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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 11/10/2026

It might not be Japanese. Google Translate thinks the text is Chinese?

The deputy general of "Northern Asia Moliga Xinghua Politics"

The great statue of Arcmus

Yellow face, sika color limit, large eyes, nose, forehead, Tongchun's highest clothes, black gauze with gold hand-woven head

On the tenth day of the second month of the Jiaqi Jiayin year, the seven ancient people of Shanglong

Imperial approval, place of residence, fake house, Muzaishin Bay, Yokohama: At the upper right of the right, dried in the shade

Sanada Shinano governor's report, Otanihara Sakyo Daifu

The right of the portrait, the mission of the written face, the mark, its authenticity, the knowledge of the ras

Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 09/10/2026

Mr. Barker's Friday Five: Week 6 Illinois 30, Michigan State 24 Texas 27, Oklahoma 13 Georgia 30, Alabama 27 Oregon 34, UCLA 24 Detroit 31, Arizona 28 Bonus Pick: NDSU 31, UNLV 21

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 09/10/2026

Hello friend, it's always a pleasure to see you. Fresh hair, don't care!

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 08/10/2026

Age yourself with a childhood crush. (bonus animated crush included)

Natalie Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs and specifically, Natalie Merchant on MTV Unplugged

Roxy Rocket from Batman: The Animated Series

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 07/10/2026

An important annual feast in APUSH: Mr. HSR explains the Kool-Aid Man Theory of AP Essay Writing. (Additional photo unrelated.)

To be a great essay writer, you need many skills, but you also need one very critical thing: time. No essay written in 40 minutes will be anything more than a first draft, and even then, it will not be anywhere near what you would be happy with. But given the artificial universe of the Long Essay Question (LEQ) on the AP History exams, we must acknowledge the universe and make it work.
When you examine the constraints placed on you, you must acknowledge that you will lose some things. One key thing you will lose is nuance. It is really hard to be subtle when you don't have time. Subtlety requires lateral thinking, a willingness to engage counterarguments, divergent viewpoints, facts that do not quite fit narratives. Qualities that make many essays worth reading. And you will not have time for them.
But that's OK. Once you accept this, once you know that you will likely not have time for them, you can accept a different path to walk: the path of the Kool-Aid Man.
Have you ever really thought about the physics of Kool-Aid Man? He is a giant, anthropomorphic glass pitcher filled with juice. Well, a juice-like beverage. He is known for smashing through brick and cinder block walls to deliver the news of Kool refreshment to children around the world. But I mean, how does he do it? How does a giant glass pitcher smash through the walls of a home without shattering himself in the process? It doesn't make sense.
Unless you believe in the power of belief. Kool-Aid Man WILLS himself through that wall. Oh yeah!
So what is my point here? It's simple. For the 40 minutes you are writing that LEQ, you must believe with your whole heart that you are not only correct but that no one could possibly disagree with you. Because you're running through that wall. You are going to bring your Specific Factual Information, you are going to close your logic loops, you are going to have a strong, cogent thesis that makes a claim and lays out how your argument will be developed in the body pa…

Kool-Aid Man meets Benjamin Franklin. The Bicentennial was...an interesting time.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 07/10/2026

Also, I am reminded that outside of a Waffle House or a Taco Bell, Ann Arbor is home to the single most @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social -lore heavy strip mall pairing ever:

Zip Tanz (new location!) and HoneyBaked Ham side by side.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 07/10/2026

Oh sure, you buy 1...2...3...7......12 reams of the fancy paper for your classroom printer at work, and suddenly you have a "type"

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 06/10/2026

Lovely night for the band to play the Fire Department Open House.

MHS Marching Band at the Fire Department Open House

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 06/10/2026

OK, when you lay it out like this...yeah @mgoblog.bsky.social is on to something here.

Michigan has many haters, but I submit this for the haters: at least we entertain. Michigan is a popular team to hate in part because by God the payoff is incredible. You may have to endure a couple of national championships here and there, but in exchange you get point guards not allowed to play road games, muffed punts, scoreless rock fights against Northwestern, blown leads, coach suspensions, ever-looming NCAA punishments that never quite materialize, and scandal after scandal. I mean… the vacuums. You can't make this stuff up.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 05/10/2026

Michigan / Penn State will kick at 3:30 on the weekend after this one.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 04/10/2026

One of two ballots I wanted to get to today: Go vote in the @sickoscommittee.org October poll!

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 04/10/2026

You see, the thing about me is that, when it comes to albums, I really need to like 75-85% of all of the songs on the album to make it a favorite. So you end up with a very basic list like this.

My 9 Albums posted: Revolver, Who's Next, The Joshua Tree, Doument, August and Everything After, The Bends, (What's the Story) Morning Glory, Battle Born, and Don't Forget Me.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 04/10/2026

From my buddy in Milwaukee for the Brewers game: "Brat Rangoon, things of that nature"

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 03/10/2026

Today's GameDay fit check says that when trying to preserve a nearly half-century-long streak, honor one of the people who helped make it happen, so it's a 2003 away white John Navarre #16. Transcontinental! Buffalo stampede!

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 03/10/2026

Yes, change the red to maize, but I am trying to remember if they did one of those or if they just kept the straight Texas flag. I know Chris Brown ended up with his. This started with the COY and then was also popular for Stauskas.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 03/10/2026

1). Yes you should. 2). I wonder if the maize and blue Lone Star flag will return since JP Hurlbert is now on the roster. This was a common sight during the Chris Brown era

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 02/10/2026

Honestly, this is more a complaint about the length of sleeves on modern jerseys, because It's not too far off (just the white stripes between the maize and blue stripes)

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 02/10/2026

I mean, I get it, Minnesota has gold pants too, so you want to de-emphasize that, but I also just kind of miss the days when it was just maize pants or maize paints.

Michigan's uniform combination for Michigan/Minnesota.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 02/10/2026

Ann Arbor has something like this! Super Liquor III is in Adrian, apparently.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 02/10/2026

Mr. Barker's Friday Five: Week 5 Michigan 27, Minnesota 20 Wisconsin 28, Michigan State 16 Florida 28, Missouri 27 Ohio State 31, Iowa 19 Detroit 31, Carolina 28 Bonus Pick: Miami (FL) 34, Clemson 14

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 01/10/2026

OK, MLive, 1977 is not "nearly 50 years"...oh wait, crap, it is. I'm old. But it is the 100th Jug game.

Michigan puts nearly 50-year streak on the line at Minnesota in Milestone meeting,

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 01/10/2026

Yep! Michigan has won the playoff crown several times, including last year, but they do not have a regular season title.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 01/10/2026

On the one hand, I'm clearly running out of room for additional Funko POPs for my collections. On the other hand, Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, Emissary of the Prophets.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 30/09/2026

Hoo, EMU Women's Hockey (club) with some SWEET third jerseys.

A white script Ypsilanti on a green jersey with a sublimated Ypsi skyline, including the water tower.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 30/09/2026

When one of your former APUSH students writes a book about a beloved film, you don't buy the ebook version. Congratulations @laurentheisen.bsky.social , I look forward to reading it.

Every Time a Bell Rings: The Legacy of It's a Wonderful Life, America's Most Beloved Holiday Film by Emily St. James and Lauren Theisen.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 30/09/2026

An _excellent_ wallpaper for this week from Michigan football:

A Little Brown Jug themed wallpaper for this week's game.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 30/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 30/09/2026

Ahh, that's how you deal with 9 being unavailable.

JJ McCarthy will wear #18 for the Giants

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 29/09/2026

Greetings from Stevenson Volleyball Staff Appreciation Night!

Selfie in my Stevenson Volleyball shirt.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 28/09/2026

When you win fun Division II baseball prizes at Professional Developments.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 26/09/2026

Due to MHS homecoming, we had to get a drop off /pick up so Tall Teenage Son can go to both the game and the dance, so an archival photo of our friend, the House of Moderate Dread and Alarm, which has learned who the guest performer with the MMB is today.

House of Moderate Dread and Alarm in Ann Arbor.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 26/09/2026

Apparently my guy from Toledo with the BBQ truck was replaced this year at the Big House by Slows, so we'll see how it goes.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 26/09/2026

Today's GameDay fit check says that if you're going to expand the collection, you have to rotate the new old stock in, so we're going with the 2005 away white #8 Jason Avant today.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 26/09/2026

Famously, there is one at Gettysburg that marks "the high water mark" monument from Pickett's Charge on Day 3. It had to be fenced in in the 1890s because people kept plucking leaves and slivers of wood off it as souvenirs.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 25/09/2026

Happy homecoming Milan, the taco truck in the food truck rally is an absolute win.

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