World Cup day 4, cont. ⚽️
– Spain 🇪🇸 7, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 0: as with France, this is how sharks should dispatch minnows
– Belgium 🇧🇪 1, Canada 🇨🇦 0: result doesn’t match which team played exciting, attacking ball & which looked flat (plus Canada should’ve had another PK)
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World Cup day 4 ⚽️
– Morocco 🇲🇦 0, Croatia 🇭🇷 0: watching Morocco deadlock with Modrić‘s team not as worth getting up early for as the ARG upset
– Germany 🇩🇪 1, Japan 🇯🇵 2: speaking of upsets! Germans fail to score from open play, & the Japanese punish them for it
World Cup day 3, cont. ⚽️
– Mexico 🇲🇽 0, Poland 🇵🇱 0: another goalless draw, with a soft PK saved by Ochoa (ball don’t lie)
– France 🇫🇷 4, Australia 🇦🇺 1: this is how a dominant team dominates
World Cup day 3 ⚽️
– Argentina 🇦🇷 1, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 2 (!): 500 offside calls saved the Saudis, then a couple stolen goals made them giant-slayers
– Denmark 🇩🇰 0, Tunisia 🇹🇳 0: a red & white grudge match
World Cup day 2 ⚽️
– England 🏴 6, Iran 🇮🇷 2: underdog Iranians steal 2 but English dominate
– Senegal 🇸🇳 0, Netherlands 🇳🇱 2: Senegalese hold Dutch at bay until late
– USA 🇺🇸 1, Wales 🏴 1: Yanks get a narrow lead but not enough to get past Bale
World Cup day 1 ⚽️
– Qatar 🇶🇦 0, Ecuador 🇪🇨 2: the hosts wilted under the pressure of the opener, and reportedly many of their “fans” gave up & left at halftime. I hope they wash out, goalless
Saturday’s beer: Jester King Brewery’s Pattinson Porter
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should’ve known better than to think a Jester King wouldn’t be funky 🫤 🍺
new post: Fuq Qatar, in which I rage briefly under a childish headline about the monsters hosting the pinnacle of the beautiful game ⚽️
Warpaint, performing Disco//Very live on KEXP 🎵
Nina Persson, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 🎵
Saturday’s beer: Save the World Brewing’s Sanguis 🍺
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Metric, again, with Doomscroller, again, from a livestream last week. I paid to watch this, and haven’t closed my browser window yet to keep my replay-ability beyond the 24 hours… but here’s the opening song from YouTube thanks to some pirate 🎵
The Cardigans – I Need Some Fine Wine, and You, You Need to be Nicer 🎵
baby you’re foul in clear conditions
but you’re handsome in the fog
Alstadt Brewery’s Oktoberfest
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one more Märzen, why not 🍺
The Guardian: How Texas’s gun laws allow Mexican cartels to arm themselves to the teeth
We know that most, if not all, of these high-caliber weapons are coming from the United States and a significant amount are likely coming from Texas.
great job, Greg.
tifo at today’s Austin FC playoff game (we won, eventually!): Verde Hasta La Muerte (green to the death) ⚽️
Saturday’s beer: Goose Island Beer Co.’s Bourbon County Brand Fourteen Stout (2021)
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the eve of Austin FC’s first ever playoff game is a special occasion, right? this beer is as good as it is dark 🍺
‘Could I understand the people who rushed into the Capitol?’: George Saunders on how stories teach empathy
What our mind is learning when it reads a good story is that its current state, whatever it is, is temporary. That state is like a weather system that’s just rolled in.
Courtney Barnett, Elevator Operator, live in Austin, 2015
I come up here for perception and clarity
I like to imagine I’m playing SimCity
All the people look like ants from up here
And the wind’s the only traffic you can hear
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Real Ale Brewing’s Oktoberfest
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one silver lining of long travel days is that I managed to start and finish two books: Patrick deWitt’s French Exit on the way there, & Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic on the way home. both really enjoyable (though I can’t fully recommend the deWitt) 📚
…and the view from the back porch
view from the front porch of our rental house, north of Bozeman, MT
just backed this Kickstarter project from John August (screenwriter & host of the Scriptnotes podcast): Writer Emergency Pack XL
saw Hadestown yesterday, it was wonderful. this Tiny Desk Concert can’t show the fantastic (& award-winning) set, costumes, lighting, etc., but gives a great taste of the music 🎵
people who claim, when ending a meeting earlier than scheduled, that they’re “giving you all back x minutes!!” are the equivalent of a mugger tipping you $1 from your own wallet after they rob you
Saturday’s beers:
– Elysian Brewing’s Night Owl Pumpkin Ale
– Whitestone Brewery’s Opa’s Lederhosen Oktoberfest
– TUPPS Brewery’s McKinney Oktoberfest
– Saint Arnold’s Oktoberfest
– AquaBrew’s Festbier
You have your “most wonderful time of the year” & I have mine
new post: Twitter is Bad, in which I realize (again) what many already know
fascinating Guardian story (from 2017!) about the astounding amount of planning for this somber day: ‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
a modern-day witch casting spells in front of the BBC & everyone: Florence + the Machine, Free
The Guardian: Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81
“She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.”