DBD 5.12.09 Cynical Lately?

Do you want to take off one of the DBDs and put it up tomorrow? It’s up to you. I’m not really sure how to do it.

This may seem like self-loathing but dear god I sometimes want to go Postal on idiots. Thankfully I’m a pretty nice guy overall.

Cal Pitcher named P10 Pitcher of the Week:

WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. – California freshman right-hander Dixon Anderson has been named the Pac-10 Baseball Pitcher of the Week and Stanford senior first baseman Brent Milleville has been named Player of the Week for May 4-10, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today.

Anderson picked up a win and two saves for Cal last week, pitching 8.2 innings with eight hits, one run and eight strikeouts for a 1.04 ERA. The Piedmont, Calif., native earned his first save of the week against UC Davis on May 5, throwing the final inning with one hit and one strikeout. He picked up his second save in the Golden Bears’ 3-2 win at UCLA on May 8, forcing the Bruins into a game-ending double play with runners on first and third in the bottom of the ninth.

Anderson’s week would not end there as the redshirt freshman threw a career-high 6.2 innings of relief in Cal’s 8-3 win over the Bruins on May 10. He fanned a career-high seven batters in the outing to help lead the Bears to their first Pac-10 series win on the road and pick-up his first career victory.

This is the first weekly pitching honor for Anderson and the 29th overall for Cal. The Bears have had two Pac-10 Player of the Week’s this season, sophomore first baseman Mark Canha on March 3 and junior second baseman Jeff Kobernus on April 20. Canha leads Cal with a .358 average, 12 home runs and 43 RBI.

Womens Water Polo coach gets extension:

BERKELEY – University of California women’s water polo head coach Richard Corso, who guided the Golden Bears to a 31-8 record and a top-5 national ranking this past season, has agreed to a multi-year contract extension, Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour announced Monday.

“I am thrilled to be announcing a contract extension that will retain Richard Corso as our head women’s water polo coach,” Barbour said. “We just concluded one of the most successful seasons in program history, and I am pleased with the great progress that has been made since Coach Corso arrived on the Berkeley campus. I am confident that Coach Corso can put this program in a position to be a national-championship contender and look forward to what the future has to hold.”

During the 2009 season, Cal reached the semifinals of the MPSF Tournament and was ranked among the Top 5 much of the year.

Dont forget to vote in the CGB Meme Invitational. Voting is open until Friday at noon.

Truth Or _ v. Diante Jackson
Dice Wars v. Carps Photos
CBKWit’s Recruiting Post v. Hydro Punching Twist

Nyan v. Trap
Twist Evicts v. 33SS

Loving Riley v. Loving Longshore

Oh, also, one thing I hate that nobody else seems to like are Avinash’s DBD.

hey gang -

Some may have noticed a decrease in participation from me this week. Truthfully, my mind is elsewhere.

My good friend, mentor, and 1st year Asst. Professor of Chemistry at U. Idaho suddenly passed away on Sunday morning.

He leaves behind a wife and perhaps a baby (they were trying but nobody knew the latest). She is perhaps the finest person I have ever met. Details are sketchy but I’m trying to piece them together. Death from an accidental prescription drug overdose is the initial report. He was 30.

He was kicked out of his house by his own parents at age 17. He briefly lived a wild lifestyle but recovered through AA meetings and had been sober since he was 19. In the 6 years I knew him, he never ever drank at social events, celebrations, weddings, etc. He had back surgery last May and we think some doctor kept writing him prescriptions for painkillers even though he had a significant past struggle with addiction. While it is hard to overdose on pain killers like benzos…this, in conjunction with a small amount of alcohol is lethal (hence the “accidental prescription drug overdose” line). I think it’s something like 95% of painkiller-related deaths are due to painkillers + booze. If this is the case, I’m sure his wife tried to revive him with CPR. He might have even died in her arms.

Meanwhile, we have highly exciting non-addictive antinociception agents (painkillers) like resiniferatoxin waiting on the sidelines.

I have 11 old emails from him in my inbox. 4 of them are very simple one line e-mails that say “call me” and then include his phone number. I think I tried once, left a message, never heard back, and then never tried again.

I think I’ll volunteer to be a pallbearer and might even respectfully request to speak at his service – although as of now I don’t think I can keep myself together.

Thanks for letting me vent – my apologies for rambling on. I’ll keep checking in for an occasional smile and witty joke…but it might take some time until I’m back to normal. I’ve been in a going-through-the-motions daze. I went to the fruit stand last night and I walked by the bananas 3 times before finally picking them up. This tragedy has rocked me to my core.

BearStage posted this great link in the fanposts.

Follett has something to prove, and he has to prove it to the Lions, too. Though praising his ferocity and 6-foot-2, 240-pound size, defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham said Follett struggled during rookie orientation.

“He kind of reminds me of myself when I was a kid,” said Cunningham, a fierce competitor himself. “I wasn’t as big as him, but I liked to play like that. He likes to play. He’s going to have to fight for a backup spot.”

Follett is full of surprises, though. Asked if he liked the label of “gritty overachiever,” he said: “I don’t really have a label right now. I’ve got to make a new label.” And this comes from a 21-year-old who literally cuts his own molds — part linebacker, part artist.

He takes a $40 sheet of plywood and uses a jigsaw to cut a life-size outline of a player. Then Sam Cain — a cousin of Marshawn Lynch, the former Cal and current Buffalo Bills running back — uses airbrush and acrylic paint to add detailing. Then they attach game-used items like chin straps, athletic tape and cleats to complete the multimedia project.

Well, first off I actually did put together a dbd (had some free time last night) and I’m a little bitter that the theme mirrors this DBD’s, only it is more violent.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A bunch of my friend’s love this movie… I can’t stand it, I find it boring, and trivial. It may be because at the time I watched it, I had never done acid, but I tend to like other drug-oriented movies.

One Night Stands
I’ve only had a small sampling… because I don’t care for them. Yes, flirting can be fun, and sleeping with someone new is exciting, but usually the sex isn’t all that good. You don’t know what their preferences are, they don’t know what your preferences are, I become worried I’m going to cross over some boundary and she is going to freak out, or she wants me to do something incredibly degrading or kinky, and it is a boundary I don’t want to cross. I see them as more awkward and desperate than anything else. Plus, the next day you are usually out a hundred bucks (drinks, cabs, etc.) and generally tired.

Strip Clubs
Similarly, I don’t like strip clubs (though I’m going this weekend for a bachelor party). I don’t see how a girl openly showing herself in exchange for money is a turn on. Rather, I feel like I’m being taken advantage of, and its a huge turn off for these girls to fake interest in me, only to get at my money.

Pirates of the Caribbean
Too long, I lost interest.

Muni
Yes, SF has a bus system, but damn! It is still a bus, and it is filled with the weirdest, grossest people. Plus, the buses are frequently late, and incredibly uncomfortable. If you are going somewhere with a friend, you can generally get a cab for two bucks cheaper, and show up quicker.

BTW, I don’t think “Cynical Lately?” is a complete sentence. Don’t we need like a subject and like a direct object or something.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI was more of less a movie about three guys who bowl together. One of the guys was lucky enough to die from a heart attack. He didn’t have to suffer trying to act in an actless story. The film never got out of the gutter. By the time it was half finished, I began to realize that it wasn’t an awful movie. It was a tiresome movie. From a bunch of guys who could make humorous FARGO I expected something, anything, funny. It was a long wait and I’m still waiting. As to the dialogue, when are New Age writers going to realize that smut lines really do distract an audience from their story . . . Hey! Authors! Writers! I spent my childhood in a poolhall. Your writing is merde.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI was more of less a movie about three guys who bowl together. One of the guys was lucky enough to die from a heart attack. He didn’t have to suffer trying to act in an actless story. The film never got out of the gutter. By the time it was half finished, I began to realize that it wasn’t an awful movie. It was a tiresome movie. From a bunch of guys who could make humorous FARGO I expected something, anything, funny. It was a long wait and I’m still waiting. As to the dialogue, when are New Age writers going to realize that smut lines really do distract an audience from their story . . . Hey! Authors! Writers! I spent my childhood in a poolhall. Your writing is merde.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI was more of less a movie about three guys who bowl together. One of the guys was lucky enough to die from a heart attack. He didn’t have to suffer trying to act in an actless story. The film never got out of the gutter. By the time it was half finished, I began to realize that it wasn’t an awful movie. It was a tiresome movie. From a bunch of guys who could make humorous FARGO I expected something, anything, funny. It was a long wait and I’m still waiting. As to the dialogue, when are New Age writers going to realize that smut lines really do distract an audience from their story . . . Hey! Authors! Writers! I spent my childhood in a poolhall. Your writing is merde.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI was more of less a movie about three guys who bowl together. One of the guys was lucky enough to die from a heart attack. He didn’t have to suffer trying to act in an actless story. The film never got out of the gutter. By the time it was half finished, I began to realize that it wasn’t an awful movie. It was a tiresome movie. From a bunch of guys who could make humorous FARGO I expected something, anything, funny. It was a long wait and I’m still waiting. As to the dialogue, when are New Age writers going to realize that smut lines really do distract an audience from their story . . . Hey! Authors! Writers! I spent my childhood in a poolhall. Your writing is merde.

Which team will challenge USC for the Pac-10 title? (6,117 votes)

Arizona 7 percent
Arizona State 13 percent
California 26 percent
Oregon 38 percent
Oregon State 17 percent
My take: Disagree

My guess is your vote reflects the difference at quarterback between Oregon and California. The Ducks have Jeremiah Masoli, who runs over hapless defenders and leads an offense that often seemed unstoppable last year. The Bears have Kevin Riley, who can’t seem to convince Jeff Tedford he’s the man to run the Bears’ offense. Fair enough. But after that, Cal has far fewer questions than the Ducks, particularly on both lines. That’s why I’m not just seeing the Bears as a challenger to USC. I’m still contemplating whether they might deserve to be picked to win the whole chimichanga.

1. Kill Bill

I had a lot of friends who thought that I would love this movie because I love old martial arts movies, as well as shitty movies. Except that Kill Bill definitely tried WAY too hard to be old school. I find that to be a problem with Quentin Tarantino movies in general.

2. Knocked Up

The story was fundamentally flawed. How can anyone actually reasonably believe that someone who looks like Katherine Heigl would stay with a loser who looks and acted like Seth Rogen’s character at the beginning of the movie? This made Rey Mysterio’s WWE Championship look like a piece of masterful booking.

3. The WNBA

This is probably similar to the Dane Cook discussion above, where in order to hate on something, everyone else has to love it, and there aren’t a whole lot of people who love the WNBA. I do find it awesome that their tagline this past year was “Expect Great”. They should have added, “Do not expect correct English.”

4. Hyundai commercials

I hate the voiceover guy. La-dee-da.

5. Health food stores

How about instead of paying more for healthier food, people just pay less money and eat less?

6. The SEC

Obviously.

Things TwistNHook hates:

Ohio Bear
carp
oaktownmario
CaliSeth
rocksandirty
Dane Cook
Carlos Mencia
rollonubears
CBKWit
chowder

I reserve all rights to edit this list as my hatred develops.