Gheorghasbord: Great Tits in Crisis

Sometimes the moment meets the man. Or the woman. Given the circumstances, it's difficult to say. The Independent Tweeted this earlier in the week:

The Dread Pirate Roberts, Wesley version, applauds. Scientists, too, because they found a way to make the drastic changes to the Earth's climate mean something to the fuckboi community, if only for a moment. But for reals, as Spring comes earlier and earlier, larvae hatch earler, and immature tits have a harder time finding food. Someone give TR the book report version of this. Pretty sure he started weeping at the headline and never got this far.

Thought that story was worth above the fold treatment, and I'm kinda feeling like I intro every post in roughly the same way, so we're mixing it up in this 'sbord. But there's a lotta fun shit happening, so we need to let it out into the world.

For example, zman sent me some porn this week. I'm not really a car guy, but I am a design guy, and
I've learned a bunch from z about cars during the G:TB era. So much so that he thought I'm growns up enough to handle Sports Car Market magazine, which is...holy shit, y'all, it's like Bring A Trailer for kids with way too much money. I'm smitten. And I will never be able to but anything more than next year's subscription. But if you need a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports and you've got $5m kicking around, I'm your guy.

I'll buy that car, or one like it, when my ownership stake in FC Pingzau Saalfelden comes good. For now, though, the dream is deferred. The Mountainous Pine Blues sit squarely in the middle of the Austrian Regionalliga Salzburg table with a 5-1-7 record. Or sat, really, as the season's been cancelled due to COVID-19. In the midst of all that, CEO Mark Ciociola resigned. Or 'resigned'. We may not make the UEFA Champions League this year.

There is one thing to look forward to in the upcoming William & Mary basketball season, and it happens next week. Nathan Knight has an outside chance of being selected late in the second round of the NBA Draft next Wednesday. He had a great combine, shooting better from three-point range than any other big man. He's thought of as a bit stiff and less versatile than the James Wisemans of the world, but he's got a W&M degree, can shoot it, operate out of the pick and roll, pass, and defend the rim. So you're saying there's a chance? Eh, he'll make a ton of money in Europe.

And finally, I've made some dumb impulse purchases during the pandemic, but I'm pretty excited about this one. Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, known as Xolos, play in the top division of Mexican soccer. They're a relatively new side, founded in 2007, but they've had a decent amount of success, winning a league title in 2012. Club Tijuana's nickname references the ancient Aztec god of dogs, the Xolo. They ain't beautiful, but they're distinctive. As are the kits the club rolled out in honor of Dio de los Muertos:

That's gonna look good on me. As is 2021.