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  1. A week ago I noticed some anomalies with the water supply. Turns out it was two separate leaks. I'm not one for messing with plumbing or electricity. The first leak was fixed on Monday. The second on Wednesday. Fixing the first revealed the second. Since the house is 40+ years old and the water lines(Quest) are obsolete any sort of repair requires some splicing. All is well for now. The next step would be a "repiping"(which would modernize the plumbing, but it's not cheap) and then everything would be good to go.
  2. I'd add in Permanent Record. Of the six you listed the only one I didn't like was FBDO. Then again I'm the weirdo that preferred Losing It to Risky Business as well.
  3. Watching one of his '79 face turn promos I couldn't help but get a Sally Field vibe from Ole. "You like me! You really like me!"
  4. Oops. It was still pretty damned good.
  5. Just watched my third John Cassavettes movie since the middle of the week. Mikey and Nicky(being the third of them) is really good. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie was the first. They all have a mid-late 70's vibe and an air of grittiness to them,
  6. Over the winter I've taken to making slow cooker chili, and never the same way twice. Yesterday I pulled out the crockpot and dove into making some chili. I used a lb. of Mushroom & Swiss sausage, two cans of kidney beans, one can of diced tomatoes, elbow macaroni, a can of Tex-Mex Corn(corn with diced green and red peppers), a chopped Serrano pepper, and a packet of Spicy Kung Pao seasoning. It cooked for four hours with zero remaining liquid. I let it sit in the fridge for a few days before I get into it. One nice thing about Walmart lately has been the display of $1 bottles of different types of sauces. The week before I did the chili I put chicken breast, pork roast and sausage in the crock pot. After each was done I put teriyaki and mild bbq on the chicken, a bottle of Blues Hog Smoky BBQ on the pork roast and nothing on the sausage. SInce there was a tone of liquid left over I poured in a cup of Basmati rice and let it absorb all of the goodness of the pork and chicken. Almost an hour later and it was done with zero liquid left over. Crock pots make life a hell of a lot easier.
  7. Watched Opening Night yesterday. An interesting movie. Liked it a lot, but it required me to pay attention. Saw it on Max. Seems like a lot of Criterion Collection releases are on Max now.
  8. About ten years ago I worked a job where one part was delivering Vizio TVs that were replacements for models that had come defective from the factory. It seems that they've definitely improved their QC.
  9. My first exposure to Lewis was the series he did with Jamie Lee Curtis. Second exposure was him being interviewed on Stern(years later). RIP. The same age as my parents. The age thing is what hits the most.
  10. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie(Director's Cut). Enjoying the ever loving hell out of this. It's on MAX.
  11. Being a man of a certain age I remember when the miniseries aired, but I never saw a second of it. It definitely had to have aired during a Sweeps period(because that's when miniseries and "Very Special Episodes" seemed to air). I watched the first episode and liked it. Haven't watched the second episode yet. I like what I've seen so far.
  12. It's on Tubi(as are a veritable shit load of AH rip offs). The one that caught my eye was Amityville Karen.
  13. I watched Caveman at a drive-in on a double bill with The Blues Brothers in '80 or so(while sitting in a Pinto).
  14. I'm not familiar with the games so the trailer looks fine to me. Even better if its an enjoyable dumpster fire.
  15. The latest episode of Creepshow is just so damned amazing. I've also been enjoying the hell out of Loudermilk.
  16. NWA Championship Wrestling(08/12/78). You get proto-Midsouth with Ernie Ladd, Orndorff, Cowboy Bob Ellis, Ron Bass and Wish.com Bobby Eaton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe3K1A2LF5k
  17. Hopefully he'll be able to ELevate himself.
  18. My biggest nitpick with that scene is that the diaper van is a Dodge and the shot of the shifter moving is from a Ford.
  19. The only way to make that more French is if every character were smoking Gitanes.
  20. A trip to TWP got me through the first leg of my "Amish Run" today.
  21. Watching The Beanie Bubble. Really enjoyed it. I'll be damned if Zach Galifianakis doesn't look like a smaller John Goodman.
  22. I can see the John Walton after too much of The Baldwin Sisters "recipe" now that you mention it.
  23. Currently enjoying The Brothers Sun and Griselda.
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