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Did not take pics but yes, I can verify that he looked gooood.
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Thanks for the rec - we won't be there that long this time but I'll remember this for future trips to SETX.
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"I got rings on"
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This is tangential, but did y'all know that the Frank Wilhoit who originally said that line is not the political scientist, but another Frank Wilhoit who was posting a comment to a blog post? This Slate article goes into it more, but it's such a weird coincidence.
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I posted this Wired article in a different thread a few weeks ago, but it's well worth the read. The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
austingirl replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
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Saw it yesterday. It reminded me of Skinamarink in a lot of ways, being a similar high-concept film. You never see the humans' faces clearly. Since it's shot from the dog's POV, most of what you see is from about knee-height. I watched it with my 13-yo and we both really liked it. It didn't stick the landing 100%, IMO, but it's still a good movie. The filmmakers do a great job of conveying tension. The Drafthouse had a good post-credits thing, about 5 minutes long, where the director talked about how they shot the movie with a dog who - and he could not emphasize this enough - did not realize he was in a movie. It took 3 years to film it because they spent so much time getting the reactions they wanted out of Indy, who is adorable.
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Let me ask you one question: is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find, when your death takes its toll All the money you made will never buy back your soul.
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One Battle After Another, the next Paul Thomas Anderson film
austingirl replied to mdmost's topic in Movies and TV
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This is a fascinating, if long, Wired article about Peter Thiel and the philosophical beliefs behind everything he does. It goes into his background with Vance and touches on his reasons for investing in Facebook, and all that eventually converges to provide a ton of insight into his political leanings. The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession I kept thinking about the concept of mimetic rivalry as I watched clips of the right's reaction to EscalatorGate. It started off with fairly typical MAGA outrage, but as more and more people joined in, the outrage got worse and worse ("we should bomb the UN and Trump should put piece of the rubble on the Resolute Desk!"), as if they were competing for a title. Thiel explained that he was "betting on mimetic rivalry" when he invested in Facebook - people have called him the founder of the Like button. Anyway, I think some of you will find it as interesting as I did.
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Ah got it - no, I went to Port Neches-Groves HS.
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He's actually already a huge deal. He's been the most-streamed Spotify artist three times in the last five years and has 49 million Instagram followers. He's also hosted SNL and was in one of my favorite all-time sketches. If MAGA doesn't fuck around and get him pulled from the Superbowl, I would bet that his halftime show will be one of the most-watched ever. My HS was there last year too (did we go to the same high school?), and while I didn't make it to that game, I went the year before. I'm sure if I'd gone last year I'd have seen the same thing you did - everyone back home is super MAGA. And yeah, it would've affected me the same way it did you.
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