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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. My wife was in Spring last weekend visiting her twin sis (no pics). She told me how the aggy BIL made a total ass of himself after they won game 1 by drunkenly screaming, whooping & cursing at the moon from his backyard. He's friends with most of his neighbors & everyone's known him to be a drunken, loud buffoon over the years.

    I'm wondering what got destroyed by him throwing it in their pool last night after the loss?

  2. Losing keeps them hungry? They've gotta be some starving corpse sonsabitches after 85 years of not winning shit.

    Losing keeps them hungry? They've gotta be some starving corpse sonsabitches after 85 years of not winning shit.

    Losing keeps them hungry? They've gotta be some starving corpse sonsabitches after 85 years of not winning shit.

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  3. Binged all 3 + watched the Fincher version again this weekend. Although the Swedish version (mostly) followed the source material more closely, they also ignored some aspects completely (like the Blomkvist/Erika relationship & its impact on Lisbeth's actions).

    Overall, they were ok. I still preferred Fincher's interpretation.

  4. 1 hour ago, smwhorn said:

    Books are good.  Worth the read.

    Seem to recall somewhere on the internets (so it has to be true) that the Swedish version of the movies stuck to the books but the version with Mara did not.

    Does this mean every other scene will begin with someone having coffee and sandwiches? 😉 

    Or, on the positive side, is Blomkvist having sex with every other woman he encounters and if so, are they hot?

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  5. Yeah, Claire Foy played her in The Girl in the Spider's Web which I think was based on the unfinished 4th book by Stieg Larsson. I've never watched it & have heard nothing about it that makes me want to seach for it.

    Apparently both Craig & Mara really liked their characters & wanted to make the next 2, but Fincher said he wasn't interested & that was the end of it.

  6. Anyone seen it/recommend? I really enjoyed the Finch version w/ Craig & Mara. I'm still shocked that it flopped & they scrapped plans for the other 2.

     

    I'm almost through reading the books after a friend loaned them to me the other week. Mrs GOTJ is going to be out of town this weekend & I'm thinking about binging the Swedish trilogy but before I fork over the money to stream them or do the free trial then drop dance I thought I'd ask the crowd.

     

    The books are so-so, but the Lisabeth Salander character is compelling. I know the Swedish actor who portrays her received a lot of accolades for her performance.

     

    Worth it or nah?

  7. I thought Rob Lowe pretty much nailed it. His attitude was "Yeah, the article was mostly bullshit, but so what? It was, ultimately, a gift. Here we are 35 years later and everybody still knows us."
    It ended up being guaranteed immortality.
    Rob Lowe comes across as a very self-aware dude. I've heard him do some guest DJing on E Street Radio & he talks candidly about being a kid with a crazy dream of being an actor, not knowing how he was going to accomplish that goal, but knowing it would take a lot of work & determination to get anywhere. He doesn't bitch like some & complain he's not taken seriously as an actor because he's handsome. He knows his limitations & accepts that he gets work because he's a very good looking character actor. That's not a bad career 40 years down the road.
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  8. On my drive home yesterday I passed a car hauler on 183N loaded with CTs. Since traffic was creeping along at about 30 mph I could watch the other drivers on the road laugh as that hauler full of stupid passed by.

    Maybe Elmo's sending a couple dozen of them to Amarillo and gonna sink 'em nose first into the ground to create Cybertruck Ranch?

  9. Oh I'm sure small government DeSantis absolutely won't try to suckle at the teet of the Big Evil Federal Government to get some disaster relief. Florida's obviously got it covered. 
    "It's Joe Biden's fault that I vetoed critical infrastructure spending in the state that I govern, Florida. Now it's Biden's responsibility to spend federal tax dollars to clean up this mess. Because woke Joe Biden is bad for America and Florida! "

    They'll eat that up while having the Early Bird dinner at The Villages.
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  10. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    A friend of mine reminded me that Elko is 46. That is a brutal 46. 

    Wait, what? I no shit had to look his age up. I would have said Elko was a rough 56. 

    *Note to self: entry #1 in the 2025 dead pool = Elko, M.

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