Wife and I planning a trip to Chicago Sept 11-14. Plane to arrive by mid-day on the 11th. Going to Cubs game on the 12th during the day, but everything else is open at this point. Looking for some recommendations for where to stay, cool stuff to check out, and places to eat. Looking mostly downtown with an easy way to get to Wrigley for the game. If there is a place to the watch the ISU game on Saturday, that would be a plus (if I can convince wife to watch it).

This will settle a debate that could lead me into making $5, obviously this makes it incredibly important.

On Thursday’s CF Daily, Jake Brend has a report from a fall camp availability with Eli Rasheed and Colby Kratch. Rasheed talks about what’s needed need from his group to get pressure on the quarterback. We hear from Yale transfer Tamatoa McDonough for the first time. Linebackers coach Colby Kratch discusses his process on determining playing time and the competition within that room.

For some reason Tom Brady decided to get all bent about Scott Scheiffler(?) Comments about he'd rather be a good dad than golfer.

Different strokes for different folks he could have just ignored it, not like Scott went after him with those comments. I'm guessing Tom was missing the lime light and needed a little attention.

Both made a lot of money for playing a game. Neither one cured cancer or anything really important. Well end of my rant.

Wintersteen announcing her retirement as ISU President.

Jake Brend and Rob Gray fill in for CW and Blum to discuss position matchups for Farmageddon before diving into what they learned about quarterbacks this week, Tyler Miller’s journey into fatherhood, and ranking road games to cover. Presented by Mechdyne.

Continuing our LP series that encompasses releases in years ending in “5.”

For part 3, post your favorite LPs released in 2005 and/or 2015. Those years only, NOT the entire decade.

Include 2-4 sound clips. Please do not post link to the entire album. Others who admire the LP may want to post some songs from it.

In addition to the tracks, we encourage you to expound on why the album is meaningful, including personal history of your relationship with the record and its music.

If someone posts an album on your list before you get to it, you still may reference it, but use different song clips.

Choices should focus on studio albums. Avoid greatest hits/live LPs/compilations. We’ll allow it, but it should be a definitive element of an artist’s body of work that isn’t otherwise generally available from studio output.

If you’re more singles-oriented, you may substitute top singles from either of those years.


“On That Note” is presented each week on Cyclone Fanatic by @MeanDean, @cyclones500 and myself.


Part 2

Farnsy Mafia

We are here to pay tribute to our beloved CF friend Farnsworth. If there is a CF Mafia Mount Rushmore he would definitely be one of the faces. He played in 117 games of mafia so I felt the best way to tribute him is a game full of roles he played in some of those 117 games.

Mafia's

Doug Mafia - Led by Lotso from Toy Story Mafia. He gets 1 instakill and the first time he's investigated he willshow as innocent.

The rest are mafia members Farnsy played in others mafia games.





Squints Mafia - Led by Steve Rhoades from Married with Children Mafia. He gets 1 instakill and the first time he's investigated he will show as innocent.

The rest are mafia members Farnsy played in others mafia games.


Innocents

Dr. Ian Malcom Jurassic Park Mafia - gets 1 investigation

Ace Ventura Ace Ventura Mafia and Chief Wiggum Simpsons Mafia - Detectives who will alternate nights getting to investigate. Ace starts then Wiggum. When one dies the other takes over on regular basis.

Bill Murray Space Jam Mafia and Adult Nala Lion King Mafia - Doctors who will alternate nights getting to save. Bill starts then Nala When one dies the other takes over on regular basis.

Jack of All Trades Each one get a kill, investigation and save. Only can use 1 per night

Fezzik Princess Bride Mafia

Leonardo TMNT Mafia


Naz Long ISU Basketball Mafia = One time 3 point vote, he can PM me and his vote will be counted as 3 votes when I do the final tally. He will have to publicly vote like normal.

Shosanna Dreyfus Inglorious Basterds Mafia: The avenger. If she is lynched by the mob during the day, she can choose one person who voted for her to be killed.


Jailor Town of Salem Mafia: The jailor gets to choose one person a night to imprison. The person they imprison will be safe from all attacks and will not be able to perform their night role.
Starting on night 2, the jailor may choose to execute the person they jailed, but only get three executions throughout the course of the game. If the jailor executes an innocent, they will lose their remaining executions.


Chris Traeger Park and Rec Mafia: He is a physical work of art. In such good shape he can't be killed by the mafia overnight for the first five days. He can be killed by lynching of the mob or an instakill though.

Duos - can pm each other but no powers

Calvin's Mom Calvin and Hobbes Mafia and Mickey Full House Mafia

Next Game Guy CF Pickup Mafia and Tommy Duncan Might Ducks Mafia



All the rest are regular innocents played by Farnsy!


GOOD LUCK!


GAME RULES:
1A. First Rule of Farnsy Mafia is only Farnsy will be clapped. Please try not to abuse this rule. I will pm after 2 consecutive missed days.
1. There will be no editing of posts.
2. The day will run from 7 a.m. Central through 9:05 p.m. Central, with the exception of Fridays, which will end at 7:05 p.m. Central.
3. Votes will count until 9:05 Central as stamped by the Cyclone Fanatic clock (7:05 p.m. Fridays).
4. Votes must be BOLDED or they will not count. If you are posting on mobile and don't get the formatting correct to bold the post, your post will not count.
5. No PM's between players unless your role allows it.
6. If you vote twice without rescinding, your first vote will count.
7. Specials will have an till 7am to get stuff in. If everything comes in early enough I will do a night report if not I will do a morning one.
8. I reserve the right to change the rules if I feel that it's necessary. Any changes will be clearly labeled.
9. In the case of ties in the lynching process, random.org will be used to make the final decision.
10. Ghost post using off-color font. Preferably gray.
11. If you have any questions about the game or didn't receive your role, PM the mayor.
12. HAVE FUN!

With no sports and peeps recommended to stay at home, what are you watching or have watched that you can recommend?

I finished Altered Carbon 2 last week. Netflix. Would recommend if you have watched season 1. New story but would be way easier to understand if you've watched the previous. Good sci-fi.

Thinking of checking out the South Korean "Kingdom", also on Netflix.

It has been all too quiet in this forum over the past 2 days, and I was surprised that no one has mentioned the news that Iowa State is facing a $147M shortfall over the next several years. On hold now are the $25M Hilton Coliseum upgrade as well as the $20M wrestling facility. This is terrible news, and I wonder how it will affect recruiting for athletes when we are competing with other schools that have upgraded facilities for both training as well as performances.

Probably doesn't need its own standalone thread, but I don't know if we have a Big 12 football-specific thread. Maybe this could be woven into a ***official season thread*** if someone plans to start one.

Anyway, this is CBS Sports ranking of most-difficult to easiest of XII schedules for 2025.

(this graf edited) I might rank ISU a bit higher, but probably a lot of fan bias, and more I review, it's probably ranked about right. Some of the perceived more challenging are at home (or neutral), but I do think point spreads are going to be tighter than last season's. Blum/Brend/CW did line guesses on pod the other day and a lot of projections seem close to where I might put 'em.

We currently live on the west side of the metro, but were thinking of building on the northern side of Ankeny.

My concern is I've lived in the area for almost 10 years now, and have only gone up to ankeny a handful of times, so I'm afraid we're going to end up needing to drive down to DSM/WDM for everything.

For those of you that live in ankeny, is that the case? Or are you pretty much set regarding businesses/decent selections in restaurants/etc? She goes to life time fitness, so I'm sure that's going to be an issue; I wasn't sure if there were any clubs somewhat on par with that up there or not.

At some point I got the impression altoona was planning on building a lot of retail in the near future, which I'd hope would offset the need to go out to west des moines, but I can't remember what that plan was (or if I'm crazy and just made it up).

My soon-to-be 1st grader has a great aptitude for math. He can do double digit addition and subtraction in his head. He understands there can be negative values. Knows at least small numbers multiplying and dividing. We got a lot of practice calculating during basketball season calculating how much ISU was ahead of their opponents.
Did a little research and found a Beast Academy puzzle book for first graders. I like it because it had a lot of breadth in skills without getting too far ahead and confusing him. He can do the puzzles but they do take more work than just a simple calculation. Now it is work and dad hasn’t been to great at finding what motivates him. He can do them, just may take a couple tries. I was never great at math and find it amazing he does so well.
I don’t want him to lose the skills. I taught him to throw a ball at 4 one winter. By summer it was like he never touched a ball. Still trying to get that one back.

I'm sure that some have already read that Iowa Brewing in Cedar Rapids is closing. The first rumors were out this past spring. By now it is no great secret, but those locally saw that it was still Iowa Brewing and still open (so a chance to think it was all a hoax). The owner has had a very successful run. His Oja and other beer/ales sell well. But he is at retirement age, and another CR brewery (ClockHouse Brewing) made him an offer he couldn't refuse. He has spent the time since this spring selling off the product he has had on hand, and I suspect that will continue into when ClockHouse finally takes over on Wednesday July 30, 2025. But TODAY IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO VISIT THE BREWERY AS IOWA BREWING.

No one knows exactly the plans that ClockHouse has for their new acquisition. Will they keep it much the same? Or will they maintain and improve it as a production and storage space? My belief is that Clockhouse will eventually move all (or nearly all) production and storage to the Iowa Brewing space, and enlarge their tasting space and make it more compatible with the other business in that building (Black Sheep Social Club). But this is only the opinion of someone not affiliated with either of these breweries or that other business.

On Wednesday’s episode of Cyclone Fanatic Daily in the Northwest Bank Studios, Jake Brend takes you through Xavier Townsend‘s skillset and how he plans to carve out his own legacy Ames. Jontez Williams and Jeremiah Cooper have both been selected to a preseason watch list. Cooper talks about how he’s freed up heading into the 2025 season. And finally, Conrad Hawley shares his crazy story on how he ended up at Iowa State.

Does anybody know if CW is still a host of this show or just an occasional guest? I know it’s on 3-6 and I can’t tune in for the entire time but it seems like he’s never on. I like to listen to the pods on iHeart but they don’t seem to offer the entire show. Just 1 or 2 hours at random the next day. It’s apparently somewhat of a running joke why he’s not there but I’m not sure if he’s considered a regular host or not. It seems to lean pretty Hawkeye heavy whenever I can catch it. So maybe it’s just a Hawk show now?

Like the football twitter thread, so figured I will start one for the wrestling program. Cool video on the freshmen and their go-to takedowns.

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Anybody watching this new series on the Sy-Fy channel. The pilot was on Friday night. It looks interesting so far, but I don't know how long they can sustain my interest. I wish they would have picked a different actor to play the alien. Not very impressed with him.

I have a situation that I am curious about.

I have an old person that is renting a place and has been approved, etc. The rental company requires that you use an app to pay the rent. The old people in question think that this is equal to giving all of their money to some rental company. THERE IS NO REASONING WITH THEM.

Is there any tax implications if they write me a check and then I pay the rental company. Basically I'd be a pass through. It's $2500 per month, so significant and I think it would be fine, but I don't know much about taxes.

Continuing our LP series that encompasses releases in years ending in “5.”

For part 2, post your favorite LPs released in 1985 and/or 1995. Those years only, NOT the entire decade.

Include 2-4 sound clips. Please do not post link to the entire album. Others who admire the LP may want to post some songs from it.

In addition to the tracks, we encourage you to expound on why the album is meaningful, including personal history of your relationship with the record and its music.

If someone posts an album on your list before you get to it, you still may reference it, but use different song clips.

Choices should focus on studio albums. Avoid greatest hits/live LPs/compilations. We’ll allow it, but it should be a definitive element of an artist’s body of work that isn’t otherwise generally available from studio output.

If you’re more singles-oriented, you may substitute top singles from either of those years.

(Next week, we conclude with 2005/2015.)

Part 1 link here

“On That Note” is presented each week on Cyclone Fanatic by @MeanDean, @CycloneRulzzz and cyclones500.

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I'll start with this, from 1985.

The Replacements
“Tim”
Released Sept. 18, 1985

On a sad note, this is the final studio release by The Mats that involved guitarist and co-founder Bob Stinson.

(Opening track)

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Some notable lyrics:
“Unwillingness to claim us, ya got no war to name us.”
“The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest /// The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please.”

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Watching tonite you might spot my daughter and I. Doing a New York bucket list. Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Katz Deli, and TDS today. 911 museum and Colbert tomorrow, and Yankees and Broadway show Thursday. Give me your bucket list.

Hope you can watch!