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The Portico Quartet started their career busking in London, with an instrument called the "hang" that is just a fancy bowl turned upside down. After a few years the hang started to sound like a gimmick and they changed their sound to get more electronic but they did it in a bad way and now ten years later I don't really check them anymore but they really were good a while back.

I thought they had some kind of press release a couple years back when the streaming rights to a handful of sitcoms from various studios were sold. The amounts for the brand name sitcoms were intentionally publicized to bring attention to Peacock and the CBS/Paramount and Disney Plus services.

I think I remember something like this from the nineties. Like they had a league with teams in Europe and America.

The 2013 movie Rush, directed by Ron Howard starts streaming on Netflix in a few days. The movie is good, but is not even close to accurate in the relationship of the two leads that makes the movie a good sports flick. In real life the two drivers barely interacted with each other. Anyway, it has a really good Hans Zimmer theme in the soundtrack

I would put Darnold above any of the quarterbacks in the draft this year. The guy has poise in the pocket, makes all the throws, he just needs to be surrounded with a good organization in order to reach the top echelon of quarterbacks in the NFL.

After watching the Lost Pirate Kingdom, I think its clear we need to reorient our school's American History to include the perspective that the true founding of America was in the democracies aboard pirate ships.

I think Nebraska could be this seasons surprise breakout team. They could string together some wins, and with some luck get into the B1G Championship game again. If they can reach their "jet tempo" on offense after a couple good plays, and the defense gets turnovers, they could hang with anyone in the B1G West. Its just a matter of getting the skill players in a rhythm together.

Some guy asked his followers on twitter when they stopped with this show and would up with nearly 20,000 responses and made "Carl" trend on the site for a while.

I never forgave this guy for walking away from the Central Michigan team after the 2007 football season. You don't just walk away from a commitment like that.

I can imagine myself having my own castle fortress and taking my captured enemies into my dungeon and doing a subtle nodding gesture to my servants and then they know its time to decapitate my capture foes.

I was watching the Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan and I came to the conclusion that I would have been a pretty badass Samurai warrior if I had been alive at the time.

I can see New Orleans making some phone calls, they could use a real backup for Jameis.

I paid a lot of money for Rosetta Stone to speak Spanish, but after I paid I still couldn't speak Spanish. So I called them up and asked them why and they said I had to take a bunch of steps before I could do it. So then I signed up for the Babble app and now I am good.

I had been watching ww2 documentaries on youtube and TUBI to the point where I have these weird pet peeves about things like the audio almost never being live or the same footage being used over again or the staged newsreel scenes. Anyway, I watched a 25 episode nonfiction tv series about the ANZACS in WW2 that were originally made in 1961 and later rebroadcast and repackaged on different channels. Australia and NZ had around 500 war correspondents and many had cameras or video cameras and the sum of their work had some footage that hadn't been replayed over and over in the endless docs over the years. The most notable of the footage was of the locals enlisted in PNG, Timor, The Solomon Islands and others. For the indigenous peoples the war was like aliens invading in a sci-fi movie. They had little exposure to airplanes, modern weaponry, communications, and so much more. Just seeing the armies clear fields and build and airstrip and then planes arrive with supplies would blow them away. Anyway, the New Guineans who were pressed into service for Australia were known as the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, but the Australians pronounce it like Fozzy Wozzy

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I load up twitch to have some games streaming while I do some other things and the computer chess streams have been in the trending and popular menu for the past couple months.

I finished the 5 episode show Lupin, with the tall dark and handsome French guy as the charming gentleman thief.

I enjoyed the movie. Its how some of the things on Netflix work. Movies that would have flopped at the box office, or ones that would have been straight to video movies from the last generation, are put up on the streaming platform and people watch with low expectation. It works. The screenwriters don't want you to care about what caused the apocalypse, or what kind of gas is on the fictional moon of Jupiter. Its just a set up for the emotional stuff with the little girl and the old guy walking across the Arctic together.

If Lovie Smith can be fired from Illinois that basically means that any coach can be fired from any school at any time.

I watched the end of the game and the line was just being completely dominated by Minnesota. They were running at will and just pushing the defense around.

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