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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
GhostOfTomJoad replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
@immamac and why, exactly, have you not marketed a special Weird MF tier of surlyhorns membership? -
The book is both a prequel and a sequel to Heat which means H2 would be very expensive to film if Mann is going to make an honest attempt to capture the tone of the original. Location shooting alone would take the production to at least 3 continents. And the reported list of actors Mann is pursuing is intriguing but would likely require pay cuts if they really want to get this made. Adam Driver - Neil McCauley Austin Butler - Chris Shiherlis Ana de Armas - Elisa (new character) Jeremy Allen White and Channing Tatum are apparently also pursuing roles if you believe wikipedia. But I'd take any report of Pacino reprising his role as Vincent w/ a huge grain of salt (and if true, hope to fuck it's just a short cameo).
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
GhostOfTomJoad replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
It's been interesting watching the changes to monthly updates that my financial advisor puts forth on a monthly basis over the past 6 months from the lead up to the election, inauguration, and now. As recently as two months ago they were long & had tremendous detail w/ graphs, charts, comparisons to dotard's first term, etc. The one that they produced in early March didn't take a whole lot of imagination to see that they're all clamoring to find some way to polish the turd Trump and DOGE are dropping on us all, but they can't. Just a cautionary tale about times being "uncertain" and that market corrections are overdue, etc. -
Oh for fuck's sake. Barnes is exactly who his record says it is: A very good coach with some seasons that wildly exceed expectations mixed with a few too many WTF results. He cleans up well, his programs avoided major stink, and he covered up his earlier personal foibles well enough to avoid much scrutiny. He's made a shit load of money raising the bar at football schools. But he's a hall of very good type who'll make the HOF due to a long career.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
GhostOfTomJoad replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Yeah, it's gotta piss off the O&G fat cats who've long counted on the influence their money buys. Except they maybe didn't count on the king of the grifters to turn around and let them know that he's got more than enough oligarchs, tech bros, and assorted billionaires beholden to him to make up their end. -
John Lennon, MacKenzie Phillips, Alice Cooper & Mickey Dolenz I got. Who's the dude in the sweater? Surely not Gordo.
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Barnes was a Bible thumping hypocrite whose "spiritual advisor" was casting far too long of a shadow in the locker room. The timing of his exit was good for all parties.
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GhostOfTomJoad started following The poster formerly known as ztejas (update) and Rick Barnes thread
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Well you see when these people and thousands (millions?) others stop receiving their checks, the administration will simply proclaim that to be a lie. Everyone who was supposed to get their benefits was paid, the others were fraudsters. And don't believe any reports from the lame stream liberal media. Whatever DOGE reports on X is the truth.
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He's a billionaire so eventually there's gotta be a doc on Iovine. And it should be fascinating. Swept studio floors. Swapped out tape reels. Might have lucked into his first big break by being awake when Bruce was recording 18+ hours a day for Born to Run and his job as "tape operator" got upgraded to an "engineering and mixing" credit. Then came Damn the Torpedoes followed by convincing Bruce to hand over Because the Night to Patti Smith for some lyric edits. And what he did after that to recognize the emergent power of hip hop and build an audio empire on cheap headphones w/ Dre on Beats? Nobody out hustled Jimmy Iovine.
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We're in the final stages of a month-long bedroom/bathroom reno. We've been living in our guest room w/ our cat the entire time w/ most of our clothes on storage racks in my wife's home office. The crew has been great, but six days a week, 8:30AM - 5 or 6ish PM of having people in & out of your house, construction noise & mess, etc., will wear you out. The quartz counter tops went in on Wed. The shower glass might be another couple weeks but we should be able to move back into the space this weekend and use most everything. Mrs GOTJ was thrilled about being able to soak in her garden tub again (a bone of contention w/ me: I think bathtubs are useless & wanted to rip it out to make a massive, two person walk-in shower space but she's one of those people who likes to soak in a big bowl of dirty water). The crew was installing the fixtures yesterday. All of the hardware was in the box EXCEPT the set screw that holds the Roman tub filler fixture to the deck and the little brushed nickel plug that covers up the screw hole. I go to Home Depot w/ the spigot. We confirm it's an M6 bolt, and of course they have nothing but standard bolts that are ugly as shit and will stick out like a dick on an earth worm. Oh, the back of the spigot faces the center of the bathroom and will be clearly visible as soon as you enter the space. I get hold of Ferguson/Build.com where we ordered all of the fixtures from and explain the situation. I've got the order number and everything. Trevor the CSA was very helpful and apologetic and found the exact part from the manufacturer's list (which wasn't documented anywhere in the provided parts list or installation paperwork). "We'll go ahead and get that ordered for you and shipped to you free of charge." Hey man, that's great news. Thanks! Then the fun part: it's back ordered w/ an ETA of 4-5 weeks. For a fucking set screw. I've convinced Mrs GOTJ that they can finish the install w/ a temporary ugly ass bolt just to get it done & it will be a simple fix when the part arrives. But one 78 cent screw--which would have cost me $22 if they didn't decide to do the right thing--is really pissing me off right now.
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where the fuck are you blowing the leaves
GhostOfTomJoad replied to hayden_horn's topic in Daily Texan
Lulz. My friend who lives a couple blocks away has one of these. And he has the worst lawn on earth. He brags about how the bags it makes are so dense they weigh 50-60 lbs. He's probably only used it once or twice, but is always offering to loan it to someone because he thinks it's such a cool device. I'm sure it's buried in one of the 3 backyard sheds he has (because he can't fit anything more than one can of WD-40 in his hoarder's special garage. He's also got a riding lawn mower (doesn't work), a push mower (same), and has used a battery powered robot mower for the last two summers that just kinda wanders around like an outdoor Roomba without making any noticeable difference other than scaring the dog. -
I hope they have the vision to make sure ol' RC is memorialized enjoying a big bowl of Blue Bell ice cream.
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I would LOVE for someone to ask Casey to show the math to her assertion that aggy has more money than Texas. I'm sure she was basing this on the money they borrowed for capital improvement projects that they somehow claimed as income, but how the fuck does she claim that with a straight face?
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The poster formerly known as ztejas (update)
GhostOfTomJoad replied to ztejas's topic in Please do this better?
Zt-aggy Rollercoaster. It's just as predictable and inevitable. -
If your dad was a 5'7" Scandinavian living in Minnesota I'd swear he was my old man. Pops kept the mini-soaps and hotel matchbooks from all of his work travels. He kept the soap in several shoe boxes, but the matchbooks were prominently displayed in glass bowls throughout the house so guests would know he'd spent time in exotic places like the Guin, Alabama Ramada Inn or the Holiday Inn in Prairie du Chien. The soap went unused until the divorce from his second wife in '86 where she tried to take him to the cleaners. He decided that his austerity program would include foregoing store bought soap for his collection that was "perfectly fine" for him and his 17 yo son (my older sister wasn't having any of that). I think it took me a week to figure out that if I wanted to prevent my skin from looking like I was bathing with 100 grit sandpaper, the best thing was to use one bar a day to wash my feet then throw it out. It led to a lifelong commitment by me to spend a little bit more on personal care products that don't make you feel like you've washed yourself with Lava soap.
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