Archive for Berkeley

Preseason Blogpoll

Enough of my moaning. The teams still need to be ranked.
At a total loss Tuesday afternoon as to how to rank the top 25 preseason teams, I thought of the criteria with which I generally judge teams.
(1) Game performance. For example, last year I’d have knocked LSU down to #3 or #4 in the polls, [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, August 21st, 2008

If Marshawn Lynch Was A Treesitter…

I tried reading this editorial in good humor, but then the writer started invoking Goodwin’s Law and my mind blanked out. Once someone analogizes Hitler massacring half of Europe to cutting down a bunch of old oak trees, you’re probably going to lose me.
Clearly this woman was speaking in some sort of nebulous third-world that [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, July 24th, 2008

My Cal Preview for Michigan State Fans

Enlightened Spartan indulged me with my insipid Q&A, so I provided him with some thoughtless noninsight on his site. Note though: The site seems to have been made in 1997, because I can’t find a way to directly link to this. So you’ll have to go directly to enlightenedspartan dot com and look around in [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Profiles in Courage: Meet the Berkeley Treesitters

When there were about forty of them, we couldn’t really describe them in great detail, but now their numbers are dwindling, I can provide now excellent and possibly fictitious descriptions of the remaining hippies in the trees. Since these treesitters have decided to adopt names that the Mole People would be embarrassed to utilize for [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, June 23rd, 2008

SAHPC Ruling Links

See, people think that I have some issue with the treesitters being the ones holding up the athletic center. It doesn’t; it’s just a sideshow to the actual injunction. The thing’s going to get built. But the longer these people remain up here, the longer the football team has to endure the nonsense of these [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Breaking: Treesitters Being Removed?

I’ll have more updates later, but here are the emails I’m getting.
Everyone,
Please come to the oak grove IMMEDIATELY. UC Police are attacking and trying to remove the tree-sitters! Please come RIGHT NOW. Come as soon as you can. Do not wait. Do not delay. This is it. Come now!
- The Oaks
Is it just usual hippie [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

And Now You May Cringe

This treesitting farce and the comical way the UCPD has decided to combat this particular incidents (allowing hippies to intrude onto campus ground again and bang up their bongos to disturb the classrooms) makes me requestion our tactics in the war on terror. You know, waterboarding people with frayed ponytails and tye-dye shirts. I’m [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Beginning of the End?

While the slow, slowwww judicial process of stadium renovation continues, at least the disgusting sideshow seems to be dying down. Unfortunately, the pain itself is not completely over.
In what they said was an effort to clean up, police officials began removing some of the tree-sitters’ belongings from the Oak Grove at Memorial Stadium this [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Breaking News: Goodbye Treesitters, We Hardly Knew Ye

It looks like this gawkery will finally end before Homecoming.
An Alameda County judge ordered the tree sitters of Berkeley today to climb down from their leafy perches or face five days in jail.
Superior Court Judge Richard Keller granted a preliminary injunction requested by the UC Berkeley administration against the protesters, who are battling the university’s [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, October 1st, 2007

You Can Never Be Berkeley Enough

The annual bizarro festival celebrating the madness of Berkeley is this Sunday. This photoblog of 2004’s marching will hopefully deter you from going (Warning: NSFW, or life for that matter). [Zombietime]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007