Contentious C
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Telling that they haven't had a 4th quarter comeback all season and that happens on arguably their best chance at it.
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God the Pels are practically the dictionary definition of underachievement.
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I'm guessing he's referring to the big rolls of canvas that you can wrap around your hands and wrists to give you a little cushion. Look like a gauze bandage but obviously far sturdier.
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SAC/GS in the 9-10 is sort of brutal considering where they both were last year. Miami's going to end up right back where they were last year, dropping the 7-8 and then probably crushing the 9-10 winner to line up against Boston in the first round. That will be a series that goes very differently this year.
Same with MIN/DEN, which wasn't super competitive last year and will probably end up a massive second-round slugfest. Clippers/Mavs could go either way, but it doesn't matter since neither team has a hope in Hell against OKC if they're healthy. Phoenix is lucky to get the top 6 but I wouldn't give them any kind of odds against Minnesota, who's got all the size necessary to eliminate practically every good thing they do. There's only 3 or maybe 4 teams this year who know they can win anyway; everyone else is a "hope we can".
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I finally had my first days of my life (measured, anyway; it may have happened in the past) where I tipped the scales at 200+ pounds. Not that that matters a whole lot: remember kids, what you weigh at any given moment is completely worthless, you have to measure yourself in the same state every day (I try to do it after getting up in the morning, fully undressing, and making the Usual First-Thing Bathroom Trip) and then average that out week-to-week to have any useful info. But, it's creeping up...
Now it just means I have to bench, row, and squat more. Problems!
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And we almost had him as The Terminator.
Turns out the real Terminator was prostate cancer.
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If I had a million dollars to spare, I'd:
- Riker my way into my chair (I'm nearly as tall as him anyway)
- Spend the entire game trying to flirt with Deborah Ann Woll
- Prove I know absolutely nothing about Star Trek
Seems like a good way to blow a mil for charity.
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11 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
I never thought I would see a day Arkansas poached Kentucky's basketball coach. Wow.
He wanted an eclipse viewing spot today.
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Kinda-sorta funny in an absurdist way that the big photo on ESPN's page featuring the both of them ATM makes it look like Clark is casually slugging Bueckers in the face.
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Well, I guess if they had to get someone for a Ben Franklin movie, Michael Douglas is probably the right call, since he knows the travails of STDs as well as anyone.
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10 hours ago, colonial said:
Saw just now that Martin Short announced a fundraising drive last month to get a FT caregiver for Joe, who was in "failing health."
I wonder what some of these fools are doing with their money - and I mean the likes of Short - that he couldn't just pay it himself.
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Must be nice to have those extra zeroes in the bank account to turn this into a problem.
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3 hours ago, hammerva said:
So NC State and Texas are playing (and agreed to it) in the women's March Madness on a court where the 3 point line is different for each side. No way any part of this happens in men's version
Oddly enough, though, there was one regulation and one "shorter", but the shorter line had a worse percentage for the games played using it. Besides, don't teams switch the ends of the floor they're going to at half?
Still bullshit, though.
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The Mulkey article is out and...it's almost kind of a nothingburger, totally worth getting up in arms about and threatening lawsuits because, surprise, people think you're a fucking asshole.
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On 2/23/2024 at 12:15 PM, Curt McGirt said:
he leaves his wife for someone else but is properly tight-lipped about why. Seems like a nice guy.
Considering the reality of how he behaved, these two sentences don't really belong together. Read Gordon's bio.
Also telling that Sleater-Kinney, who had a song years ago with the lyrics, "I wanna be your Thurston Moore" now sing the song as "I wanna be your Kim Gordon".
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Almost as many points as Brunson hung on the Spurs (61).
But the Knicks lost. Because Wemby went for 40/20. Yikes.
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On 3/25/2024 at 10:19 PM, Curt McGirt said:
I...
But...
Is this cover art implying that there's someone going down on the girl and that someone is doing so while also holding a smoking gun? Is this a thing that actually happens in the movie? If not, then WHY THE HELL NOT?!??
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CLEMSON!!! Super Hunter Bros!
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43 minutes ago, Log said:
Whoa! Dickie V gets crazy with his picks!
I know people do the "they were still alive?" thing when celebrities die, but when he "officially" dies, I'm going to cite this as evidence he's been dead since the pandemic.
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Welp.
Notting Hill - Of course, I've watched this before, as I do about once a year or so, once it lands safely on one streaming service or another long enough to remember I haven't seen it in a while. But somehow I hadn't written about it during a prior rewatch. I go back and forth as to whether I prefer this or When Harry Met Sally... - I think the latter is better-written and has the virtue of brevity, but I also feel like I identify a lot more with William Thacker than I do Harry Burns (even if I probably come off a lot more like Harry than William considering my attitude toward life and society). But really the smaller roles make this, especially Tim McInnerny and Gina McKee. It's probably the least heavy lifting Julia Roberts ever had to do, and of course that makes it one of her most believable roles in the process. Probably the last really, really great rom-com, before the genre became too self-aware and stopped being enjoyable.
The Devils - Yeah, that's quite the transition in content!
This, uh...well, I didn't see the British/BFI cut, but I don't know that I necessarily missed much by missing Vanessa Redgrave diddling a charred thigh bone. To be honest, Oliver Reed was Yet Another Dude I Don't Appreciate, but this might have been the movie that set me straight on that to some extent. I still don't understand in the least why *everyone* was so relentlessly horny for him, but be that as it may, it's still played well enough. And I love Redgrave in...well, just about everything. But anyway, yeah, I have a hard time personally seeing why this remains "controversial", but that lack of shock is very much a case of preaching to the choir (haha) with me as the audience, because its opinions on religion don't differ a great deal from my own. And it's also pretty delicious to see the degree to which this wound people up when the parallels to a certain end-of-life story are rather obvious. I don't know when or if I'll go out of my way to watch it again, unless I get my hands on the less-edited copy, but everyone with a genuinely critical eye owes it to themselves to see it at least once. Million billion stars.
Hot Boyz - SPEAKMANIA, CHAPTER FOUR! It's telling that the people who think guns are badass but don't actually know how to handle them are capable of gunning down dozens of other perps without taking so much as a flesh wound on their side. Hootie-who knew firearms worked that way? The same people who have a movie called Hot Boyz where the main character is named Kool, evidently.
Seriously, the first hour of this makes next to no sense (like, you've had 10 years of Law & Order episodes by now, The Sopranos, Homicide: Life on the Streets, and you can't figure out people have to be read their charges?), and the last half-hour is such an embarrassing pile of self-aggrandizing bullshit that I would have been less offended if Master P had just filmed himself sucking his own dick for the full 30 minutes. It's basically just an entire film full of callbacks to other scenarios in other, better movies, where, in between lines of coke, our dear writer/director must have thought to himself, "You know what this movie really needs? More karate, more carnage, more craziness, more of my licensed apparel: that's the stuff. Just watch until everyone sees my joint." *SNOOOOORT*
But somehow, *somehow*, the two car chase scenes in the movie are actually rather good. The Fast and the Furious came out a year and a half after this and didn't have stunts as good as this. The mind boggles.
Zack & Miri Make a Porno - Just when you need to set things right again from watching total garbage, you watch...Kevin Smith? Eh, no, no, no, no, no. Maybe YOU do, but I fucking don't. Gotta say, the first 30 minutes or so of this worked for me, and then, meh. It just collapses under its own lame need to be like Every Other Rom-Com and give the same stupid ending, except with the added bonus of Smith's weirdly puritanical, highly insecure fucking nonsense about how it matters, apparently, if certain Ps went into certain Vs or not, instead of the adults in the movie, I dunno, ACTING LIKE ADULTS. For a guy who makes so many movies about sex shit, he is a motherfucking fruitcake when it comes to understanding actual relationships. Too bad literally anyone else didn't write the back half.
Street Knight - SPEAKMANIA: EPISODE FIVE~! (Yeah, I know, chapter, episode, we're not sticking with a theme here, just deal.) The utterly goddamned ridiculous dedication at the end of the film almost justifies sitting through the rest of this dishwater-quality trash. Really, guys? You think your movie where you try (and fail) to innovate new ways to blow people's heads off is going to raise awareness for the need for GANG TRUCES? What in the sandwich fuck.
This is massively overedited, badly paced, badly acted, badly written, badly shot total bollocks; the only reason I wouldn't go lower with a rating is because, hey, it isn't as bad as the particularly dreadful Side Roads, in that at least a few actors have some chemistry with one another, and the boom mic is out of every shot.
But, damn, if this isn't quite possibly the stupidest Xerox-of-a-Xerox-of-a-Xerox (don't sue me like you did BoJack, guys) of the Die Hard plot imaginable, then I don't know what is. Former cops somehow have enough resources to buy up real estate and use high-quality equipment but not enough resources (or sense, evidently) to come up with a less complicated way to make money (like there aren't a million more-or-less legal scams running in the U.S. on a daily basis). Oh, but revenge! Yeah, sure, that plot line is so well-developed, its abs have abs. /s
Once again, Speakman's true nemesis remains his insistence on wearing pants (and button-up shirts, for that matter) that make him look like an old guy in a Seinfeld episode.
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Is The Vanishing the original or the remake? They're as disparate in quality as Insomnia 1997 and Nolan's ill-advised, pointless retread, so, watch if original, delete if Jeff Bridges.
Being There andOn the Waterfront are the only two other must-watches (though I find almost anything from the non-Kurosawa/Ozu end of the 50s to be a little dull). Le Samourai didn't do that much for me, either, but Melville's stuff is pretty clinical and blunt, which may not hit the same in an era when tons of directors go for that style.
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I went over it a grand total of twice while in the area and it kind of scared the shit out of me both times. And then the "why" happens. Thanks, Capitalism.
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Clemson!! Yes Schieff(lin)!
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We got a guy a little like that, well...several on squats, but the one who makes me want to punt him into space makes a bunch of noise, you can't understand anything he says if he says something, ties up 2 machines at once, and does this lame-ass tempo bullshit with 80% of his "workout". But then has fucking chicken legs and does shitty taco squats with no weight and bad range. At least he doesn't use the Smith.
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The 2024 NBA Playoffs
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Looks like the Kings will get some measure of revenge for last year, but whether they or NO limp into the first round, it'll be a what-if series with all the injuries (assuming Zion continues having awful luck).