I popped into this thread yesterday as a 'delay tactic,' when I felt some anxiety before getting out of the car to join an unfamiliar yoga class in a style I associate with greater vigor & speed of movement than my aging body and active mind usually prefer.
My equanimity was already agitated by the tone and nature of Boneyard members dragging on Kentucky citizens and Kentucky basketball fans in harsh tones too broadly applied for my tastes & lived experience. In simplicity, I offered that our thread about Kentucky BBN participants displayed many of the worst attributes that were objected to in others.
I finally pushed through resistance, stepped out of the car, and heard loud & thumping music coming from the direction of the outdoor covered gathering space next to the Old Forester's Paristown Hall concert venue, where the class was assembled and in progress.
I quickly determined that the music came from beyond Christy's Garden, and was the cause from Brent Street being closed off and requiring me to reroute to the public parking lot at the far side of the Paristown area, along the edge of the elevated railroad tracks that carry enormously-configured slow-moving trains, with an amazing variety of cars & loads of raw & finished goods and livestock & natural resources that are part of a vast system that coordinates the largest working river in the Eastern US; 3 major interstates that connect Chicago through Nashville down to Mobile Bay, Hampton Roads to St Louis and the Missouri River, and (Great) Lake Erie in Cleveland by way of Cincinnati & Columbus; and, yes, the UPS Worldport at Muhammad Ali International Airport, which is second in the US and 4th in the world for airfreight volume (trailing only Memphis, the home base for FedEx).
I determined that the music was going to impact the yoga class enough for me to re-imagined my visit as a recon for this inaugurating series of outdoor public yoga classes in the run-up to the Kentucky Derby Festival, which officially kicks off on April 20th with Thunder Over Louisville, North America's largest firework show that caps off the earlier airshow that runs along the Ohio River north of Downtown. It's all quite 'not too bad' for a place that we from CT and the Northeast too often dismiss as a place infested with toothless inbreds as far back as the nation's founding, when Kentucky was part of the Virginia before becoming the 15th US state a mere 368 days after the 13th of the original colonies (Rhode Island) ratified the US Constitution.
What I came up on was a lively 'diverse' gathering that I eventually learned was the final rehearsal for a runway fashion show with Derby-themed, self-constructed costumes, and all of the usual markers that Louisville is welcoming to the weird in ways that can make it much more viable than the so-called coastal cultural elites (and the incurious tagalongs who dislike them) imagine.
I slipped into the Village Market food hall for an apple fritter from Jeff's Donuts, which solidified that I'd jettisoned the yoga, and decided that the item not surprisingly tastes better when bought where it's made round-the-clock on Dutchman's Road, in between the general aviation airport at Bowman Field - which has always been notable for its long runways to accommodate private jets flying in from all points on the globe for earliest May weekend guests who comprise, in part, the upper register of Derby visitors.
After the pageantry, I headed over to meet the yoga teachers and set myself for the next 2nd Thursday evening class. Nice connections came my way, and I encountered my third of three people who engaged me in friendly, respectful, congratulatory, and sufficiently informed conversation that leveraged my being attired in UCONN-emblazened hat & sweatshirt.
The late 20s donut guy initially joked about not serving me on the basis of my gear. The young 20s woman who told what the the fashion thing was, knew that Hurley was being targeted but wasn't yet aware of the minutes-before report of his rejection of the 8-year, 9-figure offer as per Matt Norlander. And the 40+ yogini surprised me the most by having full-range sense and considered opinion of Calipari's full UK span and his sustained inability to get the full job done for too long to continue. I'd never guess on such conversation if I were in some comparable settings in similarly-vibed New Haven.
This is all by way of saying that my prior comments came solely from my first impression of the OP, and dropped into some impressions offered on, I think, page 3 of this thread, so I got intrigued by what might really be in here, and I'm glad I've revisited.
It turns out that I like this thread quite much. There's a good quality blend of rejection, outrage, put-down, snark, passion, perceptive loyalty, considered assessment of the human condition, and more.
I've chosen a bunch of earlier-in-the-thread comments for brief comment, and I'll be back after them with some thoughts up until to the point that "more was revealed."
I might have something to say about comments that continue to the present, but they may not feel 'necessary' then.
Thanks for kicking things off here. I think you brought a lot of good out.
A perfect out-of-the-box snapback, in that it was my first thought too.
I'll add a fun observation a bit down the scroll, way way way too far down for me to think you'll see it, but contextually better positioned.
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It's not out of line for somebody to have wondered and this poster to have asked the larger forum's opinion of a self-identified "concern." If it has been written as "potential concern," it might gotten a better reception, though I'm not sure that a nuanced qualifier would have fared much better. Not a criticism of you either way.
My emphasis here is that it's not a certainty that your third sentence will hold in perpetuity, given that we live in a world where consensus seems to favor that "change is the only constant."
To be clear, proceeding
today in accordance with your third sentence is fine with me. I'm just more insistent at such moments that I remind myself that life unfolds one day* at a time.
* Or whichever time measurement unit, adjusted downward, works best for some with a felt need to do so in order to derive 'benefit' equivalent to the intention effectively 'designed' into the ODAT orientation/moniker. For one example, "one breath at a time" applies for some people and some circumstances.
Particularly because of media propensity to exploit any perceived opportunity to stir the pot, I'll add your thought to my ever-evolving "growing edge" list for continued observation. I'm inclined toward speculating that we'll see favorable growth in this area. I don't know at what pace, and those with certain agendas or a susceptibility to certain framings, will likely continue to drive with outdated maps when it serves their interests.
I loved seeing that somebody else had looked further than merely the low post count, and I had formed very much your same impression before reading your first paragraph. If I hadn't already been delighted by your 're-introduction' within that particular mojo post, I'd have thought that this entry was a worthy successor to/reminder of that disappeared poster whose balanced takes and considerate expression of them I missed.
Here, I offer an 'Easter egg' of sorts. In at least one of those 4 prior posts by
@Savos -- maybe the assessment of the team after the 2023 Blue/White scrimmage --
@husky429 registered a Like. I didn't click to see who else Liked any of the others. It was one of those "[somebody] and [#] others reacted to this post" things that I came upon while searching for OP's prior posts on a rather binary, "Is this guy a troll or not?" inquiry.
And then we got this...
This saisfies my thirst for context, and simply repeat that the original post more accurately identified an area of "
potential concern." Many examples rebut the non-qualified thrust, but it does not mean it cannot or will not emerged, much of which I've already discussed.
This is a terrific comment, especially for its placement within the discussion.
Functionally/practically, only OP could confirm or deny this, and I'm not thinking it would matter either way.
No matter what, this is a great example of, "What might this odd thing before me be the product of for it to make more sense?"
Now, I can hit send and see where things have gone in the past 20+ hours or so in this thread and else in this forum. I'm only up to date knowing that Mark Pope is going to UK.
Is Cooley heading to BYU?
Oh my, I just got a partial pop-up from my sister, a text that literally started and stopped with the headline of a presumably-forwarded news report: "UConn's Clingan ...," and I will hit Post Reply before clicking in the now-vanished alert. Whee...
