Jennifer W. Hanson
@jenniferwhanson.bsky.social
I’m going to add a vote for Red Sonja. The differences between her first Marvel incarnation (starting in 1975) and the subsequent one (starting in 1983) are interesting.
I’m imagining a comic based on the interactions among the patrons of the birdseed/raisin buffet on the deck railing. It would be regular altercations and fistfights between patrons interspersed with arias, and then there would be “bring the family to the buffet” promo season a little later on.
There is Prestige, and then there’s the cat that is literally above all of it and napping.
I just do the Wordle every morning (and now I’m working through the Wordle archives), but I never read the comments.
Sorry to break it to you, but there is. Apparently a number of people were very unhappy about the answer to yesterday’s puzzle and complained about it in the comments on the puzzle, and someone else took a screenshot and shared it, and here we are.
I will not wade into the Wordle discourse. I will not wade into the Wordle discourse. I will not…
I will note that I got it in four tries, though.
Dear bank,
No, I do not want a robo-advisor account.
Kthxbai.
Ok, 2/2.1, the original decisions about what land was used for ballparks in the 1800s are also the stuff of social history.
are what makes it social history. There was also a recent book about the history of Chavez Ravine/Dodger Stadium, but I haven’t read it and the name escapes me. 2/2
Paul Goldberger’s Ballpark: Baseball In the American City is a terrific book. He focuses on cities where MLB is played in the US, but the decisions about what spaces were used in the early years + all the subsequent maneuverings about when a stadium is deemed obsolete and what replaces it 1/2
Seriously. I haven’t seen one since I left NJ in late 2020. I know they’re around up here but I can’t really chase right now.
!!!!!!! Two Black Vultures circling over the yard in Eastham, MA! Boy, did I need that! Woo hoo! 🪶
We have roofers intermittently hammering on the house next door today, and the way the grackles eating birdseed on the railing are reacting, it’s clear that they think those noises might be gunshots. 🪶
Awesome! I saw the photo and immediately thought “I know that bird!” Whether or not I win in a given week doesn’t matter as much as whether I’m in the right ballpark, ID-wise, and, if not, what I can learn from it. It’s all good.
Why not both? That gives me flashbacks to an episode of Dr. Who.
Baseball fans, rank how much you hate your division rivals, NL edition.
1. Braves, no question.
2. Nats.
3. Phillies. Dammit, I lived on the line of the NYC/Philly media-sheds & I hate them but there is so much entertainment value in Philly & its teams. + fab radio team.
4. Miami deserves better.
Baseball fans, rank how much you hate your division rivals. #Mariners
1. A’s (burning pity)
2. Angels (mild disgust at the way they have wasted Mike Trouts career.)
3. Rangers (mild annoyance & jealousy bc they spent money when they saw the window)
4. Astros (burning sports hatred)
Baseball fans, rank how much you hate your division rivals, AL edition.
1. Yankees, always the Yankees.
2. Rays, because they always give us a hard time (but grudging respect).
3. Jays, often hard to deal with but not to the Rays extent.
4. Orioles, because of a lot of things that won’t fit here.
Baseball fans, rank how much you hate your division rivals.
1. Rangers - Homophobic cops. Flames on the side of my face.
2. A’s & Angels (tie) - No hate. Mostly I feel sad for them, especially the A’s.
3. Mariners - Picked them as my AL team when I was a kid, and can’t help it. Still love them.
Yes, I remember that one! Not sure if I still have it or not, but I always liked Marrs’ drawing style.
Trying to total up sports that are taking up mental bandwidth in various ways over the past few days: baseball (duh), three-day eventing, cricket, horse racing, basketball, now switching over to hockey. I think it’s time to crash and reset the brain.
Double never mind. I guess the Fox crew is in place for the Yanks-Dodgers game this evening, which is something I figured out as I was watching the Belmont coverage.
Let’s put it this way: based on one of the suggestions you got, I put a couple of hold requests in with my library system. I’m very much looking forward to reading them. I’m looking forward to learning more and seeing comics I know in a new light. No pressure, though!
I thought I’d heard one along Rock Harbor Rd. last week, but it was brief and I don’t expect them here. I guess I need to revise my mental map.
Also, holy crap, I’m subscribing to that podcast as soon as it’s available!
I’m not currently on any of those other platforms, but I do check Whatever on a regular basis.
Baseball TV is so screwed up. Between the blackouts and…well, ok, that’s most of it. I vaguely recall a time when I was looking for a ballgame here on outer Cape Cod and the TV had one game and my smartphone had a different one…on the same channel.
My primary sport is baseball (I also like the Olympic equestrian sports, which is a whole other conversation). My fave baseball team is the Boston Red Sox, my second fave team is the Mets (which led to some issues in 1986). Plenty of sports trauma in those baseball histories!
I think the NY Mets have to be in the conversation, but since there’s significant overlap between Jets and Mets fandom, maybe that’s being redundant.
You probably already know about it, but Roberta Gregory’s Dynamite Damsels #1.
Never mind, I don’t see a Yankees logo on the field now that the game has started, so I guess it was on the TV side (Fox for the record).
Ok, so I’m recording the UK Mets-Phillies games because there are other things happening in the house, but from the glimpse I got of the opening, was that really a Yankees logo on the field? Not sure if that would be on the UK side or something projected by the TV side.
Well, I’ll probably need to actually read the item before I start railing.
Written by someone that has never seen a Swamp Darner!
I am not at all a computer professional, so I might have misunderstood some of this, but I’m just trying to figure out how to join #ACESchat without joining Threads.
Ok, I was wondering what the Bluesky bridge to Threads might do in terms of #ACES hosting its chats on Threads. Per this mini-thread, it looks like we are not (yet?) at the stage where people on either platform can post to the chat and be seen by people on both platforms.
Thanks Paul! A couple more key points:
1) No Bluesky profiles or content are visible in Threads at all right now, bridged or otherwise, since Threads doesn't yet show anything from the fediverse.
(OK, it currently shows aggregated like and repost counts from the fediverse, but that's it.)
Heard my state Warbling Vireo while driving towards Boat Meadow on Bridge Rd. yesterday. Checked the MassAudubon website (which compares the two MA atlases) and it turns out WAVIs are increasing in the state, and down in this area (sort of their last frontier). 🪶
I’m not sure what this means for #ACES members and others that are interested in the relaunched #ACESchat chats that are going to be on Threads, but I figured I’d throw this out there.
Regarding the "bridge to Threads."
It's opt-in, it works via a kind of bot created by a user, and there's a labeler available to hide bridged users if you're not interested.
Dude. It’s a Friday afternoon in June, when many people are already looking for distractions, and you want to start another food war? (goes and cowers in the bunker)
I think there are folks here that would do the same for a legendary football or baseball game, but what do I know? (Not me, but some games would be a little tempting.)
It’s horrifying. She wrote all sorts of material, too; she had a book review column, she did human interest stuff, everything. Because the paper she worked for then was just the local paper, it hadn’t gotten taken over by one of the conglomerates yet. She also had a hard life aside from the career.
It’s easy to make jokes about people spinning in their graves, but she would be so unhappy and angry about what is happening in journalism. 2/2