In brief, i grew up fairly close to San Antonio, and have had the good fortune to be varying degrees of a Spurs fan from the David Robinson era on forward. (My mother is really to blame/credit here, as she's very much a Spurs fan and the reason that the entire family owns Spurs paraphernalia). The Spurs have had a great season, made it to the finals, and have been having a back-and-forth with the Miami Heat (you know, LaBron James' team) up through yesterday night's hard fought, lost-by-three-points-in-overtime game 6.
It's nice to be from a town where the local sports team is made up of just solid, decent guys who play as a team (it's kinda boring, media-wise, but that's not a bad thing). Game 5 was on Sunday night, which was also Father's Day, and i was pleased to see this yahoo article regarding the players as dads, including a reference to an Onion article featuring the same.
Also notable from the NBA finals this year was the coverage of a 12-year-old Mariachi singer Sebastian De La Cruz, who sang the National anthem for game 3, which was met with racial comments. The cry of support from San Antonio was loud enough that the young man sang the national anthem again for game 4, and did a spectacular job.
And, there exists a (slightly dated) mariachi song called Go, Espurs, Go (and follow-up story here, regarding the musician who is also a truck-jumping daredevil).
Finally, Coach Pop is a very admired, highly quotable wildcard.
Also having to do with SA, agua frescas are very common beverage, being sweet fruity drinks of many varieties including hibiscus. It's sort of raspberry/cherry/red flavored. When i was a kid, there was also a kool aid flavored like hibiscus flowers that was pretty awesome. The bar where i had dinner last night featured a beer that used hibiscus as a flavoring, which put me in mind of the kool aid flavor. i might have to go back and try that beer. A friend with whom i had dinner asked about a link between okra and hibiscus; the flowers (okra v/s hibiscus) and plants look pretty similar. They're both members of the family Malvaceae, which also includes cotton (flowers here) and the well known decorative plant hollyhocks.
Though Feminist Ryan Gosling is now defunct due to the graduation of it's creator (Congrats!!), Feminist Taylor Swift is now a thing. Also Feminist Hulk twitter?
Saw this yesterday on the NY Times, and i forwarded it to a few of my favorite cycling friends: crowd-sourced local biking advice, limited to 10 words. (You can search for your current city.)
Another map featuring the meaning of town names here (with kudos to Brandon).
For those of us fascinated with molten glass and recycling, a link that includes both.
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