants, also known as “The Barber’ — he gave the hitters a close shave. Which reminds me that I had a long conversation by phone with Dave Dempsey who was the starting point guard for San Carlos High the year I was a reserve guard for the champion Titans, who went 25-3. We lost to San Carlos early in the season, won 22 straight, then lost to SI in the finals — we beat San Carlos in overtime in the CCS playoffs. Dave Dempsey was actually better known as a baseball player; his father and son played pro. He said that Con Dempsey led the Pacific Coast League in strikeouts and ERA in his rookie season but then Branch Rickey of the Pirates made him change his motion from sidearm to full overhand. Which hurt Dempsey and ruined his pro career. Moral of the story: be yourself.
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