Good call that you're doing a Mutombo thread. I think my favourite "who wants to sex Mutombo?" was x.trapnel sidling up to me in that bar in SF across the street from City Lights. Genuinely felt like being part of a shameful conspiracy, especially as the guy next to me at the bar heard and looked at me as if it was the most disgusting perversion imaginable.
I remember when I went to my very first Unfogged meetup (at Fresh Salt iirc) and since I didn't know what anyone looked like and no one knew what I looked like I made a sign like limo drivers use for airport pickups that said "Mutombo" and waved it around the bar till I found my fellow reprobates.
And in other sports news: NMM to Pete Rose!
I bet you didn't see that one coming.
Who's the third famous athlete who's going to die in the next 24 hours?
I just saw the news and knew there was only one eclectic webzine to go to.
I just saw the news and knew there was only one eclectic webzine to go to.
5: Sadly, Curt Schilling is only in his late 50s and, as far as I know, in good health.
Did Kristofferson or Nasrallah ever play football or soccer?
Kristofferson played football in college.
Now that's he's gone, we have to deal with the fact that Mutombo said "who wants to sex Mutombo?" never happened. But, of course, it has happened, wherever two or three have gathered in his name.
"Who wants to sex Mutombo" happened not to Mutombo but to someone else of the same name.
Someone of the Connecticut Mutombo family.
And in other sports news: NMM to Pete Rose!
Holy shit. That means his lifetime ban from baseball is over and he's eligible for the Hall of Fame!
Or maybe not to be on the ballot since he retired more than 15 years ago. But the Veterans Committee can bring him in.
I think players are required to gamble now.
Yeah. I wonder if that's going to lead to any problems
AIHMHB
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/01/basketball-africa-league-nba-african-expansion
OTOH:
https://africa.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/41438845/nba-responds-senators-letter-rwanda
re: 10 / 11
Rugby, too, and he was a boxing Blue at Oxford.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYrXiuWW8AA3UJc?format=jpg&name=large
One of the most annoying things I ever watched was in one of the documentaries about Kristofferson, from about 20-30 years ago, in which Joan Baez gives this impression of him as if he's some ignorant redneck doing some benefit for striking farmers: "I'll do it for the Mex-cuhns ... hurr hurr", when we've just head him talk about his Oxford scholarship and lecturing in English at West Point, and heard him speak in an informed and articulate way about politics throughout the the whole thing. Never has my opinion of someone solidified as quickly (that Baez was a petty snob, basically).
Things notworking in her favor:
Misogyny
Utterly broken information space
The common clay of the new West (and elsewhere)
The Middle East
I think both a chance it breaks cleanly for Harris, or stays a close muddle with various risk points. I suspect the latter.
I did think 22 was a little aggro towards 21.
Mutombo sounds like a fantastic guy, sad that he died young. I'm going to think on this for a bit, but some kind of hagiographic imagery might be fitting, I'm going to give generative AI a try. Interdimensional basketball wizardry in the style of Steve Ditko maybe, or spiritual clarity of basketball in the style of Remedios Varo.
1: I can't believe I forgot all about that. Wow, nice one, younger me!
Just here in appreciation of the headline on the OP
Stopped by yesterday as soon as I saw the news & was swiftly reminded how any hour I spent reading comments here had more value than pretty much the entire decade I was on Facebook.
Rah! Last time you stopped by, you were exercising and fit and doing well. I miss your comments, but hope you're still doing well.
My first thought hearing the news was of unfogged. I hope everyone is well
The Varo styled one is not bad actually-- I know, asking for style like this is a violation of human creativity, John Currin is wrong for doing these kinds of pastiches and so am I :
https://openart.ai/community/TEp4n1uTnRpdh7BXE5rg