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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 27/09/2026

Obligatory mention of the Fog and Gold flag that's probably not gonna get adopted but is WAY better urbanlifesigns.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-...

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 26/09/2026

It's good for neighborhoods when people are in the streets.

Lots of people walking by vendor stalls on a San Francisco Street. Not a cloud in the sky and everyone is happy.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 24/09/2026

Opportunity to share my favorite-ever "keys to the game" which came from Fox TV's "Man vs. Beast" in 2003. A pro sprinter raced a zebra and the graphic said the keys to winning for the man were to get a clean start and for the zebra to stay focused and realize that it's in a race.

Still from the TV show. The zebra is being led to the starting gate. Superimposed over it is a bulky graphic headed Keys To Victory.

MAN: Good clean start

BEAST: Stay focused. Realize it's a race.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 20/09/2026

Oh you know the way to support quality journalism without a paywall? Better tell the entire global journalism industry, waiting for your wisdom.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 17/09/2026

"If you're on board with Macklemore that it's a 'humanitarian crisis', then why did you say he was doing hate speech and refuse to let him perform?"

Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men during his character's questioning of Col. Jessup.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 14/09/2026

NIGHT. INT. A NONDESCRIPT CONFERENCE ROOM. A TITLE CAPTION SAYS: "BRAINSTORMING NEW POKEMON. DAY 13." "What if it was a mime?" "Put it on the board."

Illustration of the Pokemon Mr. Mime. It looks kind of like the lovechild of Kirby and Krusty the Clown.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 08/09/2026

The only person who has ever looked chill — perhaps even cool? — on a Segway is Boris Diaw, who used one to commute to the arena when he lived in CLT, and also used it while out with his dogs. xcancel.com/jon_bois/sta...

Black and white photo of Boris Diaw — a 6-8 NBA player at the time — riding a Segway in a narrow brick walkway in uptown Charlotte, NC.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 29/08/2026

1) It's good when streets are closed to cars. 2) The Hot Cheeto-crusted musubi is elite.

On a sunny day in San Francisco, people mill about, strolling between stalls in the street.

Musubi, cut in half so you can see the spam and rice, crusted on the outside with dark orange crushed up Hot Cheetos.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 29/08/2026

1) It's good when streets are closed to cars. 2) The Hot Cheeto-crusted musubi is elite.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 28/08/2026

"I don't want it to be illegal, therefore it isn't. That's the way it works."

Screenshot from the Red vs. Blue video "Real Life vs. the Internet". A yellow-gold Master Chief from Halo is in closeup, facing the camera, standing atop one of the game's capture-the-flag bases.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 23/08/2026

Oh he's down bad for Mary.

Photo of a tv screen displaying Burt, in the movie Mary Poppins, wearing a striped jacket and smiling.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 20/08/2026

This skeet is aimed at me. Also, same energy.

Ellie the elephant, the New York Liberty mascot. Hands on her hips.

Susie Carmichael, from Rugrats. Hands on her hips.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 19/08/2026

Might be an Ozzie Award finalist, though I think the final Adell robbery of his trio would be the front-runner. Here's what I mean by Ozzie Award: blog.29sunset.com/2025/05/ai-e...

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 15/08/2026

Decided to look up the author and...... ooooooh, THAT'S where I'd seen the name before.

Headline on that stupid Bari Weiss site with a bad name that says: "I Thought I Was Autistic. I Was Wrong." By Christina Buttons

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 10/08/2026

Sometimes, it's a curse to be able to remember things. EG: the child and I began watching Scrubs recently, and I remembered that John C. McGinley was a member of the "Malibu Mob". The what? Behold... www.espn.com/blog/sportsc...

It kind of goes without saying that Chelios is the oldest player in the league. In fact, he has been for the past five seasons. But what gives Cheli such remarkable staying power? We had to know. So we took to the internets to find out. And we came back with a little theory that might just blow your hockey sweater off.

It’s the Malibu Mob. Apparently, Chelios is the Godfather of the Mob, which is simply a group of cosmopolitan elite who live in Malibu over the summer and just, like, bum around together. (Note: to them, “bumming around” includes taking batting practice at Comerica Park and hanging out in NHL luxury boxes. To each his own.)

Members include Chelios, of course, as well as John McEnroe, John Cusack, John C. McGinley (of “Office Space” and “Scrubs” fame), D.B. Sweeney (of “The Cutting Edge” fame), Kid Rock (of "Kid Rock" fame) and Tony Danza (naturally).

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 06/08/2026

Important to note that he was always egg, but the hair did a lot for him.

Younger Andreesen, head shape extremely egg-like, though you have to look for it because he has normal hair.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 05/08/2026

This is a distant cousin to my 50% serious question about whether thumb placement matters on throwing a fastball. Like, some dudes curl their thumbs and others don't. I could never throw with a curled thumb, and it can drive me bonkers trying to figure out if it matters.

Max Scherzer in a Blue Jays uniform, arm cocked as he delivers a pitch. His thumb is curled on the underside of the ball, with the inner side of the thumb touching the ball while the pointer and middle fingers are on top in a four-seam grip.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a Dodgers uniform, arm cocked at about the same spot in the delivery as Scherzer's. His thumb is not curled under the ball, and instead the pad of the thumb is touching the underside of the ball with the pointer and middle fingers on top in a four-seam grip.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 02/08/2026

Shit, now I gotta dig up some pictures... First two are from the now-defunct Blue Plate Cafe. Crawfish from a place I don't remember.

A ridiculously rich seafood fettucine alfredo.

Stuffed pork, zucchini, and potatoes. The pork is in two generous slices with darkened filling.

Crawfish boil with sausage, corn, and potatoes supplementing a big pile of shellfish.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 01/08/2026

"The Long Game" by @leanderalphabet.bsky.social is incredible. You don't even need to be a soccer fan — just interested in the modern USA — to appreciate it. In particular, the sections about national team players' personal journeys are illuminating. One of the best sports books I've read in years.

Cover of "The Long Game: U.S. men's soccer and it's savage, four-decade journey to the top, or thereabouts" by Leander Schaerlaeckens

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 31/07/2026

Say what you will about Nick Saban, but the man is/was dedicated to sun safety.

Nick Saban, outside in the sun, wearing Alabama gear, ostensibly at a practice. He has on a big straw hat.

Saban at Miami Dolphins practice, wearing a big straw hat.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 28/07/2026

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do...

A still from "The Squid and the Whale". Two boys are on a couch, grimly looking at a bearded man sitting across from them, ostensibly their father. A woman, their mother, sits on a separate chair, wringing her hands and looking worriedly at the man.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 28/07/2026

A possible major reason we think of Barves fans as cop-coded

Trading card of the WWE wrestler Big Boss Ma. He's a chunky white guy with a buzz cut and goatee wearing a light blue cop shirt and glaring to the side. Under "from" it says he's from Cobb County, GA.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 25/07/2026

Hear me out... Keanu in Something's Gotta Give

Keanu Reeves in a black turtleneck, his arm around Diane Keaton. They both look INCREDIBLE.

Keanu Reeves in a blue button-down, with a concerned look on his face. He is WILDLY handsome.

Keanu Reeves smiling, wearing scrubs under a doctor's coat, with a stethoscope around his neck. He's beyond DREAMY.

Keanu Reeves in a blue t-shirt, smiling, and holding fruit at a roadside stand. Come on, now.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 22/07/2026

It's not hard to find the original for the Wembanyama cover: www.aol.com/articles/spu... Haven't found the Clark original, yet, if there is one.

Victor Wembanyama flexes and mean mugs while teammates Dylan Harper and Devin Vassell grab his jersey.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 14/07/2026

The Class-A minor league baseball team on the outer edges of the Charlotte metro has fantastic merch. Kannapolis Cannon Ballers.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 13/07/2026

Reading a book about Earl Weaver, and my eyebrows shot up at these descriptions of batter-to-batter betting in the middle of the 20th century.

Photo of text from an e-reader. Excerpt from "The Last Manager" by John W. Miller.

Text says:

...predictive algorithms as teams.

In the 1940s, bars, saloons, clubs, and hotels carried Western Union tickers that spit out scores. Newspapers printed odds and quoted bookmakers on big games. "You will see them everywhere if you know where to look 'finger' bettors, they are sometimes called in the trade," reported John Lardner in Newsweek in 1944. "The gentlemen occupy the same seats daily, and offer odds and take bets by hand signals on balls, strikes, hits, whether there will be a score that inning, etc. That payoff is outside the ballpark after the game." In 1949, casinos in Los Angeles offered "television baseball gambling." Croupiers stood in front of a televised ballgame singing out odds. "Will the batter fly out, strike out, single, knock the ball out of the park? Will the runner on second go on the next pitch? What will the next pitch be, ball or strike?"

St. Louis was a hotbed. Bookies in town handled $1.5 million a week in wagers on baseball. Uncle Bud and his associates at Sportsman's Park offered prop bets on pitch counts, runs, hits, and a dozen other categories. The Cardinals sometimes cracked down, under pressure from Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the baseball...

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 05/07/2026

Generally, the hands are a giveaway. But, uh... Not with her!

Gina Hinojosa apparently at an airport with luggage, wearing a long red coat. Her hands are visible and conspicuously lacking wrinkles.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 04/07/2026

The most patriotic American lunch.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 01/07/2026

The folks outside Chase Center in San Francisco are ready for Mexico-Ecuador.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 30/06/2026

Was gonna say: 10-year-old me when the T-Rex chomped Gennaro off the toilet.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 26/06/2026

Again, it's really hard to get 82-0 without Wilt. www.82-0.com/share?id=c26...

Screenshot showing an 82-0 record, with a score of 120.

Westbrook, Jordan, Drexler, KAT, and Wilt.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 25/06/2026

The White Sox really should be leaning all the way into this.

Screenshot of an X post from AJ Pierzynski.

Caption: "An Incredible honor to meet @Pontifex and give him the ball that was the last out in Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. @whitesox"

Photo shows Pierzynski in a suit looking on with several other people as Pope Leo, in papal garb, holds a baseball in a display case. The pope is smiling and admiring the ball.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 25/06/2026

Playing less and less each day, but I've enjoyed learning just how cold certain dudes were back in the day, like Lenny Wilkens. www.82-0.com/share?team=e...

82-0 perfect record, score of 120. Lenny Wilkens, LeBron, Bird, Thurmond, and Wilt.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 16/06/2026

Also, go to the International Rose Test Garden. It's spectacular.

Pick roses that look like they have cream swirls

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 15/06/2026

Hell yeah. Congratulations. More josh!

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 12/06/2026

Now we're really cooking. Keep thinking the dude who scored 130+ might've hit the theoretical best combo. www.82-0.com/share?id=Vay...

82-0.com results, scoring 82-0 with 117 over. Giannis, Gervin, Barkley (80s PHI), Nate Thurmond, Wilt (60s PHI).

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 09/06/2026

This inspired me to do a bit of looking around and TIL Drew Pomeranz has a brother named Stu who pitched in MLB blogs.fangraphs.com/who-are-the-...

Still of Stu and Drew Pickles, from the TV show Rugrats

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 06/06/2026

Another new top score. This one thanks to an ungodly number of rebounds. www.82-0.com/share?id=p7x...

82-0.com perfect record, score of 115. Russell Westbrook (Washington 20s), Mitch Richmond (Golden State 90s), Larry Bird (90s), Bob Pettit (Hawks 60s), Wilt (Warriors 60s).

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 05/06/2026

New top score. Hell yeah. www.82-0.com/share?id=C73...

82-0.com perfect record. Score of 113.

Kidd (New Jersey 00s), Jordan (Chicago 80s), Durant (Oklahoma City 10s), Bob McAdoo (Buffalo 70s), Kareem (Milwaukee 70s).

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 05/06/2026

So this is an interesting one that matches my high score. I passed up LeBron with 2010s MIA on the theory I might hunt for him with 00s/10s CLE or 10s/20s LAL, but that's bad logic — just take one of the best guys right away. www.82-0.com/share?id=4ae...

82-0.com results page. Perfect record with overall score of 112. Dwyane Wade, Magic, Jordan, Bob McAdoo, and Kareem.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 05/06/2026

Thinking this team gets penalized for not that many rebounds, but of course in real life they wouldn't need to get rebounds because every damn shot would go in. www.82-0.com/share?id=NVw...

82-0.com results. Curry, Jordan, Kawhi, Durant, Dirk. It says this team would go 66-16.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 04/06/2026

www.82-0.com/share?id=MVY... My best score so far! No lifeline respins for this one, either!

De'Aaron Fox, Durant, Garnett, Giannis, Wilt, on 82-0.com. Yeah, that team is going undefeated.

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