The book about their early years “Van Halen Rising” is a fun read.  Lots of crazy stories about their days of playing backyard parties in Pasadena.

And if I remember correctly, its because his wife used the bill to buy a bottle of champagne.

I’ll ask the obvious question:  Tom Hanks...in a Elvis biopic?  Filmed in Australia???

There’s racist dogwhistles...and then there’s this, which is a racist FIRE ALARM.

My Mormon parents decided I was too young to see Jaws when it came out (I was 10) even though all my friends were seeing it. But they compromised by letting me read the novel. Little did they realize that there was a chapter long explicit sex scene in the middle involving Hooper and Mrs Brody.

They wore funny underwear?/////

“lucrative Christian comedy scene”....I am really having a hard time wrapping my head around this...

Umm....didn’t they do this already?

Was anyone else bitterly disappointed this morning when they came here hoping for a steaming hot take on last night’s wacky 7th inning imbroglio?

So President Stable Genius and First Lady Be Best have a 13 year old son at the White House...and they didn’t bring him to a World Series game?

I thought it was the Bob Stanley game...

He talks about it at length in The Dawn Wall, and in his book.  It really fucked him up for a long time.

And that they easy access to military grade weapons.

I’m not an expert (although I do have a step-daughter who is developmentally disabled), but Honnold strikes me as being on the spectrum more then being ‘deeply broken’.

It got overshadowed by ‘Free Solo’, but ‘The Dawn Wall’ is an absolutely riveting movie. It tells more of Caldwell’s life story, including him retelling the story of his abduction/escape in Kyrgyzstan and the PTSD that resulted.  His book is worth checking out as well.

Looks like Don Jr Jr was targeting a specific reporter...

Re: Drinking in front of your kids.

I still have the old school dugout/pinch-hitter like I used in college (I just turned 55). Works great when I’m doing a couple of one-ies while out for a walk.

Which would/will leave the Mariners as the only team to have never made the World Series.

In her book ‘Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys’, Viv Albertine talks about how Mick Jones wrote ‘Train In Vain’ after taking a late night Tube ride across London to try and get back together with her after they broke up. So while it may come across as a creepy stalker-y song now, it was…