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  1. I registered for the Cowtown full marathon (Feb 23) and my training has been going really well, had a great 20 miler last week and planned for a 21-22 miler today, and then I sprained my ankle during my run this morning. There was a car sticking out a little bit at an intersection and I ran slightly out of my path to go around it and my foot planted awkwardly where the asphalt met the curb. It was maybe a 1” lip but somehow my foot/ankle fully rolled over and now I can’t put any weight on it. It’s fairly painful and swollen so I’m doing the whole RICE thing. The Cowtown seems out of the question and I’m moderately concerned that my ski trip next weekend will be screwed. Nothing much I can do about it except let it heal and hopefully find another race later in the year. It sucks to feel marathon ready and not get to run the race.
  2. I would like to see The Brutalist but holy hell 3 hr 34 min is a long time to sit in a theater. That will have to wait for streaming for me, which probably means after the Oscars.
  3. I have similar feelings about music biopics but this on was very well done. I think for anyone who likes Dylan’s music or even feels neutral towards him, it should be an enjoyable film.
  4. wild_turkey

    Landman

    I very reluctantly started watching and made it through 3 episodes before calling it quits. For starters, it’s just another version of every other Taylor Sheridan show that features overly macho guys swinging their dicks at each other and a cast of women that is largely portrayed as being stupid and fairly annoying eye candy. If this show was a restaurant, it would be Hooters. It’s very clear that Sheridan struggles to write good female characters which makes me wonder if this is just how he views women. The part that made me quit was the scene with the wind turbines. The lawyer saying “What are those?” was a major eye roll, but then it was followed by a BBT rant against wind and renewable energy that was absurdly false and makes this show appear to be a thinly veiled propaganda piece for the O&G industry. His claims that the wind turbine will not offset its carbon footprint in its 20-year lifespan are not even remotely true. There are plenty of reputable resources that do life-cycle assessments for wind turbines and most indicate that it takes less than a year to offset the initial environmental impact. This is not even a gray area and it’s insulting to the intelligence of the viewer. Perhaps you could say that BBT is speaking from the perspective of his landman character (which is really more of a Midland, Texas ripoff of Michael Clayton if we’re being honest), and that may be true that his character would speak from this obviously biased and misinformed point of view, but he delivers his lines in such an authoritative way and there is no pushback against this to present an alternative viewpoint, so it really feels like Taylor Sheridan is using this character to force his own misinformation onto the viewer. Scenes like this are apparently getting reposted by fans on social media as sort of “gotcha” message, so clearly there is a demographic that gobbles this shit up and it feeds into their misinformation echo chamber. I think there is another one with Jon Hamm in a boardroom and I don’t know beyond that. I don’t expect the show to improve in any of these areas because I think this is just who Sheridan is and he has an audience that clearly likes it. There are much better things to watch so I’ll see myself out and move on.
  5. This movie deserves its own thread. Looking at the Oscars thread, a lot of people aren’t familiar with it, and there isn’t a dedicated place for discussing. It has 8 Oscar nominations. Timothée Chalamet plays young Bob Dylan as he rises to fame in the early 1960s. Incredible performance from him including singing Dylan’s songs. Monica Barbaro was stunning as Joan Baez and the rest of the cast was also really good. And the music is obviously great, unless you don’t like Dylan, in which case disregard this thread. If you like movies and get frustrated by a lack of quality movies, I think this one is worth your time.
  6. For all the talk about how bad the Boomers are, every generation of adults today shares blame for the future of this planet. I don’t think history will look kindly on us. Maybe there won’t be any people to have a history so it won’t matter.
  7. I like movies enough that I check an app every few weeks for what’s coming soon to theaters and streaming. I also glance at RT and Metacritic and, if a movie I don’t know about gets in the 80+ range, I’ll at least watch the trailer and read a few reviews. I probably would not know about Anora and The Substance if not for that, but I liked both of them.
  8. I’ve seen Dune 2, A Complete Unknown, Anora, and The Substance. Liked all of them for different reasons. Apparently need to watch The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez. I’m surprised how many of you seem to not at least be aware of A Complete Unknown. Timothee Chalamet was the celebrity guest on College Gameday for the SEC CCG and they ran ads for that movie in practically every commercial break for both Gameday and the actual game. Were y’all too focused on the Ro Sparks commercials?
  9. Finally finished rewatching S1 and now the first 2 episodes of S2. This show is so good. I suppose the accident that killed Gemma was never really an accident, but all part of Lumon’s sinister plan. I don’t think Gemma could be in a coma because they would need her body to be functional when Ms. Casey wakes up. A comatose person can’t suddenly walk around like everything is normal. Her outie must be in captivity, or else maybe the cloning theory is somehow at play. I’m most curious about Cold Harbor and why Mark is clearly more important than Dylan and Irv. They were expendable and he was not. Burt was teary eyed while watching Irv’s outie, which suggests that Burt was never severed. Does that mean Burt was part of the sinister plan or is there a different significance to that?
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    Landman

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  11. Can anyone recommend a good CPA in central Fort Worth?
  12. For the U.S. based companies involved in DAC, I wonder how the Trump presidency will affect funding for those projects. Will Oxy and similar oil companies continue to put new money into it, or will they wrap up existing projects and then leave it at that? I understand their biggest DAC plant is a major project and not something they are likely to shut down due to a 4-year presidential term, but I am curious to see if those companies make additional DAC investments during Trump’s term. To the extent that these things could be labeled greenwashing, it seems like that is less necessary for the immediate future.
  13. I like a lot of your theory except that it doesn’t explain why the outside air is so toxic that people die within minutes. Or at least when the silo 17 occupants died, which was 25-30 years ago, they died quickly. And silo 18 people die when they go clean, except Juliette. There must be some chemical toxicity and not just leftover nuclear fallout. I think people get poisoned with gas as they are exiting up the stairs, except for Juliette who had the better tape to seal her suit. And if that is true, then who or what is poisoning them and why? A sadistic human overseeing everything? An AI that controls the silos and wants to keep what’s left of humanity in captivity?
  14. I read both in middle school but just decided to listen to the audiobook of Huck Finn in preparation for reading James. I found it incredibly dull and boring, not to mention the frequent use of the N-word, which of course it was a different time but it was still a beating to listen to. So glad that one is finally behind me. Thanks for nothing, Mark Twain.
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