Upsets!

So, the Buckeyes women's team is going to the Sweet Sixteen -- beating LSU and Kim Mulkey (convincingly) on their own court.  Most impressive.  Funny; I think some sportswriter got into hot water for pointing out (mostly true) that the women's tournament tends not to have the upsets and scares that the men's tourney often features.  But not this year!  Hell, Belmont took Tennessee to the wire; Arizona is out of the tourney, and even South Carolina looked mortal for a few moments.

I watched -- what was extant -- "Bread" today; it's a silent film from 1918 in the same vein as "Shoes."  Even has the same female lead, and a similar plot -- girl goes to big city to live out dream of hitting show business, and must face starvation or surrendering her morals.  As always, I was amused by the fact that the horizontal casting couch is a century old...and seems to be only now seems to be slightly receding.  Sadly, much of the film is lost; what's left is what was saved from the Dawson City cache (the reels that were used as a landfill filler and due to the permafrost were saved)... but it was still cool to see (and a female director, rare for 1918).  This brings me to 789, and tough sledding the rest of the way on progressing through the remainder.

I finished two books this past weekend, one of which was Conspiracy, which chronicled the efforts of Peter Thiel (and later Hulk Hogan) to bring about the death of Gawker.  It was interesting, the length Thiel went to keep his role in the affair secret, and the way the author told the story... well, it does seem that some mores are changing; not sure how much of a role the trial played in this, but some of the stuff they did simply doesn't pass now.  On the other hand... it does seem a little off that a billionaire could take out a media site simply because it pissed him off.  Course, he is on our side, and they were not, so... let's just say that I was almost sympathetic to their plight.