JLowe
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Thanks that CJ Anderson ranking is crazy.
Lamar Miller is up there too. They so overvalue running backs, stuck in 2006.
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I picked 9th out of 12, snake style. 1 QB, 2RB, 2WR, 1 Flex, 1 K, 1 D, 6 bench.
R1 - Demarco Murray
R2 - Randall Cobb
R3 - Alfred Morris
R4 - Tony Romo (would not have had a decent QB option if I waited till my R5)
R5 - Amari Cooper (flyer, but what the hell
R6 - Martavis Bryant (pre-suspension)
R7 - Charles Sims
R8 - Kendall Wright
R9 - Victor Cruz
R10 - Bills D (I've had success in past with drafting D around here, can be worth 10 pts/game in this league)
R11 - Andy Dalton
R12 - Matt Jones (Morris handcuff)
R13 - Devante Parker
R14- Phil Dawson (I stream kickers, so went with a Longhorn)
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1 Adrian Peterson RB | MIN $35 (Bye: 5) 2 Eddie Lacy RB | GB $34 (Bye: 7) 3 Le'Veon Bell RB | PIT $33 (Bye: 11) 4 Jamaal Charles RB | KC $32 (Bye: 9) 5 C.J. Anderson RB | DEN $28 (Bye: 7) 6 Marshawn Lynch RB | SEA $27 (Bye: 9) 7 Rob Gronkowski TE | NE $24 (Bye: 4) 8 Antonio Brown WR | PIT $25 (Bye: 11) 9 Dez Bryant WR | DAL $24 (Bye: 6) 10 Julio Jones WR | ATL $24 (Bye: 10) 11 Calvin Johnson WR | DET $23 (Bye: 9) 12 Demaryius Thomas WR | DEN $23 (Bye: 7) 13 Jeremy Hill RB | CIN $26 (Bye: 7) 14 Matt Forte RB | CHI $23 (Bye: 7) 15 Odell Beckham WR | NYG $22 (Bye: 11) 16 A.J. Green WR | CIN $20 (Bye: 7) 17 Andrew Luck QB | IND $19 (Bye: 10) 18 Randall Cobb WR | GB $19 (Bye: 7) 19 T.Y. Hilton WR | IND $17 (Bye: 10) 20 Alshon Jeffery WR | CHI $16 (Bye: 7) 21 Lamar Miller RB | MIA $19 (Bye: 5) 22 DeMarco Murray RB | PHI $18 (Bye: 8) 23 LeSean McCoy RB | BUF $17 (Bye: 8) 24 Aaron Rodgers QB | GB $18 (Bye: 7) 25 Jimmy Graham TE | SEA $11 (Bye: 9)For fun what is their TOP 25 player rankings?
Wilson I will send the money to you this weekend.
I should note that our league opted to not use TEs a few years back.
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The only new thing I started watching is Fear the Walking Dead, but I suspect that has its own thread.
Other TV thoughts: I've finally completely tired of the Naked and Afraid formula, even the XL addition. I also think my girlfriend has managed to DVR and watch every tiny house show so I should have a short reprieve.
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I was graded a D- for my CBS Sportsline draft, but that doesn't worry me because their player rankings were a flaming bag of dogshit.
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Ian Rapoport reports that Fred Jackson is flying to Seattle and both sides expect a deal to be worked out today.
so he and Lynch can split carries again?
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IT'S HERE.
Time for some Week 1 Big Game WHO YA GOT?
Texas @ 11Notre Dame: Well, this is a big game on the marquee only. Much like Harbaugh, Charlie Strong inherited a mess. They're a year closer to climbing out of the Mack Brown crater, but I don't like anything Texas has at the skill positions. Hard to see them doing much against ND's veteran defense. Yet I feel like this could be a classic Brian Kelly big game at ND: control the game, still only manage to win by 4-6 points somehow.
NOTRE DAME
Texas's O-Line is better than last year, even though we're starting 2 true freshmen! Scary to think. RB Jonathan Gray might finally live up to his 5-star ranking (he certainly physically looks the part), and we've got 2 big, fast guys backing him up. Our QB situation is somewhat of a mess, and apparently our WRs have almost all had a serious case of the drops during the fall practices. We lost some big pieces on defense, but our young talent there might be an overall upgrade, are big and fast, and they are all apparently full of piss and vinegar.
Like you, I think Notre Dame wins a close game.
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How about Screaming Females covering Taylor Swift, and totally killing it!
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And yeah, this.
Ironic folky covers of hip-hop (esp gangsta rap) and ukulele versions of ANYTHING pretty much need to die, sorry.
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The fucking trailer nearly gets me misty eyed and the book is currently kicking my ass. I am going to be a complete weeping mess when the credits roll.
Ditto. I loved that book and everything I've seen so far of the movie looks perfect.
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And for the record, Geno was a second round reach, not a first round one.
Oh right, I forgot he slipped after being touted as a first rounder. I think I was still laughing from the EJ Manuel pick.
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Plus, hey, injuring Jets QBs is a good thing for Buffalo, right?
Just don't let him near... Shit who is Buffalo's QB?
The Bills also have a first-round QB reach who is flopping, so if I were EJ Manuel, I would keep my fingers to myself.
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I saw Cop Car last Friday, sort of on a whim. I really didn't know much about it, but the Alamo Drafthouse folks recommended it, and they usually know what they're talking about. I really liked it. The initial build-up is spot-on, with kids daring each other to do things and getting more and more bold. There are multiple intense moments involving cars and guns where you think something is going to go wrong. The climax is maybe a little over-the-top but not completely out of line with the overall story arc. It's definitely not a car chase or rampaging cop movie.
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Watching Showdown in Little Tokyo on Blu-Ray and I remember reading several stories over the years where Tia Carrere famously refused to do nude scenes in that film and had a major fight with the producers and director over it, and eventually won out and they hired a rather famous Asian porn actress to serve as her body double.
But I find that hilarious given that for the last third of the movie, she's wearing a white tank top with no bra and you can clearly see her tits for about the last 20 minutes of the film.
And, she eventually posed for Playboy.
and no one cared.
I wouldn't go THAT far (she looked really good, surely in part to PB magic), but it certainly was one of those "now that my star has faded" moments.
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Not sure if there are any fans here, but the "Ready Player One" movie has a release date, December 17th, 2017. Still no cast announced.
I really enjoyed the book but it feels unfilmable. Also, the rights for the music and the video game characters might be pretty expensive. I wonder what the budget will look like. While it was a pretty good selling book, it wasn't the Hunger Games as far as having a massive, built-in, rabid audience goes.
Why compare it to a sterotypical (but admittedly great) YA trilogy? It's a stand-alone book (for now) aimed at an older, geekier audience? The ones who are helping to drive the MCU and comic book movie boom!
As far as being unfilmable, the rights are the biggest concern (but Spielberg can probably make some things happen), otherwise the book is basically a movie script.
I wasn't comparing it to Hunger Games because I think Player One is an example of YA, I was comparing it as an example of the type of books Hollywood throws big budgets behind; books with a huge audience already there who will see the movie on its opening weekend. Player One was a hit but hardly big enough to be considered a sure thing by risk-averse Hollywood. So I'm wondering what kind of budget it'll get. I didn't know Spielberg was involved so maybe we're good.
Or to simplify...
Hunger Games: sold a shit ton and has a rabid fanbase. Gets a gigantic budget because studios know they'll recoup it easily because that fanbase will go see it.
Ready Player One: not so much
Ah, fair enough in terms of the comparison. Still, I think it's had a fair amount of buzz in the geek world, which seems to be enough for Hollywood these days. Spielberg signing on is huge though, and having heard Cline talk he's a massive Spielberg fan so it's a great match.
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Watching Showdown in Little Tokyo on Blu-Ray and I remember reading several stories over the years where Tia Carrere famously refused to do nude scenes in that film and had a major fight with the producers and director over it, and eventually won out and they hired a rather famous Asian porn actress to serve as her body double.
But I find that hilarious given that for the last third of the movie, she's wearing a white tank top with no bra and you can clearly see her tits for about the last 20 minutes of the film.
And, she eventually posed for Playboy.
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Not sure if there are any fans here, but the "Ready Player One" movie has a release date, December 17th, 2017. Still no cast announced.
I really enjoyed the book but it feels unfilmable. Also, the rights for the music and the video game characters might be pretty expensive. I wonder what the budget will look like. While it was a pretty good selling book, it wasn't the Hunger Games as far as having a massive, built-in, rabid audience goes.
Why compare it to a sterotypical (but admittedly great) YA trilogy? It's a stand-alone book (for now) aimed at an older, geekier audience? The ones who are helping to drive the MCU and comic book movie boom!
As far as being unfilmable, the rights are the biggest concern (but Spielberg can probably make some things happen), otherwise the book is basically a movie script.
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BTW - there is a movement to boycott Stonewall
http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/stonewall-lgbt-twitter-whitewashing-backlash/
I knew this was coming. The Trans community - at least in my experience and opinion - is in the angry teenager phase of acceptance. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is ever good enough, and it's leading to a lot of cutting off one's nose to spite their face. A *lot* of movies whitewash facts, combine people, omit people, and change facts.
If you want a history, go watch a documentary.
If you want to know what a story about what it's going to take to continue the fight to gain acceptance by all people, then you go to Hollywood.
Maybe this is a problem that we should be addressing? It's not just the Trans community that has been highly critical of Hollywood whitewashing. After all, just because people know that they're not watching a documentary doesn't mean that they don't think that they're watching a dramatization of true events.
I mean, people got up in arms about a black actor playing Johnny Storm in Fant4stic because "that's now how he is".
I have no dog in this hunt, but it seems like a legitimate claim and is clearly a problem that Hollywood (and other pop culture arenas) have helped to create and perpetuate.
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So I was watching the always hilarious The Great Outdoors and it's one of those movies I love and watch almost annually, but this is the first time watching it that I realized it's also really excessively poorly-made: there are some pretty glaring continuity errors all over the place (When John Candy is undressing his wife near the start, she's wearing a full slip, but all of a sudden, it's just a bra; when the son accidentally gooses the girl with the pool cue and she spins around, sending the cue flying, to confront him, the pool cue is miraculously back in his hand); the whole storyline with the son and the local girl plays the exact same music every time, is badly underwritten and feels like it was a totally different story that they just wedged into this one because they didn't have enough material to pull it off. But, I still love it.
Yeah, it's definitely pretty cheap-looking and cliche, but I also love it. Lucy Deakins (the love interest) went to my high school, a class ahead of me. This was also the height of her acting career.
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My God they made a poster. Nobody around this thought "maybe this is a bad idea because the media exist". That's amazing.
I'm pretty sure it was on his Instagram, not sure there was an actual poster but I could be wrong.
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Guys, I really don't think this is a big deal, Hulk Hogan isn't racist. I mean, according to my sources orange is the new black!
I'll see myself out.
this got my last like for the day, glad it could be the one.
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I hung out with a chick on Saturday, and she has Hulu Plus. She sez, "You like movies ... what do you wanna watch?"
Double feature of "The Blob" (original) and "Destroy All Monsters."
She did not seem impressed.
On the other hand: "Mosura!"
you realize the whole "let's hang out and watch movies" is code, right?
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I know metal fans are usually the most opinionated, and the ones that don't welcome new fans into the fold for some bands - but my experience at BTBAM was pretty awful. I asked a few guys if they play anything from Colors, because that's the album I know more than any from their discography and I love it. All I got were eyerolls and being ignored. Not everyone that's a few feet away from the stage wants to be involved in a moshpit, either - and I didn't get into it voluntarily. I was 3 rows from the stage, and mostly all these neckbeard (I say that lovingly, as someone who used to have one until a few weeks ago) metal types rushed forward and just started shoving everyone, mostly the people trying to enjoy the music and not have their brain being beat from one side of their head to the other. I have blood vessels in my left eye that busted because the guy in front of me wasn't paying attention to his surroundings while headbanging. Dragging girls that weigh probably 90lbs, give or take, into the pit when they're just standing there isn't cool - it's not what Bonnaroo is about. Or used to be, anyway. Enjoy the music however you want, but don't fault me for not enjoying it the way you do.
Then, at Run the Jewels, I got a bunch of dirty looks and people telling me to participate because I was just standing in the middle of the crowd, enjoying the show Killer Mike and El-P were putting on for us. I don't like crowd participation, ie jumping up and down, hand salutes, etc. I prefer to just watch and listen and absorb it all.
This is the first year I've ever had experiences like this, and I'm going to blame it on the overly passionate fans of particular bands they brought to the farm this year. I don't know if Kendrick Lamar played it, because fuck him, but "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" would have been very appropriate this year, because the newbies and (overly) passionate fans were doing just that. The newbies less so, I encountered a lot while working there, and I think most 'Roo vets just want to help them enjoy 'Roo to the fullest extent and for them to have a good enough time to where they'll be 'Roo vets in a few years.
I realize that people enjoy different things in different ways, but I'm one who thinks it's weird when someone in the middle of the crowd is just kinda standing there while almost everyone else is dancing/jumping/waving their hands in the air like they just don't care.
I feel you on the metal/punk thing where being right up front
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super pissed I'll be missing Royal Blood next week at Bonnaroo. I'm working traffic Wednesday night into Thursday morning and all day Friday, so I'll miss their set (3:45pm). Even if I wasn't working, I don't know if I could pick them over Between the Buried & Me, whose set is at the same time.
THURSDAY: Strand of Oaks > Iceage > The Growlers > Benjamin Booker
FRIDAY: Atmosphere > Run the Jewels > Flying Lotus
SATURDAY: Ralphie May & Jeff Ross > The War on Drugs > My Morning Jacket > Salad Days (Cinema Tent) > Slayer > D'Angelo
SUNDAY: Reggie Watts > Shabazz Palaces > Mo > Freddie Gibbs & Madlib > Caribou
I'm missing so much good stuff on Friday, it's killing me. But I can't complain about a free wristband.
Iceage went from being one of my favorite bands to kinda sucking on their most recent album, so if you're looking for something like the first 2 LPs be warned.
NFL Stupidity in 2015
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According to this tweet, Greg Hardy now plans to appeal his suspension. Goodell done f'ed himself good.