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  1. My brother is an addict. Started smoking anything he could light on fire in middle school, then started selling it out of his bedroom window. After I moved away to college, he got into harder stuff and stole money from my parents' money market account to buy drugs. They kicked him out and he eventually made his way to Austin. He got a DUI in Travis County in 2007. We weren't speaking much then, so when I got a call from jail at 7 am I was more than surprised. After we hung up I made some calls and got him released without bail since he was a first-time offender. I guess there's still a lot of paperwork that has to happen, and one has to be given time to sober up, because at noon the same day he called back from jail. Started telling me the same exact story I'd heard 5 hours earlier. I cut him off, told him he was a fucking asshole, and that I was not going to pick him up. I called his roommate who went and got him. He did alcohol counseling and stopped drinking. Still smokes weed like a chimney but as far as I know, it's the only thing he smokes. We got a lot closer after that, mainly due to his outreach to me (we have no other siblings). He still makes shit financial choices but has had a steady job for a long time and an apartment near us. He takes care of our dog when we're out of town and he would murder anyone who messed with that dog. He'd also murder anyone who messed with me, or my family. When I had to have emergency surgery last year, he was the first to call about visiting me at the hospital. Lately things have been shakier than usual. His electricity almost got cut off and he almost got evicted until my parents intervened. He doesn't ask me for money or for a place to stay because he knows I'd say no, but if his dog needs food or if he needs to borrow a carpet cleaner or whatever, I'm ok with that. A few months ago he mentioned that he started drinking again. Not much, he says. But I know how it goes. We come from a family of alcoholics. I guess all this is to say, I can see how someone can try and fail to help an addict they love. Not to be cliche, but even addicts contain multitudes. The Reiners, I'm sure, held out hope until the last minute. When it's your kid, I imagine it's another order of magnitude of difficulty. What a tragedy.
  2. Clint is Henry's grandpa. Henry's dad was Butch. Yes, the cycle is mentioned in the book. Hank Grogan isn't in the book, but there's an offhand reference to Bev having a friend named Ronnie Grogan. I think TV show Ronnie is just an Easter egg for fans of the book.
  3. I read it a long time ago, in college, during my Languages of Middle Earth class. Which was a real class that I took. For fun.
  4. LOTR is one of the few movies where I liked the movies better than the books (and I generally liked the books). Tolkien needed a stronger editor. A lot of the prose in that series could've been cut to make the flow better, without sacrificing story.
  5. This is exactly - and I mean, EXACTLY - the unironic POV of 99% of my hometown. Indian and all.
  6. If I had fuck you money, you'd never see me again.
  7. What I've been wondering lately is, who's the queen? Every hive has one, so who (or what) is directing all of their actions? What greater end does their acquiescence serve?
  8. Do they think executive orders = genie wishes?
  9. When I saw this photo This is all I could think of.
  10. It is GLORIOUS in Austin today. Went on a 1.5 hour walk/hike and it was lovely. Fuck hot-ass November weather.
  11. Totally agree, with one note - I think they are using a timeline based on the later It movies, not the book. I was confused by this, too, and that's the only thing that makes sense. In the recent movies, they're kids are in the 1980s, not the 50s, so the series taking place in the 60s lines up.
  12. Thanks for the rec! I will definitely check it out - it does look great.
  13. I'll finish out the season because I'm a glutton for punishment, and I want to see how the fire at the nightclub goes down, but this show is so dumb. Spoilers below for this show and for the original novel. Y'all know I love horror and I can suspend a lot of disbelief, but this show isn't working for me.
  14. I just read that the mayor in the latest episode is the actual current mayor of Albuquerque.
  15. Is it worth it to see it in theaters? I'd like to, but there are limited showtimes here so I may wait for streaming.
  16. Really darkly satirical, fun movie that shows off the two leads - I hope Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch do more things together. The screenplay is razor sharp. I'd like to see it get an Oscar nomination. It's the writer who did the screenplay for both The Favourite and Poor Things.
  17. I hope they move the plot forward more this week, at least around the motivations of the hive and what their end goals and real power are. They say they won't kill anything, and she can kill 11 million in one pop just by getting mad? And they'll give her anything she wants at any time? If that's me and all my family and friends are gone, just move me to my own island, keep the fridge and pantry stocked, let me order all the books and movies I want and I'm set. They can do all the world domination they want and I wouldn't get in the way. I'm just confused as to what the end game could be.
  18. I think she's a figment of Lilly's imagination.
  19. I knew him from Pushing Daisies, which was one of the most underrated tv shows ever, as well as Bodies Bodies Bodies, which was a great indie horror movie. Saw this today and it was fine; it's just hard for me to see Glenn Powell as "the angriest man ever". Plus, I will watch Colman Domingo in anything, though, and Edgar Wright makes a great action movie, even if the content isn't perfect. I'd recommend it for streaming if you're on the fence about seeing in it the theater.
  20. Lol seriously. YOUR LIFE IS YOUR OWN.
  21. Vince Gilligan back to doing sci-fi X-Files shit? 1000% in. Loved the first episode.
  22. Lol it's his second-longest book at around 1200 pages. And it's only second to the uncut version of The Stand, not the original version. IIRC, Dick is mentioned briefly in the book when they discuss the Black Spot (the nightclub that burns down). I'm still not a huge fan of this show but I'll give it another episode or so.
  23. Black Philip is indeed creepy af. But honestly, all goats are creepy af with their rectangular pupils. My 13-yo and I saw this in the theater and liked it a lot. A horror masterpiece it is not, but it's fun for what it is. Sometimes you just want dumb fun movies. We both couldn't stop laughing at the scene with the rotary phone.
  24. Took me forever to realize where I'd seen Katherine Lanasa before.
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