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  1. Yep. Peter Stormarme (nihilist) talks about how while filming Fargo (Grimsrud) during a first cut of a scene he said "we stop at the pancakes house" and the Coens immediately yelled 'cut'. They told him to check his script and to read it as written (we stop at pancakes house). He said when read the line he figured it was just a simple mistake by the typist to leave out the word 'the', but then understood it was intentional & integral to his character's speech patterns. He said that's when understood that not only did the Coens know every single word of their script, they considered all of them to be essential, and it was his job as an actor to deliver every word with that level of respect.
  2. I'm selfishly kinda bummed about the fact that John Goodman was too big to fit into the car the Coens had originally scripted the Dude to own-a LeBaron-because I had a '79 as my hand me down ride in high school and you know I could kinda sorta claim some degree of coolness all these years later.
  3. Can any of you pros offer recommendations for good soaker hoses? We're going to have 3 or 4 Arizona Cypress trees planted in our (large) backyard next week and we know that we'll need to give them a lot of water and TLC throughout this first summer. We've only got one spigot available in the back so the plan is to coil the soaker around a tree daily and then alternate throughout the week.
  4. I'll be out there with y'all. Except at 55 I still walk comically fast & my wife has to always tell me to slow down because her surgically repaired toe (thanks to Texas Ex Kris Stockton) can't keep up. For 20+ years I've given away annual National Park passes to family and friends as gifts. Most recipients were truly thankful. Some took up the same tradition. Before my dad was eligible for the free senior pass I'd bought one for him and his bitch of a wife for 2 or 3 years straight. At one point he pulled me aside and said "you're kind of wasting your money by giving this to us. We're not hikers (he's got a bad knee; she's got MS). " I told him I didn't care if they used it or not, but I damn sure wanted to make sure my money was going to something worthwhile than just a gift certificate to Applebee's or Chili's or some shit chain restaurant they like to eat at.
  5. Y'see, I had him going for the easy bags of cash available by going on the fundagelical church speaking tour for the next 6-9 months. During that time, he'd have a ghostwriter pen "Wokeness Wounded Me, But Lord Trump Saved Me: One Man's Journey to Salvation through MAGA" which the GQP would buy 3 million copies of to hand out at their klan rallies. The book tour would merge nicely w/ non-stop guest appearances on Fox, OAN, Newsmax, etc., where he could publicly fellate dotard. This would last until about the end of the first year of Trump's term so he'd likely be up for a cabinet post by that time since dotard will have begun firing those unqualified losers he'd nominated 12 months ago who didn't have the courage to hold the Constitution to his boil covered butt while wiping his ass with it.
  6. We're gonna be planting some Arizona Cypress trees in our backyard in the next 10 days. That should guarantee at least one more brief cold snap.
  7. TCM is in the heart of their 31 days of Oscars right now. Yesterday was something to behold, and if I didn't have an early start this morning, I could have binged for 10 hours straight. But man, when you look at these winners, the turd in the punch bowl is obvious. 5PM Driving Miss Daisy 7PM All the President's Men 9PM China Syndrome 11PM Network
  8. There ya go, Mackenzie! Make sure your name doesn't fall off the radar too far. The 2026 elections are just around the corner!
  9. I'm expecting to see that on t-shirts in the wild by next Wednesday. Grift don't stop.
  10. Were you expecting foreplay? Your mom doesn't.
  11. The Trump as a lit match in front of a room full of pissed off bombs cartoon is Pulitzer worthy. It's only become more relevant. When it was published during his first term I shared it in a group chat. Got called out by one particularly odious harpy I never really could stand. Severed what limited "friendship" I had with her. Never regretted it. She was the first MAGAt I disassociated from, and it's only become easier.
  12. Didn't Pickryl show up with one busted shoulder then promptly destroyed the other? Don't know if he would have been much a force if he'd stayed healthy but would have been the token academic all-american each year.
  13. Netflix. Any one of the dozens of other streaming services would easily fill the void. Canceled mine almost 2 years ago & don't miss it.
  14. Not a spot of ice on 183S from CP to the Domain this morning. Chilly and windy, but not bad overall.
  15. Any of the 3 broadcast news channels could--no, SHOULD--be doing at least a weekly if not nightly fact check on these purported DOGE savings. Just hammer away at the lies constantly. Have 60 Minutes do an expose and reveal their ridiculous math where 2+2= a billion. Instead, Musk and Co will just keep throwing out fantastically fake numbers that will be repeated over & over. If we're lucky we might get a humorous bit from Jon Stewart or John Oliver.
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