DBD 1.19.10 The Next Cal Generation

Step 1: Turn your child’s room into this (but with Cal gear instead)


Step 2: Lull it to sleep with Cal band songs on a daily basis
Step 3: ???
Step 4: “Congratulations! Your application for admission to the University of California, Berkeley has been accepted!”

Have a bunch of old Cal t-shirts? Don’t want to throw them out, but need to clean up your closet?

Make them into a t-shirt quilt

yes, I am considering doing this with my Cal t-shirts. I’ve already lost 3 to my mom using them for various nefarious uses (Alamo Bowl Champion, NIT Champion and I believe and this made me cry, my Dick Vitale Hamon Hysteria t-shirt)

The answer, naturally, is to have another kid, so one can be the control.

Btw A Short History of Nearly Everything was an awesome book and Bryson is my favorite author. When you get to the part about the meteorite that killed off the dinos he’ll mention a guy named Walter Alvarez. I was lucky enough to take a seminar from Prof. Alvarez my freshman year and the dude is as awesome as his theory.

But by far Bryson’s best book is A Walk In The Woods, where he, returning from England after living there for some 20 years, decides to hike the Appalachian trail to reconnect with America. Hilarity ensues.

I never thought any of the following three would win any sort of major award:

Mo’Nique (Best female supporting actress)
Sandra Bullock (Best actress)
The Hangover (Best Comedy)

http://www.moviefone.com/golden-globes/nominee-winner

As far as indoctrinating children into Cal fandom, I have been an epic fail. Yes, there are items of Cal clothing in my children’s wardrobe: a bib, a sweatshirt, some sweatpants, a onesie, and even an 18M size Cal jersey with pants. And we also have an Oski stuffed animal. Problem is, their mother is an Ohio State Buckeye. And her whole family are Ohio State Buckeyes. So, the children are surrounded by scarlet and gray. Mom breaks out the Ohio State garb for them on big game days (e.g., Michigan game, Rose Bowl), but I have not pushed for same with the Cal stuff. The Cal stuff just doesn’t get worn enough and, come to think of it, my son has outgrown all of the Cal clothing he has. And I have yet to take my kids to a Cal game.

The kids do know how to say “Go Bears!” and “Touchdown Bears!” At appropriate times, too (mostly). But they are still far from indoctrination.

So my advice? Don’t be like me!

Buy your kid a stuffed oski bear and tell him/her that that’s what all teddy bears look like. Never buy him/her a real teddy bear.

From a young age, they’ll have an affinity towards oski and, by extension, like Cal without over doctrinization.

Win all around!

I plan to have a video loop of “The Play” “The Kidd from Cal” “The Miracle at Memorial” “Cal-USC 2003” Leon Powe’s 40 point game, Richard Midgley’s game winning shot, the NIT Championship (Geno!), DJax punt returns, various danzig mixtapes and the Cal Band videos running constantly in the nursery.

My kid will either be Blue and Gold to the core. . . or want to rebel so badly he/she will only apply to Stanfurd and USC.

No Cal players are on the list. No Marshawn, no Aaron, no JJ, no Jahvid, no Desean, no Mack, no Hughes… you get the idea.

Six different schools were represented. Washington, Washington St, UCLA and Cal were the schools that were not. USC lead the way (obviously) with five players, including the top 3. Toby Gerhart is number 5, Reggie Bush number 3, and Matt Leinart number 1.

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/18267/top-10-pac-10-players-of-the-decade

Mens BBall to take on the Oregons:

California Golden Bears (11-6, 3-2) vs. Oregon Ducks (10-7, 2-3)
Thursday, Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m. (PT), Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, Calif.
Radio: KFRC 1550 AM TV: CSN Plus

California Golden Bears (11-6, 3-2) vs. Oregon State Beavers (8-9, 2-3)
Saturday, Jan. 23, 11:00 a.m. (PT), Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, Calif.
Radio: KFRC 1550 AM TV:CBS

After getting dealt a 15-point loss at the hands of Washington last Saturday, California returns to Berkeley this weekend to face Oregon and Oregon State. The Golden Bears welcome the Ducks, who are currently on a three-game losing streak, to Haas Pavilion on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 p.m.

Two days after scoring a career-high 39 points against Washington State last Thursday, senior guard Jerome Randle was held to just five points against the Huskies. Contrary to Randle’s afternoon, fellow senior guard Patrick Christopher notched 28 points against Washington, just one point shy of tying his career best. Christopher also posted a game-high eight rebounds. Sophomore guard D.J. Seeley also collected a new personal best in scoring with his 11 points.

Despite missing 18 free throws against Washington, the Bears still made 32 of their 50 attempts. Cal’s season free throw percentage currently stands at 73.5, which is tied for fourth all-time in school history. In addiiton, Randle is on pace to set Cal’s single-season percentage record. He currently boasts an average of 92.7, which also ranks sixth in the nation right now.

I know a lot of my friends’ parents use Jewish guilt as a parenting trick with them (take notes carp, Ragnarok, and zoonews). As a way to control their kids. “Oh, you want such that you go to a bad college 13 years from now? Why would you do that to me?”

by TwistNHook on Dec 15, 2009 7:27 AM PST

Damn, that’s great advice!

Link: Unhappy lawyers: New law school grads gather in someone’s office, close the door, and say, ‘I hate my life, why are we doing this?’

Link: West Bengal’s Communist leader dies (but his party continues to screw the state and retard progress).

Dec. 2009 interview with Bill Bryson; his next book is At Home: An informal history of private life.

I promised my wife I’d write a book where I didn’t have to leave home. We live in a rectory that was built in 1851 and in the book I explore how the rooms have been lived in throughout history. The bathroom illustrates the history of hygiene; the living room, the history of comfort; and the bedroom, sex, death and sleeping.

Hey AndBears, you want to make all associations with Cal positive ones, so you have to walk that line between all Go Bears all the time, and (peanut rolls its eyes) "Mom and Dad (and crazy Uncle Twist) are really annoying, I’m going to <insert tiny liberal arts college on East Coast here>.

So, the bear and blanket sound solid, because people always have deep attachments to their earliest possessions. Maybe spread around the poster, banner, and Daily Cal around the house so the Cal spirit is omnipresent, but not suffocatingly so? So that peanut doesn’t start resenting/avoiding the “Cal room”?