Mike Branom

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How am I trying to keep my dogs from freaking out from the fireworks? Well, I'm glad you asked! Right now, I've got a fan going as well as an air purifier. And if that's not enough, how about some solo George Harrison? www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFAe...

GEORGE HARRISON ✆ Blow Away 【music video】www.youtube.com In 1974, he organized Dark Horse Records, which -- following the end of his contract with EMI in 1976 -- became the imprint on which all of his subsequent so...

Live, from the Colorado Boulevard bridge...

"AS PER MY PREVIOUS EMAIL...

Arizona Diamondbacks are a below .500 team so the Dodgers will lose 2 out of 3

Dodgers 6, Diamondbacks 5. Had 'em all the way...

Shohei go boom.

Well, boo. Recently, I went to Nordstrom Rack to get some new flip-flops and shorts. While there, for the yell of it I picked up a pair of Adidas slides. After wearing them for a walk of the doggos, I can say they don't fit right and make my feet hurt.

USMNT go splat.

And informative, spine-stiffening read. He brings facts, and facts are stubborn things. (Thanks to family, I've got some inside info on Arizona: The state GOP is a *disaster* and the Trump campaign's presence is... non-present.)

i'm getting so, so tired of the doomerism on here, and the press loves covering shit like a horse race instead of explaining fundamentals and what's at play, a job that seems to fall to @golikehellmachine.com on here. so here's a thread about why i'd rather be biden — yes, biden — right now

How to wipe yourself out: spend nearly 2 hours in an un-air conditioned laundromat on a 90-degree day.

Carpets, shampooed. I AM A MAN OF MY WORD.

Hell, my wife and daughter left today for a week to visit family in MN and IA. My response: "God bless – now I'm clear to mop the laminate and shampoo the carpets."

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

A HUMBLE THING BUT THINE OWN... (Vin Scully often would say that after a batter got a cheap hit. Or, as another saying goes, they all look like line drives in the box score.) So, from the basil I planted in April, I made my first batch of pesto.

Am I now logging off so I can grill chicken wings for my apt complex's informal cocktail hour in the courtyard? Yes. Yes, I am. But I leave you with a recipe for an awesome wing sauce: 1 part Frank's, 1 part honey, 1 part balsamic vinegar. Give it a try.

I LOLed, so I share.

This feels like it has BlueSky energy

Kiké, your good vibes are being outweighed by your poor play. Someone's gotta go at the trade deadline – and it looks like you.

There must be little more embarrassing for a soccer player than attempting a bicycle kick and whiffing completely.

As I was saying...

I thought this pattern wouldn't apply because both candidates are so unusual. But this actually does in some ways fit the long pattern of incumbent presidents appearing unready in their first gen election debate: Reagan in 84, Bush in 92, Bush in 04, Obama in 12.

I'm reminded the last time an incumbent Dem prez had his first debate against his challenger, Obama looked not good against Romney. Of course, that's not how the election went.

Post an image that people will hear when they see it

Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's fly...

LAD Home Run! Freddie Freeman homers (12) on a fly ball to left field. Shohei Ohtani scores. The score is now CWS 3, LAD 3 (Top 3)

For personal growth, it's important to know what you want – but even more to know what you don't.

Taking two 10yo girls to Malibu. Barely past noon and it's already 95.7F in the 'dena. Eff that.

Uh oh. What bad thing just happened?

PHI Home Run! Nick Castellanos homers (10) on a fly ball to left field. The score is now AZ 5, PHI 4 (Bottom 8)

Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's fly...

LAD Home Run! Freddie Freeman homers (11) on a fly ball to center field. The score is now LAD 5, COL 0 (Top 4)

Losing Yamamoto and Betts in a span of less than 24 hours... Cool, cool.

And the hits just keep on coming...

Oh wow. And a strained rotator cuff for Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Not season-ending but he’s expected to be out for a while. What a brutal day for the Dodgers.

*Prepares to down a massive bourbon Old Fashioned*

Broken hand for Mookie Betts.

Oh bloody hell.

Mookie is coming out. 98 mph off the hand. Brutal.

Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's fly...

LAD Home Run! Freddie Freeman homers (10) on a fly ball to right center field. The score is now LAD 3, KC 0 (Bottom 6)

Doing my part: In post-midnight college baseball from Omaha, t7 TAMU 3, Florida 1 - but the Gators appear to be getting off the mat with b2b doubles for their first run.

Once again, Bluesky falls short on sports coverage. Yamamoto leaves after 2 innings with a triceps issue, and there is no news here from the postgame media availabilities. Game ended some 2 hours ago.