What title was I trying to say when I wrote this a few hours ago and then failed to hit post? I have no idea!
I heard that story on moth radio hour, and it is one of the world's best stories. I like to give Joe DiMaggio a little bit of credit for the discovery of BRC1.
Great story. Fuck the mother though.
That is a great story, and I managed to skip the headline when I clicked on it (On my phone) so the final reveal came as a surprise. Amazing.
I didn't read the headline either. It's much better that way.
OMG, that is a wonderful story.
Thank you so much for sharing.
OMG, that is a wonderful story.
Thank you so much for sharing.
I almost skipped the end. I didn't realize he did more good deeds that sell coffee pots.
I guess married professors with children who date graduate students are probably the worst.
I hope that guy goes around knowing that if he were just a little bit more of a shit, he would have been helping cancer more than the average Philip Morris scientist.
Wait, so this guy ditched his kid to go to Costa Rica with his lover when he had previously agreed to take care of the kid that week because his wife had a super important presentation to give at NIH? What the fuck!
Did anyone else get a stupid fishing "call this number your computer is infected" pop up ad on the linked site? I did, but a full scan of my computer says I'm clean and the pop up was pretty obviously bogus.
16: Clear your cookies and check for browser updates.
It's a new computer and I didn't have adblock installed. Just added it.
And that is a pretty great story. I mean the one in the link, not the story of me installing adblock.
For once I'm actually glad I clicked a link. Thanks!
Isn't it fantastic? (I didn't listen to it this time, but it's got to be the same story). What kills me is not just her ex screwing her over, but her mother screwing her as well. And then the deus comes out of the machina, and everything works out okay.
And then when he ex dies alone in a Greyhound station when a TV playing Tucker Carlson falls on him, you just want to cheer.
It is a great story. I like the repeated examples of men dealing with stuff completely outside their experience without turning a hair. "Shit my first ever female tenured faculty member is melting down in front of me. This never happened before. What do I do? Oh, right, whiskey." Or "offer to look after the kid" or whatever.
completely outside their experience
Oh, maybe not completely. You have to figure that that guy didn't come up with the idea of giving an upset faculty member a drink out of the blue, he'd done it before (that is, it's a cliched kind of thing to do). The big conceptual leap he had to make was figuring out that the upset woman in front of him was a faculty member, so maybe the usual tactics were appropriate.
Which is a big leap! That it would be very possible for him not to have made, so kudos to him for making it! Just... not all that big of a leap.
Also, they moved the lions eating a Bedouin display to get front hall so you don't need to walk past bullshit nature displays.
If a woman was a human we would not be able to understand her. If we were lions, that is.
Is it weird that my strongest association with Joe DiMaggio is sadness that he thought Simon and Garfunkle were making fun of him ?
If we had woman we could make ham and woman, if we only had ham.
I have ham. I just finished eating a ham sandwich.
You can have your ham and eat it too if you have enough ham.
It puts the ham on its skin it else it gets the hose again.
Thanks for the earworm, biscuit.
He gave me a new vacuum cleaner to soften the blow.
"Now, I know this is going to suck."
33. Were they not? Why were they name checking him, then? I never saw any sense in it.
33: Paul Simon said that they went with Joe Dimaggio because it fit the melody. They had tried and Eleanor Roosevelt but couldn't build a melody arougnit.
My memory of of Joe DiMaggio is from reading his autobiography, Lucky to be a Yankee when I was about 10. His wife appears exactly once in the book, unnamed. He's in a slump until his wife mentions that from her seat, she can't see the number on his back like she used to. He realizes that he had changed his stance, changes it back, and the slump ended. Cute story.
When I was 10 I thought it was weird that in his autobiography there was nothing else about a wife or any kids. Like, there must have been a wedding sometime between the sandlot years and that scene.
Years later I found that it was weirder than that, since his wife was Marilyn Monroe.
33. I thought he was annoyed at the line "Joltin' Joe has left and gone away." He said, "I haven't gone anywhere." So he was, like many semi-ex-famous people, unhappy that someone wasn't up on what he was currently doing: selling coffee makers.
I'm drinking coffee from a Mr. Coffee right now. They still work great.
I don't even know what team he played for.
As the story illustrates, if Paul Simon had really needed him, Joe would have been there.
I don't know what team he played for, but I know what team he batted for because Marylin Monroe.
49 could only be improved if it were 69
Is it weird that my strongest association with Joe DiMaggio is sadness that he thought Simon and Garfunkle were making fun of him ?
Probably less weird than that mine is not even with him, but with voice of Bender, John DiMaggio. Whenever I think of either of them, I have to spend about 10 seconds trying to remember which is which.
Gay Talese made post-retirement DiMaggio look pretty bleak in The Silent Season of a Hero. Nice to see his rep mildly rehabilitated in this story. And what was with the narrator's mother?
It reminds me of Airplane! when they're all going to die and the women goes "Well, to be honest, I've never been so scared. But at least I have a husband."
There's a line of thinking -- I'm always struck when I see it -- that the daughter's choices fail to honor dishonor the mother's sacrifices.
There was a guy on twitter a couple weeks ago arguing that adoption of universal coverage screws labor union members, because they traded higher pay for better benefits.
Normal parent-child interaction in Ohio.