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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rory Guilday gets the first intermission interview

Rory Guilday on the big video board getting us ready for the season start for PWHL San Jose

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Full complement of PWHL SJ merch for sale in the pop up team store on the concourse

shoppers shopping in the pop up for PWHL San Jose

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This town is officially ready for @pwhl-sanjose.bsky.social! Huge ovation for Laila Edwards, handling the ceremonial puck drop. Also the Sharks are playing the Oilers so we’ll focus on that eventually

Laila Edwards of PWHL San Jose getting cheered by a full house at SAP Center

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cagnoni wins it in OT! First career goal

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Shark Tank looks pretty for the opening game of the 2026-27 season

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Too soon? (I’ll be at the Tank for opening night tomorrow)

San Jose Sharks “Playoff Mode” t-shirt from the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs - the last time the team made it in

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We’re not going to see a score line like this very often

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New Sharks intermission entertainment is human pony races (towing a sled across the ice) and I can think of a whole new constituency this could bring to the Shark Tank

Human in an inflatable pony suit towing a kid on a sled across the ice with SJ Sharkie chasing them

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s time for Sharks hockey! 3rd preseason game, vs. the Ducks. All legit Sharks in the starting lineup (WillMack, Marchment, Kesselring, Nurse, Ned). We’ll see who else rotates in! Go Sharks!

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Fire hasn’t been on national TV a lot so I don’t know what other productions do, but do any other teams use the city’s airport code when they need a 2 or 3 letter abbreviation? I remember a little dust-up when the Golden Knights were new and it took a minute for everyone to settle on VGK

Screen grab from KPIX where the score bug is GSV 29 PDX 26

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ESPN wrapped up their US Open coverage tonight with this graphic, and I wondered which of these exhortations is closer to the athletes’ experience to the top row: “You gotta look tough! Think Trump’s mug shot!” to the bottom row: “People won’t like you if you don’t smile!”

From ESPN: “Americans Remaining – 2026 US Open”

Top row, four men (Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe, Learner Tien, Alex Michelsen) all with some variation of a tough-guy scowl

Bottom row, four women (Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff, Iva Jovic, Emma Navarro) all smiling as a normal person does when someone takes your picture

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Beach Boys’ “California Girls” immediately came to mind when I saw the result 🙄 mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

the “most like you” part of this dialect map is an arc from about Sonoma County inland to the central Sierra and south to Los Angeles

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Several artists I like and support put out calendars as a way to make money and get their work out there, and I get one pretty much every year With the 2027 calendars coming out I hope a little effort goes into checking the parts they didn’t create themselves. It was a very confusing weekend

This August 2026 calendar page shows August 28 and 29 as falling on Friday, and August 30 and 31 falling on Saturday

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am still trying to fully process Dolly Parton’s passing. It isn’t easy But this… this really helps. @annkpowers.bsky.social comes on Sam Sanders’ show and they go deep into the life and times of Dolly in the smartest way imaginable. 40 minutes of solid gold www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sa...

Dolly Parton photo that KCRW used in posting the Ann Powers interview on the Sam Sanders Show that I referenced here

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Detroit calls itself Hockeytown, and Minnesota claims the title of State of Hockey, but the sport deserves a body of water too and I'm pretty sure this fits (thanks Mapquest)

Lake Ontario relabeled as Lake of Hockey

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here’s Brigitte with the autographed guitar they were gifted by Dolly

Drag performer Brigitte Bandit holds the sparkly guitar sent to them and signed by Dolly Parton

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I consider it my responsibility at every opportunity to chirp KPIX about the foibles of their “virtual studio” (that is, green infinity wall/floor) Tonight, meet transparent @kerithburke.bsky.social who is not actually being impaled by light sabers or whatever is supposed to be going on here

Screen grab from the Valkyries post-game show, with a smiling Kerith Burke being pierced in both shoulders by shafts of light from the nonexistent dressing room KPIX uses as a background for these segments

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today my number of followers here, the average current rate for a fixed 30 year mortgage (so says Freddie Mac), and the Mark of the Beast all coincide (with allowance for the mortgage rate being expressed in percentage terms)

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Here’s a picture of the 4547. Note that Union Pacific has extensive locomotive maintenance facilities in Portland, Oakland and Los Angeles. For everyone’s sake I hope UP assigns this unit elsewhere. Wyoming, perhaps

Union Pacific 4547, decked out in red, white and blue paint, with “Donald J. Trump” printed in gold (naturally) on the side

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just from the headlines on the Chronicle app’s local news page, this must be the worst 4th of July maybe ever Just abominable vibes

Headlines on the page: “Man cleaning Northern California beach loses left hand after picking up firework’ “Oakland man drowns in Shasta Lake on Fourth of July” “Northern California home issued $100,000 fine over illegal Forth of July fireworks” “4th of July gridlock triggers City Hall scrutiny of San Francisco’s planning”

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

352 days to the start of the World Cup

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Team Marleau defeats Team Thornton 5-3 and wins the Marchment Cup

Team Marleau (in white) poses with the Marchment Cup

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I always feel blessed when SJ Sharkie visits my section

Sharkie banging the drum right above my row

Sharkie sitting in the seats just down from us pointing at the ice

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Here at the Sharks Prospect Scrimmage and I can positively confirm that Karamanov is exceptionally large in all directions

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

News Flash: I found the renegade compost bin! It was hiding in plain sight in an out of the way corner of the stadium periphery

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Made it up to the rim of the Stadium™️ in time for the kickoff. The logo tarp is particularly ineffective with a low sun and a stiff breeze. I hope the Levi’s marketing folks are loving the value they’ve gotten from their non-sponsorship

Field at Levi’s Stadium before kickoff with the scoreboard in the background

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In actuarial terms, a World Cup in the USA is probably a twice in a lifetime event for me, but in 1994 I was even poorer and more removed from any of the venues, so this is probably my one shot. As you can see from the train, it really is San Francisco Bay Area on-the-way-to-the-Stadium

Amtrak train pulling into my closest station

The tracks in the East Bay run right next to the Bay between Martinez and Richmond

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This happened the other day and I forgot to point it out here: the first appearance of a @mingemi.bsky.social PWHL San Jose article in my local rag, at the top of the sports page (literally, sports got exactly one page that day) Horrible group owner, horrible paper, great story

Headline from my tiny local newspaper, part of Media News Group, as is the Mercury News: “San Jose Gets Fan Favorite Edwards”

Five columns across the entire page, with a Laila Edwards photo in her Team USA jersey with her Olympic gold medal

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“Ticker tape” you ask? The Smithsonian has the answer, including a shoutout to the Oakland Museum of California, who have the one in the picture www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Western Union stock ticker, in the collection of the Oakland Museum of California

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

We’re just soiling ourselves now, Silicon Valley (solid reporting by KQED on the scene in Santa Clara today) www.kqed.org/news/12087516

“A robot in soccer gear interacts with people outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara during the Qatar versus Switzerland World Cup match on Saturday, June 13, 2026. photo credit: Estafany Gonzalez for KQED”

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I still can’t believe they sold this t-shirt

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I don’t know how things are going in your neighborhood, but here it’s a sleeeepy Caturday afternoon

Neighborhood feral cat taking a nap all curled up in the shade below my next door neighbor’s car

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In case the Chron sorts this out, here’s what it looked like when I quoted the post

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I don’t think the disdain parts of NorCal feel for LA is quite as intense as it used to be, but it exists Here’s the latest annoying text from a Congressional candidate seeking office in a gerrymandered district stretching from the sylvan glades of Sonoma County to the Nevada line Look closely

“CD-01 Mike McGuire for Congress Vote By June 2” with a picture of the candidate in the foreground and a ballot envelope in the background

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Opening night has arrived for the WNBA. In 2025 the Sharks did a Bay Area Unite cross-promotion with the Valkyries and everyone who came got a Valks flag I’ve been flying some kind of flag on significant opening days for a few years (initially inspired by the SELL flag) so today’s the day for GSV

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Here’s the part I could relate to the most, as someone who actually did a show on a cable FM station like this in that long-ago era (the 1980’s). The flyer sums up the ethos *perfectly*

Flyer recruiting DJs for KSUN, a student-run cable FM station at Sonoma State University. The money quote: “The KSUN staff and management is made of many young, discontented and emotionally unstable persons, who feel that college radio has a responsibility to promote new and independent artists to a world overrun by commercial radio feeding its listeners endless mindless dribble.”

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

and my initial thought was “cool, they’re setting the ambience with the sound of an amp that’s plugged in but not doing anything yet” I underestimated them. Wildly. Did I jump on the stage and grab an axe. No 🙁. But if you can go, bring two friends, and make the museum staff proud/cringe/whatever

Stage in the exhibit with a drum kit, bass, and guitar, with associated amps and PA. To which you can walk right up and play. They want you to

Poster by the stage.
“Don’t know how to play an instrument? Great! That never stopped anyone from starting a punk band. Play one anyway.

Please be kind to the guitars and drums

Limit your playing time to 10 minutes

If you do it for the ‘gram, tag @museumsc”

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I don’t think you can have more 2’s on the scoreboard at one time than this Officially, this never happened. They took one shot away from the Sharks at intermission

Scoreboard: Sharks 2 Canucks 2. 2:22 remaining in the 2nd period. Shots on goal 22-22

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Absent one of the wildest final weeks in NHL history, tonight is our final look at the 2025-26 San Jose Sharks. They take on the Vancouver Canucks, and I imagine Van is looking forward to the end of a not-fun year. Fan Appreciation Night, and I imagine the fans would appreciate a win

Sharks warming up. Fan Appreciation Night called out on the video board

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Also if this indeed turns out to be last call for the Cali Fin jerseys, thanks to @aliceinbondageland.bsky.social taking this picture I can memorialize my Cali Fin-inspired outfit tonight. Not exactly the jersey (which I think I wore once this season) but maybe thematically similar?

Me leaning against the railing in front of an upper deck section of the Shark Tank, with the Shark Head and the rink in the background. White face mask, black bolero with fake fur trim, black top with Sharks 💙 in silver script, teal faux leather miniskirt, black boots

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sharks have just enough. Top line connects, Smith scores, 3-1. Then another Hawks PP goal from Nazar, but San Jose holds on and gets 2 points. Not dead yet!

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

There are reports that the Sharks are retiring the Cali Fin alternate jerseys after this season, so this might be our last look at them coming out of the Shark Head. San Jose really needs a win tonight against the Blackhawks… we’ll see what happens!

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Last night at the Sharks Pride Game it was wonderful to see the Teal City Crew banner flying again. A long time fixture at the Shark Tank, the Sharks apparently asked their supporter group to take it (and the accompanying Pride flags) down this season b/c sponsor exclusivity? Up for Pride tho

Teal City Crew banner with Rainbow Mexican Pride flag to left, Progress Pride flag at center, and Bisexual Pride flag at right

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

When was the last time the Sharks won on Pride Night? When was the last time they won four in a row? Sharks 4 (Gaudette empty net) Leafs 1. Ned #1 star stopping 18/19. Sharks keep creeping up the standings

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It’s the Sharks Pride Game and at the first intermission the Sharks lead the Maple Leafs 2-0. Ostapchuk and Graf with the Sharks goals. Smooth Jazz, who works in many media, did the design for Pride Night this year but outside of the auction jerseys I can’t find any merch with this design 🙁

Shark tooth motif for Pride Night on the video board

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I don’t know why, as an adult, I cry whenever I watch a manned spacecraft launch, but I do. And I did This graphic got me choked up too

Partial screen grab from NASA, showing a picture of the Artemis spacecraft, a timeline from “core stage separation” to “solar array wings open”, and three status score bugs, so to speak. Velocity: 18,405 M/H - 142 miles from Earth - 242,493 miles to Moon

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The space program was of surpassing importance to me as a kid. Family friends were engineers for NASA contractors. Apollo, Skylab, the Shuttle: all big deals 50+ years later, today NASA is sending astronauts back to the moon (once around, not a landing) and I am verklempt

The Artemis II crew before they get in the crew van to ride out to Pad 39B and their spacecraft

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

You get a little one of these for winning your region but I don’t think that’s the one they really care about

Gamecocks posing with the NCAA regional champion trophy

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I can’t get through these four days at Golden 1 Center without posting a picture of the giant inflatable cock South Carolina brought. Sorry prudes

Giant inflatable of Cocky, the South Carolina mascot, with a banner behind (partly obscured) that reads “Carolina COCK”

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