PJs, coffee, and the occasional Giant
Trying to find my way through this bumbling world. Heart is stuck somewhere between the press box and the batters box. Not sure about love.
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Quote reblogged from let'sgetweird.
George Lucas’ rich neighbors don’t want him building a movie studio in their backyard. His response is the best thing he’s done in years.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, for four decades Lucas has owned a large swath of land in Marin County in the North San Francisco Bay and has spent the past few years trying to transform the ranch on it into a massive, nearly 300,000 square foot, state-of-the-art movie studio complete with day care center, restaurant, gym and a 200-car garage. His neighbors, however, have rejected it every step of the way. Despite the promise of bringing $300 million worth of economic activity to the area, the already-well off neighbors are worried about years’ worth of construction activity and the additional foot traffic it will bring into their neighborhood once completed.
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So what is George Lucas going to do with his property now that he’s tired of his rich neighbors putting up a not-in-my-backyard stink? He wants to transform the property into low-income housing, naturally, ending their official statement with this zinger, “If everyone feels that housing is less impactful on the land, then we are hoping that people who need it the most will benefit.”He’s working with the Marin Community Foundation to instead construct affordable housing for either low-income families or seniors living on small, fixed incomes. In order to smooth along the development, he’s already given them all of the pricey technical studies and land surveys Lucasfilm spent years conducting. And we think that’s just great. Because if there’s one thing rich people will hate more than having movie magic made in their backyard, it’s poor people moving in.
George Lucas Does Something Likeable For a Change
This is amazing. (via liquidiousfleshbag)
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Photoset reblogged from It's a long season.
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Photo reblogged from nerve jamming.
He looks so worried.. and its only the third inning..
(Source: estrella55)
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Link reblogged from Old Time Family Baseball
“Caution to the wind! Contract year be damned! I wanna slip and I wanna slide! Oh, I just gotta dance!” - Josh Hamilton*
Coming off of a four home run game, I’d be pretty pumped too. But I wonder how Baltimore’s grounds crew feels about this. I suppose things are going well enough for the Orioles that they might not care. In fact, with someone as fragile as Hamilton ring-leading the rest of the participants, they might have been hoping for a hamstring tweak. Click through for the video. Baseball players have all the fun.
*Might not have actually been said.
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Billy, the Giants’ true blue fan, still following team
By: Andrew Baggarly
LOS ANGELES – The Giants’ players and coaches saw a familiar face as the team bus rolled into the main entrance at Dodger Stadium. It’s Billy Chamberlain, the lovable, homeless Giants fan who was a constant presence outside AT&T Park during the World Series run in 2010.
Chamberlain went missing last year, leading the team to post flyers and put his picture on the stadium scoreboard between innings. It turns out Billy had wandered down to Los Angeles, where he still lives on the streets. He turned up last September at a series here.
Billy said he has no plans to return to San Francisco, but he always knows when the Giants are coming to town. He’s still wearing the same World Series hat and Letterman-style Fox Sports jacket that announcer Duane Kuiper gave to him.
“I don’t live far from here,” Chamberlain said, as he waited near the Elysian Park gate for the team to arrive. “On the streets, though.”
Billy often gets handouts from some of the players and manager Bruce Bochy, who was legitimately concerned when the team’s affable fan went missing. If Steinbeck and Twain could’ve gotten together to make a composite character, they’d have come up with Billy.
What Billy really wanted was a pocket schedule. That was easily done. I dashed back to my car and found one for him.
Billy immediately scanned to see where the Giants would be on his birthday, Aug. 3. He was excited when he saw they’d open a series in Denver on that day.
“Tell the team I’ll be there,” he said.
I pointed out that the Giants play a fourth series in Southern California, in June, when they visit the Los Angeles Angels.
“Aw, I know where that is, Angel Stadium,” he said, excitedly. “Amtrak takes you right there. Hey, tell ‘em I’ll see them there, too.”
Dennis Vidal, a security guard directing traffic, said people often ask why the team lets Billy stand at the front gate.
“I’ve been here 14 years … and I’ve known Billy for 14 years,” Vidal said. “He’s never harassed anyone.”
Vidal waved through another car and then turned toward Chamberlain.
“Isn’t that right, Billy?”
