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Mike Branom

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"(I)nterestingly is not a meteorologist and lives in Los Angeles..." - Washington Post. Independent writer/editor for clients including the WaPo, USC, Daily Beast, City of WeHo. Rafter of atmospheric rivers. mikebranom.com


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TIL Minions are royalists. Makes sense, actually...

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LOL. Be magnanimous in victory. But still, you won.

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That is true.

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May as well through the Dodgers and Giants in there, too.

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Yeah no, Dad. I'm backing you. Brewers logos are Brewers logos, Braves logos are Braves logos. There's no such thing as a "Milwaukee logo."

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OK, what's the argument?

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"Gentlemen, we are facing a Squirt Gun Gap!"

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HP ump Brian Walsh's zone is... "nebulous."

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It's still only early July, so I'll attach a qualifier: After the Dbacks debacle, they (kinda) needed this one.

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His only flaw is that Kershaw hates throwing to him, for whatever reason. That's why Clayton has Austin Barnes as his personal catcher.

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Have yourself a night, Will Smith!

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Take my like – but leave me with my shame...

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"That's the lowest vote share in the history of the Conservative Party." And no one can say they got there by accident...

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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...

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Live, from the Colorado Boulevard bridge...

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Christian Walker, Jim Eisenreich. Jim, Christian...

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"AS PER MY PREVIOUS EMAIL...

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"Wolves, meet Lamb. Lamb, Wolves..."

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Had 'em all the way. 😬

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

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Shohei go boom.

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You know better than to leave it in the bullpen. (Or in warmups. Or at the shootaround. Or at the skatearound. YOUR PREFERRED SPORTS ANALOGY GOES HERE.)

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"But I'm one of the Good Ones!"

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Exactly. An older person can be in fine health right up until the moment they aren't. So cries of "Why didn't you see this coming?!" don't land when there was nothing to see.

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"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."

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Nice breakdown of a nice pickup. Dare I say Phoenix's offseason has been.. good?

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It happens to the best of us.

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Sheee-it, I've seen a handful of Bernie dead-enders trying to make this about the *2016* primary.

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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.

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USMNT go splat.

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Cubes no longer runs the team. He sold - remember?

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(smash cut to Jamison, now a cobwebbed skeleton...)

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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.)

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Not to mention, would the Biden/Harris campaign-finance apparatus transfer to an entirely new ticket?

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

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No computers or even typewriters. If quills and ink were good enough for John Marshall, they're good enough for these six clowns.

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But when I was at the laundromat, one of the dogs went into a bedroom and dropped the gooiest, stinkiest bomb on the carpet. Good thing the carpet cleaner was still out.

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

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Also: "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!"

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Ooh, that's a good'un.

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Exactly. "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."

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"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."

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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.

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When my wife and I visited around New Year's, staying near Union Square, what struck me the most were the empty street-level storefronts. Where were the mom-n-pop restaurants? Where were the humble bodegas?

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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.

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LOL. That music could only come from an era with the fumes of leaded gas in our lungs and metal bands' hairspray destroying the ozone layer.

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Like a power ballad (e.g., "Every Rose Has Its Thorn") or something noisier (e.g., "Dr. Feelgood")? Fwiw, I couldn't stand the former, but the opening guitar to Feelgood gets my heart a-pumping.

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Been adding many posters to a mental list of people I want nowhere near my foxhole. Trump get sentenced a week from Thursday, and it's gonna be reeeeeeal interesting to see which pants-wetters here will adamantly refuse to take that W.

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UK gonna zig while everyone else zags...

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Massive unforced L for Macron.

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