Zimbra

I don't usually mess with movie opening weekends, but I may have to make an exception for Black Panther. Now I have to decide if I want to go to the Friday evening show or the Sunday matinee with the after-church crowd.

Mirotic to New Orleans for Asik and a first is apparently happening.

John Wall is getting a procedure done on his knee this week and will miss up to 2 months so it looks like a spot in the East might have opened up, too.

So it turns out my biggest roadblock with Monster Hunter is that I don't actually have a lot of hour-plus blocks to sit down and just concentrate on a game, especially one without a pause. I like it, but I have to accept that there's a bunch of stuff in this game that I will never see. My little cat guy looks like my actual cat, though, so it's my GOTY for sure.

The Knicks definitely need to buy him out so he can fulfill his destiny of owning an extremely poorly-managed pot dispensary.

Ehh, that contract is on Phil and Dolan. I'm never going to give a player shit for taking money offered to them. Anyway, Jabari is back for the Bucks on Friday so fuck everything else.

Joakim Noah apparently had to be restrained from fighting Jeff Hornacek at practice this weekend, so it appears the Knicks/Noah relationship is done once they figure out the buyout.

Yeah, it's good. I'm 3 hunts in and I feel like I'm starting to really get the hang of it. Switching to sword and shield from longsword helped.

I'm more of a tree kangaroo guy. Look at this muppety-ass thing:

Also, it's fucking bullshit that we're getting a new XFL when we should be getting a new Rock 'N Jock.

So McMahon is self-funding everything and there's no distribution deal in place? I'm setting the line on total XFL games played at 0.5 and betting heavily on the under.

Which does raise the question of who the market is for a league full of guys who couldn't make the Browns roster.

Almost certainly what they're going for, I'm just not sure that's going to be a particularly helpful association for them by that time. Honestly, if you told me that this was just a way to launder campaign funds for the 2020 election I would find that both extremely plausible and probably a better business model than actually running a football league.

The whole starting in 2020 business feels like a mistake. Independent of the shaky economics of starting a minor league from scratch, I'm not sure the cultural window for "What if football but more racist?" will stay open that long.

For reasons that are opaque even to myself, I pre-ordered Monster Hunter World. I didn't even enjoy the demo all that much, but I feel some strange compulsion to force myself to get into it.

Dennis Smith Jr, Aaron Gordon, Victor Oladipo, and Larry Nance Jr will be in the dunk contest this year. I'm good with that list.

Well, didn't see that coming. I wonder who they'll chase in the off-season.

I like it a lot, but I wouldn't even call it my favorite sitcom co-created by Michael Schur.

They should call this the Transformers Rule

Happy birthday to our greatest living America, Dolly Parton

The Road Movie looks like someone optioned my youtube viewing history.

Congratulations to NBA all-star JOEL EMBIID and I guess some other guys, too.

Heads need to roll at MSU for that, but I have no faith in the school or NCAA doing anything substantive. The IOC USA Gymnastics cut official ties with the Karolyi Ranch today after literally decades of allegations of mistreatment.

People talk about Euros being soft but I would not fuck with any of the Serb/Croat dudes for all the money in the world.

We do have one example of Blake snapping and punching someone, and as I recall he broke his hand and missed a bunch of games. Guys with glass bones shouldn't throw punches. Bjelica put Aron Afflalo in a Nolan Ryan-grade headlock after Afflalo swung on him last night. I don't know what's going on but the NBA is getting real chippy these days.