Richard Kimball

Back when I worked for Austin Fire, (70s, 80s, 90s) territory maps were a big thing. Almost everyone had a hand made map book with the different territory boxes in them. Most of them were hand drawn, although some of us would get the wall sized city maps and cut them to page size. We'd use white out and ink to make changes, add all the hydrants and write in block numbers where streets dead ended. Knowing the territory was a big deal, cause they didn't designate units. They just toned all the stations and gave the address. You'd better damned well know if a call was yours, cause if you didn't the chief was at the station to have a talk. You also had to keep track of which other units were out of service, cause if a call came in in your second in and you didn't know the first in was out, you had a problem. The map talk also reminded me that when I was younger, I never bought souvenirs when I traveled. I bought a map of the state and the city.

Random neural firing... J. K. Rowling said that in her wildest fantasies of success, she never envisioned doing interviews where people were asking her what years Harry's grandparents went to Hogwarts. Maybe it was Tolkien creating an entire world around characters that started it, or the cult following of Star Trek and Star Wars, but media used to be a lot less concerned with internal consistency. Larry, Moe and Curly were always the same people with the same personalities, but sometimes they were brothers, sometimes friends, or whatever. Their jobs and names changed to fit the plot.You just accepted that the Stooges lived in the 1800s, or were doctors, or private investigators, or whatever the plot demanded. Huey Dewey and Louie were Donald's nephews. There was no back story about how their parents died or ran off and they went to live with Donald. Their parents never existed. They were never written. Disney wanted young ducks to aggravate Donald, but didn't want a parent/child relationship. The Luke/Leia kiss happened because in the first movie, they weren't brother and sister, yet. The book (and movie) Coraline offers a pretty good example of the writing process. The "other mother" is the author. She creates a world based on the real world, but with variations. One of the characters has a lot of her traits. Some characters get out of hand, and seem to do what they want, regardless of what she has planned. Characters that cease to be useful dissolve. When Coraline tries to walk out of the world the other mother has created, the further away she gets from the house, the less detail. Finally, she's walking through nothing, because it doesn't exist. The other mother hasn't thought about it yet. TL;DR: Conference realignment talk not going away.

Is it wrong that I want to beat up whoever came up with the "stop bullying" commercial?

How did Brewer not get an offer?

And that is the perfect way to end this game.

If only there were a PAC 12 lawyer to sort this out.

If you're talking about the Ford commercial, I'd like to give you two upvotes.

This means he's got more credit hours than arrests. So, on schedule.

jeez. take the knee in the end zone. nearly turned a great play into a disaster.

Anybody notice the trainer that hands Patterson towels had one in her hand and two hanging out of her back pockets?

Every time I see this I think about "Butters Very Own Episode."

I'd be boring as crap. Quietly donate to some causes I support. Pay off my house. Create a trust fund for my kids. Not having to worry about money is a lot better than spending a shit ton of money.

The original Captain Marvel was the old Billy Batson character. DC sued, claiming the character was a rip off of Superman, and it got shut down. Marvel recreated the character, cause they owned the name but couldn't use the character, but it never got much traction. They've recreated the character a bunch of times as both male and female. I'm not aware of it ever being a big seller, so it's not like anyone cares that much.

Which one of you did this?

Just call the conference championship games the first round of the playoffs. SEC would bitch, cause they get two in frequently, but that's what the CCG should be. That leaves the G5s and independents to divvy the other three slots. Three games with the G5s champs and top independent playing each other. The non conference games basically become exhibition games, but that lets teams schedule without worrying about getting kicked out of contention by an OOC loss. The big thing to remember about the current situation is that it's a show, not a sport. The P5s don't want G5s in the playoffs, because they don't want the competition for talent. Whatever the committee says, the point is to keep the thumb on the scale. They won't outright say it, but the team that gets higher ratings will get the nod. The "data points" are the excuse, not the reason.

Fuckin Mack Brown screwed up the team before he even got here.

A very young Dolly Parton did a solo concert (her and acoustic guitar) for about 16 of us at the Heart of Texas Colosseum. She was probably about 25 or so. It was right after she split from Porter Waggoner.

I never thought I'd say this, but looks pretty good. For this type of movie, you just have to accept Avatar levels of CGI. The Aquaman character seems pretty derivative of Thor, and it looks like DC is moving away from the dark, dark stuff, which they needed to do. I'll give it a shot, if reviews aren't horribad.

This is all true. Additions to your thoughts: Superman is a big problem. He morphed from being about Hulk strength & jumping ability to having unlimited powers, including time travel, and it makes having a compelling story difficult. Batman has been recreated so many times, nobody knows which Batman to use. Zach Snyder has totally screwed the DC Universe, because he makes great visuals, but can't create a story. Watchmen was his best, and he visually followed the comics, almost exactly. When he did Batman vs. Superman, he pulled all the fight scenes from Frank Miller's Dark Knight, and the rest of the incoherent plot was what he came up with to string the fight scenes together. Marvel had to recreate Spider-man after Sony false started twice. DC has fallen into the Watchmen/Dark Knight/Snyder trap. They're not trying to recreate the Nolan Batman series, they're going for the uber dark Watchmen stuff. It creates a bigger problem, because the classic DC characters (Batman excepted) tend towards more playfulness than the classic Marvel characters. The Nolan Batman is impossible to transfer to the rest of the DC characters, because in that world, super powers didn't exist. Superman didn't exist. The Flash could be built into a decent character. Believe it or not, so could Green Lantern. The Martian Manhunter has possibilities. Creating a decent movie about Aquaman would be like Stephen Hawking doing a 360 slam dunk. In addition to having an overarching plot across the movies, Marvel has several characters who never get their own movies, but create a connection between the other movies. Black Widow, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Falcon, & others, form a glue that keeps the universe cohesive. They also recognized that certain characters, like the Hulk, are too difficult to write a movie around. Oh, this thread was about Captain Marvel. I'll wait and see. I think Marvel's throwing it out there, and if it hits, she becomes a more significant character. If it bombs, she becomes a background character in the future movies. Captain Marvel has been recreated several times, so it's not like they're risking a significant property.

Hey! Covering another game today, but wanted to stop by and say OU sucks.

I could go for that in volleyball.

I was out on a date with a girl that had a reputation as being strange. We're driving down a dark road. She asks me if I believe in witchcraft. I told her no. She bit me on the ear and I turned into a motel.

And hear Pat say, "You're gonna have to buy one."