The recent effects of the polar vortex has me thinking about a saying I've heard said before when it's cold as heck: "It's colder than a witch's tit."
I don't get that. Why would one assume that a witch's tit is cold? She could be horrible, but that doesn't necessarily mean her tits are cold. To that end, does that mean warlocks' tits or dicks are cold?
Ah, sexist language patterns, you reveal yourselves in so many varied ways.
"The Phrase Finder" website has a bit of research about the saying.
I've always wondered what exactly makes up these chicken nuggets. Rubber is apparently an option if you're going by the article by The Washington Post: "Tyson Nuggets Recall: 36,000 Pounds May Have Been Contaminated with Rubber."
That's why they might always taste so .... wait, wait, wait, wait for it ............ rubbery.
Moscow Don has the scientific knowledge and acumen of a seven-year-old to which scientists reponded with a comic to make it simple and understandable: "NOAA Scientists Debunk Trump's 'Global Warming' Tweets with a Cartoon."
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Monday, January 28, 2019
Random Notes from a Crank
I recently ordered a novel I'm afraid to admit I've never read: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It's one of those books that some people rave about, but I never got around to reading it.
It aggravates me that my kids often take off and put on their shoes without untying them, so one night I went about untying their shoes.
As of late, I have an aversion to corn. I still corn on the cob. That hasn't changed, but when I ate some soup a couple of times, I felt that corn should not be in the soup. My thinking was, "This soup would be be much better without this damn corn." For me, the corn in the soup just fundamentally alters the dish in too large of a way.
Down with corn.
Up with grapefruit.
It aggravates me that my kids often take off and put on their shoes without untying them, so one night I went about untying their shoes.
As of late, I have an aversion to corn. I still corn on the cob. That hasn't changed, but when I ate some soup a couple of times, I felt that corn should not be in the soup. My thinking was, "This soup would be be much better without this damn corn." For me, the corn in the soup just fundamentally alters the dish in too large of a way.
Down with corn.
Up with grapefruit.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Music Friday: "The Housefire"
I'm not much of a "country" music fan, but I like the Turnpike Troubadours.
Here's "The Housefire."
Here's "The Housefire."
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Random Notes from a Crank
Recent weeks have seen two people announce their intentions to be candidates for President. Both are women ~ Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris ~ who now join Elizabeth Warren as presidential hopefuls.
My hope is that Sanders does not run. The real question mark for me is whether Biden is going to run. I also assume Beto O'Rourke and Corey Booker are running.
Maybe I'm being agist, but I'm tired of old people running for the job. So I hanker for someone who could at least be considered middle-aged or an early senior for President. So I have my eyes on Gillibrand and Harris.
Btw, Moscow Don is a senile, pathological lyin' clown.
The title of this article made me think, "DUH": "Trump Voters Now Blame Him for the Government Shutdown."
Gee, did they really think Mexico is going to pay for his exorbitant, illogical, ineffective boondoggle? Jesus H. Christ.
My hope is that Sanders does not run. The real question mark for me is whether Biden is going to run. I also assume Beto O'Rourke and Corey Booker are running.
Maybe I'm being agist, but I'm tired of old people running for the job. So I hanker for someone who could at least be considered middle-aged or an early senior for President. So I have my eyes on Gillibrand and Harris.
Btw, Moscow Don is a senile, pathological lyin' clown.
The title of this article made me think, "DUH": "Trump Voters Now Blame Him for the Government Shutdown."
Gee, did they really think Mexico is going to pay for his exorbitant, illogical, ineffective boondoggle? Jesus H. Christ.
Fumbling Toward Culinary Talent: Slow Cooker Swiss Steak
I have no idea why this dish is called "Swiss steak." But I got this recipe from the Interwebs, and I added some modifications.
Ingredients
2-3 lbs of round steak, cut into cubes
1 yellow onion, chopped
3 celery stalks, chopped
4 medium carrots, chopped
3 TB light brown sugar
1 14.5 ounce can of stewed tomatoes
1 14.5 ounce can of diced tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
flour
vegetable or canola oil
Salt and cracked pepper
Dried shallots
Penzey's beef roast seasoning
Process
In a large cast iron skillet, heat some vegetable or canola oil on medium-high heat. Dump the onion, celery, and carrots in and add salt and pepper. Cook for approximately 8-10 minutes. Move the vegetables into the slow cooker.
Prior to cooking the vegetables, cut the round steak into cubes, dredge them in flour and let the meat rest on a wire rack. Once the vegetables are done, add oil into the skillet and brown the meat in batches or medium or medium-high heat. Add each batch into the slow cooker. Once all of the beef is in the slow cooker, sprinkle in the garlic and shallots, heartily sprinkle on the beef roast seasoning, and dump the tomatoes on top. Sprinkle some more beef roast seasoning on top of the tomatoes.
Cook on low for 8-10 hours.
Ingredients
2-3 lbs of round steak, cut into cubes
1 yellow onion, chopped
3 celery stalks, chopped
4 medium carrots, chopped
3 TB light brown sugar
1 14.5 ounce can of stewed tomatoes
1 14.5 ounce can of diced tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
flour
vegetable or canola oil
Salt and cracked pepper
Dried shallots
Penzey's beef roast seasoning
Process
In a large cast iron skillet, heat some vegetable or canola oil on medium-high heat. Dump the onion, celery, and carrots in and add salt and pepper. Cook for approximately 8-10 minutes. Move the vegetables into the slow cooker.
Prior to cooking the vegetables, cut the round steak into cubes, dredge them in flour and let the meat rest on a wire rack. Once the vegetables are done, add oil into the skillet and brown the meat in batches or medium or medium-high heat. Add each batch into the slow cooker. Once all of the beef is in the slow cooker, sprinkle in the garlic and shallots, heartily sprinkle on the beef roast seasoning, and dump the tomatoes on top. Sprinkle some more beef roast seasoning on top of the tomatoes.
Cook on low for 8-10 hours.
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Random Notes from a Crank
I have a hypothesis that coffee tastes better out of certain mugs than others. For example, I have a small coffee mug with a dish underneath that I've been using lately, and the coffee seems to taste better than other larger mugs. I wonder if there's any scientific evidence to back up my hypothesis?
When you think about it, certain brewers recommend certain types of glassware for their beers. Sam Adams Boston Lager and Stella Artois come to mind with their specially made glasses.
Then, of course, there's the Glencairn glass that serious whiskey drinkers use.
But getting back to coffee, I need to get back to grinding my own each morning. It just tastes better.
When you think about it, certain brewers recommend certain types of glassware for their beers. Sam Adams Boston Lager and Stella Artois come to mind with their specially made glasses.
Then, of course, there's the Glencairn glass that serious whiskey drinkers use.
But getting back to coffee, I need to get back to grinding my own each morning. It just tastes better.
Friday, January 18, 2019
Music Friday: "Jet Pilot"
As was advertised on the FB page of Son Volt, the band is going to drop a new album in late March that has me intrigued.
As you can read about on the band's website, "New Album - Union," the new work will provide some political statements, which isn't surprising since Farrar has been penning songs like that all along, especially during Dubya's tenure.
Here's one such song from Okemah and a Melody of Riot.
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Fumbling Toward Culinary Talent: Beef Liver
I made this tonight. It's one of the easiest dishes to make.
Most people hate liver. I enjoy both chicken and beef liver.
More people should try it. Why? They should because "...Liver Is a Nutrient-Dense Superfood."
The liver I used is from when we got half of a cow. The butcher gave me five packages of liver, so maybe I got some liver from other cows that were slaughtered and some people didn't want it? Or maybe a calf has a really large liver?
Anyway, here's one of easiest dishes out there. If you like, you thrown in onions, but I didn't this time.
Ingredients
Beef liver, thinly sliced
Salt and freshly cracked black pepper
AP flour with salt and pepper
Vegetable or canola oil
Process
Pat the liver dry and season with salt and pepper. Heat a cast iron skillet to medium-high heat and coat with oil. Dredge both sides of the liver in the flour mixture. Fry in the skillet for roughly 1-2 minutes a side.
Enjoy.
Most people hate liver. I enjoy both chicken and beef liver.
More people should try it. Why? They should because "...Liver Is a Nutrient-Dense Superfood."
The liver I used is from when we got half of a cow. The butcher gave me five packages of liver, so maybe I got some liver from other cows that were slaughtered and some people didn't want it? Or maybe a calf has a really large liver?
Anyway, here's one of easiest dishes out there. If you like, you thrown in onions, but I didn't this time.
Ingredients
Beef liver, thinly sliced
Salt and freshly cracked black pepper
AP flour with salt and pepper
Vegetable or canola oil
Process
Pat the liver dry and season with salt and pepper. Heat a cast iron skillet to medium-high heat and coat with oil. Dredge both sides of the liver in the flour mixture. Fry in the skillet for roughly 1-2 minutes a side.
Enjoy.
Friday, January 11, 2019
Music Friday: "This Land"
Gary Clark Jr. performed this song on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night.
The dang album doesn't come out until March 1 though, which is way too long to wait.
The dang album doesn't come out until March 1 though, which is way too long to wait.
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Stay Positive: Favorite Comic Book Characters
As I was watching Avengers Infinity War on Netflix the other day, I started thinking about my favorite comic book characters and why I liked them so much. So here goes.
Daredevil
I started reading comic books because of an initial attraction to Spider-Man. If Spider-Man was my gateway comic book, then Daredevil comic books were my main source of pleasure after I moved on from Spidey.
For me, the reason I liked Daredevil so much was that, as comic book heroes go, he had/has a dark, brooding personality that I identified with. As much as any character in the Marvel universe, he's flawed but strongly principled, so there was always that interesting dynamism going on with Matt Murdock.
Having grown up fairly religious, Daredevil searching for meaning connected to me even though I did not grow up with the Catholic guilt and ceremony that the books portrayed. The Catholicism angle is something the Netflix series played with some in season 1 and then returned to it in season 3, which was a welcome return.
One of the greatest periods of the Daredevil comic book series was when I was in my youth: the Frank Miller & Klaus Janson years.
In Tim Leong's Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe, Daredevil is shown to be statistically one of the weaker superheroes in terms of battles won, tied, and lost. In the book's "Battle Breakdown" graphical element, the Devil of Hell's Kitchen is in the lower 25 percentile.
Like I said, he's flawed, but he's interesting.
Scarlet Witch
Gosh, I love Wanda Maximoff. From as far back as I can remember, I've been fascinated by/attracted to red-headed women. I blame on it Daphne from Scooby-Doo. She started it all.
As a minor unrelated tangent, when The Office was in its last seasons, didn't anyone else find it a bit implausible Dunder Miflin had three red-headed women in the office? Or maybe it's just me...
But I digress. Besides being beautiful to my teenaged eyes when I would regularly read Avengers comic books, she has really interesting powers with her initial "hex powers" and later with her ability to wield "chaos magic."
I never understood her attraction to Vision, but I get the storyline and why it was put into the Avengers comic book.
Within her character's arc, initially she and Quicksilver were Magneto's kids, but I guess later on in other variations, she was not Magneto's daughter. I like her best as Magneto's daughter.
As a member of the Avengers, I think her power was always under-appreciated.
Hawkeye
The first image is the first issue of a four-part series, during the 80s I believe, that I still have. I have the four issues that is a short story involving Hawkeye as the main character, not the supporting character he usually is with the Avengers,
A year or so ago, I reread the four-part series of comic books, and it's a decent story. Much to my surprise, the series ends with Cliff Burton and Mockingbird both naked and in a hot tub together. I don't remember being titillated by that image back when I read it as a kid, but I'm sure I was.
Much like Daredevil, Hawkeye relies on his excellent fighting abilities, specifically of course the bow and arrow, which is notably old fashioned.
You don't see a lot of purple-clad superheroes, but in a number of variations Hawkeye is often purple as can been seen in the Matt Fraction's fine run on Hawkeye, which brings us to the newest Hawkeye, Kate Bishop, pictured above. As Wikepedia relates, Kate's outfit is drawn to resemble a combo of the first Hawkeye and Mockingbird's outfits.
Unfortunately, the recent Kate Bishop Hawkeye series was cancelled, but I hope to find her in another series soon.
Iron Fist
It's a little strange that Danny Rand's story is quite similar to Bruce Wayne's: dead parents but rich as hell. However, the narrative of him getting the special Iron Fist power as a Westerner is appealing to white boys like me who have a fascination with Eastern philosophy, martial arts, and so on.
I didn't buy a lot of Power Man & Iron Fist comic books when I was a kid because the drugstore where I bought comic books usually didn't stock them on a regular basis for whatever reason. From time to time, they'd be available though.
But often those comic books provided a bit of comic relief to my reading because sometimes they would just be downright hilarious. In some respects, the recent run by Walker on Power Man & Iron Fist has taken that mantle.
My favorite superhero comic book of recent vintage is Fraction's The Immortal Iron Fist. It's a more serious narrative arch with beautiful artwork.
Wolverine
Going by "Battle Breakdown" again, Logan is hell of fighter. He ranks in the top third of battles won, tied, and lost, which is right below Sub-Mariner and She-Hulk and above Kingpin and Thor. That's good company to be in.
It's not hard to see why Wolverine is so beloved by Marvel fans. He's a major character in one of the most powerful and influential superhero groups in history, the X-Men, and the whole love triangle among he, Jean Grey, and Scott Summers made plot lines interestingly uncomfortable.
But to get to the real gist, his character's backstory and abilities are just so interesting and compelling. How great would it be to be able to live that long and be able to heal oneself? The character is basically indestructible until the adamantium covering his bones eventually poisons him.
His personality also calls out to some of our wish-fulfillments though with his ability to unleash havoc similar to how people talked about how Vikings would go berserk in battle.
Beast
As you can tell, I was an Avengers reader, and I prefer what some readers might consider the "supporting" superheroes of the team, whereas I don't find Captain America and Iron Man all that interesting. Thor has his moments, and I like the whole Asgardian pantheon that the comic books portray, but I never read Thor on a regular basis.
Beast, on the other hand, was a comic and literary foil to the seriousness of other characters. When I read The Avengers, he often quoted British literature, especially Shakespeare.
He was a biochemist though with a genius-level intellect, so that is one characteristic that drew me to him. His abilities are awesome. He's basically a superhuman atavistic well-read genius.
Hank McCoy also has the distinction of being both a member of the X-Men and the Avengers.
Black Widow
Here we go again with a red-headed lady superhero.
Looking at her history, I didn't know she originated as a menace to the typically boring Iron Man. I was introduced to her as a member of the Avengers, a former Soviet spy, who wed and divorced Hawkeye, and was at times the girlfriend of Daredevil. Natasha is one of the few girlfriends of Daredevil who doesn't get killed.
She's quick, agile, and very good at combat, but much to my chagrin, I never knew she was somewhat similar to Logan in anti-aging and healing characteristics. What I remember most is that's she's awfully good with weapons with an intellect adept at manipulation and tactical strategies.
The somewhat recent run of Black Widow by Edmondson and Noto was quite good.
Power Man aka Luke Cage
The first image is the character that I grew up with, an almost Blacksploitation version of Luke Cage. As African-American superheroes go, Power Man was a distinct contrast to the somewhat stuffy Black Panther and the helpmatey Falcon.
The guy needs cash, so he teams up with Iron Fist to create Heroes for Hire, one of the better ideas in the Marvel universe in my opinion. Instead of being a jingoistic, Captain American syle superhero, Power Man needs to get paid.
Even though the premise of Heroes for Hire was a bit sketchy (after all, Danny Rand is rich), I liked the whole counterpoint of superheroes needing money and doing their work as a job, not for some altruistic endeavor.
In some ways, Luke Cage is a non-flying, fallible Superman. He's indestructible and has superhuman strength ~ but not superhuman strength that is outlandish. As supermen go, he's a realistic one.
Spider-Man
Besides Wolverine and the next guy featured, who is a magnificent villain or antihero depending on one's perspective, Spider-Man is one of the major players in the Marvel comic book universe. He's beloved.
What's been tiresome the past couple of decades though is that the Marvel cinematic universe keeps churning out Spider-Man movies to the extent that I'm getting tired of Spider-Man, which is unfortunate. But I have heard good things about the animated movie that came out recently.
He's a great character who captured the imaginations of many young readers because Peter Parker represents the insecurities and issues teens were having. And it's an iconic story.
Magneto
If Professor X is the MLK of mutant-human conflict, Magneto is Malcolm X.
Considering how the Marvel universe depicts how humans try to destroy mutants, it's hard for me to see him as an extreme villain. Sure, in some comic books, he's pretty evil, but to a degree he's fighting for his "race."
There is good in him I believe, and the recent series done by Bunn, Walta, et al. presents a more sympathetic portrait of this powerful mutant.
Daredevil
I started reading comic books because of an initial attraction to Spider-Man. If Spider-Man was my gateway comic book, then Daredevil comic books were my main source of pleasure after I moved on from Spidey.
For me, the reason I liked Daredevil so much was that, as comic book heroes go, he had/has a dark, brooding personality that I identified with. As much as any character in the Marvel universe, he's flawed but strongly principled, so there was always that interesting dynamism going on with Matt Murdock.
Having grown up fairly religious, Daredevil searching for meaning connected to me even though I did not grow up with the Catholic guilt and ceremony that the books portrayed. The Catholicism angle is something the Netflix series played with some in season 1 and then returned to it in season 3, which was a welcome return.
One of the greatest periods of the Daredevil comic book series was when I was in my youth: the Frank Miller & Klaus Janson years.
In Tim Leong's Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe, Daredevil is shown to be statistically one of the weaker superheroes in terms of battles won, tied, and lost. In the book's "Battle Breakdown" graphical element, the Devil of Hell's Kitchen is in the lower 25 percentile.
Like I said, he's flawed, but he's interesting.
Scarlet Witch
Gosh, I love Wanda Maximoff. From as far back as I can remember, I've been fascinated by/attracted to red-headed women. I blame on it Daphne from Scooby-Doo. She started it all.
As a minor unrelated tangent, when The Office was in its last seasons, didn't anyone else find it a bit implausible Dunder Miflin had three red-headed women in the office? Or maybe it's just me...
But I digress. Besides being beautiful to my teenaged eyes when I would regularly read Avengers comic books, she has really interesting powers with her initial "hex powers" and later with her ability to wield "chaos magic."
I never understood her attraction to Vision, but I get the storyline and why it was put into the Avengers comic book.
Within her character's arc, initially she and Quicksilver were Magneto's kids, but I guess later on in other variations, she was not Magneto's daughter. I like her best as Magneto's daughter.
As a member of the Avengers, I think her power was always under-appreciated.
Hawkeye
The first image is the first issue of a four-part series, during the 80s I believe, that I still have. I have the four issues that is a short story involving Hawkeye as the main character, not the supporting character he usually is with the Avengers,
A year or so ago, I reread the four-part series of comic books, and it's a decent story. Much to my surprise, the series ends with Cliff Burton and Mockingbird both naked and in a hot tub together. I don't remember being titillated by that image back when I read it as a kid, but I'm sure I was.
Much like Daredevil, Hawkeye relies on his excellent fighting abilities, specifically of course the bow and arrow, which is notably old fashioned.
You don't see a lot of purple-clad superheroes, but in a number of variations Hawkeye is often purple as can been seen in the Matt Fraction's fine run on Hawkeye, which brings us to the newest Hawkeye, Kate Bishop, pictured above. As Wikepedia relates, Kate's outfit is drawn to resemble a combo of the first Hawkeye and Mockingbird's outfits.
Unfortunately, the recent Kate Bishop Hawkeye series was cancelled, but I hope to find her in another series soon.
Iron Fist
It's a little strange that Danny Rand's story is quite similar to Bruce Wayne's: dead parents but rich as hell. However, the narrative of him getting the special Iron Fist power as a Westerner is appealing to white boys like me who have a fascination with Eastern philosophy, martial arts, and so on.
I didn't buy a lot of Power Man & Iron Fist comic books when I was a kid because the drugstore where I bought comic books usually didn't stock them on a regular basis for whatever reason. From time to time, they'd be available though.
But often those comic books provided a bit of comic relief to my reading because sometimes they would just be downright hilarious. In some respects, the recent run by Walker on Power Man & Iron Fist has taken that mantle.
My favorite superhero comic book of recent vintage is Fraction's The Immortal Iron Fist. It's a more serious narrative arch with beautiful artwork.
Wolverine
Going by "Battle Breakdown" again, Logan is hell of fighter. He ranks in the top third of battles won, tied, and lost, which is right below Sub-Mariner and She-Hulk and above Kingpin and Thor. That's good company to be in.
It's not hard to see why Wolverine is so beloved by Marvel fans. He's a major character in one of the most powerful and influential superhero groups in history, the X-Men, and the whole love triangle among he, Jean Grey, and Scott Summers made plot lines interestingly uncomfortable.
But to get to the real gist, his character's backstory and abilities are just so interesting and compelling. How great would it be to be able to live that long and be able to heal oneself? The character is basically indestructible until the adamantium covering his bones eventually poisons him.
His personality also calls out to some of our wish-fulfillments though with his ability to unleash havoc similar to how people talked about how Vikings would go berserk in battle.
Beast
As you can tell, I was an Avengers reader, and I prefer what some readers might consider the "supporting" superheroes of the team, whereas I don't find Captain America and Iron Man all that interesting. Thor has his moments, and I like the whole Asgardian pantheon that the comic books portray, but I never read Thor on a regular basis.
Beast, on the other hand, was a comic and literary foil to the seriousness of other characters. When I read The Avengers, he often quoted British literature, especially Shakespeare.
He was a biochemist though with a genius-level intellect, so that is one characteristic that drew me to him. His abilities are awesome. He's basically a superhuman atavistic well-read genius.
Hank McCoy also has the distinction of being both a member of the X-Men and the Avengers.
Black Widow
Here we go again with a red-headed lady superhero.
Looking at her history, I didn't know she originated as a menace to the typically boring Iron Man. I was introduced to her as a member of the Avengers, a former Soviet spy, who wed and divorced Hawkeye, and was at times the girlfriend of Daredevil. Natasha is one of the few girlfriends of Daredevil who doesn't get killed.
She's quick, agile, and very good at combat, but much to my chagrin, I never knew she was somewhat similar to Logan in anti-aging and healing characteristics. What I remember most is that's she's awfully good with weapons with an intellect adept at manipulation and tactical strategies.
The somewhat recent run of Black Widow by Edmondson and Noto was quite good.
Power Man aka Luke Cage
The first image is the character that I grew up with, an almost Blacksploitation version of Luke Cage. As African-American superheroes go, Power Man was a distinct contrast to the somewhat stuffy Black Panther and the helpmatey Falcon.
The guy needs cash, so he teams up with Iron Fist to create Heroes for Hire, one of the better ideas in the Marvel universe in my opinion. Instead of being a jingoistic, Captain American syle superhero, Power Man needs to get paid.
Even though the premise of Heroes for Hire was a bit sketchy (after all, Danny Rand is rich), I liked the whole counterpoint of superheroes needing money and doing their work as a job, not for some altruistic endeavor.
In some ways, Luke Cage is a non-flying, fallible Superman. He's indestructible and has superhuman strength ~ but not superhuman strength that is outlandish. As supermen go, he's a realistic one.
Spider-Man
Besides Wolverine and the next guy featured, who is a magnificent villain or antihero depending on one's perspective, Spider-Man is one of the major players in the Marvel comic book universe. He's beloved.
What's been tiresome the past couple of decades though is that the Marvel cinematic universe keeps churning out Spider-Man movies to the extent that I'm getting tired of Spider-Man, which is unfortunate. But I have heard good things about the animated movie that came out recently.
He's a great character who captured the imaginations of many young readers because Peter Parker represents the insecurities and issues teens were having. And it's an iconic story.
Magneto
If Professor X is the MLK of mutant-human conflict, Magneto is Malcolm X.
Considering how the Marvel universe depicts how humans try to destroy mutants, it's hard for me to see him as an extreme villain. Sure, in some comic books, he's pretty evil, but to a degree he's fighting for his "race."
There is good in him I believe, and the recent series done by Bunn, Walta, et al. presents a more sympathetic portrait of this powerful mutant.
Sunday Hangover: Clemson
What a wretched and disappointing way to end what otherwise was a great season.
Even though I haven't watched any of the sports talk shows this morning, I'm sure there will be a focus on Tua's really bad interceptions. Those were factors in game.
However, what really determined the game was line play.
The Crimson Tide got very little pressure at all on the Clemson quarterback. I don't think Alabama had one stinking sack. We shut down their running game for the most part, but when a quarterback is sitting back there unscathed and able to pick his receivers, your team is going to get beat.
The Tide defense apparently really missed LB Christian Miller because they didn't look like themselves.
In addition, the Clemson DLine, with all kinds of talent, played a great game. We could talk about some of the play calling, but on certain plays the Tiger DLine just flat out beat the Alabama OLine.
Winning football comes down to line play.
Even though I haven't watched any of the sports talk shows this morning, I'm sure there will be a focus on Tua's really bad interceptions. Those were factors in game.
However, what really determined the game was line play.
The Crimson Tide got very little pressure at all on the Clemson quarterback. I don't think Alabama had one stinking sack. We shut down their running game for the most part, but when a quarterback is sitting back there unscathed and able to pick his receivers, your team is going to get beat.
The Tide defense apparently really missed LB Christian Miller because they didn't look like themselves.
In addition, the Clemson DLine, with all kinds of talent, played a great game. We could talk about some of the play calling, but on certain plays the Tiger DLine just flat out beat the Alabama OLine.
Winning football comes down to line play.
Monday, January 7, 2019
Random Notes from a Crank
I know the ingredients of hot dogs are notoriously sketchy, but every once in a while a good old hot dog just hits the spot. The other day I just had a hankering for a hot dog, so I got myself a chili dog.
I actually prefer Chicago-style hot dogs sans the raw onions.
When my siblings and I cleaned out my dad's apartment after he died, no one else wanted a number of my parents' cooking utensils, so I snapped them up. One of those that I inherited is a serrated knife for cutting into grapefruit. I've been eating the hell out of grapefruit lately.
The whole deal makes me think about the nutritional qualities of grapefruit. Check out the stats on grapefruit. Mash the links if you're interested.
I was also thinking the other day why some scientist hasn't crossbred an orange with a grapefruit, so you could have the grapefruit taste, but you could peel it like an orange.
I am re-watching the Ken Burns documentary about the Vietnam War.
One of the books I'm reading right now is the biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the book that inspired Hamilton the Musical. I first reader Chernow's biography of Grant, which I absolutely loved. The Hamilton biography is quite good, but because my store of knowledge about the Revolutionary War period is pretty strong, I'm not as smitten with the Hamilton biography as I was with the Grant one.
I'm having my daughter read Gaiman's American Gods. It's a gateway to his other works.
There is a certain art of not saying what you really want to say in email.
I actually prefer Chicago-style hot dogs sans the raw onions.
When my siblings and I cleaned out my dad's apartment after he died, no one else wanted a number of my parents' cooking utensils, so I snapped them up. One of those that I inherited is a serrated knife for cutting into grapefruit. I've been eating the hell out of grapefruit lately.
The whole deal makes me think about the nutritional qualities of grapefruit. Check out the stats on grapefruit. Mash the links if you're interested.
I was also thinking the other day why some scientist hasn't crossbred an orange with a grapefruit, so you could have the grapefruit taste, but you could peel it like an orange.
I am re-watching the Ken Burns documentary about the Vietnam War.
One of the books I'm reading right now is the biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the book that inspired Hamilton the Musical. I first reader Chernow's biography of Grant, which I absolutely loved. The Hamilton biography is quite good, but because my store of knowledge about the Revolutionary War period is pretty strong, I'm not as smitten with the Hamilton biography as I was with the Grant one.
I'm having my daughter read Gaiman's American Gods. It's a gateway to his other works.
There is a certain art of not saying what you really want to say in email.
Friday, January 4, 2019
Music Friday: "One Tree Hill"
One my nightly walking of the dog, this fine song came across in my iPod shuffle. I had forgotten how much I really liked this song. It's one of my favorite U2 songs of all time, a tune that most people don't consider one of the band's "greatest hits."
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
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