World Cup day 6, 1/2 ⚽️
– Wales 🏴 0, Iran 🇮🇷 2: Welsh overmatched even before their keeper got a straight red; Iranians score 2 after 98’
– Qatar 🇶🇦 1, Senegal 🇸🇳 3: Qatar get their first-ever (last ever?) WC goal but the home “fans” still all left early again
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World Cup day 5, 2/2 ⚽️
– Portugal 🇵🇹 3, Ghana 🇬🇭 2: it was looking like another scoreless draw until Ronaldo’s PK opened the floodgates
– Brazil 🇧🇷 2, Serbia 🇷🇸 0: Serbians held firm until Richarlison gets a Thanksgiving brace, the second as sweet as pecan pie
World Cup day 5, 1/2 ⚽️
– Switzerland 🇨🇭 1, Cameroon 🇨🇲 0: subdued game, Africans always taking a touch too many, then Shaqiri’s team break the deadlock early in the 2nd half
– Uruguay 🇺🇾 0, South Korea 🇰🇷 0: the South Americans looked threatening… but weren’t, in the end
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)
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